Sen. Mitch McConnell closed a loophole in a hemp law. Now $28 billion THC industry fights to surviveThe industry hopes to save itself by restricting impairing products to people 21 and older, limiting how much THC can be in a package, and banning imported cannabis compounds.Fortune2d agoWhole story →FoodGovernmentMitch McConnellhemp law loophole closure
Gary Shapiro: why trade shows matter and how to get them rightI ran powerful trade show CES for decades. Bill Gates told me once that trade shows were key for Microsoft. Now, author Robyn Davis is onto something.Fortune2d agoWhole story →TechnologyEconomy
Zohran Mamdani says 'you have to luck out in some big way' to achieve the American Dream now"People think that they have better odds playing the lottery than making it in their own life. What does that say about the country that we live in?"Fortune2d agoWhole story →EconomyGovernmentZohran Mamdani
What the bond market reveals about Congress, the national debt and the middle class-and where America goes from hereThe only real solution is to put fiscal policy on a sustainable trajectory, but on the tax side, it’s important to realize we have limited room.Fortune3d agoWhole story →EconomyGovernmentnational debt debate
Trump removes chairs for TSA agents, saying they 'must meet fitness for duty requirements'The White House has given the Office of Personnel Management more power to hire and fire federal workers on the basis of fitness.Fortune5d agoWhole story →JusticeSecuritytsa fitness policy change
OpenAI, SpaceX investor funds went to strip clubs, Bloomingdale’s, and shopping on Amazon, SEC alleges in charges against private fund advisersOne fund manager allegedly paid his 4 a.m. strip club bill from fund capital after his card was declined.Fortune5d agoWhole story →TechnologyEconomysec charges against fund advisers
'A billion deaths': Bill Gates warns about AI in the wrong hands, saying a kill switch and self-regulation won’t be enoughGates used to be one of AI’s optimists, but now he calls it “the most dangerous thing humans have ever gone near”Fortune6d agoWhole story →TechnologyJusticeai regulation debate