Hundreds of anti-immigration enforcement demonstrators protested Friday afternoon in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood — with the intention of speaking with management at the local Target store. “Target says its mission is to help all families discover the joy of everyday life, but families cannot experience joy when they are being unjustly detained and separated,” said…
Lily JamaliNorth America Technology correspondent Getty Images Every month, hundreds of millions of users flock to Pinterest looking for the latest styles. One page titled “the most ridiculous things” is filled with plenty of wacky ideas to inspire creatives. Crocs repurposed as flower pots. Cheeseburger-shaped eyeshadow. A gingerbread house made of vegetables. But what would-be…
Transit officials on Friday shared when the 2 Line will open over Lake Washington after years of delays. SEATTLE — Sound Transit officials announced light rail service across Lake Washington will begin on March 28, completing a long-delayed connection between Seattle and Bellevue that has faced years of setbacks. The operation of the 7.4-mile Crosslake…
No Tesla sales in California Tesla was told that if it couldn’t resolve the deceptive marketing within those 60 days, the sales suspension would take effect. That would be bad for the automaker, as California is far and away its largest market in the US, albeit one that is shrinking each quarter. Having to suspend sales…
A heavy slide in financial stocks pushed the Dow lower on Friday, cementing a second consecutive weekly decline for the blue-chip index. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6%, or 274 points, on Friday. The S&P 500 was flat while the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.3%. Despite the Dow’s back-to-back weekly loss, the index remains about…
If you thought 2025 couldn’t get any crazier, the streaming world had one more surprise up its sleeve before the year ended. Netflix, already the largest streaming platform with over 325 million subscribers, took a bold step by acquiring Warner Bros.’ film and television studios, as well as HBO, HBO Max, and other assets. The…
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As the temperatures drop across the U.S., the battle between Netflix and Paramount for Warner Bros. is only heating up. The latest haymakers thrown come courtesy of executive interviews in The Financial Times. Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters had plenty to say about why his offer, the one that has actually been accepted (and reaffirmed), is…
Rick Rieder said after the Fed’s most recent rate cut that borrowing costs were ‘still too high for the housing market to [recover] its buoyancy’ © Richard Drew/AP BlackRock executive Rick Rieder has emerged as a leading contender in the race for Federal Reserve chair as Donald Trump’s decision on who to nominate to lead…
New York — Top Wall Street bankers during the Trump 2.0 era have tread carefully around the subject of politics generally and President Donald Trump specifically. The consensus has generally been: Smile and nod, stay in your lane, don’t become a target. But when a Trump “affordability” proposal earlier this month targeted banks’ profit engine,…
The new Chevy Bolt EV just went into production at GM’s Fairfax plant in Kansas in November, but it won’t be built there for long. Once Bolt production ends, likely in 2027, GM said only internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles will be made at the facility. GM to end Chevy Bolt EV production for ICE…
Airlines have canceled more than 1,000 combined flights scheduled for Saturday at DFW International Airport and Dallas Love Field ahead of a winter storm that is set to sweep through North Texas this weekend. At DFW Airport, the central hub of American Airlines, the current cancellation total had reached over 1,200 flights by Friday afternoon,…
ChatGPT Health promises privacy. All you have is OpenAI’s word. ChatGPT Health promises privacy. All you have is OpenAI’s word. Jan 23, 2026, 4:07 PM UTC Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Every week,…
Airplanes on the tarmac during a snow storm at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Ting Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Airlines canceled more than 10,000 U.S. flights scheduled for this weekend as a massive winter storm sweeps across the country, with heavy snow and sleet…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court for the past year has repeatedly allowed President Donald Trump to fire heads of independent agencies, but it appears to be drawing a line with the Federal Reserve. The court has signaled for months that it sees the Fed in a different light. It has said that the president…
Wall Street is “gobbling up” America’s homes. Firms with names like BlackRock (or Blackstone or SablePebble) are shouldering their way into every suburban open house and offering 50 percent above asking price — in a bid to consolidate control of local markets and then jack up rents with impunity. As a result, America’s young families…
