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Nvidia’s stock price has jumped 92% this year as of Wednesday, increasing the company’s market value by more than $1 trillion. The company's revenue more than tripled in the latest quarter from the same period a year earlier. Nvidia, which has positioned itself as one of the most prominent players in AI, has been producing some eye-popping numbers.
Sales of new US homes were weaker than analysts expected in April, government data showed Thursday, with slower mortgage demand appearing to bog down the number of transactions.While sales data can be volatile and revised later, the April selling pace was lower than the first quarter average of 653,000, noted Rubeela Farooqi, chief US economist at High Frequency Economics.
A St. Louis judge will soon decide the fate of a Missouri man who has spent more than three decades in prison for a killing he says he didn't commit. Christopher Dunn was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1990 shooting death of 15-year-old Ricco Rogers. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore believes Dunn was wrongfully convicted, and requested a hearing before Judge Jason Sengheiser.
The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a congressional map in the southern state of South Carolina that civil rights groups said was improperly drawn along racial lines.The South Carolina legislature challenged the district court's ruling and the case ended up in front of the Supreme Court in October.
TikTok is putting in place new rules to limit the reach of state-affiliated media accounts that are attempting to exert influence abroad during a crucial election year. The company, which started labeling state-affiliated media two years ago, announced in a statement Thursday that identified accounts attempting to “reach communities outside their home country on current global events and affairs” will not appear on the main feed where users watch videos. TikTok also said in the coming weeks, state-affiliated media accounts that advertise on the platform will no longer be allowed to do that outside of their home country.
In the highest hurricane season forecast they have ever issued in May, forecasters with NOAA predict an above-normal number of storms.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called an election that his Conservative Party looks likely to lose to the opposition Labour Party led by Sir Keir Starmer.
A German far-right party set for big gains in upcoming European elections suffered another setback on Thursday when it was expelled from a right-wing group in the European Parliament. The Identity and Democracy group decided to expel Alternative for Germany from the group with immediate effect, the Italian La Lega party, which is a member of the group, said in a statement. Alternative for Germany said it “acknowledged” the decision.
The UN's top court Thursday rejected Mexico's request for emergency measures to protect its embassy in Quito, ruling that Ecuador made sufficient assurances after a controversial raid last month.- 'No urgency' - But in its ruling Thursday, ICJ judges said Ecuador had already given assurances it was "providing full protection to the premises of the Mexican mission and diplomatic residences."
An election rally in northern Mexico descended into tragedy after a gust of wind sent the stage careening into the crowd, killing at least nine people, including a child, authorities said.Presidential longshot Maynez, 38, who escaped without serious injury, said the stage collapsed after a strong gust of wind "that lasted five minutes."
Business activity showed a surprise uptick in May, indicating the US economy may be more resilient than Wall Street thinks.
Students across the country have been pressuring their institutions to divest from companies connected to Israel and to join their calls for a cease-fire in Gaza.
Extreme heat in Mexico, Central America and parts of the U.S. South has left millions of people in sweltering temperatures, strained energy grids and resulted in iconic Howler monkeys in Mexico dropping dead from trees. Meteorologists say the conditions have been caused by what some refer to as a heat dome — an area of strong high pressure centered over the southern Gulf of Mexico and northern Central America that blocked clouds from forming and caused extensive sunshine and hot temperatures. This extreme heat is occurring in a world that is quickly warming due to greenhouse gases, which come from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has portrayed himself as thorough and evidence-led. The main opposition Labour Party is widely seen to be ahead of the Conservatives, who have been in power since 2010. Sunak became prime minister in October 2022, when he replaced his predecessor Truss and pitched himself as a stable pair of hands after Truss roiled financial markets with a botched plan of unfunded tax cuts.
“He’ll smile, or wink, though he’s never winked at me yet,” a courtroom photographer says of Trump.
The KMT, or Nationalist Party, which opposes Taiwan’s pro-independence movement, urged China to “exercise restraint” amid its latest show of force.
Donald Trump's allies are quietly getting involved in little-noticed fights over who will serve on the committee to set the Republican Party's national platform.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Parliament's far-right Identity and Democracy (ID) group expelled the Alternative for Germany (AfD) delegation on Thursday, less than a month before elections to the assembly. The decision comes after Maximilian Krah, the AfD's lead candidate in the elections, told an Italian newspaper at the weekend that the Nazi's Waffen SS were "not all criminals". "The ID Group no longer wants to be associated with the incidents involving Maximilian Krah, head of the AfD list for the European elections," the ID group said in a statement.
Get ready for what nearly all the experts think will be one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, thanks to unprecedented ocean heat and a brewing La Nina. There's an 85% chance that the Atlantic hurricane season that starts in June will be above average in storm activity, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday in its annual outlook. The weather agency predicted between 17 and 25 named storms will brew up this summer and fall, with 8 to 13 achieving hurricane status (at least 75 mph sustained winds) and four to seven of them becoming major hurricanes, with at least 111 mph winds.
The Supreme Court upheld a pro-Republican South Carolina congressional map Thursday, rejecting the argument raised by civil rights groups that lawmakers impermissibly used race as a proxy to bolster the GOP’s chances.