President Trump said on Tuesday that he knows the identity of the author known as “Anonymous”.
Warner Bros. Discovery reported first quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday. Here's what to know.
Follow along to the latest updates as adult film star Stormy Daniels is due back on the witness stand Thursday in Donald Trump's hush money trial.
The Bank of England on Thursday kept its main interest rate at a 16-year high, but hinted at a cut over the summer as UK inflation cools further and the country looks set to exit recession. - Rate cut looms - "The bank is still on track for summer easing," Yael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG UK, said following the rate decision.
Roblox cut its annual bookings forecast on Thursday, in a sign that people were dialing back on spending within its video-gaming platform amid an uncertain economic outlook and elevated levels of inflation. The lowered forecast marks the latest downbeat report from the gaming industry, which has laid off hundreds of employees and shut studios this year to cope with declining demand. Electronic Arts also gave a weak revenue forecast earlier this week.
Curaleaf CEO Matt Darin said it was "a historic moment" for the cannabis industry following reports that the DEA is seeking to reschedule marijuana. Here are some of the implications for the weed industry.
Meta's oversight board upheld a decision to remove two Facebook posts calling for Australians to vote multiple times in an indigenous rights referendum, but noted the social media giant had not adequately explained its ban on encouraging voter fraud. The board, which is funded by Meta but run independently, said Meta was correct to protect the democratic process by preventing voter fraud when it proactively pulled the posts ahead of the 2023 vote. But Meta's public-facing rules were not clear enough, the board said in a ruling published on Thursday.
The London and Frankfurt stock exchanges hit record highs Thursday as the Bank of England kept its interest rate at a 16-year high but raised hopes of a cut in the coming months.His comments raised hopes that the BoE could soon cut rates.
For months, Democratic Rep. David Trone has blanketed Maryland’s airwaves in ads for his Senate campaign.
An excerpt from “They Came for the Schools” reveals what happened after a teacher blew the whistle on new classroom library restrictions in Southlake, Texas.
Advocates want the military and the VA to expand IVF availability to veterans and service members, who may have higher infertility rates than the general public.
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Thursday urged NATO partners to soon start spending 2.5 percent of GDP on defence, during a major speech in which he called for a more muscular approach to Western foreign policy.Last month, UK leader Rishi Sunak announced during a visit to Poland that London would gradually boost defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2030.
Stocks have lost their bounce after a growing chorus of Federal Reserve officials made it clear that interest rates will need to stay higher for longer.
Over the past few quarters, semiconductor firms are dealing with a supply glut as they focus on clearing excessive inventory mainly in the automotive industry, hurting companies like Tower which makes analogue, mixed-signal chips and sensor technologies. French-Italian firm STMicroelectronics is one of the latest chipmakers to lower its full-year guidance due to declining orders. Tower Semiconductor reported revenue of $327 million for the three months ended March 31, down 7% year on year.
At least one person was killed and four others were injured after a huge fire broke out at a chemical storage tank in an Eastern Thailand industrial park on Thursday. Fire workers estimated it might take more than 10 hours to be able to fully extinguish the flames, according to the Rayong province’s public relations department. About 400 workers and residents have been evacuated to a temporary shelter, the department said.
The head of a center-right 22-party coalition that emerged victorious in North Macedonia’s parliamentary election has fallen just short of gaining a parliamentary majority, leaving it reliant on entering a partnership with another party to form a government. The “Your Macedonia” coalition, led by the head of the VMRO-DPMNE party, Hristijan Mickoski, won just over 43% of the votes in Wednesday’s election, giving it 58 of the country’s 120 parliamentary seats, three fewer than an outright majority, official results showed. The parliamentary vote was held simultaneously with a runoff for the country’s presidential election, which saw the victory of North Macedonia’s first female president in a double win for the center-right backed opposition.
President Joe Biden said for the first time Wednesday he would halt shipments of American weapons to Israel – which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah.
Chinese President Xi Jinping received a ceremonial welcome in Hungary's capital on Thursday ahead of a day of talks with Hungarian officials which are expected to result in further Chinese investments in the Central European country. Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok received Xi in an opulent courtyard of Budapest's Buda Castle, where the two men walked down a red carpet beside a ceremonial honor guard and listened to the Chinese and Hungarian national anthems. Numerous Chinese and Hungarian officials attended the ceremony, including Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Hungary's long-serving populist leader who has pursued deeper ties with Beijing while distancing himself from his more mainstream partners in the European Union.
The Bank of England maintained its key U.K. interest rate at a 16-year high of 5.25% though it gave a broad hint that a reduction could be on the cards as soon as June as inflation is forecast to fall below target. In a statement Thursday, the bank’s nine-member Monetary Policy Committee voted 7-2 to keep rates unchanged, with the 2 dissenters backing a quarter-point reduction. Last time, only one member voted for a quarter-point cut.
Some 43% of Americans are obese, compared with just 4.5% of Japanese people. What explains this gap?
Foreign Secretary David Cameron described Britain's system and scale of arms exports to Israel as completely different from those in the United States, saying the sales it licences were relatively small and policed by strict procedures. Cameron was responding to a question on whether Britain would follow the U.S. after it warned that it would withhold weapons from Israel in case of a major invasion of Rafah. "There's a very fundamental difference between the U.S. situation and the UK situation," Cameron said after a speech.
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