In this article LLY NVO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A pharmacist displays a box of Wegovy pills at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah, Jan. 15, 2026. George Frey | Bloomberg | Getty Images The future of the booming obesity drug market won’t hinge on drugs that deliver greater weight loss alone. Top executives…
Ployker/Shutterstock In mid-January 2026, you may have looked down at your cell phone to check the time or send a text and realized that you had no service. Instead, your display may have read “SOS.” If that’s the case, you were one of millions of Verizon wireless customers affected by a widespread outage. In Washington,…
MCLEAN, Va. & SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 22, 2026– Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Brex, in a combination of stock and cash transaction valued at $5.15 billion. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260122016437/en/ Brex is a modern, AI-native software platform offering intelligent finance solutions that…
Amazon is expected to undergo another round of layoffs next week, according to an exclusive report from Reuters, in an effort to trim its workforce by approximately 30,000 employees. This is considered the next round of layoffs that first occurred in October, two sources who asked not to be identified told Reuters. During the October…
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The S&P 500 closed up 0.55% yesterday on good news about U.S. GDP growth and President Trump retracting his threat to impose more tariffs on Europe if he isn’t given Greenland. After a selloff earlier this week, the S&P is again above 6,900 and within 1% of its all-time high. Gold hit another record yesterday,…
In this article ALTI Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT D3sign | Moment | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Market data firms have been pitching artificial…
“The Middle East has oil,” Deng Xiaoping is reported to have remarked. “China has rare earths.” Deng was visiting one of China’s biggest rare earths mines, in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, in 1992 when he made that observation about the vast deposit of critical minerals in his country. At that time, no one took his statement…
Amazon reportedly plans to start laying off about 14,000 corporate workers as soon as Tuesday (Jan. 27). These cuts will be part of the second round of a broader plan to eliminate 30,000 corporate jobs, and they will follow the first round that involved 14,000 layoffs in October, Reuters reported Thursday (Jan. 22), citing unnamed…
Congratulations, Republicans: Your mentally incapacitated president—who’s running the country without guardrails, constraints, or adult supervision—is burning through nearly a century of international goodwill, with consequences that will echo for decades. “You cannot put the genie back into the bottle. Things might get better and more calm a few months down the road, and Trump, he…
Thursday was a tough work day for many — or maybe, a great one, depending on how eager you are to access work-related programs. Microsoft services, including Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365, experienced a significant outage. Overnight heading into Friday, the company said via its Microsoft 365 Status account on X that the “impact has…
This weekend will mark what might be the biggest winter storm of the season. Meteorologists have been using terms like “catastrophic” and “monster” to describe it, and it’s set to bury most of the country in snow and ice, including many areas that rarely see this kind of weather. If you’re feeling ill-prepared for what…
A guide sign reading “Bank of Japan” is seen in Tokyo on July 31, 2024. Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty Images Japan’s central bank on Friday raised economic growth forecasts while holding its key policy rate at 0.75% as the country prepares to go into an election. The Bank of Japan upgraded its economic…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on Jan. 21, 2026 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images U.S. equities were mixed on Friday, as the Nasdaq Composite extended its gains amid easing geopolitical fears and the Dow Jones Industrial Average underperformed. The tech-heavy Nasdaq…
Tesla is offering passengers robotaxi rides in Austin without a human safety driver in the front seat. CEO Elon Musk on Thursday posted on X, his social media platform: “Just started Tesla Robotaxi drives in Austin with no safety monitor in the car. Congrats to the Tesla AI team!” He then made a recruitment pitch…
A Powerball ticket purchased in Roanoke Rapids won the $209.3 million jackpot drawing Wednesday night. According to the North Carolina Education Lottery, the winning ticket was purchased from West 10th Mart on West 10th Street in Roanoke Rapids. Other WRAL Top Stories The winning numbers in the drawing were 11–26−27−53−55 and the Powerball was 12. The…
Elon Musk, the richest man on earth, is very good at making money. His track record of predicting the future is less stellar. Through the years, Musk has made several outlandish forecasts—about self-driving cars, about space exploration, about brain chips, about robotics—that have not panned out. The Tesla CEO and former steward of the so-called…