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Tesla plans ‘friends and family’ car service in California, regulator says
A vehicle Tesla is using for robotaxi testing purposes on Oltorf Street in Austin, Texas, US, on Sunday, June 22, 2025. Tim Goessman | Bloomberg | Getty Images In an earnings call this week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased an expansion of his company’s fledgling robotaxi service to the San Francisco Bay Area and other […]
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FEMA to send states $608 million to build migrant detention centers
An aerial view of a migrant detention center, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” is seen located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida on July 7, 2025. Chandan Khanna | AFP | Getty Images The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention […]
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Palantir joins list of 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with stock more than doubling in 2025
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, speaks on a panel titled Power, Purpose, and the New American Century at the Hill and Valley Forum at the U.S. Capitol on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Palantir has hit another major milestone in its meteoric stock rise. It’s now one of […]
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New bill in Congress would reward companies that give stock to rank-and-file employees
A bipartisan bill introduced in Congress this week would create a new tax incentive for public companies to distribute stock to their rank-and-file employees. The new SHARE Act would give a 3 percentage point discount on the corporate tax rate to large companies that distribute at least 5% of their stock to the lowest paid […]
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Trump: ‘I haven’t thought about’ pardoning Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on July 25, 2025, in Washington, DC en route to Turnberry, Scotland. Jim Watson | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Friday deflected questions about his former friend Jeffrey Epstein […]
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India resumes issuing visas to Chinese nationals after a 5-year freeze
India has resumed issuing tourist visas to Chinese citizens for the first time in five years starting Thursday, according to a Weibo post by the Indian embassy in China on Wednesday, marking a significant step in de-escalating tensions between the two countries. Tensions between China and India escalated after their military clashed in June 2020 over […]
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Trump spars with Powell over renovation costs during Fed visit, but backs off firing threats
President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell went back and forth in front of the press Thursday over Trump’s claims about cost overruns at the Fed headquarters in Washington. The stunning side-by-side took place as Trump began a rare tour of the Fed building, in what was widely seen as the latest chapter […]
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French President Macron says France will recognize Palestine as a state
French President Emmanuel Macron holds a press conference, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Friday, June 13, 2025. Michel Euler | Via Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza. Macron said in a post on X that he will formalize the decision at the United Nations […]
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Inside the renovations of the Federal Reserve headquarters: Slideshow
The front facade of the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building is visible as a massive renovation continues on the building and the 1951 Constitution Avenue Building on July 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images After months of President Donald Trump criticizing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for his refusal […]
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$9.7 million of U.S.-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France: Reuters
Free condoms are seen at a community center operated by LoveYourself, a nonprofit impacted by the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid, on February 19, 2025 in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. Ezra Acayan | Getty Images U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from […]
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