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Brothers91/Getty Images A budget of $50 won’t get you all that much from many big-name tool brands, but at Harbor Freight, it’s enough to buy a wide range of tools, sometimes with money to spare. Some of Harbor Freight’s tools are even available for less than $25. Despite their low prices, the top-rated products don’t…

President Donald Trump is showing support for the pending Nexstar–Tegna merger. Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday where he shared his thoughts on the deal, which is under review by the FCC, writing in favor of the merger that he says “will help knock out the Fake News.” “We need more competition against THE…

Bill Gates is quietly trimming his footprint around his famed $132 million Xanadu 2.0 compound outside Seattle. The Microsoft cofounder put up for sale a $4.8 million property “nestled into one of Medina’s most coveted hillsides,” according to the listing—a four-bed, three-bath home that he bought for $1 million in 1995, property records reviewed by…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wants to keep home prices high, bypassing calls to ramp up construction so people can afford what has been a ticket to the middle class. Trump has instead argued for protecting existing owners who have watched the values of their homes climb. It’s a position that flies in the…

The Stepback The $82.7 billion deal will force Paramount Plus, Disney Plus, Peacock, Apple TV, and other rivals to make some changes. Feb 8, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC The Stepback The $82.7 billion deal will force Paramount Plus, Disney Plus, Peacock, Apple TV, and other rivals to make some changes. Feb 8, 2026, 1:00 PM…

Following last year’s trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements took it a step further by leveraging AI both to create the commercials and to promote the latest AI products. Love it or hate it, the technology has become a star in its own right, alongside the latest movie…

Wall Street’s foremost financial institutional has transformed from Wall Street’s bedrock to a stock market liability. From a purely statistical standpoint, Wall Street loves President Donald Trump. While getting from Point A to B was a roller-coaster ride, the widely followed Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +0.19%), broad-based S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.34%), and growth stock-dependent…

Elon Musk’s move last week to combine SpaceX and xAI has created one of the world’s biggest and most valuable private companies, which analysts say offers a mix of potential growth and financial risk as it heads toward public markets. The two companies are very different. SpaceX was founded in 2002 and has established itself…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The makers of mobile apps designed to help shoppers identify and boycott American goods say they saw a surge of interest in Denmark and beyond after the recent flare-up in tensions over U.S. President Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland. The creator of the “Made O’Meter” app, Ian Rosenfeldt, said he saw…

Warsh has argued that artificial intelligence will trigger a historic increase in productivity © Brendan McDermid/Reuters Top academics have dismissed Kevin Warsh’s claim that an AI-induced productivity boom will create room for interest rate cuts, according to a snap FT economists’ poll that highlights the challenges facing Donald Trump’s pick for Federal Reserve chair. Warsh,…

With an upcoming FIFA World Cup being staged across the nation, 2026 was supposed to be a bumper year for tourism to the United States, driven in part by hordes of arriving soccer fans. And yet, the U.S. tourism industry is worried. While the rest of the world saw a travel bump in 2025, with…

Daniela Amodei, who cofounded Anthropic with her brother Dario, said uniquely human qualities will actually be more critical in the age of AI, not less. In an interview with ABC News that aired on Saturday, she said the number of jobs that AI could do without help from people is “vanishingly small.” At the same…

On Thursday, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said that Wall Street is punishing software stocks like Salesforce Inc. (NYSE:CRM), ServiceNow Inc. (NYSE:NOW) and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) as if they are no longer relevant in the AI age. Speaking with Bloomberg, Ives addressed the ongoing drawdowns in software stocks. “I could tell you in 25 years, this…

On Friday Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk issued a stark warning regarding the U.S. national debt, stating that America is on a path to bankruptcy. Musk emphasized the necessity of advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics to avert this financial crisis. In a recent podcast appearance, Musk declared, “We are 1,000% going to go bankrupt…

Updated Feb. 7, 2026, 11:03 p.m. ET The Powerball jackpot is climbing again, surging to $102 million ahead of the Saturday, Feb. 7 drawing with a cash option of $46.8 million up for grabs. There has already been one Powerball jackpot winner this year: A North Carolina player scored an estimated $209 million on Jan….

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The logo for Google LLC is seen at the Google Store Chelsea in Manhattan, New York, Nov. 17, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters More than 900 Google workers have signed an open letter condemning recent actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs…

Jennifer Garner’s eldest child, daughter Violet, may be her lookalike, but it’s clear who Ben Affleck and her son Samuel’s lookalike is. Related story All About Jennifer Garner’s Boyfriend, John Miller In case you missed it, on Feb 6, Garner made an ultra-rare appearance with her and Affleck’s son, Samuel, at the New York Stock…

Economists, lawmakers, and Wall Street have long preached the need to increase housing supply to improve affordability, but it may not be that straightforward. According to a recent note written by UC Irvine PhD student Schuyler Louie along with San Francisco Fed researchers John Mondragon, Rami Najjar, and Johannes Wieland, average income growth “relates strongly”…

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