JUNE 15, 2026
College students are booing commencement speakers invoking AI. - Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe—Getty Images
For today’s college students, attitudes toward AI can seem paradoxical.
On one hand, they’ve made their ire toward the technology clear: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was met with hisses during his commencement remarks at the University of Arizona’s graduation ceremony on Sunday when he invoked the inevitability...
JUNE 14, 2026
Americans are waiting longer to reap an inheritance. - Lisa Shumaker, REUTERS
Half of millennials and one-third of Gen Xers are still financially dependent on their parents, according to a new survey.
The finding suggests that financial relationships between aging parents and their aging children may be changing.
By long tradition, young adults have leaned on parents to cover some of their expenses as they launch...
JUNE 12, 2026
Duke Energy CEO Harry Sideris unveiled a $103 billion capital plan to meet AI-driven electricity demand growing at 10 times its historic rate. Bloomberg / Getty Images
On Wednesday, June 3, Duke Energy (DUK) CEO Harry Sideris delivered a figure that cuts through the slow narrative of America’s energy sector.
Speaking at the Edison Electric Institute’s annual conference in...
JUNE 12, 2026
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD, USA — February 20 2025: Elon Musk speaks with Newsmax Host Rob Schmitt on day 1 of the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference. - Image via Shutterstock
Economist Robert Reich slammed Elon Musk-led SpaceX‘s IPO scheduled for Friday, criticizing the event as a “Ponzi scheme” and comparing it with the short-lived Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Largest Ponzi Scheme
In a post...
JUNE 12, 2026
A toy rocket readying for launch atop messy stacks of coins and paperwork displaying financial data. - Getty Images
Key Points
Wall Street's most anticipated initial public offering (IPO) of 2026, SpaceX, will make its debut today, June 12.
Several structural dynamics of the SpaceX IPO should allow insiders to cash out, leaving retail investors to hold the bag.
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JUNE 10, 2026
President Donald Trump reacts as he boards Air Force One, after attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals, at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, U.S., June 8, 2026. - Nathan Howard, REUTERS
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump said the United States will launch a new wave of strikes on Iran on Wednesday, June 10 after warning the...
JUNE 10, 2026
US Inflation Heated Up to 4.2% in May.
Year-over-year inflation hit a three-year high of 4.2% in May, as the Iran war pushed energy prices higher. Beyond the gas pump, though, there were fewer signs of quickly rising prices.
The numbers
Consumer prices were up 4.2% in May from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Wednesday, accelerating from 3.8%...
JUNE 9, 2026
US President Donald Trump, right, and Donald Trump Jr., executive vice president of development and acquisitions for Trump Organization Inc., walk on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Sunday, May 3, 2026. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg via Getty Images
In late November in Jamnagar,...
JUNE 8, 2026
Global Defence Ministers Gather In Singapore for Annual Shangri-La Dialogue Security Summit. - Getty
The Defense Department moved last month to cut roughly 180 religion codes from its previous list of about 220 recognized faiths.
The new list, expected to take effect in July, recognizes 31 religious categories, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Baha’i, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, and non-religion. Christian denominations make up the majority...
JUNE 8, 2026
Russia's APT28 unit used compromised home routers to redirect traffic and intercept credentials across 23 US states. - MicroStockHub/Getty Images
For years, a unit of Russia's military intelligence agency quietly turned ordinary home routers into tools of espionage. The GRU group known as APT28, the same outfit behind the 2016 DNC hack and a string of attacks on...
