2026-04-21 17:30:08
The Food and Drug Administration will hold meetings this summer to discuss whether compounding pharmacies should be allowed to manufacture half a dozen commonly sought, yet unproven peptides. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims the move will help shut down the black market for these products.
2026-04-21 17:00:13
In announcing on Monday that John Ternus would be succeeding Tim Cook as chief executive officer of Apple Inc. this year, the company’s board made it clear: We’re a hardware company and we’re going with the hardware guy.
2026-04-21 12:12:22
The Powell case and future economic challenges are out of the Fed nominee’s hands.
2026-04-21 12:00:10
BP Plc and its shareholders were poised for a celebration this week. After several punishing years, its annual meeting on Thursday should have marked a triple coronation: a new chairman, a new chief executive officer and a new strategy that — finally! — looks set to make money. But even with its shares trading at a 16-year high, the oil giant has managed to turn the gathering into a rancorous assembly.
2026-04-21 12:00:08
A mob of teenage shoplifters tore through a street in southwest London just before Easter, setting off a political backlash and wave of moral agonizing over Britain's perceived societal dysfunction and inability to control record levels of store theft. The incident may serve as an epitaph for a 12-year experiment in crime management that's about to be unwound. A lesson has been learned: Soft-pedaling lower-value offenses is a good way to get more of them. A lot more.
2026-04-21 11:00:08
What if the next time you doom-scrolled through Instagram, X or TikTok, you reached an end point? It’s hard to imagine. The so-called infinite scroll has become such a fixture of social media that our dopamine receptors have come to expect it, even though it’s a time suck that undermines our mental health and serves no real purpose other than to keep us glued to an app for as long as possible.
