Substack Drops Fund-Raising Efforts as Market Sours
Amid an industrywide downturn, venture investors are preaching austerity and halting new deals, particularly for companies that have spent aggressively on growth. Read more...
Verizon's plan Consumers win, investors lose
Verizon has decided to bring back unlimited data plans. But while that's great for its subscribers, it's awful news for investors. It's another sign of how brutally competitive the telecom business is. And it's hurting Verizon's stock. Read more...
Tom Brady Will Step Into Fox Broadcast Booth After He Retires
Brady has a deal to eventually become the lead analyst during Fox broadcasts of N.F.L. games. Read more...
Are the Next Global Tennis Stars Among These Tweens?
The search for elite players is so competitive that IMG, the agency that once ruled tennis, is cultivating preteens to find the next prodigy, giving them access to representatives from the pro tours and Nike. Read more...
Texas school district is shut down after cops foil alleged copycat shooting plot
Officials in Donna, a small community in the Rio Grande Valley, issued the shutdown order late on Wednesday, a day after a gunman slaughtered 21 at an elementary in Uvalde, about 300 miles north. Read more...
The Fight Over Abortion History
The leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade also takes aim at its version of history, challenging decades of scholarship that argues abortion was not always a crime. Read more...
NHS 'dangerously over-reliant' on China with one in SIX medical items coming from Beijing
A report by the thinktank Civitas found that overall NHS dependency on Chinese supply chains has trebled since 2019, with the UK now sending 6.2billion a year to Beijing for medical gear. Read more...
Indian brave, courtesan, slave and the world's loudest snorer MANY LIVES AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY STEPHANIE BEACHAM
It takes a while to get into this book because first you have to navigate a prologue and not one but two forewords, the first by the authors 11-year-old grandson, who reveals that at 4 a.m. without make-up Stephanie Beacham has green skin, witch-like hair and gives him nightmares, muses JOHN HARDING Read more...
The Smaller, Everyday Deals for College Athletes Under New Rules
Although players with six-figure deals have attracted most of the public attention, thousands of athletes are pulling in just enough for books or date nights under name, image and likeness agreements. Read more...
Woodbridge, Conn. A Rural Enclave Close to New Haven
This suburban community in a country setting is just a 20-minute commute from Yale University, other educational institutions and a number of biotech companies. Read more...
Three's a crowd! Having more than two children can age parents by an additional 6.2 YEARS
Researchers from Columbia University have revealed that having three or more children can add a whopping 6.2 years of ageing to parents. Read more...
Cannes 2022 David Cronenberg Is Practically Bionic Now
The body-horror auteur talks about aging and his new film Crimes of the Future. Read more...
Ireland holidays Why the Emerald Isle makes for a gem of a break
Ireland is back on the tourist map and has much to offer, from Glenveagh Castle to Achill Island and from breathtaking County Sligo to luxury hotels such as Killarney Towers. Read more...
Your Thursday Briefing
New details from a deadly shooting. Read more...
Working from home can poison office relations, real estate boss says
Working from home can easily poison office relations as it is 'easy to upset people' accidentally while on video calls, real estate boss Christian Ulbrich, the CEO of JLL has said. Read more...