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Not too long ago, Viet Nguyen lived out of the passenger seat of his car, relying on the local 24-Hour Fitness for a shower. Way before he was the chef-founder of Kei Concepts, the culinary juggernaut ...

CHARLESTON — Basic Kitchen's longtime executive chef and director of operations have taken over as operating partners of the popular downtown restaurant. The news comes as owners Ben and Kate Towill, ...

In 2026, business class is going basic. That seems to be the plan for major U.S. carriers like Delta and United Airlines, which both have hinted at forthcoming launches of unbundled business ...

Sacramento State opened its new Basic Needs Resource Center to help students struggling with housing and food insecurity by offering free groceries, including meat and fresh produce, as well as ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

Last year, I wrote about the OpenResearch Unconditional Income Study (ORUS), an experiment in which lower-income Americans were given $1,000 a month for three years—a short-term test run of proposals ...

Universal or guaranteed basic income programs are gaining momentum across the country, as local governments and nonprofits experiment with the bold new alternative to traditional welfare models.

As global wealth inequality deepens and automation threatens to usher in a new form of technology-driven unemployment, many nations, from the wealthy and industrialized to the still-developing, are ...

The idea of a universal basic income—a taxpayer-funded minimum monthly payment meant to reduce poverty and improve opportunity—is alluring. That’s especially true for low-income mothers of newborns.

How a backroad discovery led to the arrest of Melodee Buzzard’s mother in the child’s ‘calculated’ killing A new discovery at Easter Island could rewrite history as we know it Hundreds of residents ...