Courtney Vinopal

Onscreen and IRL, women are pondering whether to freeze their eggs.

Spirit and Frontier are merging to create America’s “most competitive ultra-low fare airline,” the two companies announced today.

Amazon is the latest company to get hit by inflation—and many of its customers will have to pay more as a result.

CNN has an HR mess on its hands.

Former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores sued the National Football League (NFL) and its teams on Feb. 1, alleging they engaged in discriminatory hiring practices against him and other Black coaches.

The Washington Football Team, formerly the Redskins, has a new name: the Washington Commanders.

“Excessive consumption of alcohol” was a key feature of a series of unauthorized gatherings by UK government officials during 2020’s strict lockdowns, says an official report (pdf) finally released yesterday (Jan. 31). UK prime minister Boris Johnson is under intense pressure.

Rihanna is expecting her first child with the rapper A$AP Rocky.

Spotify removed Neil Young’s music yesterday (Jan.26) after the singer called out the streaming service for allowing covid-19 disinformation to circulate on the platform.

Microsoft’s profits rose by 21% in the three months ending Dec. 31  thanks in part to record engagement and growing advertising demand on LinkedIn, its professional networking platform, where revenue grew 37% from the previous year.

A cruise ship evading the authorities wound up in the Bahamas instead of its Miami destination, leaving hundreds of passengers to make their way back to the US a day after their tour was scheduled to end.

Microsoft is set to buy Activision Blizzard, the company behind video games including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush, in a nearly $70 billion all-cash deal.

For years, the student loan servicing company Navient allegedly encouraged student loan borrowers to enter costly long-term forbearance programs that pushed them further into debt, as well as take on private loans they couldn’t pay back, according to lawsuits filed by several states, and joined by 39 attorneys general.

Eight thousand Delta Air Lines employees tested positive for covid-19 over the last four weeks, CEO Ed Bastian said today (Jan. 13), representing 11% of the company’s total workforce.

Last June Kim Kardashian shared a post on social media promoting a little-known cryptocurrency token called EthereumMax.

The omicron wave is breaking records for the number of covid infections around the world, and threatening global recovery from the pandemic two years after it began. But the response is not unanimous.

The White House announced that insurance companies and health plans will have to cover the cost of up to eight over-the-counter at-home covid tests per individual, starting this Saturday (Jan. 15). “This is all part of our overall strategy to ramp-up access to easy-to-use, at-home tests at no cost,” US health secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement.

The US jobs report released today (Jan. 7) showed some promising signs of recovery, with the share of jobless Americans dropping to 3.9%. That’s the lowest rate since the February prior to the coronavirus pandemic, when it was 3.5%. Average hourly wages rose by 4.7% compared to the previous year.

The US grapefruit-flavored soft drink Fresca has been a go-to cocktail mixer for years, serving as a base for everything from a boozy gin bucket to palomas.

When Amazon announced it would buy 100,000 electric delivery vans from Rivian in 2019, it gave the little-known electric vehicle (EV) startup immediate credibility. Now Amazon is giving Rivian investors reasons to be a lot more incredulous.

When Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes first showed up to her fraud trial in September, a small group of self-described fans donning black business suits gathered outside outside the San Jose federal courthouse. It may not have been the sort of fame she’d hoped for, but Holmes had managed to embed herself in American culture.

Facing a record number of covid-19 cases in France, president Emmanuel Macron had harsh words for the unvaccinated in an interview (link in French) published in Le Parisien yesterday (Jan. 4).

The electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla announced the opening of a new dealership in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, China, just days before it reported record-breaking delivery numbers for 2021.

Tesla is recalling more than 475,000 electric vehicles (EVs) in the US over safety issues with the rearview camera and trunk, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Dec. 30.