Politics
Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
Asanda Zondi received a startling phone call last Thursday, with orders to make her way to a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa,…
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Business
Trump Media Is Moving Into the Financial Services Industry
President Trump’s social media company is moving to position itself as a financial services firm that will allow his supporters to put…
News
Airline Pilots in the DC Plane Crash Acted as Expected, Experts Say
Just after 8:43 p.m. on Jan. 29, an air traffic controller at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, posed a question to the pilots…
Politics
Trump Trade Nominee Defends Plan to Reorder International Trade
Jamieson Greer, President Trump’s nominee to be the next U.S. trade representative, defended the president’s plan to impose sweeping…
Business
As Elon Musk Attacks DEI, Tesla Quietly Addresses Racism Complaints
In Washington, Elon Musk has been at the forefront of Trump administration efforts to gut programs designed to promote diversity. At the…
Business
Trump, the Panama Canal and China’s Role: What We Know
President Trump’s claim that China controls the Panama Canal has placed a Hong Kong tycoon and his conglomerate at the heart of a showdown…
Business
Cathay Cineplex has paid back S$12 million owed to landlords; remaining S$2.7 million is a quarter of total sum
mm2 Asia says slower-than-expected recovery of the cinema industry hit the cinema chain’s ability to pay its arrears on a timely basis THE…
Politics
Trump Amplifies Conspiracy Over U.S. Payments to Politico
President Trump amplified unfounded claims on Thursday that the government had been paying news media outlets to generate positive…
Politics
Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing
A few days after President Trump issued an order urging the private sector to end “Illegal D.E.I. Discrimination and Preferences,” the…
Business
US: Wall St opens higher after big corporate results
Wall Street’s main indexes opened slightly higher on Thursday (Feb 6), as investors evaluated earnings from companies including Honeywell…
Business
Green Energy Ambitions of European Companies Take a Beating
Rasmus Errboe, the new chief executive of the Danish offshore wind developer Orsted, sounded as if he had inherited a mess as he explained…
News
Southern California Edison Found Irregularities on Equipment Where Eaton Fire Broke Out
On Jan. 19, almost two weeks after the Eaton fire broke out near Altadena, Calif., technicians for Southern California Edison began…
Business
BRC Asia Q1 profit after tax rises 13.9% to S$19.5 million
This is despite revenue falling 12.4% year on year to S$349.8 million, from S$399.2 million STEEL fabricator BRC Asia on Thursday (Feb 6)…
Politics
D.C. Lawmakers Take Aim at DeepSeek
Just in: The Justice Department agreed to temporarily restrict workers from Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team from gaining access to…
Culture
Documentarian Alex Gibney Teams Up With a Google Billionaire
At a time when the documentary film business is atrophying, one of the world’s leading documentarians, Alex Gibney, has taken on a…
Business
Bank of England Cuts Interest Rates as British Economy Weakens
The Bank of England cut interest rates on Thursday for the third time in about six months, amid signs of weak economic growth in Britain…
Fashion
Shein,Temu retailers slapped with 30% levy on US bound goods
Chinese retailers that sell on Shein and PDD Holdings’ Temu platform say they have been asked by logistics agents to start paying an…
Business
IHH unit may seek higher compensation in lawsuit against Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo over Fortis deal
AN INDIRECT, wholly owned subsidiary of integrated healthcare player IHH Healthcare, Northern TK Venture (NTK), on Thursday (Feb 6)…
Business
ST Engineering bags new contracts worth S$4.3 billion in Q4 2024
ST ENGINEERING on Thursday (Feb 6) announced that it secured S$4.3 billion in new contracts in the fourth quarter of 2024. These comprise…
Business
Friday’s Jobs Report Will Be Confusing. Here’s How to Make Sense of It.
The Labor Department’s latest monthly report on hiring and unemployment will include revisions for previous months that should give a more…
Politics
Treasury Sought to Freeze Foreign Aid Payments, Emails Show
In the days after President Trump took office, as Elon Musk’s team began pressing for access to the Treasury Department’s payments system,…
News
Brooklyn’s Outlandish Hosts Black History Month Hike
On the surface, hiking can seem as if it has a low barrier to entry. How hard is it to get up and go outside? Dig deeper and you will find…
Business
DeepSeek fever fuels patriotic bets on Chinese AI stocks
CHINESE investors are rushing into AI-related stocks, betting the artificial intelligence advance of home-grown startup DeepSeek will lead…
Business
Maersk Q4 profit beats forecast, expects softer 2025 earnings
The Danish company, viewed as a barometer of world trade, said it expects an underlying Ebitda result of between US$6 billion and US$9…