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Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Treasury secretary, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building on Thursday, January 16, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Bessent confirmed as treasury secretary

Daria Solovieva

Bessent is one of 13 billionaires tapped to join Trump's administration

Woman Analyzing Stock Market Trends (Getty Images/Witthaya Prasongsin)

Stock market tips for nervous investors

Vanessa McGrady

Investing in the market has its own set of tried-and-true practices

Ozempic is medicine for adults with type 2 diabetes that along with diet and exercise may improve blood sugar. (Steve Christo - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

GLP-1 drugs are changing spending habits

Michael La Corte

The study showed shifts in how participants bought food at both the grocery store and restaurants

Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"War on woke" is a war on all America

Amanda Marcotte

Christian nationalists behind the spending shutdown aim to punish everyone, not just imaginary Marxists

Towana Looney, 53, who received a gene-edited pig kidney undergoes medical testing at NYU Langone Health on December 11, 2024 in New York. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Pig organ transplantee passes milestone

Matthew Rozsa

"She’s the only person in the world walking around with a pig organ inside them that’s functioning.”

Imara Jones attends 2023 TIME100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 26, 2023 in New York City. (Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

How Trump's pardons will fuel hate

Tatyana Tandanpolie

"We have to prepare ourselves for a much more turbulent and disturbing future," said extremism expert Imara Jones

Donald Trump VS demonstrators rallying in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump on abortion is "complete chaos"

Nicole Karlis

The president's executive orders have strengthened existing barriers to those who need access the most, experts say

A duckling is vaccinated with Volvac vaccine against Influenza in a breeding in Renung, southwestern France, on July 1, 2024. (GAIZKA IROZ/AFP via Getty Images)

First detection of H5N9 flu in poultry

Elizabeth Hlavinka

A California duck farm has culled thousands of birds as the virus seems to be trading genetics with other viruses

The DeepSeek AI application is seen on a mobile phone (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

DeepSeek is disrupting AI leadership

Zain Jaffer

The Chinese AI chatbot's breakthrough has investors asking whether to bet on U.S. tech or look elsewhere

Jim Acosta speaks at The Common Good, American Spirit Awards at The Plaza on November 21, 2024 in New York City (Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Jim Acosta: "Don‘t give in to the lies"

Melanie McFarland

Following reports that CNN intended to exile Acosta to midnight, the longtime journalist's exit was expected

John Stewart on the Monday, January 27, 2025 episode of "The Daily Show" (Matt Wilson/Comedy Central)

Jon Stewart slams reactions to Trump

Nardos Haile

Stewart warns Democrats against overreacting to Trump’s executive actions during his first week back in office

Former president Donald Trump points at Drake Enterprises in Clinton Township, Michigan on September 27, 2023. (Nic Antaya for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump tries to purge the NLRB

Nicholas Liu

Trump fired the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel and one of its Democratic members

Senator Ron Wyden, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, speaks during a Senate Finance hearing to examine lowering health care costs for Americans, focusing on the Inflation Reduction Act, on Capitol Hill on September 17, 2024. (Valerie Plesch for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Medicaid portals shuttered in 50 states

Nicholas Liu

The portal shutdown comes as Trump's budget office ordered a suspension of most federal spending

Selena Gomez attends the 36th Annual Palm Springs International Film Awards at Palm Springs Convention Center on January 03, 2025 in Palm Springs, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Society)

Selena Gomez trolled by Trump allies

Nardos Haile

Gomez is defending her advocacy after posting an emotional video condemning recent deportation raids

Canvas bags filled with food crops (Getty Images/Shaiith)

How gleaning fights food waste

Natasha Khullar Relph - Grist

“The simple act of turning discarded crops into nourishment bridges so many divides"

Traders work during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 28, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City. - Losses on Wall Street deepened following a bruising open, as global markets were poised to conclude their worst week since 2008 with another rout. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

How long till the next big crash?

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Trump's crypto push amounts to betting the entire U.S. financial system on imaginary money. What could go wrong?

Martha Stewart is seen on "Good Day New York" on December 04, 2024 in New York City. (Michael Simon/Getty Images)

Martha's parole officer nixed "SNL" gig

Nardos Haile

"Maybe someday," Stewart says of her missed opportunity to take center stage at Studio 8H

Timothée Chalamet and an Oscar Awards statue (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The joy of Timothée Chalamet's Oscar bid

Coleman Spilde

Chalamet has charmed the world this awards season, but his canvassing is much smarter than it initially appears

E-Reader on a bookshelf (Getty Images/onurdongel)

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena

Melanie McFarland

"Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally

The Heritage Foundation flag flies over the building on July 30, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's right-wing ghostwriters

Russell Payne

Memos posted by the Office of Personnel Management initially listed right-wing activists as their authors

Variety of fruits and vegetables (Getty Images/Tanja Ivanova)

Food allergy vs. intolerance

Jennifer Koplin, Desalegn Markos Shifti - The Conversation

"Food intolerances (sometimes called non-allergic reactions) are also reactions to food"

The DeepSeek AI application is seen on a mobile phone in front of the US and Chinese flag. (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

This AI chatbot is rattling Big Tech

Daria Solovieva

The Chinese startup caught up with Big Tech at a fraction of the cost

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought arrives for a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's OMB sparks "five-alarm fire"

Nicholas Liu

A two-page OMB memo falsely claims that the president can refuse to spend money on programs authorized by Congress

Azul Guaita in "Like Water For Chocolate" (Courtesy of HBO)

"Like Water for Chocolate" for a new era

Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu

"I doubt the show’s themes of feminine survival would have stood out to me as much had Trump lost"

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