Pope Leo XIV has become the first pope to vote in a U.S. general election. The Vatican confirmed Friday that the Chicago-born pontiff had submitted a mail-in ballot in Chicago ahead of November’s midterm elections, citing his long-standing belief in civic participation. Leo, formerly Robert Prevost, “has exercised his right to vote as a United…
One of the countless memorable lines that have tumbled out of the “Star Trek” universe over the years is this gem, originally from a 20th-century poet named Delmore Schwartz: “Time is the fire in which we burn.” It was uttered as an existential warning to Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in the 1994 film “Star Trek Generations.”…
Goldman Sachs has tracked four decades of Americans who lost their jobs to technology. The first workers laid off from AI-exposed jobs are starting to look a lot like them, the investment bank wrote in a note published Thursday. Goldman economist Pierfrancesco Mei found that workers displaced from AI-exposed jobs since 2025 took about a…
New York’s early cannabis leaders won in a market of few brands, licenses and stores. As out-of-state brands and capital arrive, the pecking order may shift.
Tech genius in the U.S. and China formerly combined on the path to remarkable technological leaps, leaps that would result in faster progress and pay.