hortages of semiconductors are battering automakers and tech giants, raising alarm bells from Washington to Brussels to Beijing. The crunch has raised a fundamental question for policymakers, customers and investors: Why can’t we just make more chips? There is both a simple answer and a complicated one. The simple version is that making chips is incredibly difficult—and getting tougher. “It’s not rocket science—it’s much more difficult,” goes one of the industry’s inside jokes.

Corporate America might protest, but the potential of a patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines is worth celebrating—and fighting for.

A student project is digitizing the subcontinent's community cookbooks.

Cooks and other insect-curious folks are treating the emergence of Brood X after 17 years with delight — and an appetite.

Twenty years after it aired, David Chase and Co. look back on one of the wildest, boldest, funniest episodes of ‘The Sopranos’ ever made

Master criminal Rédoine Faïd loved the movies, and his greatest crimes were laced with tributes: to "Point Break," "Heat," and "Reservoir Dogs." When he landed in a maximum-security prison, cinema provided inspiration once again.

In April Josh Duggar, one of the former stars of TLC’s reality show 19 Kids and Counting, was arrested on charges of receiving and possessing child pornography. Prosecutors alleged that Duggar had downloaded explicit material featuring children, some younger than 12, being sexually abused, the New York Times reported. In a hearing on Wednesday, prosecutors reported that Duggar had more than 200 images of children on his computer.

The ad campaign for 'Spiral: Saw' is dangerously close to being NSFW, tweeting a bizarrely sexy image of the serial killer Jigsaw.

After a secret meeting between the couple and the wealthy sex offender, Melinda was furious and told friends she wanted nothing to do with Epstein, The Daily Beast has learned.

Mexico City’s masked defender of walkers is now tackling the dangerous streets of Los Angeles.

The chances of it hitting a populated area are small, but not zero. That has raised questions about how the country’s space program designs its missions.

<WHOMP WHOMP> If Manhattan Federal Judge Victor Marrero allows James’s office to join an ongoing suit over the scheme, she’ll seek $500 per violation of the state’s civil rights law, which means Wohl and Burkman could face a bill of $2.5 million.

Though officials have not accused him of a crime, Brett Favre previously said he would refund the welfare money and made an initial payment of $500,000.

Daft Punk sampled Eddie Johns' "More Spell on You" on their hit "One More Time." Johns, who has struggled with homelessness, was never paid or credited.

Leigh Ann Bauman’s supporters say she’s been framed. Her ex and an ex-friend say she wanted to bump off grandma. Last October, Missouri realtor Leigh Ann Bauman stood before the Lake of the Ozarks and recorded a video thanking God for her championship powerboat racing title. “The reason I’ve been having all this success is because I turned my life over to Jesus Christ three weeks ago, four weeks ago,” Bauman says in a Facebook video. “Life was empty and now it is so full,” added the 44-year-old, who has described herself as an actress and “pistol-packing cheer mom” elsewhere on social media. "We are so lucky and blessed. I sold $1.7 million the next week, and then won two world champion race titles as your local female race girl, and it’s all because of Jesus and just being a good neighbor and friend, trying to be better than you were the day before…” But six months later, state troopers arrested Bauman for a most unneighborly crime: allegedly seeking a hitman to kill her former mother-in-law. Prosecutors charged the Lake Ozark real estate agent with conspiracy after she allegedly prepared to pay someone $1,500 to make the grandmother’s death appear accidental. On March 1, Bauman allegedly asked a friend for leads on a potential killer and the pal quickly contacted her lawyer, who contacted police. Bauman told the 40-year-old friend “she knew it was wrong as a Christian, but she would go to church and ask for forgiveness after it was done,” a probable cause statement alleges. Bauman is also accused of sending one of her daughters an ominous text message days before her arrest stating that her grandmother would die.

Tuberville has barely worked in any field beyond coaching college football, and is known as much for the luridly scuzzy ways in which he has reliably left those coaching jobs as he is for anything he did in them, although to be fair he remains the only Senator ever to lose a Belk Bowl.

When it comes to influencer strategies, most brands have set their sights on millennial and Gen Z influencers. Alaska Airlines is taking a different approach this spring: The airline is on the hunt for boomer influencers to create content at its own AK Boomer House later this year in California. With boomers considered those born from 1946 to 1964 being many of the first people vaccinated in the United States, the ability to get back to travel is more prevalent for that audience. So too was the pent-up demand, according to Natalie Bowman, director of marketing for Alaska Airlines. “The big insight we were seeing is that as travel was coming back we were noticing that the audience that was most anxious to travel and the audience we were hearing the best stories from were the boomers,” said Bowman. “They were the one who’d been cooped up the longest, under the most stringent rules and getting vaccinated first.” 

Hannah Harlow worked at HMH for 17 years before leaving to run her own bookstore. She had a close-up view as authors, including Jhumpa Lahiri, launched their careers, and championed fiction that changed peoples’ lives. But now, HMH is leaving Boston.

From his private Cape Canaveral, the billionaire is manifesting his own interplanetary reality—whatever it costs.

Environmental groups say Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein shot bear, named Arthur, in a protected area