SPRUCE PINE, N.C. — One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors and other high-tech products from mines in a western North Carolina community severely ...

The Trump administration's trade war has raised the cost of everyday goods, appliances, and the overall cost of living. Now, the federal government is considering raising tariffs on foreign quartz, ...

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part of the back-and-forth that allows us to understand each other's emotions ...

You may know me from the Opinion pages of the print paper, where I have been an editor since 2017. Earlier this year I scrapped with Vice President JD Vance about free markets, which may have caught ...

Digital Healthcare Architect specializing in the design and integration of enterprise healthcare platforms. I build and modernize systems using C#, .NET, Java, Python, TypeScript, and SQL across cloud ...

This is an edition of the newsletter Box + Papers, Cam Wolf’s weekly deep dive into the world of watches. Sign up here. It’s Hot Take Month here on Box + Papers, with a new guest writer dropping by ...

Quartz, the award-winning dual cocktail destination in downtown Phoenix, has announced it will close after nearly two and a half years in business. The bars, the main lounge Quartz and the aptly named ...

Timex reversed its fortunes in 2017 with the revival of a then-shockingly small dress watch from the 1960s. The Marlin and its subsequent parade of iterations made Timex a go-to destination for ...