USA Rare Earth, a Trump administration-backed miner and manufacturer, is expanding into a larger global player through a nearly $3 billion acquisition of the Serra Verde Group, owner of Brazil’s Pela Ema rare earths mine and processing plant. The April…
Two Southwest Airlines planes had to take evasive action to avoid colliding Saturday in Nashville after an air traffic controller directed one pilot to turn into the path of the other plane. Last year, an American Airlines jet collided with an Army…
When Ford CEO Jim Farley wanted to test out the competition, he looked not at Tesla but at China. Now he’s looking for ways the legacy carmaker can mimic its Chinese counterparts. In 2024, Farley spent six months driving the…
There’s angst in the air on college campuses and in offices across the country. Successive warnings on AI’s looming threat to automate swaths of entry-level white-collar work have put workers in a precarious position. And several large-scale layoffs this year…
FBI Director Kash Patel sued The Atlantic magazine for $250 million on Monday, claiming an article that talked about his alleged excessive drinking was false and a “malicious hit piece.” The Atlantic, in response, said it stood by its reporting…
Subscribers of streaming services certainly are sick and tired of price hikes, yet users often have little recourse other than simply canceling their accounts. But for users in Italy, they may soon receive some monetary compensation for nearly a decade’s…
About 1,000 animal welfare activists who tried to gain entry Saturday to a beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin were turned back by police who fired rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd and arrested the group’s leader.…
At 10 a.m. tomorrow morning, Kevin Warsh’s public campaign to lead the Federal Reserve begins. So far, markets, policymakers, and economists have only been able to speculate as to Warsh’s outlook and approach. But this week, for the first time…
The promise of AI seems almost unlimited. Organizations worldwide are expanding access, investing heavily, and launching pilots at speed. Despite this optimism, the reality is more complex: the hardest work is moving AI pilots into production and measuring success beyond…
Global markets were mixed this morning as investors woke up to the news that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, conflict between the U.S. and Iran continues to involve live fire, and Iranian officials declined to confirm whether they would…