Didier Chopin, 56, was accused of passing off wine made with carbonated grapes from Spain and other regions in France as Champagne.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/world/europe/france-fake-champagne-sentence.html
Local law enforcement officers helped federal agents carry out an immigration raid near Syracuse. Witnesses said the agents used police dogs in the raid and wielded crowbars to gain entry.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/nyregion/immigration-raid-new-york.html
Find insight on BYD, Jet2 and more in the latest Market Talks covering auto and transport sector.https://www.wsj.com/business/auto-transport-roundup-market-talk-b7fde7e7?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Find insight on Broadcom, Temenos, Figma and more in the latest Market Talks covering technology, media and telecom.https://www.wsj.com/business/tech-media-telecom-roundup-market-talk-9cd0b424?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
The company faces its greatest test: Whether it can move beyond the era of its founder while preserving his legacy.https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/giorgio-armani-death-successor-77b523d5?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
In an interview, Sean Tresvant outlines his strategies for the Mexican-inspired fast-food chain to grow abroad, lure Gen Z consumers and sell billions of dollars in beverages.https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/dirty-sodas-and-crispy-chicken-how-taco-bell-aims-to-keep-beating-burgers-05bf5950?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman saluted the president’s leadership on innovation at an event that underscored the industry’s desire for his favor.https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-tech-ceo-rose-garden-dinner-1fee2de3?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
A traditionally laissez-faire approach in much of Europe is giving way to more U.S.-style policing of workplace relationships.https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/europe-executives-office-romance-relationship-rules-866bb153?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Automakers are holding prices steady despite tariffs shaving $12 billion and counting from their bottom lines.https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/record-ev-sales-drive-auto-market-ahead-of-credit-end-3a55b366?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
The Trump administration’s efforts to bludgeon electric-vehicle incentives hit some in the industry with a jolt. But in California, ground zero in the clash over EV policy, the push for electrification is still moving forward.https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-administration-wants-to-rattle-the-ev-industry-california-is-investing-in-chargers-anyway-cdd1b11d?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
To ease tariff pain in the Farm Belt, Trump is escalating on the ethanol mandate that will raise fuel costs for everyone else.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-epa-ethanol-mandate-farmers-tariffs-soybean-oil-biofuels-d8bf1684?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
The Great Barrier shrank over the past year but was bigger than ever in 2024.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/reef-madness-a-baseless-coral-panic-fb81a244?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Networks of pipes and heat exchangers can transfer excess heat from buildings into nearby bodies of water—but as the world warms, the cooling potential of some water courses is now diminishing.https://www.wired.com/story/people-are-so-proud-of-this-how-river-and-lake-water-is-cooling-buildings/
The brain implant company cofounded by Elon Musk filed to trademark the product names Telepathy and Telekinesis. But it turns out that another person had already filed to trademark those names.https://www.wired.com/story/uspto-denies-neuralinks-applications-for-telepathy-telekinesis-marks/
New research shows that filtration systems that remove PFAS can also get rid of other harmful substances. Whether they’ll actually be introduced is a different matter entirely.https://www.wired.com/story/we-can-get-rid-of-carcinogens-and-forever-chemicals-in-drinking-water-will-we-do-it/
The family of a Nazi official has turned in "Portrait of a Lady," an 18th-century artwork by the Italian painter Giuseppe Ghislandi. The painting had been stolen from a Jewish art dealer during World War IIhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/journalists-stumble-across-real-estate-listing-with-a-photo-of-a-nazi-looted-painting-hanging-above-the-couch-180987284/
Paleontologists describe four new species of extinct ancestral penguins that help shed light on how the iconic birds evolved after dinosaurs went extincthttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-penguins-had-long-dagger-like-beaks-for-skewering-fish-new-zealand-fossils-reveal-180987287/
Two nearly identical artworks, at least one of them by the renowned Dutch master, hang side-by-side for the first time in three centurieshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-vermeer-make-a-copy-of-his-own-painting-a-new-exhibition-invites-you-to-be-the-judge-180987282/
In a new study, scientists tested how honeybees adapt to construct their hives on 3D-printed foundations of varying sizeshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bees-manage-to-build-the-best-honeycombs-even-on-imperfect-foundations-180987272/
"Design and Disability" features 170 objects created by disabled artists, designers, photographers, inventors and morehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/from-fashion-to-fidget-spinners-this-london-exhibition-celebrates-disabled-design-innovation-and-joy-180987269/