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Air travelers in the U.S. without a REAL ID will be charged a $45 fee beginning in February, the Transportation Security Administration announced Monday.The updated ID has been required since May, but passengers without it have so far been allowed to clear security with additional screening and a warning. The Department of Homeland Security says 94% of passengers are already compliant and that the new fee is intended to encourage travelers to obtain the ID.REAL ID is a federally compliant state-issued license or identification card that meets enhanced requirements mandated in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.Obtaining the ID indicated by a white star in a yellow circle in most states means taking more documents to the motor vehicle agency than most states require for regular IDs. It was supposed to be rolled out in 2008 but the implementation had been repeatedly delayed.Beginning Feb. 1, travelers 18 and older flying domestically without a REAL ID and who don’t have another accepted form of ID on them, such as a passport, will pay the non-refundable fee to verify their identity through TSA’s alternative “Confirm.ID” system.TSA officials said that paying the fee does not guarantee verification, and travelers whose identities cannot be verified may be turned away. If approved, however, the verification covers a 10-day travel period.The fee can be paid online before arriving at the airport. Travelers can also pay online at the airport before entering the security line, but officials said the process may take up to 30 minutes.The TSA initially proposed an $18 charge for passengers without a REAL ID, but officials said Monday they raised it after realizing the alternative identification program would cost more than anticipated.Other acceptable forms of ID include military IDs, permanent resident cards and photo IDs from federally recognized tribal nations. TSA also accepts digital IDs through platforms such as Apple Wallet, Google Wallet and Samsung Wallet at more than 250 airports in the U.S. Associated Press
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Update Tuesday, 12:15 p.m.: Alternative meat company Beyond Meat saw its stock drop almost 5% in early trading on Tuesday after a significant rally had pushed shares up a day earlier and into premarket trading. As of around noon, the stock was trading at $1.28 a share after opening at $1.40. The volatility is another sign that the heavily shorted stock is being embraced by meme stock traders, with some seeking to lock in profits after shares rise. As of this writing, the stock is still up over 47% over the past five days. Original story: Shares in Beyond Meat (Nasdaq: BYND) are again rising in premarket trading today after the companys stock price surged a massive 36.4% yesterday. As of the time of this writing, BYND is up an additional 12.6% in trading before the bell. But is anything more than another round of meme stock mania driving the rising price? Heres what you need to know. A volatile December The first day of asset trading for December kicked off yesterday, and already the final month of the year looks to be shaping up to be a volatile one. Yesterday, cryptocurrencies plunged across the board as nervous investors sold off the digital tokens amid ongoing uncertainty about next weeks potential Federal Reserve interest rate cuts and growing fears of an AI bubble. The broader markets seemed to be impacted by the same concerns, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ending yesterday down 0.9%, the Nasdaq down 0.38%, and the S&P 500 down 0.53% according to data compiled by Reuters. Yet despite the risk-averse stance taken by many investors yesterday, some traders in so-called meme stocks seemed to be throwing caution to the wind. Meme stock investors go crazy for Beyond Meat While cryptocurrencies and the broader markets were selling off yesterday as mainstream investors appetite for risk diminished, meme stock investors were bullish on their latest stock darling, Beyond Meat. BYND shares surged 36.48% yesterday, closing at $1.34 per share. Thats a level that Beyond Meats stock has not traded at since November 11, according to Yahoo Finance data. Its also just the latest surge for Beyond Meat shares in the latter part of this year. In October, the companys stock price surged from $0.52 per share to $7.69 per share over about a week after it signed a partnership agreement with Walmart. However, as the Motley Fool notes, Beyond Meats stock price surge seemed to have been primarily driven by meme stock traders who had found a new favorite stock. After its quick rise, BYND shares sank back down to well below $1 per share in the final weeks of November. Now the shares are soaring again. Yesterday, the companys stock price was up 36.4% and today, in premarket trading, as of the time of this writing, BYND shares are up another 12.6%but why? As the Motley Fool notes, Beyond Meat did not have any material changes to its business or financials in the past day. That means speculation among meme stock traders is likely the main driver of the stock’s higher price. This speculation also suggests that, unlike cryptocurrency traders, not all investors are risk-averse right now. Beyond Meat has still had a horrible 2025 Despite Beyond Meats December stock price surge, investors in the alternative meat company have not seen great returns this year. As of yesterdays close, BYND shares were still down more than 64% year to date. In November, the company reported its Q3 2025 results, and they left much to be desired. For the quarter, net revenues were down 13.3% year-over-year to $70.2 million. The companys gross profit was $7.2 millionnearly half of the $14.3 million in gross profit it brought in the same quarter a year earlier. The disconnect between these fundamentals and this week’s surging stock price suggests that risk-taking by meme-stock traders is the primary driver of BYNDs most recent advance. Beyond Meat isnt the only meme stock to have gained over the past several days. Other meme stock favorites have also risen over the past five days, including GameStop (NYSE: GME)up 13% AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE: AMC)up 6.8% Opendoor Technologies (Nasdaq: OPEN)up 5.7%.
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Shares in Beyond Meat (Nasdaq: BYND) are again rising in premarket trading today after the companys stock price surged a massive 36.4% yesterday. As of the time of this writing, BYND is up an additional 12.6% in trading before the bell. But is anything more than another round of meme stock mania driving the rising price? Heres what you need to know. A volatile December The first day of asset trading for December kicked off yesterday, and already the final month of the year looks to be shaping up to be a volatile one. Yesterday, cryptocurrencies plunged across the board as nervous investors sold off the digital tokens amid ongoing uncertainty about next weeks potential Federal Reserve interest rate cuts and growing fears of an AI bubble. The broader markets seemed to be impacted by the same concerns, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ending yesterday down 0.9%, the Nasdaq down 0.38%, and the S&P 500 down 0.53% according to data compiled by Reuters. Yet despite the risk-averse stance taken by many investors yesterday, some traders in so-called meme stocks seemed to be throwing caution to the wind. Meme stock investors go crazy for Beyond Meat While cryptocurrencies and the broader markets were selling off yesterday as mainstream investors appetite for risk diminished, meme stock investors were bullish on their latest stock darling, Beyond Meat. BYND shares surged 36.48% yesterday, closing at $1.34 per share. Thats a level that Beyond Meats stock has not traded at since November 11, according to Yahoo Finance data. Its also just the latest surge for Beyond Meat shares in the latter part of this year. In October, the companys stock price surged from $0.52 per share to $7.69 per share over about a week after it signed a partnership agreement with Walmart. However, as the Motley Fool notes, Beyond Meats stock price surge seemed to have been primarily driven by meme stock traders who had found a new favorite stock. After its quick rise, BYND shares sank back down to well below $1 per share in the final weeks of November. Now the shares are soaring again. Yesterday, the companys stock price was up 36.4% and today, in pre-market trading, as of the time of this writing, BYND shares are up another 12.6%but why? As the Motley Fool notes, Beyond Meat did not have any material changes to its business or financials in the past day. That means speculation among meme stock traders is likely the main driver of the stock’s higher price. This speculation also suggests that, unlike cryptocurrency traders, not all investors are risk-averse right now. Beyond Meat has still had a horrible 2025 Despite Beyond Meats December stock price surge, investors in the alternative meat company have not seen great returns this year. As of yesterdays close, BYND shares were still down more than 64% year to date. In November, the company reported its Q3 2025 results, and they left much to be desired. For the quarter, net revenues were down 13.3% year-over-year to $70.2 million. The companys gross profit was $7.2 millionnearly half of the $14.3 million in gross profit it brought in the same quarter a year earlier. The disconnect between these fundamentals and this week’s surging stock price suggests that risk-taking by meme-stock traders is the primary driver of BYNDs most recent advance. Beyond Meat isnt the only meme stock to have gained over the past several days. Other meme stock favorites have also risen over the past five days, including GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME)up 13% AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AMC)up 6.8% Opendoor Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: OPEN)up 5.7%.
