General Motors' century-long reign as the top-selling automaker in the United States faces its sharpest challenge in decades from Toyota, with the sales gap between the two companies narrowing to about 100,000 vehicles through July 2026.…
2026-08-21 · 4 MIN READThe Iran war has consumed roughly half of U.S. prewar stocks of key missile interceptors, including Patriot and Thaad systems, according to a Center for Strategic and International Studies estimate reported by The Wall Street Journal,…
2026-08-21 · 5 MIN READMIDDLETOWN, Ohio — Vice President JD Vance will speak Friday at Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works, the Ohio steel plant where his grandfather James Vance worked for nearly 40 years. He is set to campaign for Republican candidates ahead of…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READEducators in North Charleston, South Carolina, gathered in a high school auditorium ahead of the new school year and watched an artificial intelligence tool generate a world map riddled with misspellings. Instructor Amanda Bickerstaff…
2026-08-21 · 4 MIN READA charter plane carrying eight people crashed Thursday near a remote radar site in western Alaska, a federal official said. Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board's Alaska region chief, said two pilots and six passengers…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READAn eight-person jury in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Thursday awarded $9.25 million to University of Alabama men's basketball player Kai Spears, finding that The New York Times defamed him by reporting he was a passenger in a car involved in a…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READAverage U.S. mortgage rates declined for a second week, but the benchmark 30-year fixed rate remained above its level a year earlier, Freddie Mac said Thursday. The 30-year rate fell to 6.65% from 6.67% last week, while the 15-year fixed…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READSecretary of State Marco Rubio designated U.S. citizen Min Zin as wrongfully detained in China on Thursday, the State Department announced. Zin, the founder and executive director of the Institute for Strategy and Policy – Myanmar and a…
2026-08-20 · 4 MIN READPresident Donald Trump, speaking at the White House alongside cryptocurrency industry leaders this week, said he would welcome data centers in his community, citing the jobs and tax revenue they generate. An Associated Press review found…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READOil futures extended a multi-day rally on August 20, 2026, after President Donald Trump said the United States would impose "unprecedented economic measures" against Iran and warned of consequences for any country that offered Iran…
2026-08-20 · 4 MIN READFederal agents seized electronic devices from former Rep. Eric Swalwell and searched his home as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Wednesday morning that the U.S. government will buy up more bonds, moving to calm a bond market that had been swinging sharply. The intervention came as hiring has slowed, budget deficits remain…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READA possible tornado tore through Atlantic Beach on Long Island's outer barrier on Thursday as heavy rain and high winds swept through the Northeast, splintering a major beach club and leaving broken beach chairs and wood beams littered…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READIsrael’s military announced Wednesday that it had opened its first criminal inquiries into Gaza troop conduct, covering the February 2024 killing of 5-year-old Hind Rajab and her family and the March 2025 killing of 15 Palestinian…
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SpaceX has secured billions of dollars in U.S. government contracts and key FCC waivers during the Trump administration. More than $8 billion of the contract value is tied to the Golden Dome missile-tracking program, the Wall Street…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READThe Bureau of Land Management has proposed removing a 10-mile drilling-free buffer around Chaco Culture National Historical Park in north-western New Mexico, according to The Guardian. The proposal would open 336,400 surrounding acres to…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READHong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison filed international arbitration against Panama on Thursday, seeking more than $1.5 billion in damages for the "destruction" of its investments in two ports at either end of the Panama Canal. The company…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READU.S. stocks ended lower on Thursday: the S&P 500 -0.9%, the Dow -1.3%, the Nasdaq -1.0%, the Russell 2000 -1.3%. The 10-year Treasury yield stood at 4.65%.
