Six figures used to mean you'd made it. For a lot of Americans, it doesn't anymore. You now need over $120,000 a year to afford a median-priced home, per the Atlanta Fed. The median household earns $87,460.
Russia had more than 50,000 casualties in Ukraine last month, with as many as 28,000 personnel killed, vastly more than Ukrainian forces, per Bloomberg
Bernie Sanders has said: If you paid $1 in federal income taxes last year, you paid more than Citigroup after making $4 billion in profits, charging 32.74% interest on credit cards & slashing 20,000 jobs.
A federal judge has ruled that a Tulsa, Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock Safety to search for her license plate without a warrant.
"Humans are ingesting so much AI content that prompt language, fawning feedback and “caveman speak” are officially bleeding into real-world meetings," per WSJ
Bill Gates has said that companies replacing human workers with physical robots or AI systems should pay a payroll tax equivalent to the FICA tax a human employee would generate
New Mexico is asking a judge to order Meta, $META, to pay up to $40 billion in penalties after a jury found the company misled consumers about Facebook's data privacy, per YF
8 in 10 Americans have signed up for a free trial planning to cancel, then forgot and got charged anyway, averaging $45 a month, or $540 a year, per YF
"It’s costing more and more to get stuff in the hands of American shoppers. There’s virtually no way for businesses to avoid paying more, and they’re passing on the pain to consumers," per WSJ
TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million in a settlement tied to allegations that the short-form video platform misled users about safety and was designed to addict children, per TC
SpaceX will attempt to launch its Starship rocket into orbit for the first time, allowing it to deploy the inaugural batch of a new generation of Starlink internet satellites, per CNN
The White House announced that it is rescinding more than $800 million in congressionally appropriated funds across a range of government programs, per ABC