For companies building AI infrastructure, the public clash between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick isn’t Washington theater — it’s a signal that the export control regime meant to keep advanced chips from China has a single point of failure: the Commerce Secretary’s discretion. On Nov. 13, Bessent went on CNBC and ...
If you have shopped at Family Dollar, the price on the shelf may not have matched the price at the register. Federal and state regulators allege that happened routinely. The Family Dollar settlement is worth $63 million, and some shoppers could get money back. Family Dollar reached a $63 million settlement with the US Federal ...
Google has released a new AI model called Gemini 4 Hydrogen, and most people can start using it today. It is rolling out to Google Search and to the Gemini app, including the free version. The company says it completes tasks 2.5 times faster than the model it replaces. Google introduced Gemini 4 Hydrogen on ...
A river cruise ship carrying about 129 passengers and crew rolled onto its side and sank at its dock in New Orleans on Friday after an oil tanker lost control and struck it on the Mississippi River, sending people into cold, fast-moving water. The Atlantic Asphalt, an oil tanker, hit the American Heritage, an American ...
SpaceX is preparing to launch its Starship rocket on its 15th test flight on Friday, with a plan to do something no orbital rocket has ever done: bring both stages back to the launch pad and catch them in mid-air. The 124-metre-tall rocket is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas ...
The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a rare nationwide ground stop at every U.S. airport on Friday afternoon, halting all departing flights after a communication failure hit multiple air traffic control centers. The advisory told operators that “all departing traffic should remain ground stopped until further notice.” Inbound international flights would be “managed on a case ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday publicly blamed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s department for failing to place Megaspeed, a China-linked data company, on the export-control blacklist, widening the public split inside the Trump administration over the Nvidia chip scandal. Megaspeed is the Singapore-based firm at the center of the affair that forced Jensen Huang to ...
Six people have died of measles in the United States this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday, as the country battles its largest outbreak of the disease since 1991. The total is twice the number of deaths recorded in 2025, and it shows how quickly the virus has returned to ...
Millions of people could not open their email or join a Teams meeting on Thursday and Friday after a Microsoft outage swept across at least 74 countries. Outlook, Teams and Copilot went down for offices, schools, hospitals and government departments from the Americas to Europe and Asia. Microsoft said it was working to restore services, ...
U.S. Soccer has pulled its boys’ Under-17 team from the World Cup in Qatar, citing the State Department’s Level 3 travel advisory for the Gulf state amid the Iran war. FIFA confirmed the withdrawal on Thursday, a week before the tournament was set to begin. The 48-nation tournament kicks off in Doha next week. The ...
