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Singapore has overhauled its baby bonus scheme. Will it work to boost birth rates this time?

Singapore is overhauling its landmark baby bonus scheme, first introduced in 2001, as the city’s fertility rate and number of births fall to record lows.

The mayor of this desert city likens the U.S. West's water crisis to planning for a meteor. 'You can see it coming, but you can't get out of the way'

On the outskirts of Phoenix, a small town with a huge reliance on the Colorado River has capped growth, revived old wells and struck water deals.

With 'virtual speed bumps,' these cities have reduced crashes by rewarding slower drivers with fewer red lights

Officials struggled for years to curb high-speed crashes along a residential corridor cutting through Albuquerque, New Mexico, but simply punishing the lead-footed drivers didn’t seem to work.

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

Small boats stand idle on cracked ground in a shriveled side channel of the Danube River in northern Serbia, where the water has receded into a couple of shrinking ponds under pressure from extreme drought and heat. Fish circle in the shallow waters.

The Earth is sizzling, but 'climate hushing' is hot right now among Democrats. 'People are increasingly freaked out about other issues'

Climate change has been the backdrop to Charles Hughes’ entire life, from kindergarten lessons about disappearing habitats to wildfire smoke billowing through the air he breathed while growing up in Colorado. But now that he’s a college student in Massachusetts, he said global warming is rarely a top issue.

New U.S. Sanctions Will Hit Ordinary Iranians Hard. That May Be the Whole Point as the Crashing Economy Stirs Fresh Protests

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent laid out plans for an “economic D-Day” against Iran on Monday, seeking to further isolate the regime from the rest of the world.

Key takeaways from the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole conference

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which featured Kevin Warsh’s first speech as chairman, is winding down Saturday.

Trump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, judge rules, saying speech and press freedoms are 'foundational to America’s enduring democracy'

Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel’s war in Gaza and others as part of the Trump administration‘s quest to deport noncitizens who it says disrupted college campuses while expressing their views.

Sony accuses Anthropic of 'brazen campaign' to train Claude on its music

In a new lawsuit, Sony Music and Warner Chappell say Anthropic used "thousands upon thousands" of songs to train Claude, including "Eye of the Tiger."

Wall Street used to worry that too much U.S. debt would crowd out the private sector. But AI hyperscalers are 'reverse crowding' the Treasury

Among the many potential downsides for letting the national debt get too high was that the federal government would suck up so much capital that businesses wouldn’t be left with enough.

Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a "brazen campaign" of intellectual property theft

This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.

Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic

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