Airwallex, the Australian fintech that has spent a decade quietly building global payments infrastructure, is moving into in-person payments. The move deepens its rivalry with Stripe across the ...

The Pentagon recently ousted the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes’s ombudsman, the person meant to monitor the outlet’s editorial independence and report concerns to Congress. “Apparently the ...

Three months after the Pentagon decried the U.S. military newspaper Stars and Stripes as “woke” and announced it would be overhauled, Defense Department official Sean Parnell fired the publication’s ...

Talk about a reaction function: It took less than 10 minutes after the S&P 500 closed in the red for President Donald Trump to declare a cease-fire extension. Granted that cease-fire still has the ...

A recent opinion column I wrote as the Stars and Stripes ombudsman began with this: “Pete Hegseth doesn’t want you to see cartoons in this newspaper anymore.” Apparently the Pentagon also doesn’t want ...

Real-time tools, visuals, and other resources to quantify the role of climate change in weather events. Alerts We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable ...

Stripe processed $1.9 trillion in 2025, up 34% from the previous year. Stripe remains privately held, with no IPO planned as of mid-2026. Investors can buy similar stocks like PYPL or fintech ETFs ...

A market bubble is a rapid rise in the price of stocks or other assets that is not justified by fundamentals and is followed by a sharp fall in prices once investor enthusiasm wanes. Bubbles are ...

Before you head to the paint store, you’ll need to decide on the look you want to create. Do you want vertical or horizontal stripes? Are you using two shades of the same color or creating contrast ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — U.S. military forces have widened the shipping blockade on Iran to include cargoes deemed contraband, and any vessels suspected of trying to reach Iranian territory will be “subject ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Toby Walters is a financial writer, investor, and lifelong learner. He has a passion for ...