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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Sounds Alarm on a Troubling Corner of Subprime Lending
Jamie Dimon warned that there could be more to come after the bankruptcies of Tricolor and First Brands. Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images Last month’s collapses of Tricolor and First Brands, a subprime auto lender and auto-parts supplier, respectively, sent alarm bells ringing across Wall Street about the health of the consumer credit market. Those concerns…
Read MoreBeautiful Trash: Sustainability as Condition, Not Cure, in Contemporary Art
Tom Friedman, Detritus, 2025. Today’s artists are metabolizing trash, corrosion and entropy into new forms of sustainability. Courtesy Lehmann Maupin Trash is no longer just a byproduct—it’s a proposition. As the ecological crisis deepens, the art world—traditionally enmeshed in systems of extraction and spectacle—is increasingly poised to make a meaningful bid into sustainability. And a…
Read MoreIndigenous Artists Use AR to Rewrite the Narrative in the Met’s American Wing
Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Midéegaadi: Fire (2021-ongoing) on Thomas Cole’s View on the Catskills – Early Autumn. Courtesy of the artist and Amplifier On October 13, a group of Indigenous artists took over the American collection at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to emphasize the need to elevate alternative narratives on Columbus Day—now widely observed…
Read MoreMeasles Outbreak in South Carolina Sparks Concern
More than 130 unvaccinated students at two schools in South Carolina are being quarantined after they were exposed to measles, amid an ongoing outbreak in the state—a sign, public health experts warn, that cases could continue to rise this school year. On Tuesday, the South Carolina Department of Public Health confirmed the 16th case of…
Read MoreNext Gen NYC’s Ariana Biermann and Boyfriend Hudson McLeroy Break Up
Ariana Biermann is officially single in the city. The Next Gen NYC star announced that she and her longtime boyfriend Hudson McLeroy have broken up after a yearslong on-and-off romance. “Hudson and I have decided to go our separate ways,” Ariana, 23, wrote in a post on her Instagram Stories Oct. 14. “While these things…
Read MoreFine Art Meets Street Art: The New Museum’s Freeman Alley Gambit
Left to right, the original New Museum building, the nearly finished addition and the three-story and five-story buildings that make up the Bowery Mission. Photo: J. Scott Orr for Observer Down on the Bowery, the New Museum’s minimalist stacked-box look is the oddball in an architectural lineup that includes surviving 19th-century buildings like William S.…
Read MoreGet Ready for the Holidays Early with Old Navy’s 50% Off PJs for the Whole Family—Even the Dog!
We might not be past Halloween yet, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start thinking about the holidays—and what to wear for your holiday cards, to unwrap presents on Christmas morning, or just all winter long to keep the festive vibe going. If you’re an Old Navy fan, you know the brand is famous for…
Read MoreWhy AI Companies Are Racing to Build a Virtual Human Cell
A human cell is a Rube Goldberg machine like no other, full of biological chain reactions that make the difference between life and death. Understanding these delicate relationships and how they go wrong in disease is one of the central fascinations of biology. A single mistake in a gene can bend the protein it makes…
Read MoreWeather radios provide life-saving alerts during storms
AUSTIN (KXAN) – Severe weather could happen at any point throughout the year. From storms to tornadoes, flooding and freezing, each season brings its own challenges. The First Warning Weather Team always encourages everyone to have multiple ways to receive weather notifications, especially when active weather is possible. Weather radios can be one of many…
Read MoreThe Crisis King Who Builds Careers: Inside Matthew Hiltzik’s Paradoxical Empire
Hiltzik has worked pro bono for two years advocating for the families of hostages taken on October 7, 2023. Behind him is a poster of Omer Neutra, a 21-year-old IDF soldier killed in the attacks whose remains have not been returned to his family. Arno Reyes Baetz for Observer Hope Hicks sat before the House…
Read More'Buffy' star shares message for Michelle Trachtenberg on what would've been her 40th birthday
(NEXSTAR) – Sarah Michelle Gellar, the star of TV’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” shared a sweet message to her late co-star Michelle Trachtenberg on what would’ve been her 40th birthday. In the post, shared on Oct. 11, Gellar remembered her and her on-screen sister’s relationship during their time on “Buffy,” after having appeared on the…
Read More4,000-year-old human skull found along riverbank in Indiana
FAYETTE COUNTY, Ind. (WXIN) — Human remains discovered along a riverbank in Fayette County, Indiana, have been determined to be more than 4,200 years old, the local coroner announced Monday. The remains, which included a portion of a human skull, were reportedly found on June 2 on the bank of the Whitewater River. The discovery…
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