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The 5 best-run cities in America — and the 5 worst-run cities

The best U.S. cities "use their budgets most effectively to provide high-quality financial security, education, health, safety, and transportation"

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Ben Kesslen

FedEx, Micron, Nike, and inflation: Stocks and data to watch this week

Investors will be watching the aftermath of the U.S. attack on Iran, Powell's testimony, an inflation gauge, and earnings from FedEx, Micron, and more

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Catherine Baab

Trump gets some back-up in his crusade against the Fed's Jerome Powell

Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, demanded Powell's resignation in a Fox Business interview

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Joseph Zeballos-Roig

Google proposes fixes to its search to stave off fines in Europe

After losing an appeal on a $4.7 billion antitrust charge, the search giant offers up space to its rivals

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Michael Barclay

The 10 best cheap cars on the market right now, according to Consumer Reports

There are still great new cars you can buy for less than $25,000. You just need to know where to look

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Ben Kesslen

Telegram's CEO will leave his multi-billion-dollar fortune to his 100-plus children

Pavel Durov says Telegram will become a nonprofit foundation to ensure its independence and freedom of speech

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Michael Barclay

Tesla inks a deal with China to build its first grid-scale battery power plant

Amid a tense U.S.-China relationship, Tesla has agreed to a $557 million deal for a project that will reportedly be the largest of its kind

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Shannon Carroll

Tesla's driverless robotaxi pilot arrives this weekend — with training wheels

Elon Musk has been promising a robotaxi launch for years, and it's finally almost here. But there are significant caveats and limitations

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Shannon Carroll

Consumer finance watchdog avoids getting defunded in Trump's big bill

A Senate official decided that Republicans can't nix the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in their big bill

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Joseph Zeballos-Roig

A Fed governor says it's almost time to cut interest rates

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller argued for a July interest rate cut since he doesn't expect a tariff-induced inflation spike to linger

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Joseph Zeballos-Roig

The Pope has a message for AI executives

Pope Leo wants AI to be regulated ethically, while the U.S. is poised to bar any state-level regulations for a decade

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Michael Barclay

The 10 states where Americans are most delinquent on debt

A new study looked at the percentage of delinquent tradelines and loan balances in the first quarter of 2025

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Ben Kesslen

The best and worst car brands, according to Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports published its rankings of the highest- and lowest-rated car companies

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Ben Kesslen

How Big Tech learned to love America's military

Silicon Valley companies are abandoning safety policies to win Pentagon contracts, turning everyday AI into weapons systems

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Jackie Snow

Weight-loss drugs are blowing up the U.S. trade deficit — and Trump is blaming Ireland

How a tiny volume of Irish drug ingredients is triggering surreal political and economic drama.

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Catherine Baab

SpaceX's Starship had another catastrophic failure

The explosion was just the latest in a growing series of failures for Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship.

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Shannon Carroll

IBM’s AI-fueled comeback is just getting started

Wedbush analysts raised their price target for IBM stock from $300 per share to $325, calling the company "one of our top software names to own"

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Shannon Carroll

Aflac got hacked by a cybercrime gang targeting insurance companies

Attack is consistent with Scattered Spider, although no ransomware was involved and the breach was dealt with within hours

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Michael Barclay

How FIFA's $1 billion prize for the first Club World Cup stacks up

From soccer’s newest super-tournament to F1’s billion-dollar circuits, the business of championships is booming.

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Shannon Carroll

AI has a huge power problem. Solving it won't be easy

As AI pushes chips to consume dramatically more electricity, data centers are racing to squeeze more computing power from every watt

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Jackie Snow

What is inflation?

Learn what drives inflation and how it can impact prices, purchasing power, and the overall economy

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Sarah Stasik

7 budgeting hacks for DIY projects

How to plan so you can afford projects from start to finish

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Jack Shaw

Tesla and Waymo robotaxi competitor Zoox takes a big step forward

The plant will make 10,000 cars annually, taking the self-driving race up a gear.

18.06.2025 10

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Niamh Rowe

Sam Altman says Meta is dangling $100 million signing bonuses to poach OpenAI employees

Meta has been trying to lure the AI company's talent with big pay packages, according to OpenAI's CEO

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Niamh Rowe

Amazon faces worker backlash over CEO's AI remarks

After CEO Andy Jassy said in an email that AI would likely drive a workforce reduction, employees took to Slack to express their frustrations

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Shannon Carroll

Trump says he just can't get Fed Chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates: 'I think he hates me'

The president insulted Powell anew and toyed with installing himself as Fed leader before the central bank again held rates steady

18.06.2025 10

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Joseph Zeballos-Roig

Texas Instruments will invest $60 billion in U.S. chipmaking

The company will expand its operations in Utah and its home state of Texas

18.06.2025 7

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Michael Barclay

The Fed holds interest rates steady — and still sees two cuts later this year

The decision and surrounding reasoning, widely expected by markets, leaves the federal funds target rate at its current range of 4.25% to 4.50%

18.06.2025 3

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Catherine Baab

The Fed is meeting. Don't expect an interest rate cut

While inflation has cooled in recent months, it remains above the Fed’s 2% target and has remained persistently elevated for years

18.06.2025 3

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Catherine Baab

Plus: “The Great Wealth Transfer.”

18.06.2025 3

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Shannon Carroll

Microsoft is planning to lay off thousands more employees, report says

The company has been cutting jobs all year while spending big on AI and seeing its stock soar

18.06.2025 3

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Michael Barclay

Trump railed against socialism in his campaign. He's flirting with it as president

Trump has been comfortable deploying the power of government to achieve specific economic outcomes, diverging from the GOP's traditional...

18.06.2025 2

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Joseph Zeballos-Roig

America added 1,000 new millionaires every day last year

The world got richer in 2024 — and in the U.S., new millionaires were minted at a rate of more than 1,000 per day.Read more...

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Catherine Baab

Weekend Tech Innovation Roundup June 14, 2025

Generative AI is breaking the dynamic that built the digital-publishing business.Read more...

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Catherine Baab

Weekend Money Markets Roundup June 14, 2025

Even as fresh trade talks get underway in London, and despite the trade truce struck in early May, Chinese exports to the U.S. are cratering....

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Catherine Baab

Weekend Business News Roundup June 14, 2025

Elon Musk has been promising robotaxis since at least 2016. Back then, the idea sounded like a bit like science fiction, and Musk’s timeline was —...

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Catherine Baab

Gas prices rise as war between Israel and Iran escalates

The increases are incremental for now, but a supply disruption in the Strait of Hormuz could make costs soar

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Michael Barclay

The Senate passed a major cryptocurrency bill — a big victory for digital assets

The digital asset sector has long craved legitimacy through federal regulation

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Joseph Zeballos-Roig

Social Security's trust fund could run out of money in less than a decade, jeopardizing benefits

The trustees warned that Social Security's depletion date moved up by two years since the previous report

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Joseph Zeballos-Roig