A real estate agent is showing a home to a potential buyer in Miami. Getty Images A brief drop in mortgage rates, due to the first news of the omicron variable, caused the demand for mortgage refinancing to rise significantly last week. But it is likely to be short-lived. The rate decrease was not significant … Read more
Of the 52 motivators to exercise, giving people a 9-cent prize if they returned to the gym after they missed a workout helped the most.
People walk past a CVS pharmacy store in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Covid tests and vaccines have drawn customers to CVS Health stores during the pandemic. On Thursday, the company will show investors how it plans to use other healthcare services to bring them back. The pharmacy chain … Read more
The Jets and the Sharks, a white teenage gang and their Puerto Rican rivals, are not mirror images of each other. Ostensibly vying for control of a few wrecked 1960s western blocks, they crash like taxis speeding toward each other on a one-way street. The Sharks are the sons of a struggling migrant working class, … Read more
Packages of Beyond Meat vegan burger patties are on sale. Paul Young | Bloomberg via Getty Images Beyond Meat has stolen two industry veterans from Tyson Foods for executive positions as it prepares for its high-profile launch next year. Doug Ramsay will take over as Chief Operating Officer. He spent three decades at Tyson, where … Read more
Not to be that guy, but this usage is the opposite of what philosopher J.L. Austin meant by “perform,” a semi-technical term he applied to a speech act that does what it says. Examples are rare and specific: when you say “I swear” in a court of law or “I fold” at the poker table, … Read more
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is pictured on an iPhone screen on February 12, 2018. Chesnot | Getty Images Angry Coinbase users launched an online campaign demanding a cryptocurrency exchange recoup its losses after a technical problem led the company to freeze accounts for weeks, potentially leading to huge losses for many customers. Coinbase told clients that … Read more
Most of the defendants considering the allegations of self-defense were involved in a fierce clash at the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol, in which the fighting was worse than elsewhere on January 6 and often resembled some kind of medieval warfare. For nearly three hours, officers there engaged in hand-to-hand combat with rioters, some … Read more
People walk past Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, December 7, 2021. Lindsay Didario | Reuters Starbucks workers at three coffee shops in Buffalo, New York, voted this week on whether to form a union, an option that could have far-reaching implications for the coffee giant and the broader restaurant industry. Voting by mail ends on … Read more
French officials released a Saudi man a day after his arrest in connection with the murder of Saudi dissident writer Jamal Khashoggi, saying on Wednesday it was a case of mistaken identity. The French authorities arrested the man, Tuesday, at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris because his name and age match the name … Read more