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The U.S. Department of Education is seen on March 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to sign an executive order to abolish the Department of Education. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Department of Education is pausing its plan to garnish people’s Social Security benefits if they have defaulted on their student loans, a spokesperson for the agency tells CNBC.”The Trump Administration is committed to protecting Social Security recipients who oftentimes rely on a fixed income,” said Ellen Keast, an Education Department spokesperson.The development is an abrupt change in policy by the…

“John Proctor is the Villain” turns the idea that MeToo was a witch hunt inside out. Source link

Concept testing helps to validate that there are real customers who actually want your product—that your company is solving a real problem. Source link

This year has already packed a lot of action into stocks: an aggressively bullish start, a swift correction, and a full recovery from those April losses. But based on the the flows into the U.S. exchange-traded funds, where much of the daily trading action occurs across asset classes, the message coming through most clearly from investors is lingering skepticism about the strength of the U.S. equities market.May was a great month for stocks, with the S&P 500 Index up over 6%, the Nasdaq Composite up over 9%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average up roughly 4%. But making up for April’s losses hasn’t removed…

At his restaurant in Beijing, Geng Xiaoyun used to offer a special dish of salt-baked chicken feet — or “phoenix talons” as they are called in China — imported from America.With prices climbing 30% from March due to tariffs, the owner of Kunyuan restaurant had to pull the Chinese delicacy from the menu.”American chicken feet are so beautiful,” Xiaoyun said. “They’re spongy so they taste great. Chinese [chicken] feet just aren’t as good.”Geng can now source chicken feet from Brazil or Russia but said they just don’t stand up to the American ones. He keeps a small stash for himself…

The Trump administration is confident that a massive liquified natural gas project in Alaska will find investors despite its enormous cost.President Donald Trump has pushed Alaska LNG as a national priority since taking office. Alaska has already spent years trying to build an 800-mile pipeline from the North Slope above the Arctic south to the Cook Inlet, where the gas would be cooled and shipped to U.S. allies in Asia.But Alaska LNG has never gotten off the ground due to a stratospheric price tag of more than $40 billion. Trump has pushed Japan and South Korea in particular to invest…

The old adage that investors should “sell in May and go away” is already looking like a bust. Source link

Uber said Monday that Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, one of the company’s longest-tenured top executives and the head of is delivery business is leaving after almost 13 years.Gore-Coty joined Uber as a general manager in France in 2012, and worked his way up to become vice president of mobility for the Europe and Middle East region four years later, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was named senior vice president of delivery in 2021.”It’s hard to imagine Uber without Pierre, because there hasn’t been much Uber without Pierre,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement that was part of a regulatory filing.…

Paradromics implanted—then removed—the device in an epileptic patient. The goal is to help people with conditions like ALS. Source link

Bristol Myers Squibb on Monday made a splashy move to fortify its drug pipeline. However, the subdued stock reaction suggests Wall Street is looking for more show than tell. So are we. The news The drugmaker announced a licensing deal with Germany’s BioNTech to jointly develop and commercialize the latter’s experimental cancer therapy known as BNT327. The drug, which is still in clinical trials, belongs to an increasingly popular group of treatments called immuno-oncology. Often called IO for short, these treatments work by getting a patient’s own immune system to help fight the cancer. Merck ‘s Keytruda is the best-known…