How I Built A $4.2 Billion Space Start-Up | Founder Effect
We can recognize the biggest names in space by just their last names: Bezos, Musk and Branson. But you might…
How I Raised $650 Million For My Food-Saving Start-Up | Founder Effect
James Rogers, founder of Apeel Sciences, learned that one of the main causes of global hunger isn’t that we as…
How I Built A $6.5 Billion App Called Duolingo | Founder Effect
By the time Luis von Ahn turned 24, he was already a millionaire several times over. The 43-year-old may not…
How I Sold My Start-Up To Lululemon For $500 Million
Meet Brynn Putnam. The CEO and founder secured $3 million in venture capital to fund her tech-based fitness company MIRROR…
Biden addresses anti-Asian violence: “Our silence is our complicity”
President Biden condemned the recent anti-Asian violence on Friday after meeting with Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) leaders in Atlanta,…
House passes bipartisan bill to grant legal status to undocumented farmworkers
The House voted 247-174 on Thursday to pass a bipartisan bill that would allow an estimated 1 million undocumented farmworkers…
What we know about the victims of the Georgia shootings
Four of the eight people who died in a shooting spree by a 21-year-old gunman in Georgia this week have…
How Do You Mourn a Pandemic? See How Artists Around the World Are Building Monuments to Those Who Died of COVID-19
Yesterday marked one year since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, but many artists and activists…
Biden to direct $2.5 billion in funds to address mental health and addiction crisis
President Biden is directing $2.5 billion in funding to address the nation’s worsening mental illness and addiction crisis, an official…
America is learning to rebalance its news diet post-Trump
Nearly halfway through President Biden’s first 100 days, data shows that Americans are learning to wean themselves off of news…
How I Raised $12 Million For My Media Start-Up
Blavity’s razor-sharp founder Morgan DeBaun has an incredible backstory—she was an early investor in Tesla and Facebook, graduated at the…
China and Russia vaccinate the world — for now
While the U.S. and Europe focus on vaccinating their own populations, China and Russia are sending millions of COVID-19 vaccine…
The modern way to hire a big-city police chief
When it comes to picking a city’s top cop, closed-door selection processes have been replaced by highly public exercises where…
What to make of the Biden administration’s first overseas calls
wait a few weeks for a call, Blinken, Austin and Sullivan all held early calls with their Israeli counterparts. If…
2 dead and millions without power in Texas as winter storm sweeps U.S.
Law enforcement found two men dead at roadways in the Houston area as a winter snowstorm continued to pummel Texas…
America’s extra vaccine doses could be key to global supply
The Biden administration’s purchase of 200 million additional Pfizer and Modern doses means the U.S. could fully vaccinate 300 million…
Fox News cancels Lou Dobbs’ show
Fox News has cancelled its business network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” and will air the program’s final show on Friday night,…
Fauci: COVID vaccine rollout should prioritize people of color
Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci highlighted the need to address racial disparities in the COVID-19 vaccination process, per an interview…
Larry King, Iconic TV And Radio Interviewer, Dies At 87
The man who literally wrote the book on how to talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere has died. Larry King, the…