The World’s Largest-ever Tech Deal Now Rests With Qualcomm

The Biden administration on Tuesday issued sweeping health care proposals that would see Medicare plans greatly expand access to blockbuster GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, bar insurers from skipping out on paying certain claims that were granted prior authorization, and reinforce guardrails on the use of AI. The proposals fit into the administration's existing aims to improve and protect access to care in Medicare and Medicaid programs.

The United States will have a second team competing in Formula 1 from 2026, when Cadillac Formula 1 will join the sport as its 11th team. The result is a complete 180 for the sport's owner, which was highly resistant to the initial bid, first announced at the beginning of 2023. "As the pinnacle of motorsports, F1 demands boundary-pushing innovation and excellence.

Lee Jung-Jae returns as Player 456 in the second season of Squid Game. The 2021 Korean series Squid Game was a massive hit for Netflix, racking up 1.65 billion viewing hours in its first four weeks and snagging 14 Emmy nominations. Fans have been longing for a second season ever since, and we're finally getting it this year for Christmas.

NEW YORK — Walmart’s sweeping rollback of its diversity policies is the strongest indication yet of a profound shift taking hold at U. S. companies that are re-evaluating the legal and political risks associated with bold programs to bolster historically underrepresented groups. The changes announced by the world’s biggest retailer on Monday followed a string of legal victories by conservative groups that have filed an onslaught of lawsuits challenging corporate and federal programs aimed at elevating minority and women-owned businesses and employees. The retreat from such programs crystalized with the election of former President Donald Trump, whose administration is certain to make dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion programs a priority.

Nine million pounds of pumpkin. That’s how much fresh pumpkin Van Drunen Farms will have processed by the end of the year at its facility in Momence. Van Drunen Farms is most certainly farming on a much larger scale than it did in its humble beginnings in the south suburbs of Chicago.

The Logistics Campus, a transformative $500 million industrial redevelopment of the former Allstate headquarters, is ready for the trucks to begin rumbling in and out of the sprawling site along I-294 in Glenview. But nearly two months after the first phase was completed — five massive warehouses totaling more than 1 million square feet of space — the only honking is coming from a gaggle of geese, the center’s sole inaugural tenants. Whether it’s the broader slowdown in the post-pandemic industrial leasing market or the unusual north suburban location, the Logistics Campus is off to a very slow start. “The Dermody Properties team doesn’t have updates to share at this time,” a spokesperson for the Nevada-based developer said in an email, declining further comment. When Allstate decommissioned its longtime campus during the remote working paradigm shift of the pandemic, its iconic Northbrook headquarters resembled a corporate ghost town, replete with vacant office buildings, empty parking lots and a dearth of daily activity. Sold in 2022 to Dermody Properties, annexed into Glenview and redeveloped as one of the largest urban logistics centers in the U.