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FAA urges pilots to exercise caution over eastern Pacific, citing ‘military activities’ and possible satellite navigation interference

The warning was issued in a series of Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) issued by the FAA.

yesterday 7

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The Associated Press

Trump launches trade war against NATO after European countries sent troops to Greenland amid his takeover plan

"On top of everything else, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland have journeyed to Greenland,...

yesterday 5

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Jason Ma

Gen Z’s pursuit of the #RichTok lifestyle sends them to social media for investing advice

More than half of Gen Zers say social media convinced them to enter the stock market, according to a survey of 300,000 people, carried out over...

yesterday 20

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Jacqueline Munis

Making billionaires illegal by taxing their wealth wouldn’t even fund the government for a year, budget expert says

"What people don't realize," Penn Wharton Budget Model director Kent Smetters told Fortune, is there's "just not as much money there as people think."

yesterday 6

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Nick Lichtenberg

The weak business case for Trump acquiring Greenland: a $1 trillion price tag and few returns for two decades

An annexation of Greenland would be the largest geographic acquisition in U.S. history—but financial rewards would be a long time coming.

yesterday 7

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Jordan Blum

Justice Department investigates Minnesota’s Walz and Frey, who call it a bullying tactic meant to threaten political opposition

“Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system and threatening...

yesterday 6

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Alanna Durkin Richer

Judge rules feds in Minneapolis immigration raids can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters, including observers and people in cars

Safely following agents “at an appropriate distance does not, by itself, create reasonable suspicion to justify a vehicle stop,” the ruling said.

yesterday 6

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Audrey Mcavoy

Gen Zers and millennials go analog with letter writing, typewriter clubs and calligraphy to take a break from screen time

“When we are able to touch or see something, we are more connected to it naturally. These analog activities are a representation of that.”

yesterday 4

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Cheyanne Mumphrey

Danish general doesn’t expect U.S. attack and says recent deployment of European troops to Greenland is for ‘working together with allies’

“I will not go into the political part, but I will say that I would never expect a NATO country to attack another NATO country.”

yesterday 4

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Emma Burrows

Fortune 500 exec: College grads aren’t ready for today’s jobs

There's a missing link between college and career.

yesterday 4

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Mary Moreland

When AI decides how shareholders vote, boards need to rethink governance

Proxy advisors are moving away from one-size-fits-all recommendations, large investors are building internal capabilities, and now AI is on the scene.

yesterday 5

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Jane Sadowsky

Logan Paul tells Gen Z they can turn any passion into a career—he’s turned Pokémon, YouTube, and wrestling into an empire worth millions

The YouTuber-turned-entrepreneur says Gen Z has more opportunity than it thinks—if young people stop critiquing and start building.

yesterday 9

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Preston Fore

Like DoorDash and Google’s CEOs, $7.6 billion Informatica boss is a McKinsey alum—he says being ‘pushed around’ by smart consultants helped him grow

The CEO of Informatica, Amit Walia, says he encountered imposter syndrome and critiques at the consulting giant. And McKinsey has proved itself as...

yesterday 9

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Emma Burleigh

Warren Buffett’s son says he didn’t know his dad was a billionaire until he was in his 20s—and his friends were just as surprised

“Our friends were as surprised as I was,” Peter Buffett said.

yesterday 8

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Sydney Lake

Stablecoins will shake up the $900 billion remittance market—setting up a fight between crypto firms and legacy brands like Western Union

There is huge room for disruption in a money transfer industry where fees are often as high as 6%.

yesterday 9

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Carlos Garcia

Iran’s supreme leader concedes thousands killed in unrest

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday said “several thousand people” died in this month’s anti-government demonstrations.

yesterday 1

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Arsalan Shahla

Just when Wall Street and Corporate America were looking forward to a year without trade fears, the ‘Tariff King’ strikes again

Trump announced tariffs on eight NATO allies and said earlier in the week that countries that do business with Iran would be hit with a 25% duty.

