President Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at boosting AI research and development, with an eye toward reducing Americans' spiraling energy costs.
Why it matters: The Trump administration seeks to ensure that government stays out of the way on AI regulation while actively supporting private-sector innovation.
New Instacart data shared with Axios shows the most uniquely popular Thanksgiving pies by state, based on last year's orders.
What they found: Pumpkin pie is big out West, strawberry rhubarb and French silk are favorites in the Midwest, and cream pies are a hit in New England.
Thanksgiving is forecast to be colder and with more snow than usual across large swathes of the U.S., threatening to snarl what the AAA is projecting to be record holiday traffic.
The big picture: The National Weather Service warns the "polar vortex," an area of cold air around the Arctic, could expand southwards and combine with two other factors to bring "cooler than normal temperatures" from Seattle to Dallas and across to Chicago this Thanksgiving week.
The 2025 hurricane season is about to end on Nov. 30 without a single mainland U.S. landfall for the first time in a decade.
Why it matters: That's welcome news for hurricane-prone states, but doesn't mean future years will be equally calm — especially as climate change continues to warm the oceans, essentially creating hurricane fuel.
