Tear gas is released into a crowd of protesters during clashes with Capitol police at a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, January 6, 2021. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters The family of Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt is suing
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In this article NYT Cofounder and executive chair of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian. Jerod Harris | Getty Images Reddit and global news websites including the FT, New York Times and Bloomberg are experiencing an outage, with some users unable to access the sites. Some visitors to the websites in both the U.K. and U.S. received the
A global shortage of semiconductors will continue to strain markets for months to come, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Monday. “For the next year or so, this will be a daily challenge,” Raimondo said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” The scarcity of chips, which are required for an ever-growing variety of products, has already taken a
In this article NWSA Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer at Google LLC, speaks during the Google Cloud Next ’19 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images France’s competition watchdog has fined Google 220 million euros ($268 million) for abusing its market power in the
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference, after attending the G7 finance ministers meeting, at Winfield House in London, Britain June 5, 2021. Justin Tallis | Rueters U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that President Joe Biden‘s $4 trillion spending proposal would be positive for the country, even if it leads to
Medical researchers say within a few years major breakthroughs in blood testing technology that use immune system response and genetic analysis to identify disease quickly and cost-effectively will be on the market. picture alliance | picture alliance | Getty Images One morning last May, Tayah Fernandes’s mother Shannon realized her four-year-old daughter was seriously unwell,
In this article LGBT Just in time for Pride Month, Wall Street has its first LGBTQ-focused ETF. ProcureAM, in partnership with LGBTQ Loyalty Holdings, launched the new LGBTQ100 ESG ETF this week. The first-of-its-kind fund uses LGBTQ community data to identify the top 100 companies that most align with the group’s environmental, social, and corporate
Cruise Origin driverless shuttle Cruise Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company that’s majority owned by General Motors, may soon be giving rides in driverless test vehicles to passengers in California. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) said on Friday that Cruise is authorized to give passengers rides in prototype robotaxis. In a public statement, the CPUC
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrive to speak to police gathered at Fraternal Order of Police lodge during a campaign event in Statesville, North Carolina, U.S., August 18, 2016. Carlo Allegri | Reuters A federal judge on Friday appointed a special watchdog to review material recently seized from
In this article INTC Electric vehicle being driven through Arizona desert The biggest semiconductor manufacturers in the world are quickly trying to build new factories as the global chip crisis continues to wreak havoc on a plethora of industries. U.S. semiconductor giant Intel announced in March that it plans to spend $20 billion on two
US President Joe Biden speaks during a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 1, 2021. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Thursday expanded restrictions on American investments in certain Chinese companies with alleged ties to the
U.S. bonds yields were mixed on Thursday morning as investors looked ahead to a upcoming economic data this week. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose 10 points to 1.5926% by around 2 a.m. ET. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond dipped 11 basis points to 2.2774%. Yields move inversely to prices. Treasurys Investors are monitoring
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller makes a statement on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election at the Justice Department in Washington, U.S., May 29, 2019. Jim Bourg | Reuters The notoriously tight-lipped former special counsel Robert Mueller will be opening up about his Russia probe to law school students in
Bonds yields were nearly flat in premarket trading on Wednesday, as investors digested last week’s inflation data and look ahead to Friday’s jobs report. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note ticked slightly lower to 1.606% in premarket trading, largely flat on Tuesday’s close, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was also
Karen McDougal, Playboy Playmate of the Year 1998. Getty Images The Federal Election Commission will let former President Donald Trump avoid punishment for directing hush money payments to his alleged ex-mistress Karen McDougal — but the publisher of The National Enquirer agreed to pay more than $187,500 for its role in the scandal, records showed
China is set to become a major player in the “highly lucrative” satellite navigation market, as it seeks to compete with the U.S. government-owned Global Positioning System (GPS), an analyst said Monday. But China’s homegrown Beidou system is not likely to overtake the GPS system for now, said Craig Singleton, adjunct fellow at the hawkish
Kathryn Maloney | Moment | Getty Images The Supreme Court is expected to release a decision in the coming days that could provide the first glimpses of how its 6-3 conservative majority will shape the future of LGBT rights. The case, known as Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, No. 19-123, is a fight over a
Amazon Fire HD 10 Plus tablet Todd Haselton | CNBC I’ve been testing Amazon’s new Fire HD 10 Plus tablet for the past several days. It started shipping to customers earlier this week and starts at $179.99, a little more than half the price of the entry-level iPad. The Fire HD 10 Plus is Amazon’s