At least 999 people have died from the Ebola outbreak in Congo, according to official data published overnight into Wednesday, a grim toll in what’s already been declared the fastest Ebola outbreak in history that is further complicated as some health workers have…
There’s a hot new sector fueling the stock market this year but you won’t find it on any official market trackers. Portfolio managers are calling it “memi”—a portmanteau of “memory” and “semiconductors” (known as “semis”)— and while it doesn’t have…
Jensen Huang is urging Washington to stop worrying about China’s open-source AI just as an all-out panic has broken out over the highly capable, low-cost models that can increasingly compete with the most advanced products by OpenAI and Anthropic. The…
Apartment hunting has long required looking past flattering camera angles and carefully staged rooms. Now, renters may also have to question whether what they’re seeing is altered by AI. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on July 16 proposed requiring…
Alphabet made history Wednesday with a quarterly profit that stretched into 12 figures for the first time in the search giant’s history—and perhaps for the first time in any company’s history. Alphabet, the parent company of Google, grew its bottom…
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the new actions — which come after previously announced Medicaid funding deferrals in those states — are part of the administration’s strategy to “stop the fraud before it happens” rather than claw back…
In May, President Donald Trump said in an interview he was eager to open the vault at Fort Knox to ensure the U.S. reserves of gold—valued at more than $600 billion—were still there. Trump was doubling down on plans he…
President Donald Trump says Trump Accounts could hoist children out of poverty and give more Americans the chance to benefit from investments in the stock market. But some parents say they’re still waiting for the money to arrive. Trump on Wednesday plans…
Roger Rogoff is the latest in a series of judicially appointed U.S. attorneys to be ousted by the Trump administration from their posts but is believed to be the first of that group to sue over the removal. His action creates a…
For two decades, the U.S. homeownership rate has been treated as a scoreboard of generational progress—even as the topline number has barely moved and hides a widening age-based split beneath it. New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis…