On Saturday, Rockefeller Center got its 2025 Christmas tree. This year’s centerpiece is 75 feet tall, 45 feet in diameter, and weighs approximately 11 tons, according to its host. The tree hails from East Greenbush, NY, a suburb of Albany about 150 miles north of Manhattan. Here are some fun facts about Rockefeller Center’s tree procurement process:…
We hope you aren’t planning to carbo-load for a big race, because Italian pasta may soon get a lot more expensive…or, in some cases, disappear from US store shelves. After a routine antidumping investigation—in which the US can impose tariffs to prevent foreign companies from flooding the market with cheaper goods—the administration said it would…
A legal dispute older than the iPhone might finally be wrapping up: Visa and Mastercard reached a settlement agreement with a group of businesses that accused them of charging unfairly high swipe fees 20 years ago, the card networks announced yesterday. Currently, merchants typically pay credit card companies between 2% and 2.5% per customer transaction. An “honor…
Taylor Swift is now effectively banned from several major airports. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) restricted private jets at a dozen domestic air hubs starting yesterday in order to relieve the strain on understaffed air traffic control towers during the government shutdown. Planes where the pilot addresses the passengers by name are no longer flying in or…