Economy

Elon Musk said his SpaceX company will provide free Starlink terminals to the Los Angeles areas affected by the raging and catastrophic wildfires. The satellite internet service will help restore communication in areas devastated by the ongoing fires.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has come under fire from both the “Facebook Supreme Court” and its own employees following Zuckerberg’s decision this week to embrace free speech on his heavily censored platforms.

Google has joined the ranks of major tech companies supporting President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, donating $1 million to the inaugural fund.

Multiple polls show rising voter expectations for a pro-American migration policy even as President-elect Donald Trump is suddenly zig-zagging on the issue of white-collar migration.

Nigel Farage is the most trusted person in Britain to lead the UK economy back to growth amid growing pessimism with the Labour government’s leftist agenda, a poll has found.

The great clash between Donald Trump and the Federal Reserve may not happen after all.

Employers added 122,000 jobs last month on a seasonally adjusted basis, down from 146,000 in November and well below the 134,000 forecast by economists surveyed by Econoday.

Mark Zuckerberg stunned the world when he announced this week that Meta would embrace free speech on its platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. But to hold the billionaire to his promises of removing bias and censorship from these platforms, we must first acknowledge the terrible levels of censorship faced by conservatives on Zuckerberg’s platforms since 2016. Here are six particularly egregious examples from Zuckerberg’s inglorious reign as the internet’s arbiter of truth.

Ann Altman, the sister of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has filed a lawsuit alleging he regularly sexually abused her for several years starting in their childhood.

Greenland is one of those rare geopolitical assets that might actually be worth it to buy. So, how much would it cost?

President-elect Donald Trump is promising “very serious tariffs” on Canada, as well as Mexico, as part of a broader economic nationalist agenda to recoup losses from trade deficits. 

The U.S. services sector posted stronger-than-expected growth in December, signaling a potential acceleration in the economy as businesses look ahead to the incoming Trump administration’s pro-growth policies. The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) purchasing managers’ index for the services sector

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that DAMAC Properties, a global real estate development company, will invest at least $20 billion in the United States. 

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the CEO of fintech company Klarna, has shared his apprehensions about the swift advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, which he believes could soon be capable of performing his entire job. Siemiatkowski writes that he feels “gloomy” over the fact AI has made him replaceable.

Job openings came in significantly higher than even the most optimistic forecasts.

John Deere has announced plans to introduce a range of self-driving farm and work vehicles, including tractors, dump trucks, and even a robotic lawnmower. The company plans a fully-autonomous corn and soybean farming system by 2030.

California’s long-delayed high-speed rail project has a new destination: Las Vegas.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) claimed that the state would have a modest budget surplus next year — though he still planned to raid the “rainy day” emergency fund, and warned of President-elect Donald Trump’s spending cuts.

Mark Zuckerberg has announced major changes to Meta’s content moderation policies and practices on Facebook and Instagram, citing a desire to embrace free speech and avoid censorship. Zuckerberg’s changes begin with scrapping Facebook’s third-party “fact check” system which is notorious for its leftist bias.

On Monday’s edition of NBC’s “MTP Now,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) stated that “We have prices that are too high for people” and the large spike in prices “has really been very troubling and difficult for a lot of American

The fast food behemoth McDonald’s will reportedly end some of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, citing the Supreme Court recently outlawing affirmative action (racial preferences) in college admissions.

The United States Steel Corporation filed two joint lawsuits with Nippon Steel after President Joe Biden blocked the Japanese corporation from acquiring the iconic American company.

The evidence keeps mounting that the election of Donald Trump to a second presidential term is already causing an economic acceleration.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” incoming White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that it’s telling that President Joe Biden waited until two weeks before he left office to announce the drilling restrictions he announced

McDonald’s is ending some of its diversity practices, citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision that outlawed affirmative action in college admissions.

Chinese state media is celebrating automaker BYD surpassing Elon Musk’s Tesla as the world’s top producer of electric vehicles (EVs), while downplaying reports that BYD has been keeping its Brazilian workforce in conditions “analogous to slavery.”

The Fed’s top banking supervisor is stepping aside to make room for Donald Trump’s agenda.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has made a personal contribution of $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund. Cook, who Trump famously nicknamed “Tim Apple,” is the latest in a long line of tech lords bending the knee to Trump in hopes of currying favor with the new administration.

Rep. Shri Thanedar, an India-born Democrat from Michigan, is calling America “racist” as the debate over the importation of foreign workers grows.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar wore Meta smart glasses while carried out his terrorist attack during the early hours of New Year’s Day in New Orleans, killing 14 and wounding 35 others, the FBI says.

President Joe Biden’s long-threatened push to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters is going ahead in a move designed to thwart incoming President-elect Donald Trump’s administration promise to expand offshore drilling in the name of ensuring America’s energy self-sufficiency.

In a move to “maximize unregretted user-seconds,” Elon Musk has unveiled plans for an algorithm change on his social media platform X that he claims will curb excessive negativity. Critics contend the algorithm changes will have troubling outcomes like censoring criticism of the FBI.

A California vegan restaurant chain is closing for good on Sunday after furious activists targeted the business for offering customers meat.

President Joe Biden’s outgoing administration has granted California special Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) waivers to impose higher emissions standards for law mowers, leaf blowers, refrigerated trucks, and off-road vehicles.