U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) speaks with Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), as Lori Chavez-DeRemer, U.S. President Trump’s nominee to be secretary of labor testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 19, 2025.Kent Nishimura | ReutersSen. Susan Collins is reportedly shopping around a potential off-ramp to the government shutdown that has paralyzed Washington, but the Maine Republican is not ready to give in on the primary demand by her Democratic colleagues.Collins has been circulating a “discussion draft” of a proposal that would include GOP pledges on a…
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Polignano a Mare in the Region of Puglia. Italy.Artur Debat | Moment | Getty ImagesUnited Airlines’ summer 2026 international travel plan is out, and smaller European cities are in.Starting April 30, United plans to fly from its hub at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey to Split on the Croatian coast — its second destination in the country. A day later the carrier is launching Newark to Bari in the popular Puglia region of southern Italy on the Adriatic Sea.May 22 is the scheduled launch of a nonstop from Newark to Santiago de Compostela, in the Galicia region of…
Thomas Kurian CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at the Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on April 8, 2025.Candice Ward | Google Cloud | Getty ImagesGoogle is taking another shot at selling businesses on artificial intelligence agents by introducing subscriptions featuring agents that perform specific work tasks.Gemini Enterprise targets large organizations, starting at a monthly fee of $30 per person. Gemini Business, for smaller clients, costs $21 per person each month. The offerings enable corporate workers to build agents that draw on data from Box, Microsoft and Salesforce products.Premade Google agents for software development, data science and customer engagement…
A view of mining facilities at the MP Materials rare earth mine in Mountain Pass, California, U.S. January 30, 2020. Steve Marcus | ReutersChina has tightened export controls on rare earths and related technologies while barring its citizens from participating in unauthorized mining overseas, adding fresh strains to a sector central to its geopolitical leverage.Foreign entities must now obtain a license from Beijing to export any products containing over 0.1% of domestically-sourced rare earths, or manufactured using China’s extraction, refining, magnet-making or recycling technology, the Ministry of Commerce said Thursday.To prevent the “misuse” of rare-earth minerals in the military and…
Oracle has positioned itself to take advantage of the artificial intelligence craze, which means big returns ahead for investors, according to Baird. The investment firm initiated coverage of the tech giant with an outperform rating and $365 price target, implying that shares could rise 27% from their Wednesday close. Baird analyst Rob Oliver pointed to Oracle’s strong positioning as an artificial intelligence growth story. “We view ORCL as very well positioned to benefit from the accelerating spend on AI infrastructure, and the convergence of AI, data and use-cases that will emerge from the move from training to inference,” he wrote.…
Piper Sandler is bullish on PNC Financial Services heading into its upcoming earnings report next week. Piper Sandler analyst Scott Siefers upgraded the regional bank to overweight rating from neutral. He also raised his price target to $220 from $211, signaling upside of 15.7%. Shares of PNC have slipped 1% on the year, offering an attractive entry point for a stock that usually trades at a premium, Siefers said. PNC YTD mountain PNC YTD chart “Despite strong fundamental performance, the shares have languished. They are basically flat YTD, and PNC is the second worst performing large regional we follow,” the…
A plane takes off from Hollywood Burbank Airport as operations resume a day after the airport operated for hours without a staffed control tower due to staffing shortages amid the U.S. government shutdown in Burbank, California, U.S., October 7, 2025. Daniel Cole | ReutersAir traffic control staffing issues are delaying flights for a second straight day at numerous U.S. airports as the government shutdown reaches its seventh day, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a notice on Tuesday.The FAA said many flights were being delayed at Nashville and Newark airports, among others. Arriving flights were being held for up to…
A Delta Air Lines Airbus A220 airplane prepares to takeoff at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty ImagesDelta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian told CNBC that the carrier’s operation is running smoothly despite the federal government shutdown, but if it goes another 10 days that could change.More than 13,000 U.S. flights were delayed this week, some of them due to shortages of air traffic controllers, raising concerns about strains on the country’s aviation industry during the shutdown.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Monday that the Federal Aviation Administration is seeing a…
A Tesla Model Y is seen on a Tesla car lot in Austin, Texas, on May 31, 2023.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesTesla debuted more affordable versions of its popular Model Y SUV and Model 3 sedan on Tuesday.The Model Y standard variant is priced just below $40,000, according to Tesla’s website, and the Model 3 standard starts at around $37,000.The company also released a new version of its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) driver assistance system early Tuesday.The EV maker’s stock closed 4.45% lower.Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company shared a teaser clip featuring a logo-emblazoned, spinning component that could…
A view of the logo of Novo Nordisk at the company’s office in Bagsvaerd, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark, March 8, 2024. Tom Little | ReutersNovo Nordisk said on Thursday it agreed to buy Akero Therapeutics for up to $5.2 billion, giving the Danish drugmaker access to the U.S.-based company’s experimental liver disease drug.The maker of blockbuster obesity drug Wegovy is pressing ahead with a sweeping restructuring in a bid to revive sales growth and fend off intense competition from U.S. rival Eli Lilly.Under the deal, Novo would pay Akero shareholders $54 per share upfront in cash, which represents a…
