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U.S. economic growth slowed a bit more than expected in the final three months of 2024, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Gross domestic product, a measure of all the goods and services produced across the sprawling U.S. economy during the period, showed that the economy accelerated at a 2.3% annualized pace in the fourth quarter….
A screen grab captured from a video shows a regional plane collided in midair with a military helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. United States on Jan. 29, 2025. Kennedy Center Cam | Anadolu | Getty Images The midair collision of a military helicopter and an American Airlines regional jetliner on…
A view of emergency response looking from Arlington, Va., south of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, across the Potomac River toward the District of Columbia, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. Alex Brandon | AP An American Airlines regional jet with 64 people aboard collided with a military helicopter near Washington D.C.’s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison (R), and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (2nd-R), speaks during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25…
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives for the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said it’s too early to tell what impact DeepSeek’s breakthrough AI model will have on his company and the broader…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Cheney Orr | Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta said Wednesday it would pay $25 million to settle a four-year-old lawsuit from President Donald Trump over the social media company’s decision to suspend Trump’s accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Meta, the parent company…
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, arrives for the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, July 9, 2024. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Microsoft shares tumbled as much as 5% in extended trading Wednesday after the software company issued fiscal second-quarter results that included…
Tesla reported earnings and revenue for the fourth quarter that trailed analysts’ estimates. The stock initially sank in extended trading before rebounding. Here’s how the company did vs. estimates from LSEG: Earnings per share: 73 cents, adjusted, vs 76 cents expected Revenue: $25.71 billion vs $27.26 billion expected Tesla’s revenue increased just 2% from $25.17 billion a…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday he has not spoken to President Donald Trump since the newly inaugurated president told business leaders he would demand the central bank lower interest rates. Speaking after the Fed’s decision to hold interest rates steady, Powell said he has had “no contact” with the president since Trump’s remarks…
The Federal Reserve held its key interest rate in check Wednesday, reversing a recent trend of easing policy as it examines what is likely to be a bumpy political and economic landscape ahead. In a widely anticipated move, the central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee left unchanged its overnight borrowing rate in a range between…