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Mercury is a little-known, still mysterious world.

But one thing is certain. Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, can't actually travel backward in retrograde, and doesn't impact us on Earth. The notion of Mercury retrograde, a common reference in astrology wherein communication and travel are temporarily impaired, can, of course, be a fun musing. The event occurs when Mercury appears to start

• I took my girlfriend on a luxury trip to Morocco but only had to pay $250 out of pocket.
• Using points, we stayed in beautiful five-star hotels throughout the trip.
• I'm so glad I learned how to maximize my credit-card points for travel.

My girlfriend always dreamed of going to Morocco for her 40th birthday.

Travel is

The US Department of Energy will loan Rivian $6.6 billion to build an electric vehicle factory in Georgia, as Democrats scramble to finalize their climate agenda before Donald Trump takes office.

Rivian, lacking the funds to start the construction process, put its Georgia factory plans on hold earlier

• Jose Palafox used a DST 1031 exchange to defer taxes on his Portland rental sale.
• The strategy allows reinvestment into a trust, so Palafox no longer has to manage a property.
• It wasn't the simplest strategy to execute and involved a lot of paperwork and moving parts.

In the summer of 2024, Jose Palafox took advantage of a little-known

One Amazon influencer makes a living posting content from her beige home. But after she noticed another account hawking the same minimal aesthetic, a rivalry spiraled into a first-of-its-kind lawsuit. Can the legal system protect the vibe of a creator? And what if that vibe is basic?

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Little by little, countries around the world are taking steps to change how Apple's App Store functions. The most recent development comes from Brazil, where the nation's antitrust regulator Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Economica (CADE) on Monday issued Apple an ultimatum of sorts. CADE has given Apple 20 days to make changes that allows for purchases from third-party app developers without

There’s a new Star Wars show coming out, and it'll arrive sooner than expected. Star Wars: Skeleton Crew premieres on December 2 at 9PM ET with two episodes on Disney+. The show was originally scheduled to debut on December 3, but Disney moved it up just a few days beforehand. New episodes will drop at the same time each Tuesday for the remainder of the season.

For the uninitiated, this is a live

• I cooked a Thanksgiving feast using only Ina Garten's recipes, and it cost me $132.
• I made turkey, green beans, stuffing, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pie.
• I spent 10 hours cooking but the meal was beautiful

As thousands of employees prepared to move into Tesla's new Gigafactory outside Austin, Omead Afshar had to decide what kind of coffee they were going to drink.

Afshar, then operating as a chief of staff for CEO Elon Musk, was overseeing the construction of one of the largest vehicle-manufacturing facilities in the world. He approached picking which beans to brew in the break

• A Russian deserter who was an officer at a top-secret nuclear weapons facility spoke with the BBC.
• He described an atmosphere of paranoia, with personnel subjected to lie-detector tests.
• The deserter said his job involved making sure his subordinates didn't bring phones onto the base.

A Russian deserter