The rise of the Ram pickup truckAmerican automakers take their trucks extremely seriously. And the ongoing battles for dominance among the Detroit Three are often called the “truck wars”. Third place challenger Ram has made waves in recent years, snagging major industry awards and stealing market share from rivals. The upstart Ram is now posing a more serious threat to rivals than ever before.

Statistics show blended families are on the rise. “Being in a blended family, it kind of blindsided me because I wasn’t really intentional about trying to figure out like, what does this mean for me?” “There’s a lot of moving parts to blended families and that’s what hits most of them,” Deal said. “The divorce rate for couples in blended families is quite a bit higher than it is for first families, so we try to help people make sense of what’s going on and navigate that transition,” he said. “Wh

One of the richest men in the world, Bloomberg is sending every indication he has decided to enter the crowded Democratic presidential primary election. Bloomberg’s team has reserved more than $30 million in television ads set to begin running Sunday in several primary states. The decision to refuse contributions would make it impossible for Bloomberg to participate any sanctioned Democratic debates should he run. Any money Bloomberg raises and spends on his presidential ambitions will come from

U.S. national security adviser Robert O’Brien said Saturday that the so-called phase one trade deal with China could happen by the end of the year, and emphasized that President Trump would not ignore protests underway in Hong Kong. Hong Kong has been crippled by widespread anti-government demonstrations since June. Trump said on Friday that the long-negotiated trade deal is potentially very close, despite reports that an agreement may not be reached until next year. “I stand with Hong Kong,” he

Yet there’s been a paradigm shift as to whom these co-working spaces are actually serving. According to Bloomberg, General Electric, KPMG and Merck all rent out dozens of desks at co-working spaces. Between 2017 and 2018, 71% of WeWork members were corporate full-timers at companies that were either located in a WeWork office or used WeWork to house their remote teams. There’s a huge disconnect between who co-working spaces are serving and what the future of the workplace looks like. Co-working

Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils the Cybertruck at the TeslaDesign Studio in Hawthorne, Calif. Elon Musk on Saturday said that Tesla has received 146,000 Cybertruck orders so far. In his boastful tweet on Saturday, Musk conflated orders with pre-orders, which are distinct from a final commitments to purchase the Cybertruck. The CEO wrote: “146k Cybertruck orders so far, with 42% choosing dual, 41% tri & 17% single motor.” According to the Cybertruck Motor Vehicle Pre-Order Agreement on Tesla’s websit

State of Decay 2 will be available on Steam sometime next year, joining Gears 5 and Halo: The Master Chief Collection as Microsoft Game Studios titles moving over to Valve’s marketplace. Undead Labs said yesterday that the Steam version will support cross-platform play with Xbox Live, same as the version available on the Microsoft Store for Windows 10. The first State of Decay launched in 2013 as an Xbox/Windows exclusive, but was (and still is) sold on Steam. Microsoft acquired Undead Labs last

Although Wiking didn’t invent hygge, his 2017 New York Times bestselling book “The Little Book of Hygge” put hygge on the map and introduced the Danish comfort theory to an international audience. In March 2018, the Broadway musical “Frozen” debuted, with an original song called “Hygge,” with lyrics like, “Hygge means comfortable, hygge means cozy, hygge means sitting by the fire with your cheeks all rosy.” “Peel away the commercial label of hygge, and what it is at the core of it is a serotonin

Only 15% of Americans say they plan to make changes to their health insurance plans during open enrollment this year, according to a survey of nearly 2,200 U.S. adults Morning Consult performed in conjunction with CNBC Make It. But experts say when it comes to something as important as health insurance, it’s worth taking your time to review your plan options before you check off the same boxes you did last year. For one, plan choices may change from one year to the next, Tracy Watts, senior part

The real numbers are likely higher, said Ginny Fahs, a member of the Aspen Institute’s Tech Policy Hub who led the study . Older adults also lose large sums to online frauds like email compromise and wire fraud, according to the study. Researchers found the senior center participants were “for more tech-savvy” than they had expected, Fahs said. These forms, often associated with the FBI’s internet crime center or IC3, are often the first step in reporting potential online exploitation. The forms

