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Samsung Electronics co-CEO Han Jong-Hee has died, a spokesperson for the South Korean tech giant said on Tuesday. He was 63.

Massachusetts regulators are investigating Robinhood over launching a prediction markets hub, a way of letting users bet on its platform.

After the president made A.I. dominance a top priority, tech companies changed course from a meeker approach under the Biden administration.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he will impose tariffs of 25% on any nation that purchases oil from Venezuela.

For more than a month, President Donald Trump and his administration have been promoting April 2 as a kind of tariffs Super Bowl, during which all of his many promised import taxes will go into effect. But as he has demonstrated many times before, Trump once again appears to be offering a lot of hype and little action.

Incidents of vandalism against Teslas have risen along with anger against CEO Elon Musk, whose Department of Government Efficiency has led efforts to drastically slash the federal government’s workforce.

Britain’s Heathrow defended its decision to shut down operations at Europe’s busiest airport on Friday as the blame game intensified over an 18-hour closure that cost airlines tens of millions of pounds and stranded thousands of passengers.

Walmart thought it could use its immense power as America’s biggest retailer to make Chinese suppliers eat the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. But Walmart got a response it’s not accustomed to hearing: No.

China is prepared for “possible unexpected shocks,” Premier Li Qiang told a gathering of global executives in Beijing, where he urged them to “resist protectionism” and defend globalization.

Gene testing firm 23andMe said on Sunday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in order to facilitate its sale, after years of struggling to find a sustainable business model.

Disney’s “Snow White,” a big-budget live-action retelling of the classic fairytale, opened to a sleepy $43 million at the domestic box office this weekend amid a slew of controversies.

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind “Sesame Street,” is confronting what executives have described as a “perfect storm” of problems.

It’s not even April, yet 2025 already has been a lot. Like, a lot.

The demonstrations want people to “sell your Teslas” and “dump your stock,” as a way of reprimanding Musk, who owns a sizable stake in the electric vehicle maker.

Some winemakers and grape growers view Trump’s tariffs are cautiously optimistic the tariffs could revive interest in California-made wines, while others worry tariffs threaten to upend a fragile industry.

A budding media start-up producing a culinary docuseries has been stuck in limbo for months. After being approved for USAID funding, the show’s co-founders discovered that the agency’s money never cleared — and now the Trump administration is caught in a legal battle to dismantle USAID.

Muhammad Syafi’i remembers screaming in pain as hot cooking oil splashed across his stomach and dripped down his legs, his wet clothing sticking to his torched skin as it began to bubble and swell.

The White House appears to have a carrot-and-stick approach to making America love Teslas. Buy the car and the stock, officials say. And anyone caught vandalizing a charging station should expect to be labeled a “terrorist thug,” one possibly bound for a Salvadorean prison, as President Donald Trump wrote Friday.

The US stock market has been the gold standard for decades. But investors around the globe are growing increasingly nervous about the fallout from President Donald Trump’s economic agenda. That has sent traders in search of stocks in Europe and Asia.

That control is starting to fray as Mr. Johnson, a longevity guru known for performing experiments on his body, faces a backlash over the agreements.

Elon Musk seems to be everywhere these days, just not in the place he’s most needed: At the helm of his flailing electric vehicle company.

Thousands of liters of Italian sparkling wine, ordered before President Donald Trump’s tariff threats, are on a boat headed to the United States. Before the wine is unloaded and handed to its recipients, they may need to pay a tariff bill big enough to put a kid through college.

With Heathrow Airport shut Friday, the impact of the disruption is expected to extend well beyond Britain’s largest travel hub, potentially costing the airline industry hundreds of millions of pounds.

The odds of a recession in the US may be creeping higher — but those rising risks do not mean a deep economic downturn is a foregone conclusion.

Several international brands including luxury house Prada have cut ties with South Korean superstar actor Kim Soo Hyun after he became embroiled in controversy this month over the nature of his relationship with late actress Kim Sae-ron.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at immediately increasing American production of critical minerals like uranium, copper, potash and gold by invoking the Defense Production Act to expand leasing and development on federal lands.

