The Greyhound bus offers a cheaper alternative into the city if tourists don’t mind the open road. Denis1978/Getty Images A study published by the CDC found California public transit employees have had a much higher rate of contracting COVID. Bus and urban transit workers contracted the disease at more than 5 times the rate of…
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Ashley Biden with her father, President Joe Biden, at an event in New York City in February 7, 2017. Gary Gershoff/WireImage via Getty Images Two Florida residents pleaded guilty to stealing Ashley Biden’s diary and selling it to Project Veritas. The duo sold the diary and other belongings for $40,000 after stealing them from Biden’s…
Former President Donald Trump. Mario Tama/Getty Images A federal judge ordered the release of a redacted FBI affidavit underpinning the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. It’s extraordinarily unusual for an affidavit to be released before charges have been filed in an investigation. But Judge Reinhart was likely inclined to unseal parts of the affidavit given heightened public…
Kazi Awal/Insider Morsa Images/Getty Images Black founders receive less than 1.5% of about $330 billion in venture capital funding in the US. Black and Brown communities are largely excluded from the clean-energy industry. Clean-tech entrepreneur and VC backer Anthony Oni hopes to level the playing field on both fronts. This article is part of a…
(Not Barre Seid) Leonard Leo, above, is now in charge of spending Seid’s $1.65 billion. Carolyn Kaster/AP Barre Seid is the most important right-wing political donor that you may have never heard of. He reportedly gave $1.65 billion in his company’s shares to Leonard Leo, who Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has called the “third…
An illustration of WASP-39 b, an exoplanet with a carbon dioxide-filled atmosphere. NASA, ESA, CSA, and J. Olmsted (STScI) The James Webb Space Telescope detected clear evidence of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere. The planet, WASP-39 b, is a hot gas giant orbiting a sun-like star about 700 light-years from Earth. Webb’s instruments allow…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testified before the House Committee on Financial Services on June 23, 2022. Win McNamee/Getty Images US stocks closed higher Thursday, leaving the S&P 500 to land a second straight win. Investors took on some risk before Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks on Friday. The market is still facing the…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Betsy DeVos called Biden’s student-loan forgiveness “100% illegal.” As Education Secretary, she said Trump didn’t have the authority to cancel student debt broadly. Biden’s Education Department concluded it has the authority to do so under the HEROES Act of 2003. President Donald…
iCloud syncing lets you view photos associated with your Apple ID across devices. NurPhoto/Getty Images You can access iCloud photos on synced iPhones and iPads using the Photos app. To sync iCloud photos across Apple devices, you can enable iCloud Photos in the Settings app. You can also access photos on the iCloud website by…