Walking into the Planet 13 Entertainment Complex —the world’s largest cannabis dispensary—in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a luxury experience.Seventy-four registers line up as personal shoppers accompany customers, explaining the different types of premium cannabis in glass cases.Customers can also catch a glimpse of robots making infused HaHa gummies and fizzy beverages.It feels seamless, and for…

Enlarge this image This is one of 194 homes The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority bought this year.The purchase is a first for the agency, which wanted to prevent investors from buying the homes and possibly increasing rent or evicting tenants.Jeff Dean for NPR hide caption toggle caption Jeff Dean for NPR This is…

California has long faced criticism for driving away business and workers, due to high taxes and prices and tough regulations. A few high-profile business titans have loudly departed , most notably Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk, who moved Tesla’s headquarters — and himself — to Texas during the pandemic (though SpaceX remains headquartered…

Atlantic staff writer Jacob Stern lampooned Democrats Beto O’Rourke and Stacey Abrams Tuesday for becoming famous by losing elections, coining the term “superstar losers” to describe them.Stern observed that O’Rourke and Abrams are “among the country’s best-known political figures, better known than almost any sitting governor or U.S.senator” yet they “have become so well known…

The pandemic housing boom marked a new — though possibly short-lived — entrée into homeownership for Black, Asian and Latino families, many of whom had for years been sidelined into the much costlier rental market.Get the full experience.Choose your plan ArrowRight Helped by pandemic-era stimulus programs, Black, Latino and Asian households saw the sharpest increase…

An image of confiscated “rainbow In the weeks leading up to Halloween, law enforcement agencies across the country—from the DEA down to local police—warned parents about “rainbow fentanyl,” a new version of synthetic opioid pills that come in yellow, green, pink, and other colors.Parents needed to remain vigilant, authorities said, otherwise the drugs might somehow…

‘My dad, the claw hair clip inventor’ Published 1 day ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Model Kaia Gerber wears her claw clip in classic tortoiseshell By Anne-Marie Dias Borges BBC News It was the hair accessory of choice in the 1990s – fashionable yet functional – making a comeback in Covid lockdown when…

Canada is setting record immigration goals to bring in 1.45 million immigrants by 2025 to help plug labor shortages.“Look, folks, it’s simple to me.Canada needs more people,” Sean Fraser, Canada’s minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, told a news conference Tuesday.The government is looking to boost a labor market that left nearly a million job…

‘My dad, the claw hair clip inventor’ Published 11 hours ago Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Model Kaia Gerber wears her claw clip in classic tortoiseshell By Anne-Marie Dias Borges BBC News It was the hair accessory of choice in the 1990s – fashionable yet functional…

Earlier this year, a researcher at Facebook shared some alarming statistics with colleagues. Teenage users of the Facebook app in the US had declined by 13 percent since 2019 and were projected to drop 45 percent over the next two years, driving an overall decline in daily users in the company’s most lucrative ad market.Young…