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In 1638, John Harvard, an English-born Puritan minister and teacher in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, bequeathed 400 books and half his £779 estate, today equivalent to roughly US$2 million, to the college that would be...

Bitcoin buying is back. Corporate crypto heavyweight Strategy announced Monday that it bought over $21 million worth of Bitcoin last week, bringing its total holdings to roughly $70 billion. The company, led by flamboyant billionaire Michael Saylor, funded the...

Dolly Parton’s nephew Bryan Seaver announced the legendary singer’s death on Aug. 25, 2026, in a prerecorded video. Seaver, the son of one of Parton’s 11 siblings, had been her head of security for many...

The world has seen plenty of scary cybersecurity threats in recent years, but nothing quite like what emerged last week. The new threat came in the form of a document drop from OpenAI that The Economist proclaimed to be...

The Trump administration says nearly every child in America now has a Trump Account. Whether the money in those accounts ever adds up to much is a different question.The Treasury Department announced Oct. 1 that it had finished automatically...

Yuriy Ryzhenkov is that rare individual—a chief executive who has led his firm of 33,700 people during a never-ending war. He is the chief executive of the largest steelmaker in Ukraine, Metinvest. More than 8,000 of his employees are...

The Jessica Chastain horror “Other Mommy” topped the North American box office this weekend with a bigger audience than expected, while “The Social Reckoning” got off to a lackluster start.‘Other Mommy’ is another win for horror“Other Mommy,” released by Universal Pictures, earned $27.5...

The spike in oil prices since the Iran war began this year has attracted more thieves, and they are increasingly professional criminals.West Texas Intermediate crude is up 60% so far this year, and fuel prices have risen even more...

The world is flooded with debt, but while the U.S. and Europe have caused angst on global markets lately, China’s fiscal situation isn’t looking so great either.In fact, China’s debt has shot up so much in recent years that...

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday declared capital punishment ”inadmissible” as he marked the World Day Against the Death Penalty and his native United States announced plans to livestream an execution by firing squad.In a post on X, the American pope...