When Microsoft announced its acquisition of ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion on Monday, many people likely had to look the company up to find out that it’s is a video game holding company, most famous as the parent company of Bethesda. Bethesda? Glad you…
Student loan debt is at an all-time high in the U.S., growing at an unprecedented rate over the past two decades. New data shows just how student debt has outpaced other household debt like home, auto and credit card. In data from the New York Fed Cons…
The U.S. and Europe have steadily reduced harmful greenhouse gas emissions over the last two decades, as a boost in renewable energy and a decline in dirty fossil fuel production have contributed to a sustainable downward trend. However, another major …
The coronavirus pandemic has caused economic devastation of historic proportions across the United States with unemployment swiftly rising to nearly 15 percent after it erupted, a fifth of households becoming food insecure and tens of millions of tenan…
61 percent of countries in Asia have not opened up their borders to travelers, making it the most closed-off region for tourists in the world together with the Middle East, where 62 percent of countries are sticking to the closures. This is according t…
The vast majority of Americans want to keep current Covid-19 restrictions in place moving forward according to a Hill-HarrisX poll published on Thursday. The poll of 3,758 registered U.S. voters found that 45 percent of respondents want to keep current…
A new survey has uncovered shocking levels of unawareness among young U.S. adults about the Holocaust. The research was carried out by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and it focused on millennial and Gen Z adults aged between 1…
Despite the expiration of the weekly supplement to unemployment benefits at the end of July, U.S. consumer spending continued to bounce back in August, albeit at a slower pace than before. According to preliminary estimates published by the U.S. Census…
Supermarket and convenience store sales – seen as important indicators in the Japanese market – remained consistent throughout the coronavirus pandemic, numbers from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry show. Supermarket sales were predictably e…
According to numbers collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, tertiary students in Oman and Tunisia were most likely to graduate in a STEM field, with between 43 and 46 percent of students receiving a degree in engineering or a scientific, tec…