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READFour of the five members of the Avenal, California city council remain in office more than four months after voters recalled them in April, with the recalled officials continuing to hold meetings and conduct city business while pursuing…
2026-08-20 · 5 MIN READU.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Juan Pablo Segura on Thursday called on Cuba to release Cuban rapper Maykel 'Osorbo' Castillo Pérez, who turned 43 while serving a nine-year sentence international…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READA Gallup survey of U.S. adults found 54% reported drinking alcohol, matching the record low from 2025 and the lowest share since Gallup began tracking the question in 1939. The poll's director characterized the shift as a 'sustained…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READPublicSquare, the online marketplace launched as a MAGA alternative to Amazon with Donald Trump Jr. as a board member and early investor, has accumulated nearly $160 million in losses since its 2023 NYSE listing, according to a Wall Street…
2026-08-20 · 4 MIN READWalmart reported its weakest sales growth in six years on Thursday, according to the Wall Street Journal's What's News newsletter. The retailer, described by the Journal as America's largest, posted what the newsletter characterized as…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READMinnesota health officials warned consumers on August 20 against eating alfalfa sprouts produced by Everything Sprouts of Minnesota under the Calco and Everything Sprouts brands, citing a two-state outbreak. The Minnesota officials have…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READAbbott Laboratories has agreed to pay $670 million to resolve litigation over its specialty formulas for premature infants, settling the Gill lawsuit and roughly 2,000 related claims. The bulk of the settlement covers a 2024 Missouri jury…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READThe Guardian identified 21-year-old recent college graduate Rahil Prakash as the person behind Median Strategies, an anonymous website that published fabricated polls in Wisconsin, Nevada and California. The site abruptly shut down and…
2026-08-20 · 4 MIN READChampagne producers began their earliest recorded grape harvest on August 18 as extreme heat and drought accelerated ripening, The Associated Press reported. Harvest teams started work at 6:30 a.m. in Hautvillers, among vines that UNESCO…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READJustice Department investigators have sought in recent weeks to interview law enforcement officials connected to the FBI's 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago, multiple people familiar with the matter said Thursday. The interview requests are part…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READJosé Mejía Hernandez, 45, was hospitalized with a brain injury and severe bruising after being arrested by ICE agents in Arlington, Virginia on August 11, according to medical records and his lawyers. The Department of Homeland Security…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal on August 20 published a video interview with Sony Chief Executive Hiroki Totoki, conducted by Tokyo bureau chief Jason Douglas. The discussion covers PlayStation, Spider-Man, artificial intelligence and where the…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump is set to appear Thursday on the radio program of his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, who later called Trump a "Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain" and testified against him in court and before Congress. Cohen…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READCalifornia-based startups have raised approximately $366 billion in venture capital since the start of 2026, more than three times the combined total of the other 49 U.S. states, according to data provider PitchBook. The record-shattering…
2026-08-20 · 4 MIN READU.S. Ambassador to Argentina Peter Lamelas did not attend an August 20 Chamber of Deputies committee hearing where lawmakers sought testimony on allegations that embassy officials pressured an Argentine cooperative to abandon its…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Army's 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion at Fort Stewart, Georgia, is offering soldiers four extra days off around the Nov. 19 release of Grand Theft Auto VI if they reenlist, an installation spokesperson said. A career counselor…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READThe Women's Sports Foundation called on philanthropists to direct giving toward nonrevenue college sports, warning that Olympic-sport programs like women's gymnastics and men's tennis risk being strained by the financial pressures…
2026-08-20 · 4 MIN READOmaha Public Schools Superintendent Matthew Ray requested Tuesday that police officers assigned to district schools stop using electric shock gloves, a program he said he had only learned about the previous week.
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READUniversity of Maryland student athletes receiving NIL compensation began mentoring high school students through the Youth Leadership Foundation, a local nonprofit, in 2021, according to Alex Daniels of The Chronicle of Philanthropy. At…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 431 salmonella infections across 32 states on Wednesday, with the agency identifying jalapeño peppers distributed by Coast Citrus Distributors as the likely source of the outbreak.…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READUniversity of Louisville athletic director Josh Heird said there is no "silver bullet" that will help his department's current revenue race. This spring, the university launched Cardinal Ventures, a nonprofit designed to help the athletic…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Manuel Ernesto Hernandez-Umana, the pilot of a speedboat that capsized during a tour around the Statue of Liberty on Aug. 8, killing a 5-month-old girl and her 27-year-old mother, the…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READThe United States' gross federal debt has reached approximately $40 trillion, up from roughly $35 trillion when President Donald Trump took office less than two years ago, according to Guardian economics columnist Eduardo Porter.