yesterday 1

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Jason Ma

Trump blasts Dimon, threatens to sue JPMorgan over debanking

Trump responded to a Wall Street Journal story that said Trump offered Dimon the role of Federal Reserve chief several months ago in a way that...

yesterday 1

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Josh Wingrove

EU set to halt U.S. trade deal over Trump’s latest tariff threat

“The EPP is in favor of the EU-US trade deal, but given Donald Trump’s threats regarding Greenland, approval is not possible at this stage.”

yesterday 1

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Richard Bravo

When Jamie Dimon poached a top Berkshire exec, he called Warren Buffett, who said ‘If he’s going anywhere, at least he’s going to you’

Former Geico CEO Todd Combs had been at Berkshire since 2010.

previous day 20

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Ford CEO Jim Farley says the White House will ‘always answer the phone,’ but needs Trump to do more to curtail China’s threat to America’s autos

President Donald Trump paid a visit to Ford’s Michigan factory this week to spotlight U.S. manufacturing.

previous day 10

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Sasha Rogelberg

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary warns job seekers he’ll throw your resume ‘straight in the garbage’ if you have bad WiFi

Time is money, according to the multimillionaire Shark Tank star, and he’s warning that the grace period for video call glitches to be acceptable...

previous day 10

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Preston Fore

As Trump throws a bone to Gen Z on student debt, watchdog calls it an ‘incoherent political giveaway,’ straight out of Biden’s playbook

Student-debt collections are being halted again, as they have for over half a decade now.

previous day 10

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Nick Lichtenberg

Jensen Huang tells Stanford students their high expectations may make it hard for them to succeed: ‘I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering’

Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang thinks privileged Gen Z grads should lower their expectations if they want success.

previous day 10

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Orianna Rosa Royle

Why a proposed 10% cap on credit card interest is rattling big banks

The proposal was a major topic this week during earnings calls.

previous day 10

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Sheryl Estrada

Meet the self-made billionaire who bought a nearly bankrupt company off Warren Buffett for $1,000 and turned it into a $98 billion giant

Jeffrey Sprecher, the founder and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, bought the near-bankrupt company from Warren Buffett. He’s now worth $1.3...

previous day 10

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Emma Burleigh

Wave of defections from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s $12 billion startup Thinking Machines shows cutthroat struggle for AI talent

Thinking Machines has lost three members of its founding team to OpenAI, while another cofounder left for Meta and more employees are reportedly...

previous day 20

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Jeremy Kahn

China’s population crash is so bad that it’s started taxing condoms and birth control pills

For a couple of decades the country’s one-child policy pushed fertility rates down. It worked, going from over seven in the early 1960s to 1.5 in...

previous day 50

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Dudley L. Poston

‘Star Wars’ gets new chief with Kathleen Kennedy ending lucrative, restless 13 years in rein, Dave Filoni taking over

Fans were so irate recently about a recently revealed canceled Star Wars movie that a plane was flown over Disney’s Burbank studios with a banner.

previous day 10

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Jake Coyle

Exclusive: Mytra raises $120 million Series C to scale supply chain robotics amid industry boom

Mytra has raised a $120 million Series C, led by Avenir Growth, the company exclusively told Fortune.

previous day 5

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Allie Garfinkle

Anthony Scaramucci thinks Trump’s ‘hard-left’ move to cap credit-card fees is because he’s ‘texting back and forth with Mayor Mamdani’

The "mooch" says it really shows a pivot to "full nihilism." His podcast guest, longtime GOP strategist Stuart Stevens, called it "darkly hysterical."

previous day 2

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Nick Lichtenberg

‘We are Jerome Powell’: Gen Z finds an unlikely meme hero in the Fed chair via AI songs and fan edits

After refusing to bend to political pressure, Fed chair Jerome Powell is now the latest heartthrob. 

previous day 3

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Eva Roytburg

Vail Resorts is having a very dry year: It reported a record‑low snowpack, forcing the company to lower its 2026 earnings outlook

Vail Resorts is having a very dry year: It reported a record‑low snowpack, forcing the company to lower its 2026 earnings outlook.

