Emma Nelson

3 days ago | businessandamerica.com | Emma Nelson

A grieving mother-of-three has flagged little-known symptoms of a deadly brain tumour, after her husband’s hidden cancer lead to his rapid and tragic death. Barry Fair, 44, from Edinburgh, believed he was suffering the effects of stress when he began experiencing bizarre phantom smells and frequent déjà vu in January 2022. The mortgage advisor’s GP confirmed his suspicions, putting his symptoms down to a hectic and busy job.

3 days ago | businessandamerica.com | Emma Nelson

A popular pasta sauce has been urgently recalled from supermarket shelves over fears the jars may be contaminated with shards of glass. Food safety watchdogs stuck a ‘do not eat’ alert on Organic Alla Norma Sauce—made with aubergines, tomato and garlic. It is feared the product, sold in retailers including high-end online supermarket Ocado, ‘may contain pieces of glass’.

6 days ago | startribune.com | Emma Nelson

There was a point, after the birth of her second child, when it didn't make sense for Linnae Nelson-Seys to keep working. Her pay no longer kept up with child care costs, so she left her Metro Transit operations job in early 2022 to instead stay home with her kids. "There's a little bit of wistfulness and sadness to me that I'm not a stay-at-home mom by this deep, abiding desire to," said Minneapolis resident Nelson-Seys, now 42 and a mother of three children, ages 7, 4 and 2.

2 weeks ago | startribune.com | Emma Nelson

The treasures are in the basement, stowed on rows of shelves behind a series of locked doors. A 60 million-year-old dragonfly wing, its delicate veins barely visible in the stone that preserved it. A lace-thin fragment of a woven cloth belt that, likely more than a century ago, adorned a statue of a saint in Chiapas, Mexico. Most of the artifacts at the Science Museum of Minnesota in downtown St. Paul never make it in front of visitors.

2 weeks ago | startribune.com | Emma Nelson

Economic uncertainty has hung over the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second term. The largest tariffs in a century have wreaked havoc on the markets and are expected to raise inflation and slow growth. Add in the unprecedented layoffs of thousands of federal workers, and the robust U.S. jobs market could falter. Because economic data typically runs at least a month behind, some of these impacts have yet to show up in the numbers.