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READAlibaba Group reported Thursday that revenue from its AI cloud and compute services grew 45% to 48.4 billion yuan ($7.2 billion) in the April-June quarter. The Hong Kong- and U.S.-listed company said quarterly profit fell 75% from a year…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READMeta is defending itself in a California federal court against allegations from four states that the company deliberately designed features on Instagram and Facebook to get children hooked. The states are seeking billions of dollars in…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READTenants across multiple U.S. cities are facing eviction over add-on utility fees — charges that can amount to hundreds of dollars a month and that many tenants did not know they owed when they signed their leases. A Guardian investigation…
2026-08-20 · 4 MIN READAn analysis by The Associated Press and Reporter Brasil of Brazilian mining permits through June found that 42% of Brazil's 2,727 rare earth exploration applications came from foreign-backed mining firms, with 11 of the top 20 applicants…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READLongmont, Colorado residents thought they had won when their city council let a contract with Flock Safety lapse in December, ending automated license plate readers on city streets. Within months, lawmakers voted unanimously to approve…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READWalmart reported a 2.6% rise in U.S. comparable sales for its second quarter ended July 31, the smallest quarterly comparable-sales gain in years and below analyst estimates of 3.8%, according to FactSet. The retailer raised its full-year…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READMerck and Moderna reported this week that their personalized mRNA vaccine, given alongside the immunotherapy drug Keytruda, extended the time high-risk melanoma patients remained cancer-free after surgery in a phase 3 clinical trial. The…
2026-08-20 · 4 MIN READA growing number of states are directing tax dollars to college athletic programs as universities face mounting costs from paying athletes. The AP identified four states — North Carolina, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Louisiana — that have…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READThe Democratic National Committee on Thursday narrowed the list of potential host cities for its 2028 presidential convention to Boston, Denver and Philadelphia, eliminating Atlanta and Chicago from consideration. DNC Chairman Ken Martin…
2026-08-20 · 4 MIN READThe U.S. gross national debt crossed $40 trillion for the first time, the Treasury Department reported on Wednesday, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stepping in to manage bond markets rattled by rising yields, according to The Wall…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READThe Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education projects that U.S. college enrollments will fall 13% by 2041 as the pipeline of 18-year-olds shrinks, with declines already underway in parts of the Midwest and Northeast. The forecast…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READA coalition of 12 privacy and civil rights organizations filed a consumer complaint Wednesday asking Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown to investigate seven data brokers for allegedly collecting and selling Marylanders' geolocation…
2026-08-20 · 6 MIN READU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement coordinated with Iranian officials to deport more than 100 Iranian nationals from the United States to Iran on three immigration flights in September 2025, December 2025, and January 2026, according…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READHONG KONG — Asian shares advanced Thursday, tracking Wall Street gains, with South Korea's benchmark Kospi jumping more than 6%. U.S. futures edged higher after the U.S. Treasury Department said it would at least double planned purchases…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READJapan's trade deficit extended to a third straight month in July, totaling 634.5 billion yen ($4 billion), as imports and exports both set records, the Finance Ministry said in a preliminary report Thursday, Aug. 20. Imports surged 27.8%…
2026-08-20 · 4 MIN READA Pennsylvania State Police Bell 407 helicopter and a Cessna 150 collided in midair Wednesday evening near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Federal Aviation Administration reported. The crash occurred about 110 miles (170 kilometers) northwest…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READHawaii officials are courting engineers and startup founders in an effort to diversify an economy that has remained heavily dependent on a tourism industry whose inflation-adjusted dollars peaked more than two decades ago, The Wall Street…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READFive invited news reporters and two members of the military were briefly detained at gunpoint by security officers at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday, after guards mistook the group for gate crashers ahead of an…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READDigital tools adopted during the coronavirus pandemic continue to track U.S. workers' locations, productivity, and communications from home, according to an Associated Press report by journalist Cathy