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Americans Would Choose Endless Work Over This Surprising Alternative

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Key Takeaways When forced to choose what to sacrifice in retirement, only 15% of Americans would cut the financial support they provide to family members, making it their least preferred option out of nine difficult choices.Americans would rather return to work, skip medical care, or move in with others (22%) than stop helping adult children, grandchildren, or aging parents.For many, family obligation outweighs personal security. When the Alliance for Lifetime Income surveyed Americans about what sacrifices they'd make to stretch retirement savings, reducing family financial support ranked dead last—chosen by only 15% of respondents. That figure is way behind having…

Usman Nurmagomedov: Khabib had me back in gym a week after win over Paul Hughes

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Usman Nurmagomedov chuckles when asked what his cousin Khabib said to him after his hard-fought win over Paul Hughes this month.Nurmagomedov retained his PFL lightweight world title against the Irishman in Dubai, but Khabib, who was in his corner, could be heard screaming at the Russian during some contentious moments in the fight.Nurmagomedov says he is back in the gym despite enjoying only one week of rest after the fight - on Khabib's orders."At first he was so happy and congratulated me," Usman tells BBC Sport."But then he said 'You have to be starting training. Because we don't have time…

American Solar Farms

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Last week, Jake Stid, a postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University, announced Ground-Mounted Solar Energy in the United States (GM-SEUS). This is a 15K-array, 2.9M-panel dataset of utility and commercial-grade solar farms across the lower 48 states plus the District of Columbia. This dataset was constructed by a team of researchers including alumni from NOAA, NASA and the USGS. Below is a heatmap of the assets catalogued in this dataset. GM-SEUS is broken up into two datasets, one for arrays and another panels. Below you can see a solar farm with the array outlined in red and the panels…

How Hitler’s architect escaped the death penalty

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Speer also claimed to be no different from anyone else in his generation who was seduced by the Nazi leader. "Hitler himself was appearing in a time which was to us young people a time of disillusionment. It was a time, we had no hope for our future, and now a man came and said you shall have hope, we can do it, we can manage it, Germany is prospering again. Of course it was a temptation big enough to think about."AlamySpeer's Cathedral of Light saw hundreds of searchlights piercing the night sky at Nazi Party rallies (Credit: Alamy)But surely…

New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds

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The issues could cascade beyond the design. The auto manufacturing industry operates on strict production schedules. Though it builds in time to validate and test whatever new features come in each new model, the sudden intro of a design change late in the process could throw off the delicate timetable.In this decade, China’s auto industry has shocked the world by racing ahead of legacy automakers, quickly developing, with government support, ever newer, cheaper, and more technologically advanced vehicles on shorter production schedules. The country is the world’s largest automotive market; it’s expected to manufacture a full third of the world’s…

Stuart Hogg on retirement mistake and Montpellier reset

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Former Scotland captain Stuart Hogg has said he ended his playing career in order to save his marriage but the decision was the "biggest mistake" of his life.The 33-year-old, who pleaded guilty to a single charge of domestic abuse of his ex-wife Gillian last November, retired at the age of 31 in 2023.The three-time British and Irish Lions tourist made the announcement two months before the start of the Rugby World Cup, citing wear and tear on his body.He reversed that decision last summer and was granted bail to allow him to travel to France to play for Montpellier after…

JPMorgan Chase to invest $10 billion into key industries

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Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during a Bloomberg Television interview at the JPMorgan Chase & Co. Capital Markets conference in Paris, France, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Cyril Marcilhacy | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJPMorgan Chase on Monday said it is launching a decade-long plan to help finance and take direct stakes in companies it considers crucial to U.S. interests.The bank said in a statement it would invest up to $10 billion into companies in four areas: defense and aerospace, "frontier" technologies including AI and quantum computing, energy technology including batteries, and supply chain and advanced…

Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files

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Project documentation: pdfly.readthedocs.io pdfly is the youngest project of the py-pdf organization. It has been created by Martin Thoma in 2022. It's simply a CLI tool to manipulate PDF files, written in Python and based on the fpdf2 & pypdf libraries. I'm a maintainer of the project 🙂 What can … Project documentation: pdfly.readthedocs.io pdfly is the youngest project of the py-pdf organization. It has been created by Martin Thoma in 2022. It's simply a CLI tool to manipulate PDF files, written in Python and based on the fpdf2 & pypdf libraries. I'm a maintainer of the project 🙂 What…

Marcus Rashford: How Man Utd outcast is reviving his career at Barcelona, and what comes next

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Rashford arrived in Barcelona determined to make his mark and launch a positive new chapter in an up-and-down career.The club have the option of signing him on a permanent basis for £30.3m (35m euros) in 2026, but that is something that Deco told Spanish media would only be discussed at a later date."It's too early to talk about decisions for next season but what matters is that we're happy with him," the director of football said.This was reiterated by another source at the club, who said: "We're all delighted and thrilled with him and his performance, Deco, Flick, and his…

Tomorrow I Leave review – poignant portrait of a care worker sacrificing her home life for her work | Film

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Every four weeks, Maria leaves her small Romanian town and heads to Austria, where she is employed as a care worker for elderly people. Her life is split between borders and constant goodbyes, a transient emotional state vividly captured in Maria Lisa Pichler and Lukas Schöffel’s intimate portrait. In the opening scene, Maria drives along her local roads, pointing out the houses left empty by those who have moved abroad for work opportunities. Under the precarious forces of economy, it seems as if a whole community is gradually evaporating.Structured around Maria’s monthly drives, the film juxtaposes her home life with…