Trump urges FCC to probe media polling, punish NBC moderator
The president also lashed out at Kristen Welker, the moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, for saying his endorsements of…
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World mostly shrugs off Bessent’s ‘D-Day’ Iran sanctions threat
Iranian bank branches remained open in Dubai. Commercial flights also continued between Iran and Turkey as well as Iran…
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Google Maps changes Lake Ontario label to Lake America in U.S.
The decision was prompted by a change in the official US government geographic naming system, the company said.
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‘I think they’re doing it to cling to power’ — Venezuelans bash their government’s deal handing over vast oil reserves to the U.S.
Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, described the deal as a step toward economic recovery that will…
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SpaceX launches NASA’s newest crown-jewel telescope, which will look for ‘the weird, the rare and the unusual’ — including dark matter and energy
“It’s going to find thousands of supernovae, tens of thousands of planets, billions of galaxies and tens of billions of…
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The official jobless rate is so low the Fed thinks the economy is at full employment. But a gauge of the ‘functionally unemployed’ keeps climbing
"If this continues, it would suggest the labor market is losing strength despite what we may see in the headline…
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This baby boomer vs. Gen X Senate race emerges as key test of generational change in U.S. politics and what age is too old for Congress
Sen. Ed Markey is 80, while his rival, Rep. Seth Moulton, is 47.
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Olivia Rodrigo and philanthropist Melinda French Gates raise $20 million for women’s well-being with a benefit show recalling ’90s feminist push
Melinda French Gates pledged $10 million through her Pivotal Ventures in a surprise appearance at the start of…
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Six months into the Iran war, the global economy has pulled off a ‘Mission Impossible’ scene, and the Trump family is among the winners
The direst predictions haven’t come true even if no corner of the world's economy has been untouched.
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Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
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Trump mistook it repeatedly while speaking about his designs on Greenland, but voters in Iceland reject a proposal to restart talks to join the EU
Opponents defeated the measure by a margin of 52.8% to 47.2%.
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American taxpayers have spent $33 billion on sports stadiums. They got fewer seats—and higher prices
"No one has ever built a new stadium and made tickets cheaper. No one’s trying to.”
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Gen Zer washed his college basketball team’s dirty clothes and mopped floors to prove his passion—now he’s one of the youngest interns ever at the NBA
Mocked as ‘mop boy,’ Daniel Sung turned a year of college basketball grunt work into a dream NBA internship, LinkedIn…
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Top economist says it’s ‘panic season’ in markets and it’s your fault for taking summer vacation. Blame the ‘harvest time’ mentality
Owen Lamont, SVP at $195 billion fund Acadian, says you need to mentally prepare for an "epic financial disaster"—just…
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The heiress of $10 billion Perdue Farms and the $12 billion Sheraton Hotels empire wore hand-me-downs, still rides the subway, and flies economy
“If you’re always going on private jets, what inkling do you have about the real world?”
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South Korea may be getting too old to take advantage of its AI boom
Korea could keep getting richer from AI while elderly households become reluctant or unable to spend those gains
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Women’s professional soccer has a champagne problem: A packed calendar around the World Cup that will test the sustainability of its mega growth
“That schedule was intentionally designed to position the NWSL at the center of one of the biggest years in the history…
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Why the AI economy is like a bad dating app — drowning in decks, pilot purgatory — and it’s playing out like the dotcom bubble, except worse
Amy Webb is a futurist who called the rise of AI — and a U.S./China tech Cold War — years ago. She wishes she were…
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Why Gen X should stop planning around an inheritance that may never arrive
Gen X has been handed a hard set of facts. Less saved than the generation before it, no pension underneath, and…
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America’s Mediterranean lunch bowl is booming as NAYA races toward 200 restaurants
Mediterranean fast casual grew 16% last year, and NAYA’s founder is betting the boom can carry his Lebanese chain from…
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The mayor of this desert city likens the U.S. West’s water crisis to planning for a meteor. ‘You can see it coming, but you can’t get out of the way’
Under the Bureau of Reclamation’s plan, California, Nevada and Arizona will collectively reduce water use by 1.25…
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With ‘virtual speed bumps,’ these cities have reduced crashes by rewarding slower drivers with fewer red lights
"If you come to Albuquerque right now and you’re driving that corridor, you will learn pretty quickly that if you are…
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The Earth is sizzling, but ‘climate hushing’ is hot right now among Democrats. ‘People are increasingly freaked out about other issues’
The Searchlight Institute, a Democratic think tank, urged the party to stop mentioning climate change because it is not…
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New U.S. sanctions will hit ordinary Iranians hard. That may be the whole point as the crashing economy stirs fresh protests
"Digital assets and gold are how ordinary Iranians protect their savings from inflation."
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Key takeaways from the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole conference
Policymakers from the euro area who spoke on the sidelines of the conference also sent a warning about inflation.
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Trump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, judge rules, saying speech and press freedoms are ‘foundational to America’s enduring democracy’
“Freedom of speech is illusory if we are only ‘free’ to express complementary views about the government and its…
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‘Long after President Trump is gone, it will still be called Lake Ontario’ — Premier Doug Ford fires back at ‘Lake America’ decree with giant sign
Wearing a Team Canada soccer jersey, Ford unveiled the sign near Grimsby, Ontario.
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Wall Street used to worry that too much U.S. debt would crowd out the private sector. But AI hyperscalers are ‘reverse crowding’ the Treasury
"Capital flowing into corporate bonds is capital not flowing into Treasuries, and Treasury yields have had to rise to…
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The U.S. doesn’t have a state-owned oil giant. But in Venezuela, the federal government will control a company with the world’s 2nd largest reserves
The federal government will control 55% of the company's effective output via equity ownership and oil production.
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Casey’s quietly became America’s fifth-largest pizza chain. Meet the Fortune 500 gas station Gen Z can’t stop posting about
Have you heard of the fifth-largest pizza chain in the U.S., famous for its red roof, its taco pizza and its sausage…
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ICE explores purchasing robot dogs in enforcement tech push
The government is looking to spend at least $2 million on the robots.
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Trump backlash adds new risks to the stocks the government owns
Market strategists see rising risks of the administration’s equity positions facing scrutiny in Washington and the…
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Forget GLP-1 stocks, baldness drugs are Wall Street’s next goldmine
Pattern hair loss affects an estimated 50 million men and 30 million women in the US, but there have been no new…
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Russia is teaching its children to fight the wars of the future
Students will also study mines and explosive hazards, first aid for combat injuries, chemical and radiation exposure…
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For his latest tariffs, Trump used a statute so obscure many lawyers didn’t even know it still existed. ‘This law is literally a blank canvas’
Trump invoked Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to slap a 50% tax on $20 billion worth of Canadian imports.
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