Day: January 27, 2025

Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’ in Maps after government updates
The Gulf of Mexico as seen on Google Maps. Source: Google Maps Google said Monday it will change the name of Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” after the government updates its “official government sources.” The company also said it will start using Mount McKinley, which is currently called Denali. Last week, President Donald […]
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Watch live: Trump addresses House Republican conference in Florida
[The stream is slated to start at 5 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] President Donald Trump is set to address House Republicans at the kickoff of their annual agenda-planning conference on Monday afternoon. The three-day event is being held at Trump National Doral, […]
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CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal
A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting on update on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Geneva, Switzerland, April 6, 2021. Denis Balibouse | Reuters U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. A U.S. […]
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Tom Lee says this is the worst market overreaction since 2020 pandemic outbreak
Fears around the future of the artificial intelligence trade pushed Nvidia shares down by nearly 17% on Monday and weighed on the stock market – but investors seem to be overreacting, according to Tom Lee, head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek spurred a sell-off on Monday. The company last month […]
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DOJ fires officials involved in Trump prosecutions by special counsel Jack Smith
James McHenry testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill July 31, 2018 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The Department of Justice on Monday fired a number of officials involved in the now-terminated federal criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump by former special counsel Jack […]
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Amazon taps Whole Foods CEO to oversee grocery business
Whole Foods Market CEO Jason Buechel speaks onstage during the 2023 Concordia Annual Summit. Leigh Vogel | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Amazon has tapped Whole Foods CEO Jason Buechel to oversee its sprawling grocery business, the company announced Monday. Doug Herrington, the company’s worldwide retail chief, wrote in a memo to employees posted […]
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Power stocks plunge as energy needs called into question because of new China AI lab
The cooling towers of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30, 2024. Danielle DeVries | CNBC Power companies that are most exposed to the tech sector’s data center boom plunged early Monday, as the debut of China’s DeepSeek open-source AI laboratory led investors to question how much energy artificial intelligence […]
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