
Mamdani spars with Bezos over tax cuts helping teachers: ‘Beg to differ’
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushed back on comments from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Wednesday after the billionaire argued that higher taxes on wealthy Americans would do little to help working-class residents. Bezos made the remarks during an appearance on CNBC with And
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All today →World Bee Day
UN-designated on the birthday of Anton Janša, a Slovenian beekeeper. Pollinators are responsible for a third of global food production — bees punch well above their weight.
National Strawberry Day
The garden strawberry is a hybrid first bred in Brittany, France in the 1750s by crossing a Chilean variety with a North American one. The resulting fruit spread across Europe and eventually produced the modern commercial strawberry. The US now grows 1.4 billion pounds per year, 90% of it in California.