Month: July 2025
Jeff Bezos sells $737 million worth of Amazon shares
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos leaves Aman Venice hotel, on the second day of the wedding festivities of Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez, in Venice, Italy, June 27, 2025. Yara Nardi | Reuters Amazon founder Jeff Bezos unloaded more than 3.3 million shares of his company in a sale valued at roughly $736.7 million, according to […]
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House Republicans take up Trump’s megabill, but still need more votes to pass it
US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, speaks to members of the media at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, June 27, 2025. Graeme Sloane | Bloomberg | Getty Images The House of Representatives on Tuesday took the reins of President Donald Trump’s megabill, after the Senate narrowly passed it […]
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Booking CEO Glenn Fogel: People continue to spend on travel despite economic concerns
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Closing Bell: Overtime Glenn Fogel, Booking Holdings CEO, joins ‘Closing Bell Overtime’ to talk consumer travel trends heading into the holiday weekend. 04:25 26 minutes ago Source
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Healthy Returns: What to know about a CDC vaccine panel’s votes against a mercury preservative in flu shots
Biostatistician and epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, MD, PhD, and Dr. Mina Zadeh, ACIP Executive Secretary, CDC, look on as people present their information to members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) advisory panel for vaccines convenes, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. June 25, 2025. Megan Varner […]
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Modelo owner Constellation Brands misses on earnings as aluminum tariffs hit profitability
Case of Modelo, a beer imported from Mexico, are seen for sale at a grocery store in Arlington, Virginia, February 3, 2025, following the announcement of tariffs by US President Donald Trump on important goods from Canada and Mexico. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Constellation Brands on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue […]
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Google promotes ‘AI Mode’ on home page ‘Doodle’
Google CEO Sundar Pichai addresses the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. Camille Cohen | AFP | Getty Images The Google Doodle is Alphabet’s most valuable piece of real estate, and on Tuesday, the company used that space to promote “AI Mode,” its latest AI search […]
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GOP Sen. Murkowski cast crucial vote for Trump’s megabill after getting key carveout
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) walks after the Senate passes U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping spending and tax bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 1, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska cast a critical vote Tuesday for President Donald Trump’s massive tax-and-spending bill, helping to push the […]
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How a beer-making process is used to make cleaner disposable diapers
Disposable diapers are a massive environmental offender. Roughly 300,000 of them are sent to landfills or incinerated every minute, according to the World Economic Forum, and they take hundreds of years to decompose. It’s a $60 billion business. One alternative approach has been compostable diapers, which can be made out of wood pulp or bamboo. […]
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Figma files for IPO on Nasdaq, plans to ‘take big swings’ with M&A
Design software company Figma filed for an IPO on Tuesday, and plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol FIG. The offering would be one of the hotly-anticipated IPOs in recent years given Figma’s growth rate and its high private market valuation. In late 2023, a $20 billion acquisition agreement with […]
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Medicaid cuts in Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ bill will leave millions uninsured, threaten rural hospitals
An aerial view of Valley Health Hampshire Memorial Hospital on June 17, 2025 in Romney, W.V. Ricky Carioti | The Washington Post | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would make sweeping changes to U.S. health care, leaving millions of vulnerable Americans without health insurance and threatening the hospitals and centers that provide […]
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