Kura Spins Out $50 Million Diabetes Biotech to Pursue a Potentially Disease-Changing Treatment
Kura Oncology is taking technology originally developed around cancer biology into the enormous diabetes market, launching a new company called Caspian Therapeutics with $50 million in financing to investigate whether menin inhibitors can restore the body’s ability to produce insulin. The scientific idea behind Caspian could represent an important departure from many existing diabetes treatments. […]
Missouri’s Redistricting War Throws the Midterms Into Turmoil as Trump-Backed Map Faces Court Defeat
Missouri has become the center of an extraordinary legal and political battle over congressional redistricting, as courts clash over whether the state can use a Republican-drawn map backed by President Donald Trump in the November midterm elections. The dispute is part of a much broader national struggle over control of the U.S. House. Republicans currently […]
Washington Takes a Direct Stake in America’s Quantum Future With $300 Million Technology Bet
The U.S. government is taking an unusually direct role in the race for quantum-computing leadership, investing $300 million in three major quantum companies while receiving minority ownership stakes in each of them. Under agreements finalized through the CHIPS and Science Act, the Commerce Department will provide up to $100 million each to D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti […]
George Lucas Reinvents the Art Museum by Putting Star Wars, Comics and Van Gogh on Equal Ground
The long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is preparing to open in Los Angeles with an unusually ambitious mission: challenge the traditional hierarchy separating prestigious “fine art” from illustration, comics, cinema, popular culture and other forms of visual storytelling. Founded by filmmaker George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, the roughly $1-billion museum will open September 22 […]
Trump Takes Voter Citizenship Database Fight to Supreme Court Ahead of Midterms
The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a controversial federal system designed to help states verify the citizenship of people on voter rolls, escalating a major election-law dispute less than two months before the November 3 midterm elections. The request could significantly expand the federal government’s role in determining voter eligibility […]
Andres Florez Builds Culturewise From Medellin With a Vision to Represent Colombian Urban Culture Globally
Andres Florez, founder and CEO of Culturewise, is building a fashion and cultural brand from Medellin with a vision that goes beyond traditional streetwear. Drawing from years of experience in barbering and his connection to the city’s urban movement, Florez is developing Culturewise as an ecosystem that brings together clothing, barbering, sneakers, experiences and community. […]
Social Security’s Looming Shortfall Pushes Some Republicans Toward an Unlikely Solution: Higher Taxes
For decades, raising taxes has been close to political heresy for many Republicans. But the approaching financial crisis facing Social Security is beginning to challenge that orthodoxy, with some Republican lawmakers signaling that additional tax revenue may need to be part of a bipartisan agreement to prevent major benefit reductions. The urgency comes from Social […]
America’s Affordable Housing Paradox: Thousands of Apartments Sit Empty While the Poorest Remain Homeless
Across the United States, a troubling contradiction is emerging in the housing crisis: thousands of apartments officially classified as affordable are sitting vacant while millions of the country’s poorest renters cannot find homes they can afford. The problem exposes a fundamental mismatch between the affordable housing America is building and the people experiencing the most […]
Huawei Faces Landmark U.S. Trial Over Iran Dealings, Bank Fraud and Alleged Technology Theft
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is heading to trial in New York in one of the most consequential U.S. criminal cases ever brought against a Chinese technology company. Nearly eight years after American prosecutors first secretly charged the company, a federal jury will consider allegations involving Huawei’s business activities in Iran, bank and wire fraud, money […]
Americans Are Talking Less — and Scientists Warn the Silence Could Be Changing Our Brains
The viral “Gen Z stare”—the blank, silent expression sometimes associated online with awkward interactions involving younger people—may be little more than an exaggerated generational joke. But researchers say the phenomenon points toward a much more significant social change: people are actually speaking less than they used to, and the decline is particularly pronounced among younger […]
