Michigan battles massive outbreak as state reels from Trump cuts

Conagra Brands’ stock was up a bit on Thursday, but the company’s results and forecast were the latest dose of bad news for the packaged-food industry.

Louisiana is where Beyoncé’s mother, fashion designer Tina Knowles, was born and raised. In 2015, multiple news outlets reported that the couple purchased a Spanish Baroque-style mansion in New Orleans’ Garden District. The house on Harmony Street, locally known as La Casa de Castille, was listed for $2.6 million at the time of its purchase,…

​Short sellers targeting SpaceX shares ​are sitting on an estimated $8.7 billion in paper profit ​since the rockets-to-AI firm’s initial public offering last month, as its stock slipped below the IPO price, according to data and analytics firm Ortex Technologies. Short sellers, who borrow ‌shares to ⁠sell them ⁠and later buy them back at a…

Since setting up Blue Origin 26 years ago, Jeff Bezos has invested a total of $30 billion in his space company, or roughly $1 billion per year. Last month, he doubled that, putting $2 billion into Blue Origin. It still isn’t enough. Jeff Bezos, Executive Chairman of Amazon. Image source: Amazon.com. Feeding Blue Origin’s cash…

Germany’s fragile coalition government has announced a major package of economic reforms aimed at kick-starting the country’s chronic low growth. The long-awaited measures, announced earlier this month by chancellor Friedrich Merz, include tax cuts, greater labour-market flexibility and a broad easing of bureaucratic red tape – and follow separate but related pension reforms, announced a…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Henry Gonzalez. It has been edited for length and clarity. I’ve lost nearly 350 pounds and kept the weight off. As a kid, I was never small. I was a bigger kid through my teenage years. When I was 21, I weighed 470 pounds. I was…