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On Tuesday, conservative pundit Ben Shapiro launched a campaign for President Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison in the death of George Floyd. Shortly after, Elon Musk, who has been one of Trump’s closest advisors during his first six weeks in office, reshared the campaign on X (formerly Twitter) to his 219 million followers along with his own commentary: “Something to think about.”

How can a razor brand market their products online when the word “razor” is shadowbanned. Start an OnlyFans, of course. 

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott beginning Wednesday after rolling back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The boycott, led by Dr. Jamal Bryant, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, is framed as a “fast” from the retailer during Lent to show the economic power of Black consumers.

It’s tough enough bringing the first major redesign of a commercial jetliner to fruition—especially when it looks more like something out of The X-Files than a travel brochure. So, to streamline that journey, JetZero—the first commercial blended-wing body (BWB) aircraft—is teaming with Delta as an eventual buyer to troubleshoot operation and design issues from the ground up.

Mass layoffs struck the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization (NOAA) late last week, throwing into jeopardy the core mission of the agency tasked with observing the skies and seas nationwide—and a key piece of the federal disaster preparedness apparatus. 

Mid-aughts news aggregator Digg is making a comeback, thanks to a pairing that would have seemd unlikely when the site debuted in 2004: Digg founder Kevin Rose and a former corporate rival, Reddit cofounder and former CEO Alexis Ohanian. The pair bought Digg from its prior owners Money Group in early 2025 for an undisclosed sum. The deal was supported by True Ventures, which counts Rose as a partner, as well as Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six fund.

For cryptocurrency investors, Donald Trump represents a great hope. In the libertarian paradise where tokens on blockchains pave the future of the financial system instead of banks, lenders, and brokerages, Trump could even be a prophet.

I like to say that I spend most of my life negotiating—and if you consider your own work and life, you just might feel the same. My career has been full of back-and-forth: I sat across tables negotiating agreements for Christie’s for over two decades as Global Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships; I stand on stages around the world as a charity auctioneer, negotiating prices up to maximize fundraising; and I founded a talent agency that requires me to negotiate pay and conditions on behalf of my clients. Читать дальше...

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Welcome to Pressing Questions, Fast Company’s work-life advice column. Every week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The New Way We Work podcast, will answer the biggest and most pressing workplace questions.

Q: My boss is playing favorites, what should I do?

A: So much of adult life can feel like you’re perpetually stuck in high school: gossip and office politics, making friends, and who the boss favors. If you feel like your boss is playing favorites, the first step is evaluating... Читать дальше...

Online child abuse is a pernicious problem that’s rife in digital life. In 2023, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) received more than 36 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation—and a 300% increase in reports around online enticement of youngsters, including sextortion.

Many American business leaders assumed President Trump was making empty threats to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China—that these were “mostly negotiating ploys.” They were wrong.

In a test on fields in California last year, a plot of tomatoes looked exactly like the tomatoes growing next to it. But thanks to a tweak in how they were grown, they lasted longer: After they were harvested, they still looked and tasted fresh two weeks later.

Nearly all job growth since 1980 has been in occupations that are social-skill intensive. Teamwork, for instance, is now considered “very” or “extremely” important in eight of 10 occupations. Not surprisingly, a Stanford study shows that people working collaboratively persist on a task for 64% longer than those working individually on the same task, and they exhibit higher levels of engagement. According to the platform LinkedIn, the most in-demand skills in 2024 include “teamwork” and “communication.”... Читать дальше...

This desert city gets less than 9 inches of rain a year and experienced the two hottest years in its recorded history in 2023 and 2024. 

Beauty mogul and Rhode founder Hailey Bieber recently posted a a series of editorial photos on her Instagram to tease an upcoming collaboration with Fila. One of the pictures is not like the rest. In it, Bieber is caught mid-gasp as an artful collection of vibrant carrots, ripe bananas, and glossy tomatoes tumble from a brown bag cradled in her arm.

As President Donald Trump’s threats of a trade war with two U.S. neighbors becomes a reality, Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, is asking Canadians to buy local. The “Made in Canada” label and other local country-of-origin labeling is about to take on a whole new level of significance.

“Violence is just part of the job. Every nurse and healthcare worker experiences it at some point.”

Ever miss the thrill of the 2016 Pokémon Go craze? A new anti-swiping dating app has come to fill that void, but instead of cute Pokémon you can catch yourself a hot date.

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The U.S. has entered a trade war. Donald Trump’s decision to impose 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, as well as a 20% tariff on Chinese goods, could have wide-reaching and long-lasting impacts on the bottom line of millions of Americans. These follow reciprocal tariffs, where the U.S. matches the tariffs other countries charge for imported U.S. goods, imposed last month by the White House. (Canada and China have already retaliated with tariffs of their own.)

Target and Best Buy, two of the country’s largest retail chains, warned their prices will increase after President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada went into effect on Tuesday, sending the stock market plunging more than 650 points and shooting shock waves through the financial system. Adding fuel to the fire, Trump also said he would double tariffs on all Chinese imports from 10% to 20%.

After the president announced tariffs would go into effect—sparking a trade war that sent the S&P 500 plummeting 1.8% on Monday—a new meme has begun taking hold on Bluesky: Trump Take Nest Egg.