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New Bank of America survey finds young adults are more candid about salary and money than previous generations.gettyAmong members of the older generations, candid talk about finances, and particularly about salary, is often considered taboo, or at least impolite. But a new survey from Bank of America suggests that amid rising inflation, economic uncertainty, a tough job market and a culture that promotes social sharing, Gen Z adults are far more transparent with friends about what they earn, what they can afford, and the financial stresses they face. In the survey, 27% of Gen Z adults (aged 18 to 29)…

DuckDuckGo, which positions itself as a privacy-focused alternative to Google, has experienced a significant increase in user adoption following the search giant’s announcement of major changes to its search platform that heavily incorporate AI. TechCrunch reports that DuckDuckGo claims that U.S. app installs increased by an average of 18.1 percent week-over-week during the period from May 20 to May 25, compared to the previous week of May 13 to May 18. The growth was sustained for six consecutive days and reached a peak of 30.5 percent on May 25. On iOS devices specifically, the rate of installation was even more dramatic,…

Labour should go back to the country and secure a fresh mandate if they change leader and select a new Prime Minister, Brexit pioneer Nigel Farage said, with a nod back to the last Conservative era when the former party of government undermined public faith in politics by constantly changing Prime Minister. While long periods of unbroken power by Prime Ministers was long the norm in the United Kingdom with Margaret Thatcher in office 11½ years, Tony Blair 10 years, and John Major 6½ years, in the past decade the speed of change has been rapid. Rishi Sunak remained in…

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday said he has yet to hear back from Citadel CEO Ken Griffin after the socialist-leaning Democrat tried to walk back his attacks against the billionaire. Mamdani enflamed controversy in April when he posted a video outside Griffin’s Manhattan penthouse to tout a so-called “pied-à-terre tax” on wealthy property owners who do not spend most of their time living in New York. The hedge fund magnate responded to the video, calling it “creepy and weird” as others attacked the video as a political stunt. Mamdani’s office has since tried to mend fences. CNN’s…

Bengals legend and WFAN radio host Boomer Esiason lit into second-year Giants linebacker Abdul Carter on Tuesday morning, after Carter publicly called out his quarterback and teammate Jaxson Dart for introducing President Trump at a recent event. Esiason called Carter a “child” and said he was not a man after Carter’s critical reaction to Dart’s appearance with Trump at Rockland Community College in New York last week. “To put this out like a child on social media is ridiculous,” Esiason said of Carter Tuesday morning on WFAN. “And then when I heard, ‘Yeah, we spoke man to man.’ Yeah, there was…

Three officers have been arrested for faking recruitment data, Kiev’s prosecutor general has said Ukrainian draft officers have been caught adding dead people and convicts to the mobilization database amid military manpower shortages and growing public anger over forced conscription, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko has said.According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Kiev lost around 500,000 troops in 2025 alone. Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov previously acknowledged that around 200,000 troops had deserted, while also saying that at least 2 million men had been placed on a wanted list for avoiding mobilization.Three high-ranking officers at recruitment centers have been detained after…

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence is unusual in its intense focus on a single new technology. The document draws parallels to previous times of cultural and technological upheaval, all the way back to the Tower of Babel, but consistently conveys the sense that AI is something new — an unprecedented challenge to human dignity and spirituality. Pope Leo frequently returns to the theme of uniformity versus communion, stressing that the quest for uniformity is sterile, mechanistic, and prone to tyrannical abuse, while communion is voluntary and joyous, bringing…

The corruption probe into former Socialist Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero appears set to expand as police have seized hundreds of thousands in cash and jewellery, while reports have emerged indicating that authorities believe the alleged influence peddling extended to oil and gold projects in Venezuela. Zapatero, who led the country from 2004 to 2011, embroiled his Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) successor’s government in a scandal earlier this month after being indicted for allegedly running an influence peddling and money laundering scheme surrounding the €53 million ($57.2 million) coronavirus-era bailout of the Plus Ultra airliner, of which €1.95 million…

U.S. businesses expect sales to keep growing briskly over the next year, even as payrolls rise much more slowly, according to new data from the Atlanta Fed. The Atlanta Fed’s Survey of Business Uncertainty showed firms expected sales revenue to rise 5.1 percent over the next 12 months in May, based on the survey’s smoothed index. That was down slightly from April’s 5.3 percent but remained historically strong. The smoothed indexes are designed to filter out month-to-month survey noise, while the unsmoothed figures show the raw monthly readings. Expected employment growth was much lower. Firms said they expected employment to…

Billionaire California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer said he fully supports transgender-identifying males playing on females’ high school sports teams — despite concerns over women’s safety and fairness in athletics. Steyer, who is endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), made the comment during an interview on the I’ve Had It podcast with far-left host Jennifer Welch, which was released Sunday. “You talked about trans people. I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school,” Steyer said. “I think when you understand the vulnerability, the stress, the danger of being a trans kid, and you understand that almost half of…