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Investors Keep Risk-Off Mood Amid AI Spending Concerns And Soaring Middle East Tensions. Stocks Fell Again.

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Iran is Updating Its Targets if the War With Israel and the U.S. Resumes. Undersea Cables Are Now in the List.

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AI Debt Fears Leads Investors To Seek Safer Havens. The 10-Year Treasury Yield Slipped Below 5%.

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Corruption is Becoming an Increasingly Relevant Issue For Voters. Over 1 in 3 Chose is as the Top One.

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The U.S.-Iran War Shows No Signs Of Abating. A Top Official Said Washington Can Keep The Blockade 'For The Foreseeable Future.'

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Iran Is Also Threatening To Ramp Up Attacks If Targeted. It Will Go After Civilian Infrastructure.

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Over 7 in 10 American Gen Zs Say It's A Bad Time To Have Kids. Fertility in the U.S. Keeps Falling.

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Nearly 1 in 4 Americans Struggle to Pay for Daily Transportation. Young People & Latinos Feel the Most Strain.

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Tensions in the Middle East Keep Climbing. Brent Crude is Near a Five-Month High.

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A New Microsoft AI Diagnosed 83% Of Complex Medical Cases. Doctors Using References Got 36% Right.

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Saudi Arabia's Clashes With The Houthis Keep Escalating. Riyadh Is Now Reportedly Beefing Up Its Missile Capabilities.

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Melania Trump Helps Broker A Localized Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire For Next Week, White House Says

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American Express Becomes The Latest Company To Announce Massive Layoffs Over The AI Boom

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The U.S. Keeps Blocking Iran's Ports. Tehran's Shadow Tankers Have Now Run Out Of Oil.

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Trump Claimed Musk Fully Restored Ukraine's Access To A Key Satellite System. Kyiv Says Not Quite.

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Monthly Rent Remained At $1,200 Last Year, But Almost 1 In 4 Renters Fell Behind At Some Point During The Year

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Trump Got Heat For Reaching A Diesel Deal With Russia. The First Cargo Is Now Heading To The U.S. For The First Time Since 2022.

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Jared Kushner's Hacked Phone Revealed Over $2 Billion In Secret Funds, Report Claims

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Nearly 1 In 4 Insured Americans Skipped Medical Care Over Cost As Coverage Leaves Gaps

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U.S. Layoffs Are Near A 57-Year Low. But Finding A Job Is Increasingly Hard For Many.

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Less Than Half Of Republicans Are Still Optimistic About Trump's Tariffs, Data Shows

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OpenAI Nears $30 Billion Funding Round As UAE Investors Back $1.25 Trillion Valuation

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Details Of Moderna's Breakthrough Cancer Vaccine Got Leaked. Its Stock Is Plunging.

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Meta's Board Convinced Zuckerberg To Stay In California Despite Its Wealth Tax. Here's What He Was Offered.

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Why This Gen Z Tech CEO Says the Future Belongs to Generation Alpha

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Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on Why AI Could Kill the Creator Economy

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Larry Sharpe on What Replaced the American Dream: "The Empire Is Falling"

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Tango Supports FRIDA Ukraine's Mobile Cancer Detection Program Through Tango for Good

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Sentient Launches First Open Benchmark to Test Whether AI Models Can Prove Where They Came From

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Hola Prime Simplifies Prop Trading Rules With Launch Of It's Rulebook

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Wall Street Is Trading Near Record Highs. The Richest 1% Own More Than Half Of America's Stock Wealth.

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S&P 500 Profits Set To Surge More Than 30% In Q3 With AI Giants Dominating Growth

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SpaceX Could Borrow $40 Billion For Nvidia Chips As Musk Makes A Massive New Bet On AI. Its Stock Fell.

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AI Debt Fears Leads Investors To Seek Safer Havens. The 10-Year Treasury Yield Slipped Below 5%.

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Hedge Funds Are Ramping Up Stock Shorts to Five-Year Highs. Goldman is Warning of a Squeeze.

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The Largest Wealth Fund in the World Got Hit by Rising Interest Rates. It Lost Tens of Billions in Q3.

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Can AgTech save Latin American farmers from El Niño?

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Iran is Updating Its Targets if the War With Israel and the U.S. Resumes. Undersea Cables Are Now in the List.

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Corruption is Becoming an Increasingly Relevant Issue For Voters. Over 1 in 3 Chose is as the Top One.

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Europe Keeps Grappling With Hotter Summers. Tens of Thousands Died This Year, Study Claims.

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Tensions in the West Bank Escalate as Israeli Elections Approach. Two IDF Soldiers Killed in Attack.

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Bitcoin ETFs Lost $65 Million In A Day. One BlackRock Fund Accounted For Every Dollar.

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China Launches National Blockchain As Part Of Wider Plan To Accelerate Expansion Of Digital Economy

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The Scams That Cost Millions Never Start With a Red Flag

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Maritime Safety and Regulatory Judgment: Building a More Proportionate Framework for America's Working Waterways

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How much does incentive compensation management software really cost a mid-market company?

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Meta Beat Expectations in the Last Quarter. Its Stock is Plunging Anyway.

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Barclays to Cut Thousands of Jobs in AI Efficiency Push. 5% of The Company Will be Laid Off.

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Trump Calls for Data Center to Give 'Dividends' to Communities as Backlash Threatens AI Expansion

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Persian Gulf Oil Exports Surpass Prewar Levels, but Shipping Costs Keep Soaring

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Democrats Sue Trump Administration Over Alleged Election Interference, Claim Officials Are Being Intimidated

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Voters Face Higher Cost of Living as Midterms Loom. Import Prices Saw The Highest Jump in Years.

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Young Voters Appear To Be Turning On Trump And Republicans in General: Poll

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Trump Called Musk To Restore Ukraine's Access to Key Satellites. They Began Working Shortly After.

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Hamas Has no Intention of Disarming and is Seeking To Build Up Forces in Gaza Again, Israeli Intelligence Concludes

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Tensions in the Gulf Keep Climbing. Washington Reportedly Prepares to Order the Departure of Some Personnel from Embassies.

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Democrats Look Beyond a House Victory: Why a Senate Takeover Remains a Tougher Fight

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Trump Endorsed Netanyahu Ahead of the Israeli Elections. JD Vance is Not Following Suit.

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Alberta Overwhelmingly Votes to Remain Part of Canada, Defeating Secessionist Push in Win for PM Carney

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Sanctioned Oil Tankers May Get a U.S. Reprieve from Trump. But Freight Costs Might Not Feel a Difference.

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Companies Are Spending Billions To Build Data Centers. The Timeline For Them To Pay Off is Fuzzy.

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Anthropic Unveils Claude Duet To Challenge OpenAI And Meta in the AI Agent Field

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AI Agents Are Accessing U.S. Bank Accounts Without Their Approval. Lenders Are Pushing Back.

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