Anne Marie D. Lee is an editor for CBS MoneyWatch. She writes about topics including personal finance, the workplace, travel and social media. Over the past few weeks, information has been ...

Residents of the Sam Ethnan Air Force Base, Ikeja, Lagos State, are lamenting the 12-day blackout that has grounded businesses and caused water scarcity in the barracks. PUNCH Metro gathered in ...

A temporary outage of the US-government-funded PubMed database of biomedical literature over the weekend sent many researchers globally into a panic. Although the disruption does not seem to have ...

Ashley Parks is an Associate Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina. Her focus is on personal finance, particularly covering debt, banking and Gen Z money. Ashley joined Newsweek in 2024 after ...

A power outage impacted parts of Honduras, including the capital Tegucigalpa, and extended to other Latin American countries, causing widespread disruption. The Honduran national electric power ...

Suzanne Blake is a Newsweek reporter based in New York. Her focus is reporting on consumer and social trends, spanning from retail to restaurants and beyond. She is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill ...

A grassroots group is calling on Americans to abstain from spending money Friday in a loosely organized boycott of the current economic and political climate. The “blackout” protest comes amid ...

In early February, John Schwarz, a self-described “mindfulness and meditation facilitator,” proposed a 24-hour nationwide “economic blackout” of major chains on the last day of the month ...

One day can make a difference to retailers, but the biggest impact of the 24-hour economic blackout protest could be the strong message it sends about the mood among consumers right now A ...

After multiple major retailers and corporations began rolling back their DEI initiatives, multiple calls for boycotts were made, including one planned as an “economic blackout” on Friday ...

A grassroots organization is encouraging U.S. residents not to spend any money Friday as an act of “economic resistance” to protest what the group’s founder sees as the malign influence of ...