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Amazon Music just dropped its 2025 Delivered, an annual recap of your most streamed songs, artists, podcasts, and audiobooks, and the platform’s answer to the popular Spotify Wrapped. Here’s what to know, and how to access the feature. What is Amazon Music’s 2025 Delivered? 2025 Delivered transforms your streaming history on Amazon Music into a virtual music festival poster with your “dream lineup of artists. Users are given special Trendsetter and Headliner badges for being an early album adopter or an artist’s top listener, respectively. From the moment you snap on your virtual festival wristband, 2025 Delivered will share personal insights from the year, including your most-played artists, tracks, and genres. Who is eligible for 2025 Delivered? 2025 Delivered is available for eligible Amazon Music customers with a few hours of listening history in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, India, Canada, and Australia. Where do I find my Amazon Music 2025 Delivered? To find your 2025 Delivered, open the Amazon Music app on iOS or Android, head to the Library page, and look for “2025 Delivered.” In addition, fans can head to the Best of 2025 page in the Amazon Music app to see the platform’s highlights. What are some of the streaming service’s 2025 highlights? In the U.S., these include: The Top hits of 2025 playlist includes tracks such as Taylor Swift’s The Fate of Ophelia, Bad Bunny’s DtMF, sombr’s back to friends, Alex Warren’s Ordinary, and Morgan Wallen featuring Tate McRae’s What I Want. The Top podcasts, favorite new shows, staff picks, and more includes MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark, & Mysterious Stories, Morbid, Crime Junkie, and The Mel Robbins Podcast. The Editors picks playlist features a mix of curated fan-favorite tracks including Olivia Dean’s Man I Need, Geese’s Cobra, Dasha’s Like It Like That, Laufey’s Lover Girl (Amazon Music Songline), and Tyler, The Creator’s Ring Ring Ring.
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Over the past year, these nine beauty and skincare brands on the list of 2025 Brands That Matter found innovative ways to make customers see their inner beauty. Some pulled back the curtain on behind-the-scenes processes, offering masterclasses in makeup and lessons in cosmetic chemistry. Others embraced humor, leaning into viral moments with ad campaigns all about angry arachnids and dirty-talking grandmas (yes, really). Here are the brands proving beauty is more than skin-deep in 2025. Bubble Skincare Though every brand would love to be a favorite among Gen Z (and, increasingly, Gen Alpha, as it ages into purchasing power), not many have the chops to pull it off. Bubble is among the rare few that understand their young audience both monetarilyevery product from moisturizer to lip balm to sunscreen retails for $20 or lessand culturally, as evidenced by its booming ambassador program. In 2024, its ambassador community nearly tripled, ballooning to more than 84,000 members. These Bubble lovers test new products and tout them across social media free of charge, driving more than 133 million social impressions last year. In the past months, Bubble has broken into the beauty space with products that fuse skincare with makeup, like its first-of-their-kind color-correcting balms, which combine clinical care and complexion without sacrificing quality or cost. @bubble Dark spots? Redness? Mission accepted. Our new CC Balms instantly neutralize the look of imperfections for a flawless finish. In an independent consumer study: 93% of UNDER COVER Dark Spot Fix users said their skin tone looked more even 99% of SECRET AGENT Redness Fix users said it helped to reduce the look of redness Shop both on hellobubble.com and @Ulta Beauty Passion – Milky Chance Dieux Dieux does more than sell its customers skincare: It teaches them the science behind it. In 2024, the brands following on TikTok increased by 656%, thanks to its informative and entertaining content demystifying all things skincare that consumers are often in the dark about, from the methodology behind their packaging to intimidating skincare terms like comedogenicity (which is a measure of how likely a product is to clog your pores, FYI). That transparency has earned Dieux a loyal customer base with over 50% customer retention. Dieuxs launch at Sephora, its first-ever retail partnership, blew sales expectations out of the water, selling five times more than predicted. The brands collaborations in the fashion world reflect its ideals about beautyacting as the skincare sponsor for no-makeup makeup looks at New York and Paris Fashion Week for Collina Strada, supporting women over 40 at the Met Gala, and raising funds for Black trans-led advocacy group G.L.I.T.S. with a limited-edition eye mask. EltaMD For the second year of marking March 13 as National Dermatologist Day, in 2025 the skincare brand launched its Derm Difference campaign, calling on real dermatologists to share personal stories of the trade, including why dermatology matters to them. Its just one way that EltaMD, a brand renowned for its dermatologist-recommended sunscreens, celebrates the doctors that define its industry and earns itself credibility in the process. EltaMDs dermatologist-forward content strategy earned the brand 63% year-over-year follower growth on TikTok in 2024. Offline, the brands commitment to skincare extends beyond its products, delivering more than 4,000 skin cancer screenings in collaboration with the Skin Cancer Foundation and