While your IQ and technical skills might have helped you earn high test scores, your emotional intelligence (aka “emotional quotient” or “EQ”) might be even more vital for establishing successful personal and professional relationships. The term, coined by researchers Peter Salovey and John Mayer in 1990, refers to the ability

The ubiquitous food delivery app DoorDash will pay almost $17 million to settle claims that it unfairly used customer tips to subsidize the wages of its delivery workers in New York, rather than letting drivers keep the tips on top of their guaranteed pay, Attorney General Letitia James said Monday. James said DoorDash used

A federal judge on Monday refused to immediately order the White House to restore The Associated Press’ access to presidential events, saying the news organization had not demonstrated it had suffered any irreparable harm. But he urged the Trump administration to reconsider its two-week-old ban, saying that case law “is

The first thing viewers of “Beyond the Gates” see is a black Mercedes gliding past manicured lawns and stately estates. The sedan pulls up at an elegant country club and the valets come out. The Emotions’ funky tune “Best of My Love” is playing. That car and the glamorous woman behind the

AI was supposed to streamline hiring, but has it done the opposite? A global study led by Columbia Business School professors suggests that artificial intelligence is blurring the lines between skilled and unskilled candidates, leaving recruiters struggling to make the right choices.  AI has become a core hiring tool in

Elon Musk is vowing yet again to fire any federal workers who don’t respond to an email asking them to list five things they accomplished last week. Just after 7 p.m. EST — hours after the U.S. Office of Personnel Management had directed agencies that responses to its email were optional — Musk

Joy Reid signed off from “The ReidOut” for the final time tonight, marking the end of her evening broadcast on MSNBC. Over the weekend, the network made the shocking announcement that it was canceling her show, leaving fans across social media stunned. Still, Reid approached her last episode on Monday,

After devastating wildfires tore through Los Angeles, the 97th Academy Awards are going forward. Like the Grammys and other awards shows this year, the ceremony will be transformed by the fires and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has pledged to help its members and the broader film community recover. Here’s everything you need

Robert Pirosh was a well-to-do copywriter in a New York-based advertising agency when he decided to reinvent his career and become a screenwriter. The year was 1934. Pirosh left his job, went to Hollywood and eventually landed a role as a junior writer at MGM. Fifteen years later, he’d won

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