Associated Press Nvidia on Wednesday became the first public company to reach a market capitalization of $5 trillion. The ravenous appetite for the Silicon Valley company's chips is the main reason that the company's stock price has increased so rapidly since early 2023. Nvidia's ...
By CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal trial over whether President Donald Trump can deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, was underway Wednesday, with police officials expected to testify that federal agents at the city's U.S. ...
WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer (AP) — In long-awaited cuts just months after completing its $8 billion merger with Skydance, Paramount has begun layoffs set to impact about 2,000 employees. Paramount initiated roughly 1,000 of those layoffs company-wide on Wednesday, according ...
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Stewart McLaurin knew it was coming. An entire wing of the White House, a building he calls "the most special, important building on the planet," was going to be replaced to make way for a ballroom that President Donald Trump ...
By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press A pet dog fell off an oceanside bluff in San Francisco and spent more than 20 minutes clinging to a narrow ledge until firefighters came to its rescue, officials said. The brown and white dog was playing with another pooch on Tuesday at Fort Funston, a ...
By CHRIS MEGERIAN and LISA MASCARO Associated Press GYEONGJU, South Korea (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that "it's too bad" he's not allowed to run for a third term, conceding the constitutional reality even as he expressed interest in continuing to serve. "If you read ...
By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge disqualified acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli in Southern California from several cases after concluding Tuesday that the Trump appointee has stayed in the temporary job longer than allowed by law. U.S. District Judge ...
By JONATHAN MATTISE and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A new lawsuit by Democratic state officials Tuesday seeks to uncork emergency money to help tens of millions of Americans keep buying food for their families after federal SNAP funding is expected to run dry Saturday due to the U.S. ...
By JOHN O'CONNOR Associated Press PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois jury has begun deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of a sheriff's deputy who shot Sonya Massey, a Black woman who had called 911 for help and was later killed in her home because of the way she was handling a pan ...
By KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday he believes U.S. military members will be paid at the end of the week, though he did not specify how the Trump administration will reconfigure funding as pain from the ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press KINGSTON N.Y. (AP) — A former New York state trooper was accused in court Tuesday of using his patrol car as a battering ram in a high-speed pursuit that killed an 11-year-old girl, a case one prosecutor called a "fatal abuse of power." Christopher ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a landmark decision in West Virginia that had rejected attempts by an opioid-ravaged area to be compensated by U.S. drug distributors for a influx of prescription pain pills into the ...
By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of raping and killing his neighbor decades ago was put to death Tuesday evening in a record 15th execution in Florida this year. Norman Mearle Grim Jr., 65, was pronounced dead following a three-drug injection ...
By ALLEN G. BREED, GARY D. ROBERTSON and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press ZEBULON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man was charged Tuesday with four counts of murder after telling authorities that he had killed his children and after sheriff's deputies found human remains in the trunk of a ...
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence while cutting costs elsewhere. Teams and individuals impacted by the job cuts will be notified on Tuesday. Most workers will be given ...
BOSTON (AP) — A man from India stabbed two teenagers with a fork, slapped a female passenger and a crew member and mimicked shooting himself during an international flight, authorities said. The Lufthansa flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, on Saturday was diverted to Boston, where ...
By PATRICK WHITTLE and JOHN HANNA Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's elections in recent years have been relatively free of problems, and verified cases of voter fraud are exceedingly rare. That's not stopping Republicans from pushing for major changes in the way the state ...
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer confidence weakened slightly in October as Americans remain anxious about their future financial prospects. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell by 1 point to 94.6 in October from an upwardly ...
By MATT BROWN and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled their long-promised report on former President Joe Biden's use of the autopen, delivering a blistering critique of his time in office and inner circle that largely rehashes public ...
By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge in Tennessee on Monday warned of possible sanctions against top Trump administration officials if they continue to make inflammatory statements about Kilmar Abrego Garcia that could prejudice his coming ...