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Doug Burgum Is Confirmed by Senate as Interior Secretary
Doug Burgum, a promoter of oil and gas, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday to lead the Interior Department, a role in which he will…
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Mastercard earnings top estimates as firm broadens services
MASTERCARD reported earnings that beat estimates as the firm diversifies beyond its traditional payment network into anti-fraud services,…
Business
Visa profit climbs on cross-border growth, beating estimates
VISA reported a fiscal first-quarter profit that exceeded Wall Street estimates as the world’s biggest payments network posted…
Politics
Mark Zuckerberg Defends Embrace of Trump Administration in Meta Employee Q&A
In a wide-ranging question-and-answer session with Meta employees on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, defended…
Business
Apple’s Revenue Increases 4 Percent Despite Slowing iPhone Sales
After Apple unveiled artificial intelligence features for iPhones last year, the company’s stock soared in anticipation that the new…
Business
Apple profit tops Wall Street target even as iPhone, China sales fall short
APPLE beat Wall Street’s quarterly profit estimates on Thursday, but iPhone sales and China revenue for the holiday quarter were weak due…
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Starbucks and Workers United Union Agree to Contract Mediation
Starbucks and the union representing thousands of its employees said on Thursday that they were bringing in a mediator in a push to revive…
Politics
Rohit Chopra of CFPB Expected Trump to Fire Him Right Away, but He’s Hanging On
Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, expected to be fired soon after President Trump took office. More…
Politics
RFK Jr. Says He Won’t Keep Financial Stake in HPV Vaccine Lawsuits
During intense questioning Thursday by members of the Senate health committee about his plan to keep a financial stake in major vaccine…
Business
SoftBank in Talks to Invest Up to $25 Billion in OpenAI
OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence company that has been on a yearslong money-raising frenzy, is in talks with the Japanese…
Business
Rethinking Centurion’s role in housing workers
There is a case for shrinking the private sector’s involvement in areas such as their accommodation and healthcare REAL estate investment…
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Loretta Ford, ‘Mother’ of the Nurse Practitioner Field, Dies at 104
Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then spent decades transforming the field of…
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Staffing Was ‘Not Normal’ at Air Traffic Tower During Plane Crash
Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,”…
Business
Blackstone Still Bullish on A.I. Data Centers Despite DeepSeek
The Chinese A.I. start-up DeepSeek upended the prevailing view that artificial intelligence systems require huge amounts of power and…
Business
F.C.C. Chair Orders Investigation Into NPR and PBS Stations
Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, informed NPR and PBS this week that he had ordered an investigation…
Politics
U.S. Sues to Block Tech Deal in First Antitrust Action of Trump Term
The Justice Department on Thursday moved to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks, the first deal…
Politics
Federal Debt Is Now Worrying Even Progressives
The 119th Congress began, as it so often has in recent years, with calls from Republican politicians for wrestling down the national debt,…
Business
European Central Bank Cuts Interest Rates as Economic Growth Stagnates
The European Central Bank cut interest rates on Thursday, for the fifth consecutive time, amid slowing growth in the region’s economy.…
Business
U.S. Economy Grew 2.3 Percent in Fourth Quarter
Growth slowed but remained resilient at the end of 2024, leaving the U.S. economy on solid footing heading into a new year — and a new…
Business
Meta and Microsoft Double Down on Huge A.I. Spending, Despite DeepSeek Threat
We have sad news: We are following the latest on the midair collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport outside Washington between an…
Business
Seven & i founding family seeks investment from Thailand's Charoen Pokphand: NHK
The family is in talks to take the company private to fend off a US$47 billion takeover from Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard THE…
Politics
Shell and Equinor Oil and Gas Production Is Blocked at Sites Off British Coast
A court in Scotland blocked the production of oil and gas on Thursday at two large project sites being developed in British waters until…
Politics
Tulsi Gabbard Defended Russia and Syria. Now She Must Defend Those Views.
Tulsi Gabbard, President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, has made headlines for years with her criticism of what…
News
Bill Gates Isn’t Like Those Other Tech Billionaires
The older he gets, the more Bill Gates is surprised by what the world dishes up. Take billionaires. There are many now from the tech…