Overstock.com is now Bed Bath & Beyond. The move is an attempt to revive the now defunct housewares chain and boost Overstock’s popularity.  In June, Overstock acquired Bed Bath & Beyond for $21.5 million, just two months after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. All physical stores were scheduled to be closed by the…

Colleges have found a workaround to the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling this summer. While schools are now prohibited from accepting students based on race, there is a way for administrators to learn about a student’s ethnicity — the college essay. Colleges and universities across the U.S. are releasing essay prompts for student applications on…

Elon Musk’s X Corp. is suing a nonprofit that fights hate speech and disinformation. The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is accusing the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) of asserting false claims and encouraging advertisers to stop investing in the company.  In July, CCDH published research that stated hate speech had increased…

The Republican House majority has repeatedly accused the executive branch of weaponizing the government against the American people, including by allegedly pressuring social media companies to limit, remove, or block users’ posts that were seen as COVID disinformation or misinformation. The first major documented reports of these tactics came to light in the “Twitter Files,”…

Twitter has ditched the bird logo and is now X. Elon Musk is hoping to turn the platform into a super app like WeChat, which is owned by one of China’s biggest companies, Tencent. But what exactly does that look like? Here are five things to know about the Chinese everything app Twitter is trying…

The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to order Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, R, to remove buoys in the Rio Grande that Abbott said are designed to deter illegal immigration. Attorneys argued if the buoys aren’t removed, it will cause irreparable harm to foreign relations, public safety and navigation.  The Justice Department also filed…

The Justice Department (DOJ) announced it plans to sue the state of Texas over the floating buoys the state placed in the Rio Grande earlier in July. The buoys are intended to obstruct the path of illegal migrants from easily entering the country from the southern border. “We write to inform you…that the United States…

A U.S. Army soldier has been detained by North Korea after crossing the border from South Korea, according to the United Nations Command and the South Korean army on Tuesday. The U.S. national was taking part in a tour to the Joint Security Area, a border village in a demilitarized zone that separates the two…

Mexico says Texas may be violating international law by installing a border wall made up of orange buoys in the middle of the Rio Grande in the state’s latest attempt to secure the United States border. Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretary Alicia Barcena said the move could be violating the Mexican Water Treaty of 1944 between…

House Republicans on the subcommittee looking into the origins of COVID-19 appear to have accidentally released new documents related to their investigation. The documents shed light on deliberations among the scientists who drafted an article that played a key role in defending the theory that the virus emerged naturally. The article was released in March…