I dove into the data and found 10 charts that I believe best illustrate this year’s biggest developments. They help us understand what happened — and provide a glimpse of where we may be going.

Take a tour through the best charts 538 made this year. The year 2024 was one for the history books, and 538's visual journalists and reporters were hard at work explaining the data behind the ...

Some of the world's biggest private equity companies have joined the race to own pieces of 7-Eleven's parent company. Japanese-owned Seven & i Holdings has a sprawling set of businesses ...

Federal prosecutors alleged that 24 Food City stores in Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia and Kentucky made the unnecessary or illegitimate dispensations and that the chain submitted false claims to ...

Joseph Sternberg wonders what the Federal Reserve is thinking (“Does the Fed Even Know What It’s Trying to Do?” Political Economics, Dec. 20). The problem is that the Fed believes it knows ...

The pop ensemble's new album 'HOP' enters atop the latest chart. By Keith Caulfield As Stray Kids’ new album HOP debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Dec. 28), they become the first ...

Take a look at Musk's 2024 in charts (all data is accurate as of Friday ... that his investment in the election has paid off. 7. Building brainpower Neuralink, Musk's neurotechnology company ...

He helped Donald Trump win reelection and intends to transform the US government in 2025. Scroll down for seven charts showing how Musk's 2024 played out. Elon Musk has had a year for the record books ...

Scroll down for seven charts showing how Musk's 2024 played out. Elon Musk has had a year for the record books. His businesses have taken off, with Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, and Neuralink all touching ...

Noting that, Dr Lineweaver and a fellow physicist, Vihan Patel, devised a single chart onto which every known object in the history of the universe could be plotted. They wondered what they might ...