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There are some new cars that many shoppers tend to overlook even though they have a lot to offer. These hidden gems boast a special combination of attractive qualities and can potentially make excellent choices for savvy folks who want their ride to stand out from the sea of mainstream vehicles. Certain slower-selling cars don’t get the respect they deserve, whether due to styling, the type of vehicle, or brand image. Edmunds explores five hidden gems and the wow factor that makes them shine. Our choices are ordered by starting price, including destination fees. The Ioniq 6 is an electric…

DALLAS (AP) — Southern Baptists overwhelmingly endorsed a ban on gay marriage — including a call for a reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 10-year-old precedent legalizing it nationwide.They also called for legislators to curtail sports betting and to support policies that promote childbearing.The votes came at the gathering of more than 10,000 church representatives at the annual meeting of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.A proposed resolution says legislators have a duty to “pass laws that reflect the truth of creation and natural law — about marriage, sex, human life, and family” and to oppose laws contradicting “what God has…

Remember 23andMe? The company that gave customers saliva-based DNA testing kits to learn about their ancestry?Founded in 2006, the company also conducted health research and drug development. But it struggled to find a profitable business model and eventually filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection back in March, raising concerns about the safety of customer data.Well, 27 states and the District of Columbia on Monday filed a lawsuit in bankruptcy court seeking to block the sale of the company’s archive of genetic data without customer consent. The lawsuit comes as a biotechnology company seeks court’s approval to buy the struggling firm.If…

Trae Stephens, also a partner at Founders Fund, ranked 19 on the 2025 Forbes Midas List.© 2025 Bloomberg Finance LP Last week, Anduril announced that it had raised a mega funding round led by Founders Fund, valuing the company at more than $30 billion, doubling its valuation in less than a year. The deal also minted a new defense tech billionaire: company chairman Trae Stephens. The Forbes Midas List alum, who is also a partner at Founders Fund — which led the round with a $1 billion investment, its largest ever — owns more than 3% of Anduril, according to…

Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields, and that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with — the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice — can be considered semi-aquatic, although it’s technically a grass. Lowland rice would be challenging to grow in a home garden, but another, less common variety can be cultivated more easily in typical backyard conditions.Duborskian rice, a Russian short-grained dryland, or “upland” rice, is a highly ornamental plant that can even be grown in containers, where its 2-foot-tall green and gold panicles will lend height and beauty…

PADDOCK WOOD, England (AP) — The injured fox is cornered in a cage, teeth bared and snarling at the woman trying to help it.Nicki Townsend is unfazed. Wearing only rubber gloves and an outfit suitable for a yoga class, she approaches with soothing words. “All right, baby,” she coos as she deftly drapes a towel over his head, grabs him by the scruff of his neck, scoops up his wounded legs and moves him to a clean cage.It’s not the way her day typically begins, but there’s nothing routine about rescuing foxes.“You can never predict what you’re going to arrive…

Four formerly broke, high school dropouts including a onetime standup comedian and line cook, rapper Drake and the son of an oil billionaire are all winners in Dave’s sale to Roark Capital. “How late did you guys stay out last night?” jokes Dave’s Hot Chicken CEO Bill Phelps. The 69-year-old, who joined the Los Angeles-based spicy chicken chain in 2019 after leading Blaze Pizza and Wetzel’s Pretzels, is sitting next to his second in-command, Dave’s president and COO Jim Bitticks, another Blaze alumnus, on one side of a large conference room table in Forbes’ Jersey City office. On the other…

Gail Federici sold her first company, John Frieda Hair Care, in 2002. She’s more than doubled her fortune building a second brand, Color Wow, which is now eyeing a $1 billion sale. After selling her first company, John Frieda Professional Hair Care, in 2002, Gail Federici thought she was done with hair forever. She’d spent the prior 13 years growing John Frieda, a partnership with the legendary British hair stylist of the same name which she cofounded in 1989, and made an estimated $170 million fortune from its sale to Japanese giant Kao Corporation. “I felt like we’d been there,…

NEW YORK (AP) — The leaders of a sex-focused women’s wellness company that promoted “orgasmic meditation” have been convicted of federal forced labor charges.A Brooklyn jury on Monday found Nicole Daedone, founder of OneTaste Inc., and Rachel Cherwitz, the California-based company’s former sales director, guilty of forced labor conspiracy after deliberating for less than two days following a roughly monthlong trial.Daedone’s defense team had cast her as a “ceiling-shattering feminist entrepreneur” who created a unique business around women’s sexuality and empowerment.But prosecutors argued the two women ran a yearslong scheme that groomed adherents — many of them victims of sexual…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House broke ground Monday on construction projects ordered by President Donald Trump to pave over the grass in the Rose Garden and install flagpoles on the north and south lawns.The projects are part of a series of personal touches that Trump, a real estate developer turned politician, has added or is adding to the Executive Mansion and its grounds since he opened his second term in January. The projects also include new artwork of himself on walls and gold-toned flourishes in the Oval Office. He also wants to add a ballroom.Reporters on Monday noticed that…