The Jacksons in your wallet should be turning into Tubmans next year. In 2016, Jacob Lew, then secretary of the US Treasury, announced that the $20 bill would be redrawn to feature the abolitionist and political activist Harriet Tubman. The new version was set to be unveiled in 2020, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which led to women’s suffrage.
The French widow of a man killed in the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash is seeking $276 million in damages from Boeing, with her lawyer arguing that the plane manufacturer “acted recklessly, willfully and with conscious disregard to the safety of its passengers.”
The world’s credit card providers want people to be using contactless payment systems—and they’re hoping public transportation can help kickstart that switch.
Shrinking budgets and staff at the Internal Revenue Service means the US’s tax collector is auditing returns at the lowest rate in more than 15 years, according to new data released by the agency today. For America’s wealthiest families—families with adjusted gross income of more than $10 million—audit rates were at their lowest since records began in 2008, at 6.66%, less than half the rate of last year. Households with incomes between $5 million and $9.9 million had an audit rate of just 4.2%, down from 8% last year.
Investors in Luckin Coffee, a Beijing-based company that hopes to topple Starbucks, have grounds for celebration today. Luckin started trading on the Nasdaq, where it opened at $25 a share, well above the company’s IPO price of $17. Shares have since settled around $22.
Executive coach Dawn Metcalfe’s go-to stage outfit isn’t a dress, or a suit, or trousers, or even a skirt. Instead, it’s all of them at once. The garment is somewhere between rust and maroon in color, with t-shirt-length sleeves and a faux-skirt over three-quarter length trousers. Its divided hems curve like petals over Metcalfe’s legs.
When New Zealand’s first settlers arrived in the country in around 1300, they found a series of islands with lots of seafood, not much by way of edible plant life, and some of the most extraordinary flightless birds the world had ever seen.
Here’s how the current tariffs on goods coming into the US from China work: taxes are applied on goods coming in, and American importers are the ones responsible for paying them. Some absorb the cost; most pass them onto the consumer.
Thirty years ago, from April 15 to June 4, 1989, the world was gripped by coverage of some of the largest protests in modern Chinese history. As many as a million people occupied the central Tiananmen Square in Beijing in protest against inflation, government corruption, and restrictions on freedom of speech and political participation.
Many women do not know they are pregnant for at least five or six weeks into their pregnancy. In six US states, women for whom this is the case will now be unable to seek a termination, after Georgia, Ohio, Mississippi, Kentucky, Iowa, and North Dakota this year adopted strict anti-abortion laws passed by Republican-controlled state legislatures. The “heartbeat bill,” as it is known, prohibits abortion under all circumstances, including rape or incest, after six weeks, or when cardiac activity is (arguably) first detected.
You can’t buy weed in Washington, DC—but you can acquire it, and give it away.
This post has been updated to reflect Uber’s pricing of shares
The new Australian $50 bank note was released in October to some fanfare. The bill has impressive anti-counterfeiting features, certainly—a swan that appears to fly, and a “moving” holographic ’50’—but it’s also strikingly inclusive, with portraits of both Australia’s first published Aboriginal author, David Unaipon, and first female member of an Australian parliament, Edith Cowan. And, in vivid sunset shades, it’s not bad to look at, either.
When US president Donald Trump tweets, markets tumble—especially when these presidential missives herald the start of another bitter chapter in the ongoing US-China trade spat.
Though the sides may change with each election, the basic shape of British politics has remained the same for the past 200 or so years. Two parties have sat two sword-lengths apart in parliament, with a scattering of fairly insignificant minor parties on the sidelines.
If you’re in a “snit,” you’re huffing and puffing, throwing your weight around, and making good use of your lower lip. Someone who is “snitty” is similarly irked. And a “snit fit”—well, you get the gist.
Canada’s $10 bill has had a bit of a face-lift. The iridescent purple note, issued in November of last year, is the only one so far to feature either a person of color or a non-royal woman. What’s more, it’s vertical.
The dress code was business attire, but I am wearing a wetsuit.
Before Joe and Anthony Russo were the directors of some of the world’s highest-ever grossing movies, including the recent smash hit Avengers: Endgame, they were TV guys. After their first, credit card-backed, indie film, Pieces, the Russo brothers turned quickly to the world of serialized, small-screen storytelling: Arrested Development, Carpoolers, and Community, among others.
US financier, philanthropist, and think-tank founder Michael Milken made his name creating and profiting spectacularly from the high-yield bond market, an achievement that earned him the nickname “the junk bond king.”
The Chinese judicial system is secretive, Byzantine, and uncompromising. It is also subject to change with little warning. These facts, along with the Chinese government’s well-documented antipathy toward activists and political dissidents, spurred tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents to take to the streets on April 28 over a proposed government plan that would make it easier to extradite people to the other Chinese territories, including the mainland, where they would be subject to Chinese law.
When the Spanish military dictator Francisco Franco Bahamonde died in 1975, champagne flowed—and tyranny quickly gave way to democracy.
Pour one out for “nominication.”
When philanthropist and pediatrician Priscilla Chan wakes up in the night, she doesn’t grope for her smartphone on the nightstand. Instead, a custom-made wooden box indicates whether she should go back to sleep or check in on her two children. It does so by emitting a very faint light between 6am and 7am.
