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Japan, once the world leader in microchips, is now racing to catch up

TOKYO — It was the spring of 2021 and the demand for new cars increased sharply. But as consumers, who had their savings during the… Read More »Japan, once the world leader in microchips, is now racing to catch up

Photo illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty A wave of COVID infections caused by the BA.5 subvariant has reached its peak. All over the world, new… Read More »Scientists fear we are not ready for nightmare New COVID variant

An independent press allows editors to give continued attention to books “that may need a little more development,” she said. After years in the industry,… Read More »Graywolf Press’s new publisher is looking for talent in new places

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said on Saturday that “no one can convince her” that the rioters behind the January 6 attack on the United… Read More »‘Nobody can convince me’ Jan 6 rioters were not antifa

Mick Miners was herding sheep on a four-wheeler last week when he tripped over a pointed black object that appeared to be more than ten… Read More »A large object landed on his sheep farm. It came from space.

How are you? (July 31 – Aug 6) A surprise for the day of the job Analysts had forecast an increase of 250,000 jobs in… Read More »The Week in Business: Blistering Job Growth

The US job market is remarkably strong, a report found Friday, with unemployment at its lowest level in half a century, wages rising rapidly and… Read More »Good news about jobs could mean bad news later as job hiring defies Fed

Photo illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty Sean Hannity thinks you don’t spend enough of your life at work. In a recent discussion on his… Read More »Sean Hannity wants low-income Americans to have no lives

While the French are obsessed with the dilution of their culture in their own country, it’s not unfair to say that their great nation’s cultural… Read More »Jacques Pépin, in search of lost cars and kitchen

VINCENT, Ala. (AP) — A racist text message sent by a police officer has prompted officials in a small Alabama town to disband their police… Read More »Alabama City Disbands Police Over Racist Text

On Friday, Indiana’s governor signed a nearly complete ban on abortion, making the state the first to approve sweeping new restrictions since the Supreme Court… Read More »Indiana major employers criticize state’s new abortion law

As countries around the world struggle to cope with rising prices, perhaps no major economy understands how to deal with inflation better than Argentina. The… Read More »How Argentines deal with inflation that is 64% and rising

With the movie I like how you sit there and you think, oh, what am I looking at? Why is the power stone described as… Read More »How GPT-3 wrote a movie about a love story of cockroaches AI

Jobs galore. Thrilling question. If the United States is headed for a recession, it will take an unusual route, with many signs of a boom.