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Drive through Iowa, Missouri or Illinois, and you’ll pass a Casey’s roughly every few exits. Midwesterners have come to know the red-roofed convenience store and gas station where people buy diesel, a bag of ice, a lottery ticket and,...

Country music superstar Dolly Parton had a very early start to her career when she began singing at her local church at age 6. By age 13, she had recorded her first single, “Puppy Love,” which she co-wrote at...

Do artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT eliminate jobs, create new ones, or both? There’s a lot of speculation regarding this question, but little solid data in the U.S. to answer it.I’m a sociologist who researches AI, among other...

As the U.S. paves the way for a nuclear renaissance to power the AI data center boom, the next frontier is building small nuclear reactors offshore to power coastal facilities and merchant ships.Strangely, the momentum could begin in California,...

The Iran war exposed just how much the world relied on a narrow 20-mile-wide waterway. Soon after the U.S. launched strikes on Iran, the latter threatened to strike ships trying to traverse the Strait of Hormuz, the channel for...

President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. has entered an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of the South American country’s oil reserves.Trump in a social media post announced the agreement he said was...

The Trump administration is bringing back a centuries-old legal tradition that would allow it to more easily seize Iranian oil tankers and sell off their assets.Aaron Reitz, who is the U.S. Attorney in the Houston-based Southern District of Texas, ...

New York City’s Department of Finance is sending a second wave of pied-à-terre tax letters to roughly 10,800 property owners, even as it mails a very different kind of letter to other owners from the first round, telling them,...

The American billionaire who bought Ferrari’s first electric vehicle model for an eye-watering eight figures may be able to cash in on a tax write-off perk from the purchase. Earlier this month, 87-year-old optometrist-turned-businessman-turned-philanthropist Dr. Herbert A. Wertheim bought a...

The Federal Reserve – one of the world’s most powerful institutions – affects the U.S. economy in a way that no other part of government can.Interest rates, inflation and bank regulation are all shaped...