Doug Burgum, U.S. Secretary of the Interior speaks during the Pennsylvania Energy And Innovation Summit 2025 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on July 15, 2025 David A. Grogan | CNBC Solar and wind projects that need federal permitting will face even closer scrutiny by the Trump administration, with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum now making…
Plant Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant in Waynesboro, GA, August 15, 2024. Van Applegate | CNBC Westinghouse plans to build 10 large nuclear reactors in the U.S. with construction to begin by 2030, interim CEO Dan Sumner told President Donald Trump at a roundtable in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Westinghouse’s big AP1000 reactor generates enough electricity to…
Circle Internet Group Initial Public Offering at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. NYSE Circle shares slid on Tuesday after the U.S. House of Representatives failed to clear a key procedural hurdle that would have teed up votes on long-awaited crypto-related bills. The move dealt a major setback…
The Pentagon is taking immediate action to boost critical mineral production in the U.S. and counter China’s dominance of the supply chain for rare earth magnets, a defense official told CNBC on Tuesday. The Defense Department last week agreed to buy a direct equity stake in MP Materials, which will make the U.S. government the…
Ruth Porat, President & Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet & Google, speaks during the Reuters NEXT conference, in New York City, U.S., December 10, 2024. Mike Segar | Reuters Alphabet‘s Google will invest $25 billion in data center and artificial intelligence infrastructure over the next two years in states across the biggest electric grid in…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies during a remote video hearing held by subcommittees of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee on “Social Media’s Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation” in Washington, U.S., March 25, 2021. Handout | Via Reuters Block jumped more than 5% on Monday, leading a rally in shares of…
A stack of old mobile phones are seen before recycling process in Kocaeli, Turkiye on October 14, 2024. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images As the U.S. and China vie for economic, technological and geopolitical supremacy, the critical elements and metals embedded in technology from consumer to industrial and military markets have become a pawn…
Robinhood stock hit an all-time high Friday as the financial services platform continued to rip higher this year, along with bitcoin and other crypto stocks. Robinhood, up more than 160% in 2025, hit an intraday high above $101 before pulling back and closing slightly lower. The reversal came after a Bloomberg report that JPMorgan plans…
Justin Sun, founder of blockchain platform Tron, poses for a photograph in Hong Kong, May 8, 2020. Calvin Sit | Bloomberg | Getty Images Crypto billionaire Justin Sun is buying another $100 million worth of $TRUMP, doubling his total known stake of digital coins tied to President Donald Trump. Sun, who founded the TRON blockchain…
An electric car at a charging station in the Norwegian capital of Oslo on Sept. 25, 2024. Jonathan Nackstrand | Afp | Getty Images OSLO, Norway — Tesla continues to find solace in Norway, defying a sustained European slump amid a backlash over CEO Elon Musk‘s incendiary political rhetoric. The U.S. electric vehicle maker recorded…
