More than three years after acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk says he’s nearing his long-stated goal of turning it into an “everything app” with a new financial services tool that he pledged to launch for ...

The satirical news outlet The Onion on Monday said it had reached an agreement to temporarily take over right-wing conspiracist Alex Jones’ Infowars platform and turn it into a parody site. Jones ...

The federal tax deadline is April 15 for most taxpayers, but you can file an IRS tax extension, which pushes the filing due date to October 15. However, you still must pay your tax balance by the ...

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A biotech start-up is testing a novel way of efficiently producing pharmaceutical drugs. A biotech start-up is testing a novel way of efficiently producing pharmaceutical drugs. A chicken egg at Neion ...

Matthew Schmitz is the editor of Compact. The scourge of rising antisemitism in recent years has found its latest manifestation in the government’s release of millions of files about sex offender ...

Scientists have developed a powerful new computational method that could accelerate the search for next-generation materials capable of turning sunlight into useful chemical energy. The work focuses ...

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At the start of 2026, the CEO of a financial services firm sent a firmwide email that included a clip of NBA star Stephen Curry taking an almost full-court shot. The ball drops cleanly through the net ...

A venerable IRS program called Free File allows 70% of taxpayers to file their taxes for free, just as the name implies. Only 2% of taxpayers used the service in 2024. That is the finding of a ...