Bussewitz. Wilneida Negrón, director…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READFour Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, asked Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh in a Wednesday letter to publicly disclose his conversations with President Trump or to amend his released appointment calendars. The…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READMassachusetts House and Senate negotiators are working through which housing measures will end up in the state's final economic development bill, with Gov. Maura Healey's office pursuing a goal of building 222,000 new homes by 2035 to meet…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READThe US Treasury announced Wednesday it would double its bond buyback operations to at least $4 billion, sending long-term borrowing costs lower after the 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest level in nearly 20 years. The 30-year yield…
2026-08-19 · 4 MIN READThe White House released a report titled "The Great Transhipment Scam" and unveiled an AI-powered border scanning tool intended to identify Chinese goods rerouted through Mexico, Vietnam, and other third countries, according to a Guardian…
2026-08-19 · 7 MIN READThe Wall Street Journal reports a global bond selloff is raising borrowing costs for governments, businesses and families, with little relief in sight. The newspaper ties the selloff to the continuing U.S.-Iran war, inflation, and an…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READA Cole County circuit judge ruled Wednesday that Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins properly blocked a constitutional amendment that would have shielded laws and constitutional amendments approved through Missouri's citizen…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READThe Guardian and other news outlets have reported that President Donald Trump amassed $2.2bn in revenues during 2025, including at least $1.4bn from cryptocurrency ventures. New York Times investigative reporter Eric Lipton told NPR that…
2026-08-19 · 5 MIN READLawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty asked U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper for an earlier ruling in the Kennedy Center facade case, according to a status report filed late Tuesday. In the same filing, the Kennedy Center told the court it…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READOil prices rose for a fourth consecutive session on Tuesday, with Brent crude trading above $91 a barrel as talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz stalled and after Iran fired two ballistic missiles toward the strait and struck a bulk…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READKenya's state-owned electricity producer KenGen has announced plans to more than triple the country's long-term renewable energy capacity target to 5,500 megawatts from about 1,500 megawatts currently, with the expansion to include 2,000…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READState Rep. Angie Nixon, a Democratic socialist, defeated retired Lt. Col. Alex Vindman in Florida's special Senate Democratic primary on Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported. Nixon campaigned on Medicare for All and a $25-an-hour…
2026-08-19 · 4 MIN READNine federal firefighters have told the Guardian that the US Forest Service is operating well below the staffing levels needed to respond to the current wildfire season, contradicting public statements from the agency's chief that the…
2026-08-19 · 5 MIN READThe California Energy Commission this week unanimously approved new regulations requiring replacement tires to meet energy efficiency standards, making California the first state in the nation to impose such rules. The first phase takes…
2026-08-19 · 4 MIN READPresident Donald Trump played White House tour guide on Wednesday, showing reporters the helipad under construction on the South Lawn, autographing a piece of the granite and promoting the ballroom project he is rushing to complete despite…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READLiberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 foreigners deported from the United States over the next year, Information Minister Jerolinmek Piah said, describing the arrangement as "entirely humanitarian." An initial group of 20 deportees is…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READSen. Jon Ossoff's campaign speech remark this week about Natalie Harp, President Donald Trump's executive assistant, prompted a sharp White House response and drew public attention to the 35-year-old, according to The Guardian. The Georgia…
2026-08-19 · 4 MIN READPresident Trump has selected White House health aide Dr. Heidi Overton as his nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration, according to people familiar with the matter. Overton requires Senate confirmation before the Senate health…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READU.S. stocks ended higher on Wednesday: the S&P 500 +0.2%, the Dow +0.2%, the Nasdaq +0.2%, the Russell 2000 +0.5%. The 10-year Treasury yield stood at 4.65%.
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READMax D. Lederer Jr. announced Tuesday he will retire as publisher of Stars and Stripes at the end of September, ending a decades-long career at the military newspaper, the Associated Press reported. In a memo to staff obtained by the AP,…
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