Consumers are ready to splurge, snapping up products that will get them out of the house — and looking good.

“OPEC+ has been thrown its most serious crisis since last year’s ill-fated price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia,” said one energy expert.

Trouble was brewing before the current boom in housing prices, experts say, with lower-income and first-time homebuyers facing rising hurdles to homeownership.

Covid-19 opened up the possibility of a nomadic lifestyle to entirely new groups of people. Now, many of them don’t want to go back.

Monday marks the first day as Amazon CEO for Andy Jassy, who worked for almost a quarter-century beside Jeff Bezos.

“BookTok” has sent old books back to the top of bestseller lists and helped launch the careers of new authors. Videos with the BookTok hashtag have been viewed a collective 12.6 billion times.

“The lake is so warm you feel like you’re in a hot tub,” said a woman who lives near a gas-fired New York plant that powers 8,000 computers mining Bitcoin.

A 2021 Tesla Model S Plaid sedan caught fire Tuesday night in Haverford, Pennsylvania, while the owner was at the wheel.

More than 32 percent of teens have a summer job this year, the highest since 2008.

The unemployment rate rose 0.1 percent, to 5.9 percent.