Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday extended his country’s relations with India and China with President Trump on 17 August with the announcement of a planned meeting with Putin in Alaska. Putin on Friday made phone calls with both Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, which Trump had determined as a…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday canceled his speech at India’s AI Impact Summit amid ongoing criticism over his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. “After careful consideration and to ensure that the focus remains on the key priorities of the AI Summit, Mr. Gates will not deliver the keynote address at the AI Summit,”…
Shares of SoftBank Group Corp jumped over 10% after its telecom arm, SoftBank Corp, raised its full-year profit outlook, while renewed optimism around Arm Holdings added to bullish sentiment toward the group’s artificial intelligence exposure. Revenue for the first nine months of fiscal 2025 at SoftBank Corp rose 8% from a year earlier to 5.2…
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Macri announced Friday that the agency’s top regulator Vinay Prasad will leave next month. “A year ago, Dr. Prasad came to the FDA to implement 4 key long-term reforms: the 2-to-1 pivotal trial requirement, National Priority Review, a risk-stratified COVID vaccine framework, and the new Plausibility Mechanism Framework……
An alleged victim of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday shared concerns about the Department of Justice (DOJ) exceeding the deadline set by Congress to release all files related to the late financier’s estate. “It’s still extremely upsetting. And I get chills down my body wondering, are they ever going to… Source link
In this day and age, receiving a cold call at any time can be disarming, but Norway’s finance minister reportedly took a most surprising ring on the streets of Oslo earlier this month. According to Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv, the cold caller was U.S. President Donald Trump, and the request for Norway’s Finance Minister Jens…
Kevin SeifertJan 7, 2026, 08:42 pm ET to close Kevin Seifert is a staff writer covering the Minnesota Vikings and the NFL at ESPN. Kevin has covered the NFL for more than 20 years, joining ESPN in 2008. He was previously a beat reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Washington Times. He is…
The European Union (EU) is stuck in limbo as uncertainty persists around when a trade agreement with the U.S. might be reached. The goal had been to agree on a framework by July 9, when a temporary reprieve from U.S. President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs was initially meant to expire. The EU was seemingly still…
Putin’s military forces have bombed children’s hospitals, kindergartens and playgrounds. Russia has also abducted more than 19,000 Ukrainian children. Source link
Texas Roadhouse missed Street estimates on both the top and bottom lines in the fourth quarter as high beef prices weighed on profits. But the restaurant chain’s strong comparable restaurant sales through the first seven weeks of the first quarter of 2026 paired with no change in management’s commodity inflation outlook for the year are…
