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STI rises 0.4% after Fed pause
Across the broader market, gainers edge out decliners 289 to 288 after 1.6 billion securities worth S$2 billion change hands The Straits…
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Business
Toyota retains top auto crown in 2025 with record sales
Toyota Motor sold a record 11.3 million vehicles globally in 2025, the company said on Thursday, retaining its crown as the world’s…
News
Judge blocks DHS from arresting, detaining refugees in Minnesota
A federal judge on Wednesday shut down a new Homeland Security policy that arrested and detained refugees as part of a review of their…
Business
ServiceNow strong results overshadowed by AI disruption fear
Like its peers, the company has worked to weave generative AI features through its tools and charge more for them ServiceNow gave a sales…
Politics
Hubris Is Undoing Trump’s Second Term
Trump has overestimated what he could achieve and underestimated the voters, allies, and legal grounding needed to make his…
News
Till Lauer’s “Targeted”
For the cover of the February 9, 2026, issue, the artist Till Lauer evokes the recent killings of civilians by ICE agents in Minneapolis,…
News
The President with No Shortage of Half-Baked Ideas
© 2026 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as…
Politics
The Case for Prudence over Principle, Then and Now
Edmund Burke’s spurned advice to Parliament in 1775 has found new relevance in Minneapolis. Source link
News
How to Figure Out Your Life
The English writer Oliver Burkeman’s “Meditations for Mortals” introduces itself as a kind of handbook on how to cultivate more joy by…
Politics
Nicki Minaj, JPMorganChase, Bank of America pledge cash to support 'Trump Accounts'
An all-star lineup of celebrities, CEOs and other luminaries joined President Trump on Wednesday to promote so-called Trump Accounts, with…
Business
S&P 500 crosses 7,000 ahead of Fed decision, Big Tech earnings
The S&P 500 opened at 7,000 mark on Wednesday (Jan 28), while the Nasdaq inched towards a record high, fuelled by a gain in chip stocks…
Politics
On Immigration, Let’s Just Follow the Constitution
Both sides’ tactics and threats on immigration are hurting America’s constitutional balance. Source link
News
The Brilliance and the Badness of “The Sun Also Rises”
The second sentence is “Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.” Even to my…
News
Pinterest to cut up to 15% of its workforce as focus on AI intensifies
Pinterest said Tuesday it’s planning to slash up to 15% of its workforce. The San Francisco-based image-sharing platform used for…
News
The Forecast Wars on Weather Twitter
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. What you expected from this past weekend’s…
Business
OCBC taps Citi to roll out securities lending for clients, following Maybank’s earlier move
This covers retail and corporate customers of OCBC Securities and clients of Bank of Singapore OCBC has rolled out a securities lending…
News
DOJ says it will finish review of Epstein files 'in the near term'
The Justice Department said it has now conducted a page-by-page review of "millions" of pages of documents from its files related to…
News
The Annual Census Update Shows a Redder America
Declining net migration and a continuing shift to the red states is redrawing America’s political map. Source link
Politics
Schumer balks at Trump's pullback in Minneapolis, government shutdown all but inevitable this week
The Senate returned to Washington Tuesday with just a few days to avert a partial government shutdown and an intractable impasse over…
News
Minnesota’s Campaign for Interposition and Nullification
More than 200 years after the Kentucky Resolutions, a version of nullification still lives. Source link
News
Is social media harmful for kids? Meta and YouTube face trial after TikTok settles suit
TikTok has agreed to settle the first in a series of closely-watched product liability cases, bowing out on the eve of a landmark trial…
Business
UPS to cut another 30,000 jobs as it doubles down on turnaround
United Parcel Service on Tuesday (Jan 27) said it would cut up to 30,000 operational roles in 2026, adding to last year’s job reductions…
Business
Hong Leong Asia proposes spinning off Guangxi Yuchai Marine and GenSet Power on HKEX
But the group cautions that the listing is still subject to requisite approvals from the relevant regulatory authorities Hong Leong Asia…
News
In “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” Character Development Returns to Westeros
“A new ‘Game of Thrones’ series!” you might be thinking. “Time to unroll my map of Westeros.” Well, unroll away—but “A Knight of the Seven…