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Reddit says Russians were behind the spread of leaked trade documents. Reddit says that the distribution of classified US-UK trade papers which discussed Britain's National Health Service was a part of an operation “originating from Russia.”

Amazon is coming to NYC anyway. Critics of Amazon's HQ2 are rubbing it in after a report that the company is opening a large new Manhattan office without any tax incentives. Still, the 1,500 jobs coming to the city are far fewer than the 25,000-position proposal that Amazon withdrew in February.

Elon Musk wins "pedo guy" lawsuit. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO will not be held liable for a tweet calling a UK diver, who helped rescue 12 boys in a Thailand cave, a “pedo guy.” The plaintiff had sought $190 million in damages.

Massachusetts says Metals.com sold seniors $3.2 million in overpriced coins. After a Quartz investigation revealed a scheme to swindle older conservatives out of their savings, state regulators took legal action against the coin dealer.

Minimalist and maximalist fashion have reached a new equilibrium. But it's more than just another swing in fashion's pendulum. The trend suggests that shoppers have a lot more say in what's "in" than they ever have before.

Mango's most cutting-edge design is a quarter-billion-euro logistics center. The Spanish retailer has consolidated fulfillment and deliveries to every one of its 2,100 stores into one warehouse, making its fast fashion move three times faster, Vogue reports.

British GQ pulled a sartorial dig at two strongmen. The magazine's "worst dressed" list originally included Thai king Maha Vajiralongkorn and Chinese president Xi Jinping, but management scrubbed the entries to protect their egos, Buzzfeed reports.

Amazon is struggling to hold onto overworked, underpaid pilots. Pushed to their limits and fed up with unreasonable demands, 60% of the pilots who work for Amazon contractors are looking for other jobs, according to one union survey.

Don't miss these seven fantastic, under-the-radar movies. It's hard for a film to attract an audience if it's neither a blockbuster event nor an obvious Oscar contender. Most films exist in this netherworld of underappreciation—and 2019 was an especially great year for them,

Only Netflix knows how many people watched The Irishman. The streaming giant has traditionally been cagey about releasing viewership numbers—but may begin to selectively release statistics to make good on a transparency pledge and woo A-list directors.

Creating happy societies goes beyond "Gross National Happiness." Building a happy country isn't so different from striving for individual happiness: If you pour all your energy into achieving one rigid goal, you might find yourself disappointed.

Americans aren't migrating like they used to. The number of Americans who have moved has fallen by more than half over the past 35 years—creating a new, rooted society the country has not seen in its 200 year history.

2019 was the year electric vehicles grew up. From budget Kias to fleets of e-trucks, this was the biggest year for vehicular electrification yet—but several blockbuster launches belie a hard road ahead as automakers are forced to reinvent themselves.

Two new electric cars help ease India's "range anxiety." Public charging infrastructure does not exist in India, so the short-range electric cars produced by domestic manufacturers have failed to make a dent in the market. But a pair of EVs by MG Motors could flip that script, if buyers ignore the price tag.

November was a blockbuster month for US employment. The economy added a higher-than-expected 266,000 jobs (subject to revision) last month, dropping the unemployment rate to a 50-year low of 3.5%. Some of the gains come from the return of thousands of striking General Motors workers.

American “spy” denied Thanksgiving dinner in Russian prison. Guards at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, where former US corporate security executive Paul Whelan has been held on espionage charges, have also denied him an English-speaking doctor since his arrest 49 weeks ago.

A prominent journalist in Nigeria was arrested—again. One day after leaving jail on bail, Nigerian-American Omoyele Sowore was rearrested for unclear reasons. It's the latest in a string of incidents testing the extent of press freedom in Africa's largest democracy.

Canopy, the biggest player in Canadian cannabis, is finally entering the US. Canopy Growth—the world’s largest legal cannabis company, worth about $6.4 billion—quietly launched its new CBD brand, called First & Free, for US online shoppers.

Trendy direct stock listings get dealt a blow by the SEC. A New York Stock Exchange proposal to give companies the freedom to raise capital during a direct listing was rejected by the Securities and Exchange Commission, CNBC reports.

For SoftBank’s Vision Fund, size doesn’t seem to matter. With nearly $100 billion in capital, it's the largest tech investing fund in the world. But it's not clear that SoftBank’s massive investments are paying off as its highly-valued unicorns transition to the public market. Learn more in this Quartz presentation for members. ✦

Finland’s communal grandparents, known as "kylämummi," forge relationships across the generational divide. For more than a decade, Finland’s largest organization dedicated to child and family welfare has run a program that encourages older people to volunteer to give time and attention to toddlers. But are these programs successful?

Raising a child is hard. But the “parenting is hard” trope, which feeds memes and dinner conversations, can be dangerous. It frames the problem as the individual failure of a single parent rather than as a social issue.