Benjamin Caldarelli, the co-founder of Princeton College Consulting, said he has helped many students attend college outside the U.S. “You are going to see more and more of this,” he said. Annual tuition and fees for a four-year private college averaged $35,830 in 2018-19; at four-year, in-state public colleges, it was $10,230, according to the College Board. However, determining the value of attending college abroad is not a question of tuition costs alone. In addition, depending on the college

A wave of good and bad retail earnings reports in recent days highlights one key theme for the industry: Value is winning. Walmart shares are up more than 28% this year. Target shares have surged more than 90%, making it one of the most impressive stories in retail in 2019. When Macy’s reported earnings this week, CFO Paula Price said Macy’s “exceeded” its expectations for the Backstage business during the quarter. She said sales at Backstage stores — most of which are located inside of Macy’s s

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence greet U.S. troops at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq November 23, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstVice President Mike Pence visited Iraq on Saturday to reassure Iraqi Kurds of U.S. support after President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria drew criticism that Washington had betrayed its Kurdish allies there. The visit also served to bolster U.S. troops ahead of next Thursday’s Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. “We sp

Slime, surprise packs and coding toys also remain popular with kids. Between 20% to 30% of all toy sales are directly related to movie and TV IP, according to Linda Bolton Weiser, analyst at D.A. However, surprise toys or blind bag toys, have become a much larger piece of those of sales in recent years. Slime, goo & puttyIt seems the slime trend isn’t going away soon either. It seems that some of the allure of make-you-own slime has fizzled, but playing with slime has not.

Ram has gone from a third-place also-ran in America’s truck wars to a serious challenger. The smaller full-size Ram 1500 pickup won the same award for 2019. But Ram has roughly tripled sales over the last decade and appears to be taking market share away from rivals. But the bet seems to have paid off both in critical praise and growing market share. Now analysts say GM and Ford are taking notice and may be making similar tweaks to their own lineups.

It earned $9 million at the domestic box office, which the entertainment publication Deadline characterized as “god-awful.” According to Brad Wyman, producer of the Charlize Theron movie “Monster” and CEO of the box office movie game Moviefeud, there are a few different factors at play. Movie producer Wyman agreed that with the upcoming release of these holiday blockbusters, the movie industry would breathe a sigh of relief and see its coffers filled with moviegoer dollars yet again. But while h

The Securities and Exchange Commission has started granting preliminary approvals for nontransparent exchange-traded funds, a move that could change the face of active investing, top industry minds say. The development follows years of underperformance by active funds. “The fees are just still too high for active management. “When you look at the $8.6 trillion that’s in equity mutual funds, we know 4.6 trillion is passive, 4 trillion is active,” Lydon said. “But the potential for other asset cla

“We gave them a mission: not just to make an electric car but to make a great electric car,” said Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford during the Mach-E’s unveiling Sunday. “But I got to admit, when they came to me and said they can make an electric Mustang, I was pretty skeptical … You don’t mess with an icon.” Before the decision to make it a Mustang, Ford was benchmarking the vehicle as a “compliance” EV, according to company officials. We said, ‘Let’s try to create an electric Mustang,’ ” Farle

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis is close to a deal to purchase the cholesterol drugmaker Medicines Company for nearly $7 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter. Novartis has agreed to pay $85 a share for Medicines Company in a deal that could be reached this weekend, according to The Journal. Novartis, which has a market value of over $200 billion, is already targeting that market with drugs such as the heart-failure treatment Entresto. The

A man (L) escorts a protester (C) as he walks out to surrender to the police at the main entrance of the campus of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where dozens of pro-democracy protesters remain holed up, in the Hung Hom district of Hong Kong on November 24, 2019. An uneasy calm settled over Hong Kong on Saturday as the city prepared to go to the polls for local elections seen as a referendum on months of anti-government protests, after weeks of especially violent clashes between police and