previous day 4

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Matty Merritt

Miami-Indiana championship game has fans paying $30,000 a seat

President Donald Trump is expected to be among the nearly 65,000 in attendance.

previous day 4

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Anna J. Kaiser

The U.S. has absorbed 1 million Venezuelans over the past decade. That’s much more recent than most immigrants

More than half of Venezuelan immigrants report arriving in the U.S. in the past five years, coinciding with the highly disputed 2018 Venezuelan...

previous day 4

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Matt Brooks

‘Absolutely, positively no chance, no way, no how, for any reason’: Dimon says he’d never run the Fed but ‘would take the call’ to lead Treasury

The JPMorgan Chase CEO said he’s not willing to give up being his own boss.

previous day 4

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Jacqueline Munis

This CEO says wealthy families pay him $750k to get their kids into Ivy League schools, starting in 5th grade. They’re looking at ‘a centuries-long time horizon’

Elite families are still hedging their bets on elite universities despite AI fears, viewing college as a long-term investment in family wealth.

previous day 4

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Jake Angelo

Adaptability is the new job security and 4 more future AI trends from EY’s global chief innovation officer

As we begin a new year, there are five AI trends shaping C-suite conversations. Each one represents enormous opportunities and challenges.

previous day 4

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Joe Depa

Google Meet exec on the knowledge engine hiding in your calendar: meetings become IP

Meetings are the dark energy of business: common, powerful, and largely invisible. That's changing.

previous day 4

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Awaneesh Verma

Deficits boost U.S. debt but also inflate corporate profits and stocks, so reducing red ink could trigger a financial crisis, analysts warn

"In the financialized U.S. economy, each dollar of deficit spending may flow into a dollar of corporate profit."

previous day 10

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Jason Ma

Trump says he’ll make tech firms pay for power. They’d love to

Data center developers have already said they’d like to buy electricity off the nation’s power grids.

previous day 8

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Michelle Ma

Trump doesn’t think there’s any reason ‘right now’ to use Insurrection Act in Minn., while Native Americans urged to carry ID due to ICE threat

Tribal leaders and Native American rights organizations are advising anyone with a tribal ID to carry it with them when out in public

previous day 7

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Jack Brook

Bond yields jump after Trump hints Hassett won’t be named Fed chair as Wall Street sees hawkish Warsh having easier path to replace Powell

“I actually want to keep you where you are, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said at a White House event.

previous day 4

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Christopher Rugaber

Republican lawmakers close ranks around Powell, who spent years building ties in Congress. ‘He gets in there, pets the dog, shoots the breeze’

“He knows his way around Congress,” said Robert Tetlow, a former senior policy adviser at the Fed.

previous day 4

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Joey Cappelletti

For 15 years, a neuroscientist has studied raccoon intelligence in Central Virginia. Then a drunk one passed out in a nearby liquor store

Scaled up to size, a raccoon brain would contain roughly the same number of neurons as a human brain.

previous day 4

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Kelly Lambert

Trumps threatens to impose tariffs on countries ‘if they don’t go along’ with his Greenland takeover plans

Trump for months has insisted that the U.S. should control Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark.

previous day 4

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Daniel Niemann

A filmmaker deepfaked Sam Altman for his movie about AI. Then things got personal

AI is already remaking filmmaking. One director's experience with a deepfaked Sam Altman shows how strange it can get.

previous day 3

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Beatrice Nolan

ChatGPT tests ads as a new era of AI begins

Ads are coming to the bottom of ChatGPT’s answers for certain users—as the $500 billion startup looks to offset the massive costs of offering...

previous day 3

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Sharon Goldman

Exclusive: Elon Musk’s Boring Co. is studying a tunnel project to Tesla Gigafactory near Reno

The surge of traffic, and accidents, on the highway that leads to the burgeoning industrial center in northern Nevada is driving a search for...

previous day 3

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Jessica Mathews

How a series of calculated risks led a BNY executive to the C-suite of America’s oldest bank

In a CEO search, small moments can end a candidacy instantly.

previous day 3

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Ruth Umoh