Author: Shekari Philemon

Costco, the warehouse retailer best known for bulk toilet paper, $1.50 hot dogs and the particular joy of finding a designer handbag next to a pallet of canned beans, is now flirting with a $1,000 stock price. Shares have climbed 15 percent so far this year, sitting at $983 as of Thursday and giving the company a market value of $438 billion — making it one of the most valuable retailers on the planet. The business performance behind that number is genuinely impressive. The concern is whether the stock price has gotten so far ahead of even impressive performance that…

It started with a warning on Instagram Stories and ended — if it has ended — with three people publicly at odds, a pregnancy rumor circulating and a four-word response from the man at the center of it all that addressed nothing and satisfied no one. Diamond Brown, the mother of Chris Brown’s three-year-old daughter Lovely, posted a pointed message this week that set off one of the messier public exchanges surrounding the singer in recent memory. What she described as a private frustration became very public very fast, pulling in Brown’s rumored girlfriend Jada Wallace and Brown himself before…

The United Nations confirmed this week that the United States has paid approximately $160 million toward its outstanding dues — a number that sounds significant until it sits next to the full figure. The US currently owes the UN close to $4 billion in unpaid contributions, making the payment less a resolution than a gesture toward one. The partial payment applies to the UN’s regular operating budget. It arrives at a moment when the organization’s financial situation has become genuinely precarious, with senior UN officials warning that the regular operating budget could be depleted as early as July without a…

The U.S. Supreme Court could rule as early as Friday on whether President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs are legal — and if the answer is no, the financial fallout would be staggering. Economists at the Penn-Wharton Budget Model estimate that more than $175 billion in tariff collections would need to be refunded to importers, a figure that exceeds the combined annual budgets of the Department of Transportation and the Department of Justice. That is not a rounding error. That is a potential fiscal event with no recent precedent. Where the $175 billion figure comes from The estimate was produced by…

Eighty percent. That is the share of Black women who will develop uterine fibroids at some point in their lifetime, according to the National Institutes of Health. It is one of the most striking statistics in women’s reproductive health — and one of the least discussed outside of clinical settings. Fibroids are noncancerous growths that develop in or around the uterus. They range from barely detectable to significantly large, and their symptoms range from manageable to genuinely debilitating. Heavy bleeding, persistent pelvic pain, frequent urination and complications with fertility are all part of the picture for many women living with…

The hair is growing. The retention is the real problem  The frustration is real and it is common. You are consistent with your routine, you are taking the vitamins and you have watched your hair sit at the same length for what feels like an unreasonable amount of time. It is easy to conclude that Black hair simply does not grow as fast as other hair types. That conclusion, while understandable, is not accurate — and the distinction matters enormously for how the problem gets addressed. Black hair grows at approximately the same rate as other hair types — roughly…

Temporal, a San Francisco-based software startup, just closed a $300 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at $5 billion. That’s double the $2.5 billion valuation from just four months ago. This rapid doubling signals serious investor confidence in AI infrastructure as the next frontier of tech investing. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sapphire Ventures joined the Series D round alongside Sequoia Capital. Founded in 2019, Temporal builds open-source software and cloud services that ensure what they call “durable execution” of code. If your system crashes, it resumes exactly where it left off without engineers manually rebuilding everything.…

That late-night pasta is not random. It is your brain running a very specific chemical errand It is Friday night. The week was long, draining and possibly featured at least one conversation you are still replaying. You did not plan to eat pasta at 10 p.m. You were not even that hungry. And then somehow a full bowl of carbohydrates appeared in front of you and felt, genuinely, like the only reasonable response to the week you just had. You did not fail at discipline. Your brain placed an order and your hands filled it. Carbohydrate cravings after stress or…

Fruit, honey, juice and flavored yogurt feel like clean eating — your body is reading something closer to dessert You woke up early, skipped the pastry, pulled out the blender and made something green or fruity and congratulated yourself on a strong start. That smoothie felt like discipline. It had fruit in it. It had yogurt. It possibly had the word “detox” adjacent to its recipe title somewhere on the internet. And yet by mid-morning you are hungry again, slightly foggy and wondering why clean eating feels like it is not working. The smoothie might be why. What is actually…