Marty Davis built Cambria from a family enterprise into the leading U.S. maker of engineered quartz countertops. The company sells high-end slabs made in Minnesota and has helped make quartz a mainstream material for kitchens and bathrooms.
Despite steep prices and a tight market that pushed the average first-time buyer age toward 40, a growing slice of Gen Z—people in their 20s—are becoming homeowners. They remain a small share of buyers overall, but their numbers are rising and their strategies differ from previous generations.
TOKYO — The packaging on some snacks in Japan is turning a somber black-and-white, as the war in Iran disrupts the supply of an
U.S. domestic travel has recovered and grown, but one part of the network is shrinking: short regional hops. Flights under 250 nautical miles have fallen the most over the past decade, declining about 11% from 2016 to 2026, according to aviation analytics firm OAG.
Consumer prices climbed sharply in April, pushing annual inflation to 3.8% — the largest year‑over‑year increase since May 2023, according to the Labor Department’s report released Tuesday. Prices rose 0.6% from March to April.
When he wasn't eking out a living with part-time work, 25-year-old Emrah Bayraktar would take out his phone and edit long interviews of influencers into snippets and post them. "And then one random night, I saw a notification saying that I earned $12," said Bayraktar.