the Sun Bus. This year, its new all-mineral UV Skin Recovery sunscreen caught the beauty worlds attention, nabbing recognition from Allure and awards Cosmopolitan, Womens Health, and NewBeauty. Eos Products In the wrong hands, a brands social media being flooded with NSFW reviews from customers could be cause for alarmbut for Eos, it was an opportunity. The long-beloved lip balm brands expansion into body lotions in 2024 came with an unexpected side effect: consumers touting the new products as aphrodisiacs. This year, rather than avoiding the conversation and its potential controversies, Eos joined in the X-rated fun with its DirtyDMs and Obsessedimonials” campaignwhich featured real comments from customers raving about the new productsthe former featuring an elderly woman reading the titillating testimonials aloud. Hearing a granny say that Eoss Vanilla Cashmere Body Lotion can get you flipped like a pancake packs a punch of comedy thats too often missing from advertising, and for Eos, it worked like a charm. Its new product line quickly became the fastest-growing body lotion in mass retail and the top-selling body lotion on Amazon. Glow Recipe Pop stars arent the only ones who can go on world tours: As Glow Recipe proved in 2024, skincare brands can do it, too. In honor of the companys 10th anniversary, its founders set off across North America, South America, and Europe to share the Korean skincare philosophies that made their brand a hit. Glow Recipe continues to dominate the indie skincare space: Sales of its flagship products, including Dew Drops and Watermelon Toner, continue to grow year over year, while the launch of the brands Hue Drops, a tinted version of its signature serum, sold well following its fall 2024 launch. Additionally, the brands messaging helps break down stigmas around skin, avoiding all-too-common language like Perfect Skin and Anti-Aging and showcasing real skin in its advertising, thanks to a commitment not to retouch models photos. Makeup by Mario Makeup maven Mario Dedivanovic has two major claims to fame: his years-long trendsetting work with Kim Kardashian and popularizing the makeup masterclass. Now, as part of an excluive partnership with Sephora, his eponymous makeup brand is bringing his signature educational experience to social media. Makeup by Mario invited tastemakers like Paige DeSorbo, Suni Lee, Katie Fang, and Steph Hui to be part of mini masterclasses, reimagining Dedivanovics formula to massive success: The brand reported record-breaking engagement online, with 154% global EMV growth on TikTok. Meanwhile, the brands products are now stocked in nearly 2,100 Sephora stores worldwide, including a recent launch at Sephora Mexico. The brand retains a strong following on Instagram and TikTok, with nearly 16 million follower between the two. Maybelline New York Appearing on all three of Love Island, Saturday Night Live, and Hot Ones is a pop culture hat trick in the 2020s, and over the past year, Maybelline pulled it off. The classic makeup brand has kept up with the times: In 2024, its TikTok campaigns garnered more than 100 million impressions, and its interactive content on Pinterest (a platform itself undergoing a Gen Z renaissance) boosted Maybellines follower engagement there by 30%. In addition to its buzzy media appearances, Maybellines stayed true to its values. That includes doubling down on its commitment to mental health advocacy through both a $20 million partnership with the WHO Foundation and expansions to its Brave Talk program, developing the in-person peer support program into a digital experience. Neutrogena The brand in 2025 has worked with John Cena to recontextualize his iconic You cant see me! catchphrase from the wrestler/actor’s WWE days. Cena’s Neutrogena campaign applies it to the brand’s Ultra Sheer sunscreen while sharing how two skin cancer diagnoses made him realize the importance of UV protection. That personal level of storytelling has become a hallmark of Neutrogenas messaging, which makes use of celebrity spokespeople to reach new audiences. Take its collaboration with Gen Z pop star Tate McRae, who reintroduced Neutrogenas Hydro Boost products to a younger generation for the lines 10th anniversary, or its utilization of actor and singer Hailee Steinfeld to address young Millennials and recommend products to minimize collagen loss. No matter a consumers skincare needs, Neutrogena has a product to meet them (and, odds are, a celebrity to pair it with). Sol de Janeiro The Brazilian skincare brand turned the stuff of marketing nightmares into a win. When a review for Sol de Janeiros Delícia Drench Body Butter, claimed that it attracted wolf spiders, the rumor mill went to work, with other reviewers jokingly agreeing that the product was a spider magnet, while arachnophobes worried that the memes were based in truth. Sol de Janeiro took it all in stride, capitalizing on the viral moment in 2024 with a joke of its own: a fake product, Aranha Spider Salve, that the brand said actually did attract spiders, unlike the real lotion that started the social media frenzy. The meme was a hit, earning Sol de Janeiro 9.76 million views on TikTok and 2.3 million impressions on Instagram. It was a testament to the brands adaptability. This story is part of Fast Companys 2025 Brands That Matter. Explore the full list of honorees that have demonstrated a commitment to their brands purpose and cultural relevance to their audience. Read more about the methodology behind the selection process.
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