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US: Wall St closes with slight gains as data keeps Fed cut expectations on track
US stocks closed out the trading week with slight gains on Friday (Dec 5) as the latest flurry of economic data kept elevated expectations…
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Business
Oil climbs to 2-week high on Fed rate-cut signals, supply concerns
Oil prices edged up nearly 1 per cent to a two-week high on Friday (Dec 5) on increasing expectations the US Federal Reserve will cut…
Politics
Trump selects new head architect for White House ballroom
The White House has tapped a new architect to lead President Trump's White House ballroom project, after reports that he argued with the…
News
Grand Jury Refuses to Reindict Letitia James
Bondi should try to persuade her headstrong boss that enough is enough. Source link
Business
Singapore Paincare privatisation bid fails as offeror fails to meet conditions by deadline
A privatisation offer for medical services company Singapore Paincare has fallen through, as the offeror, Advance Bridge Healthcare, was…
Politics
Around the world, refugees are shut out of the U.S. by Trump's new policies
When President Trump suspended the refugee program on day one of his current administration, thousands of people around the world who had…
Culture
How “The New Yorker at 100” Got to Netflix
COBB: Well, I’ll ask you the question that I use when I conclude any interview with any subject, which is: Is there anything that we…
Business
A safety report card ranks AI company efforts to protect humanity
Are artificial intelligence companies keeping humanity safe from AI’s potential harms? Don’t bet on it, a new report card says. As AI…
News
Are We Getting Stupider?
For nineteenth-century writers like Gustave Flaubert, the concept of stupidity came to encompass the lazy drivel of cliché and received…
Culture
The Best Films of 2025
This year’s best movies feel plugged in, inextricably connected to forces bigger than the ordinary faces of local and private…
Politics
Building a State of Fear in “Extremist”
On November 16, 2023, Sasha Skochilenko, a thirty-three-year-old artist, poet, and musician, stood in court to give what is known in the…
Politics
Guanyu Xu’s Powerful Photographs of Immigration Limbo
Also: Alvin Ailey’s annual City Center residency, the D.I.Y. virtuoso Jay Som, Alexandra Schwartz’s Shakespeare-movie picks, and more.…
Business
German factory orders jump on 87% surge in big transport items
Demand increased 1.5% from the previous month, which was revised significantly higher to show a 2% gain German factory orders surged in…
News
Singapore, Malaysia to ramp up cross-border taxi quota to 500 per country
Foreign taxis will be allowed to drop off passengers anywhere outside their home country Singapore and Malaysia will gradually increase…
News
Immigration officers arrest Harvard professor who fired BB gun outside synagogue
Homeland Security said Thursday it had made an immigration arrest of a Harvard Law School professor who fired a BB gun outside a synagogue…
Politics
Trump Pumps Up the Gas
The administration is right to abandon Joe Biden’s electric-vehicle mandate. Source link
News
The Composer Making a Hip-Hop Musical About Anne Frank
A few years ago, Andrew Fox was struck by a transcendently bad idea. He would turn the story of Anne Frank into a satirical hip-hop…
Culture
A softer image of AI? This Google-backed film aims to change the narrative
A man mourns the loss of his dead celebrity mom, who unexpectedly appears before him as a hologram in his childhood home, singing and…
Politics
First lady Melania Trump says more children rejoining families amid Russia-Ukraine war
First lady Melania Trump on Thursday said more children from Ukraine have been reunited with their families as part of her effort to…
Business
California hammered as national job cuts jump to a five-year high
Job cuts across the country are the highest they have been in five years, led by layoffs in California and cutbacks in Washington.…
Politics
What Survivor Can Teach Us About the Government
America’s politics now run like a reality show — and the villains keep winning. Source link
Business
Trump’s U-turn on fuel economy rules lifts European carmakers' shares
The Trump administration cast the change, aimed at making it easier for automakers to sell petrol-powered cars Shares of European…