Where to Buy Powerball Tickets: A Globe-Trotting Guide to the World’s Most Expensive Daydream By Dave’s Foreign Correspondent, Still Jet-Lagged and Morally Ambiguous NEW YORK – If you’ve glanced at the headlines lately, you’ll know the Powerball jackpot has swollen to a sum that would make a small nation blush—roughly the GDP of Iceland, minus…
Tropical Storm Lorena: A Gentle Reminder That the Planet Still Hates Us By Our Correspondent in the Tempestuous Tropics They named her Lorena, presumably after someone’s abuela who brewed lethal coffee and never forgot a grudge. This week, the storm politely introduced herself to the Mexican Riviera, slapped Acapulco with 65-mph winds, and then drifted…
From Davos to Dhaka, the whispers started on trading floors and in diplomatic cables before sunrise: “Have you seen the Jolts Report?” By the time the New York open bell chimed, the headline had ricocheted across every major time zone, turning a once-sleepy U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics release into a planetary flashpoint. Overnight, the…
