New home sales dropped for the fourth straight month in April, offering up another sign that the housing market is starting to slow. The drop adds to a host of other recent metrics showing the once-blistering hot housing market is starting to cool as many homebuyers are priced out by...
Taliban Ordered Female Newscasters to Cover Up. Men Joined in Protest.
The Taliban has ordered all female newscasters to cover their faces while on air, as part of broader rules requiring all women in Afghanistan to cover head to toe. It’s dangerous for women to refuse to comply. So some male colleagues have donned face coverings in protest. It’s a simple...
Electric Car Revolution Needs Honest Data To Avoid Consumer Backlash
The electric car revolution needs to woo buyers on average incomes to win sales, but it will crash and burn if manufacturers persist in providing unaffordable vehicles with fanciful range claims, says Forbes contributor Neil Winton. After road testing electric cars regularly for more than two years, Winton said...
BBC Reveals the Faces of China’s Uyghur Detention Camps
Thousands of photographs from the heart of China’s highly secretive system of mass incarceration in Xinjiang, as well as a shoot-to-kill policy for those who try to escape, are among a huge cache of data hacked from police computer servers in the region. The Xinjiang Police Files, as they’re...
Ian Bremmer: Hope as Major Crises Intersect
To fix our broken international political system, we need a crisis. For instance, a pandemic, climate change, or Big Tech having too much power. But it must be a crisis that's so destructive it forces us to respond fast, and together — like World War II. On GZERO World,...
Kellyanne Conway Lets Loose on Jared Kushner in New Memoir
Kellyanne Conway didn’t have a bad word for former President Donald Trump in her new book, but she apparently had no qualms unloading on his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Conway described Kushner as a “shrewd and calculating” man who knew he was unlikely to be held accountable for his failures. The Trump aide who...
Chaplain Khallid Shabazz Wants to ‘Transcend Boxes and Labels’
Col. Khallid Shabazz recently became head chaplain of the U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. As a Muslim clergyman in the military for more than 20 years, he knows that every new posting involves a test. “People see this big guy with a moon...
‘Stocks Could Really Rally,’ Bullish Wall Street Analyst Says Despite Pullback
Last week, the financial markets experienced the biggest wave of selling since June of 2020, as concerning retail earnings rehashed worries about the impact of rising inflation. While many are predicting a coming bear market, Oppenheimer Chief Investment Strategist John Stoltzfus says he's not yet ready to revise his...
A Third Straight Week of Tech Layoffs in the Books
If you thought the market was bad for venture capitalists, what about the actual workers behind the tech companies they’ve backed? For the third week in a row, a roundup of tech layoffs shows continued employment reductions across stages and sectors. Over the past month, public and private tech...
Tesla Asks Owners to Limit Charging During Texas Heatwave. That Isn’t a Good Sign.
"A heatwave is expected to impact the grid in Texas over the next few days," reads a photo of a message pushed to Tesla vehicles in Texas last week. "The grid operator recommends avoiding charging during peak hours between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., if possible, to help statewide...