President Trump’s plans risk stoking inflation and denting growth, an undesirable combination that economists warn could lead to much tougher trade-offs for the central bank.

The same day Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk’s estranged daughter, published her second-ever interview with a media outlet, the billionaire media mogul used his X platform to insinuate trans people are behind reports of attacks on Teslas.

India’s IT ministry has unlawfully expanded censorship powers to allow the easier removal of online content and empowered “countless” government officials to execute such orders, Elon Musk’s X has alleged in a new lawsuit against New Delhi.

Former Facebook executive-turned-whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams wants out of a court order that’s blocking her from speaking to lawmakers about her experiences at the company and her new book, according to a court filing obtained by CNN.

Nike is in a major slump.

Tesla is recalling 46,096 Cybertruck vehicles because of a cosmetic issue that could turn into a road hazard. 

The European Union is delaying its retaliatory tariffs against American goods until mid-April, the Commission announced on Thursday.

Steve Davis, a longtime Musk loyalist, is effectively the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency. Mr. Musk has likened him to chemotherapy.

The Anti-Defamation League has found evidence of antisemitic and anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia, it said in a Tuesday report, marking the latest rift between the advocacy group and the world’s largest online encyclopedia over how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be portrayed on the site.

As Elon Musk continues to take an outsized and controversial role in the US government, reports of harassment of Tesla owners and vandalism of showrooms and vehicles are on rise. That may, in part, be contributing to plunging resale values and interest in used Teslas in the United States.

There’s no cocktail a central banker hates more than high unemployment mixed with high inflation. That cocktail, also known as stagflation, was in the limelight after the Federal Reserve’s March meeting.

is recalling 46,096 Cybertruck vehicles in the U.S. to fix an exterior panel that could detach while driving, the latest in a series of call-backs for the pickup truck since last year.

Larry Taunton was in bed around 1 a.m. on Sunday in his Alabama home when he noticed his dog, Ranger, getting worked up.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday decided yet again to stand pat on interest rates. Despite the Fed’s inaction, there are still opportunities to maximize the interest you earn on your savings or reduce what you pay on your debts.

Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner is stepping down from his position to “to ensure that Amtrak continues to enjoy the full faith and confidence of this administration.”

Tesla’s display at this week’s Vancouver International Auto Show was removed by event organizers because of safety issues revolving around the Elon Musk-led company.

The Fed is expected to hold off on hiking or cutting rates this month. However, if the US economy continues to decline, the central bank will likely need to step in with a rate cut to encourage economic activity.

Ben & Jerry’s is accusing its parent company Unilever of breaching its merger agreement by ousting the ice cream company’s CEO for the brand’s repeated public comments on progressive issues, removing its chief executive without the board’s approval.

Bankrupt drugmaker Purdue Pharma filed a new bankruptcy plan on Tuesday, a major step toward finalizing a proposed opioid settlement of at least $7.4 billion after a setback in the U.S. Supreme Court last year.

So far, the Federal Reserve has avoided commenting on the increasingly uncertain outlook, but investors are waiting to see whether it changes its projections on Wednesday.

Late last year, it seemed like the Federal Reserve had pulled off the unlikely — tamping down the highest inflation in four decades without triggering a recession, an outcome known as a “soft landing.” Now, two months into President Donald Trump’s second term, that historic win could be reversed as a global trade war looms.

President Donald Trump fired two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, with both commissioners saying they were ”illegally fired.”

The leaders of several US-funded international networks have instructed their organizations to continue broadcasting, ignoring a Trump administration order, because they believe last weekend’s terminations were unlawful, according to a person involved in the matter.

Nvidia on Tuesday announced an upgraded artificial intelligence platform, Blackwell Ultra, which it says will help apps reason and act on a user’s behalf – two capabilities that would take AI beyond chatbots further into real life.