Shares of Nvidia, Meta Platforms and other high-flying tech shares plunged, pulling the Nasdaq down 2.8%, for its worst day in more than a year. The S&P 500 fell 1.4% and the Dow industrials rose 0.6%.
Two top Federal Reserve officials suggested that an interest-rate cut could be warranted in the coming months if a recent inflation slowdown continues.
HSBC named Georges Elhedery as chief executive officer, turning to an insider to navigate the lender’s delicate position between China and the West.
EssilorLuxottica agreed to buy streetwear brand Supreme from VF for $1.5 billion, looking beyond eyewear to reach new customers.
Roche said a new weight-loss pill under development achieved positive results in an early-stage clinical trial, bolstering the company’s efforts to enter the obesity market.
ASML posted orders above analysts’ expectations as chip makers rush to get their hands on key production equipment to meet booming demand for artificial intelligence.
Deere & Co. said it would dial back some of its diversity initiatives after it was targeted by a conservative activist, becoming the second agricultural company in recent weeks to bow to such criticism.
JD Vance took the stage at the Republican National Convention to deliver a heavy dose of populism and promotion of Donald Trump as he made his debut as the vice-presidential nominee and likely heir-apparent as leader of the party.
The Democratic coalition backing Biden showed new signs of cracking as top congressional leaders successfully pushed to delay a procedural vote on the president’s nomination and California Rep. Adam Schiff called for Biden to bow out of the race.
Wildfires are erupting again in western Canada during a suffocating heat wave in the province of Alberta, forcing evacuations and causing one of Canada’s largest oil companies to curb production.
Cyanide poisoning was identified as the cause of death of six people in a hotel in Bangkok and authorities were investigating the event as an apparent murder-suicide.
Police were suspicious of Trump’s attacker more than an hour before he shot and wounded the former president, according to private law-enforcement briefings provided to House and Senate lawmakers.
Some in the Republican Party wanted to move on after his 2020 loss. The former president wouldn’t let that happen.
America’s type of democracy is special in that it is achieved via the checks and balances imposed on the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government.
Oli and the bourgeois Nepali Congress leader Sher Bahadur Deuba have agreed on a “power-sharing” deal to amend the country’s constitution.
The corporate media treats the Republican National Convention, an unprecedented display of anti-immigrant bigotry, religious mania, and nationalistic frenzy, as though it were an ordinary political event.
CBS News is fact checking statements made by GOP speakers on the third night of the 2024 RNC. Vice presidential nominee JD Vance is slated to address the RNC.
Epigenetic control of gene expression can switch on genes that push cell division into overdrive independently of genetic faults.
The GOP’s isolation wing prevails.
The big event at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday was the final speech of the night from Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance and he did not disappoint.
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"I request @SPMurshidabad @ DGP @WBPolice to look into the matter urgently and if there is a shred of evidence corroborating the incident, then appropriate action is needed to be taken against such anti-national elements for unfurling and waving the flag of a foreign country on Indian soil," Adhikari posted.