Over the summer, the United States deployed warships to the Caribbean—ostensibly to menace drug traffickers but also as a none-too-subtle warning to Venezuela. Earlier in the year, a U.S. Navy destroyer bobbed along waters close to Iran for similar reasons. And in the Taiwan Straits and Pacific, China and the U.S. frequently show off their respective maritime military might. Close to 200 years…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it is working to “fully restore” its customers’ cloud environments, after an “operational issue” within its North Virginia datacentre region knocked out multiple internet sites and services across the globe. Users of the public cloud giant’s services are known to have started reporting problems at around 8am *** time, according to outage tracking website Downtime…
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After the 2020 corrective low in global equities, India was one the few countries that was able to keep up with the U.S. through the end of 2024. However, Indian equities have lagged the U.S. badly this year with a YTD return of only 3.44% for the iShares MSCI India ETF (INDA) . While 2025 has been an off-cycle year for India’s stock market, a new technical catalyst is on the horizon that bodes…
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Members of Congress say they’re happy military troops are getting paid during the shutdown — but not necessarily that President Donald Trump is claiming vast power over the federal spending process to do it. In a sweeping order last week, Trump gave both the Pentagon and the White House budget office the green light to use “any funds” left over for the current fiscal year to bankroll paychecks…
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The US and Australia have signed a deal intended to boost supplies of rare earths and other critical minerals, as the Trump administration looks for ways to counter China’s dominance of the market. *********** Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the deal would support a pipeline of $8.5bn (£6.3bn) “ready-to-go” projects that would expand his country’s mining and processing abilities.
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Warner Bros. has officially announced the production of a Minecraft sequel to the blockbuster hit that came close to crossing the $1 billion mark at the global box office. The studio also revealed the release date — fans can look forward to its theatrical debut on July 23, 2027. Jared Hess is set to return as director for the continuation of the story introduced in A Minecraft Movie…
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For the first time, astronomers are watching a ring system form in real time. The rings in question encircle Chiron, a comet-like object that takes a path around the sun between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. Every time we look at Chiron, its rings seem to be a little different. Chiron isn’t the first small object we have observed rings around: the asteroid Chariklo and dwarf planets Haumea…
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Business development companies (BDCs) have gained popularity in recent years, but they still don’t get as much attention as they should. Which is too bad, because they pay life-changing (no exaggeration here) dividends. The two we’ll look at below yield more than 12.9%. In other words, drop $10,000 in and you’re getting $1,290+ back in dividends every year. That makes BDCs useful tools for…
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An inside view of Newark Airport as travelers are facing eight straight days of massive delays, United Airlines canceling routes and staffing shortages in Newark, New Jersey, United States, on May 06, 2025. Mostafa Bassim | Anadolu | Getty Images Airline websites, including those for Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, were affected during Monday’s hourslong disruption of Amazon Web…
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A House of Commons committee approved a study of the contracts Stellantis has signed with the federal government for billions of dollars of subsidies to see if they included provisions to protect ********* auto jobs. The Conservatives pushed for the study after Stellantis last week said it would be moving planned production of its Jeep Compass from its plant in Brampton, Ont., to Illinois…
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The Switch 2 is now a few months old, and exclusives like Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza are making the console an appealing prospect for many gamers. However, the list of exclusives isn’t as deep and varied as some would hope. Titles on the horizon include Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, Kirby Air Riders, Pokémon Legends Z-A, and the highly anticipated Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.
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Scientists have long noted with interest that in one of nature’s crucial chemical reactions—the oxygen evolution reaction—it is manganese, rather than more plentiful similar elements such as iron, that acts as the key catalyst. Now, in research published in Nature Sustainability, a research group led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan has…
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The violent crypto ****** of October 10-12, 2025 tested digital asset infrastructure more severely than any event since 2022. plunged from $125,000 to $102,000 following President Trump’s China tariff announcement, triggering $19.3 billion in liquidations. The stress test revealed a critical distinction: Reserve-backed stablecoins performed flawlessly while exchange infrastructure exposed…
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A version of this article appeared in CNBC’s Inside Alts newsletter, a guide to the fast-growing world of alternative investments, from private equity and private credit to hedge funds and venture capital. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Even as the IPO market is starting to rebound, startups are staying private for longer thanks in large part to alternative capital…
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A manhunt is under way for a gang of thieves who carried out a broad daylight raid on Paris’s Louvre Museum, and stole jewels described as priceless. The gang appear to have used a mechanical ladder to reach a first-floor window, before breaking into display cases and escaping on motorbikes. The BBC’s Hugh Schofield is outside the museum where the “extraordinary, daring and brazen” robbery…
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Football Manager developer Sports Interactive has signed a multi-year partnership with FIFA. The deal will bring official FIFA competitions to the game, including the FIFA World Cup, FIFA Women’s World Cup and FIFA Club World Cup. This includes the addition of FIFA World Cup 26 in Football Manager 26, including the official kits of all 48 teams (once they’ve been confirmed) as well as official…
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A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and death of nearby stars are an important piece of the puzzle. In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers at UNLV, in collaboration with scientists from the Open University of Israel, for the first time, modeled details about how the timing of planet…
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Whitehall’s ability to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technology risks being hamstrung by the government’s reliance on an unknown amount of legacy IT, according to the output of two separate House of Commons committees this week. The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, which exists to examine the output and policies of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)…
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The Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday for the first time this year, providing some relief to consumers facing high borrowing costs on credit cards and other loans. Still, it can be a tough road ahead for many consumers, regardless of their income, as they strive to make a dent in their debt payments. To break the cycle of debt, experts say, it helps to understand the conduct that…
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A sign is posted in front of a Genentech office on June 12, 2025 in South San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Roche‘s Genentech on Thursday said it will sell its flu pill, Xofluza, directly to certain patients at a discount in a bid to expand access, becoming the latest company to wade into the direct-to-consumer space. It follows similar moves by other…
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