After years of ambitious pledges and multibillion-dollar bets on the future of electric vehicles, legacy automakers are facing a cold market reality: consumer adoption has slowed, incentives have dried up, the political and cultural debate around EVs has grown more partisan, and Wall Street’s patience is wearing thin. Just this week, General Motors took a…
Buying a home is the only major purchase in modern life that still feels like stepping into a maze designed to keep you lost. We can buy a car online, invest with a few taps or file taxes on an app, but in real estate, you’re still funneled through layers of middlemen, jargon and rules…
It’s three in the morning and you can’t sleep. You’ve scrolled endlessly, checked if anyone is awake, but the only thing to turn to is ChatGPT. It doesn’t sigh, or judge or roll its eyes. It simply says, “That sounds painful. Do you want to talk about it?” With 1.7 million people on NHS mental…
Who’d have guessed that the place to find a killer spritz cookie recipe would be inside a cemetery? But that’s just where Naomi Odessa Miller-Dawson’s cookie recipe lives, etched in stone at her final resting place at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. Related Articles Pumpkinpalooza: Our Trader Joe’s autumn taste test Quick Fix: Sangria Pork Chops with…
Decades ago cranberries used to be boring: Just a ho-hum side dish that made holiday appearances and disappeared into culinary obscurity the rest of the year. Often, cranberries were simply dumped from a can, either jellied or sauced. When jellied, they conformed to the shape of the can; cut, the jiggly slices toppled like cascading…
Except for Half Moon Bay, no one does pumpkin season like Trader Joe’s. The 2025 autumnal lineup of products includes a sizable number of returning bestsellers and a couple of new options (or new to us). We bought a few grocery bags’ worth of snacks and treats (the new Halloween mini-totes weren’t available yet) land…
Google is deepening its bets on India as it ramps up an unprecedented A.I. spending spree. The company announced today (Oct. 14) that it will invest $15 billion by the end of the decade to establish a data center hub in the city of Visakhapatnam, which represents its largest-ever investment in India. “It’s an investment…
By Linda Gassenheimer, Tribune News Service I came across bottled sangria at the market and was inspired by its fruity, spiced notes—perfect for pairing with tender pork loin chops. The sangria adds a subtle depth of flavor that complements the savory richness of the meat. To round out this early fall dinner, orzo, a rice-shaped…
As the 2025 Nobel Prize announcements rolled out last week, one of this year’s new laureates was blissfully unaware that his life had just changed. American immunologist Fred Ramsdell didn’t learn he had won the Nobel Prize in Medicine until several days after the announcement because he was camping off the grid, with no cell…
While no one can predict what the art of the future will look like, it seems increasingly clear that at least some of it will be created with the help of artificial intelligence. A growing number of visual arts programs at independent art colleges and universities now offer courses—and in some cases, entire degree programs—focused…
