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Alex Hirschi, aka Supercar Blondie, presents the Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo in June in Cologne, Germany. Hirschi has 2.3 million YouTube followers.

Social media influencers boost excitement about brands in crowded autos field, for a price

October 31, 2019 at 3:13 p.m.

Alan Enileev won the Need For Speed championship at the World Cyber Games in 2006. Now, at 31, he has transferred his love of all things virtual to the world...

Trucker Amit Sekhri checks his smartphone Oct. 7, 2019, looking for possible jobs and bids using the Convoy application in his truck in Patterson, Calif.

As Convoy and Uber Freight duke it out, low prices on trucking apps are squeezing drivers

October 29, 2019 at 2:09 p.m.

Amit Sekhri took up trucking in the thick of the Great Recession, drawn in part by the freedom of driving the open roads. He was prepared for long hours and...

Disembarking in Sydney after almost 20 hours in the air.

I just took the world’s first 20-hour flight – here’s what it did to me

October 22, 2019 at 11:14 a.m.

I've just endured the world's newest longest flight, a 16,200 kilometer (10,100 mile), nonstop ultra-marathon from New York to Sydney. It took about 19 and a half hours, and was...

Building up ‘eccentric strength’ is key to staying fit on the slopes

October 21, 2019 at 12:01 p.m.

About this time every year, as the reports of first snowfalls dusting Western peaks arrive, desk-bound urban skiers begin to daydream. Perhaps they start looking at season passes, scroll through...

Americans now need at least $500,000 a year to enter top 1%

October 17, 2019 at 11:21 a.m.

One definition of rich is getting into the top 1%. If that's your goal, it's becoming harder to reach. The income needed to exit the bottom 99% of U.S. taxpayers...

Former Texas U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke enters the Spin Room after the Democratic presidential debate at Otterbein University on Oct. 15, 2019, in Westerville, Ohio.

Commentary: Beto O’Rourke threatens tax-free donations to some churches. That would be a blow against civil society.

October 17, 2019 at 10:51 a.m.

Beto O'Rourke has a terrible idea. The Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas congressman wants the U.S. government to take away the tax-exempt status of religious organizations — including churches...

Police officers observe commuters using turnstiles at a subway station in 2016 in New York. The city had a strategy of driving down crime by cracking down hard on people who commit minor offenses like turnstile jumping.

Commentary: Controversial ‘Broken Windows’ crime-fighting theory was right — about actual windows, that is

October 16, 2019 at 4:04 p.m.

Whether or not "Broken Windows" policing tactics actually work is one of those debates that will never really end, mainly because there are so many different understandings of what Broken...

Ken Griffin, the founder and CEO of Citadel, in 2014.

Blackstone group holds talks with Ken Griffin’s Citadel about buying a stake, sources say

October 12, 2019 at 11:13 a.m.

Blackstone Group Inc. held talks about buying a stake in Ken Griffin's flagship hedge fund, people familiar with the matter said. The Blackstone division that invests in alternative asset managers...

For a growing number of cancer patients, chemotherapy is a part of an ever-more sophisticated mix of treatments. For others, it?s still the only hope.

Chemo packs new punch outside cancer fight’s spotlight

October 4, 2019 at 4:00 a.m.

Newfangled drugs that target flaws in tumor cells grabbed headlines at a recent cancer conference in Barcelona. But Mark Velleca was just as eager to discuss a type of therapy...

Even Nobel-winning chemists don’t know what’s in weed vaping products

September 27, 2019 at 10:08 a.m.

The vaping health crisis sweeping the U.S. is highlighting how little scientists and health officials know about the marijuana being consumed on a daily basis by millions of Americans. That...

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