Yellow, one of America’s biggest and oldest trucking companies, shut down operations on Sunday and laid off workers at all locations. The 99-year-old company cut about 33,000 jobs, 22,000 [...]
Luxury hotels are out, extended-stay hotels offering “living space-like” qualities are in. Thanks to the growing popularity of remote work and more on-the-go jobs that are leaving [...]
Texas may be used to sweltering temperatures, but as extreme heat persists in cities such as Houston, it could affect its overall economy. Between mid-June and mid-July, payroll platform Gusto [...]
Air travel during the summer is rarely easy, but this year’s record-shattering heat is throwing new challenges at airlines and passengers. The extreme temperatures are forcing carriers to [...]
Americans are vacationing more this summer than they have in a decade. The number of workers taking vacation days in June grew 11% from the previous year, and the amount of time they took off [...]
The hottest real estate right now? Strip malls. While office space sits empty and home sales slow, the suburban mainstays are seeing a physical occupancy rate of over 92% — on par with before the [...]
A key price gauge fell in June even as consumer spending advanced, pointing to a possible “soft landing” for the economy — in which successive interest-rate hikes slow inflation without [...]
As actor and writer strikes shut down Hollywood, this year’s Emmy Awards have been postponed for the first time since 2001. Variety reports that the 75th annual show, which had been set to [...]
A scientific breakthrough being hailed as “one of the holy grails of modern physics” is also raising some eyebrows, reports The Independent. New papers state that scientists in South [...]
July is on pace to be the hottest month on record, a European climate agency and the World Meteorological Organization said Thursday. Climate scientists predict this is the beginning of a [...]
