The U.S. blood supply has reached crisis levels, prompting the American Red Cross and the Surgeon General's Office to urge people to donate. Why it matters: A prolonged blood shortage could delay surgeries, trauma care and other treatments that depend on timely blood transfusions. - The Red Cross says it has "less than a one-day national supply of type O positive blood," which is the most commonly transfused blood type. Due to the shortage, the organization is limiting distribution of type O blood to hospitals. Driving the news: Blood donations fell to a four-year summer low in 2026, the Red Cross said on Monday. - Current supply is not keeping up with the demand for blood, which increases during the summer, the Red Cross says. - The…
AI appears to improve workers' efficiency in a number of sectors. The U.S. has experienced a surge in economy-wide productivity in the last couple of years. But the former isn't necessarily driving the latter. The big picture: Companies are achieving more output per person-hour of labor because they are making better use of existing capital, a provocative new analysis finds — not, at the moment at least, by making major use of AI. - AI advances may be generating substantial micro-level gains in some sectors, but so far are not the driver of one of the most important macro trends of the last couple of years, finds Ernie Tedeschi, chief economist at Stripe. State of play: A surge in labor productivity — after a couple of decades of…
Faith Jenkins Lattimore and Kenny Lattimore took the rare step of battling defamation on YouTube. Even with money and legal experience, they struggled to make progress.
The survey highlighted the gap in independent support for Stevens and El-Sayed. In that bloc, Stevens leads Rogers by 0.8%, but El-Sayed trails by a whopping 27.5%.
President Trump responded to recently released entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday, saying he grew tired of the former White House medical adviser. "He was a much bigger player in the Biden administration. I grew tired of him,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News. “He wanted to close everything down. I allowed [...]
