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U.S. Stocks hit record highs this week even as the Iran war continued, defying expectations that a Middle East conflict would drag markets lower. The S&P … Read more
Twenty-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama was charged with attempted arson and attempted murder after hurling a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home on April … Read more
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Saturday aimed at accelerating research and potential therapeutic access to psychedelic drugs like ibogaine and psilocybin, marking a … Read more
The S&P 500’s cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings (CAPE) ratio reached 36 in April 2026, its second-highest level in history and 18% below the record 44 set during … Read more
A federal judge in Sacramento has blocked Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion merger with Tegna Inc., halting integration of the two television station giants while an … Read more
President Trump is preparing to sign an executive order that would expand federal research into ibogaine, a psychedelic drug currently classified as having no medical use … Read more
Ford is recalling 1.4 million F-150 pickup trucks in the United States after federal regulators linked a transmission glitch to two injuries and one crash. The … Read more
Canada Post has begun talks with 13 communities to convert about 136,000 addresses from door-to-door delivery to community mailboxes, marking the first phase of a five-year … Read more
A UPS cargo plane aborted its landing at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport after air traffic controllers detected another aircraft moving past a hold-short line on … Read more
U.S. Stocks jumped on Friday after Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz open for commercial shipping following a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, with the Dow … Read more
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to discuss the national security implications of a new AI model … Read more
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday as its most capable generally available AI model, while acknowledging it falls short of the unreleased Claude Mythos Preview, … Read more