John Phillips | Digital Editor for CNBC.comChina will deepen its rural reforms as part of efforts to revitalize the agricultural sector and bolster food security in the face of U.S. tariffs, an economic slowdown and climate change, state media reported on Sunday, citing a rural policy document.The State Council’s annual rural policy blueprint, known as the “No.1 document”, outlined plans to improve rewards and subsidy systems for major grain-producing areas, promoting the industrialization of biotech cultivation among other measures, state news agency Xinhua reported.Grain production in the world’s top grain importer reached a record high of 706.5 million metric tons…
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A popular medical monitor is the latest device produced in China to receive scrutiny for its potential cyber risks. However, it is not the only health device we should be concerned about. Experts say the proliferation of Chinese health-care devices in the U.S. medical system is a cause for concern across the entire ecosystem. The Contec CMS8000 is a popular medical monitor that tracks a patient’s vital signs. The device tracks electrocardiograms, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, non-invasive blood pressure, temperature, and respiration rate. In recent months, the FDA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) both warned about a “backdoor”…
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Sunday that he was willing to step down if it meant peace in Ukraine. His remark came days after President Trump questioned his legitimacy and called him a “dictator without elections,” echoing a Kremlin talking point.At the same time, he continued to push back against Mr. Trump’s insistence that he sign a minerals deal that Ukraine says is unpalatable. And he announced a meeting on Monday of over 30 countries in person or online as a kind of coalition of support for Ukraine’s war effort.It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Zelensky had…
President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported goods have investors on edge as they could pressure a slew of companies regardless of sector. Within his first month back in office, he placed a 10% levy on all Chinese goods. China then retaliated with tariffs of up to 15% on select U.S. imports, including coal and liquified national gas products. U.S. neighbors Canada and Mexico have also been targets of the Trump administration. Trump earlier in February announced a 25% tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports. Those duties were quickly halted for a month, though there has been little indication that the…
Throughout her career, Elizabeth Gore, 47, has had a passion for entrepreneurs. “I really had a fever, which I still do, about small business,” she says.Gore grew up in Texas and got her bachelor’s in animal sciences at Texas A&M University, initially thinking she would work on her family’s cattle farm. A college internship for a senator on Capitol Hill convinced her to pivot, and she ultimately worked at the United Nations Foundation for nine years helping building initiatives like Girl Up. It was there that she “got really obsessed with how critical small business owners are to the world,”…
A vehicle carries the coffins of former Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, who were killed in Israeli airstrikes last year, during a public funeral ceremony, in Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, on Feb. 23, 2025. Thaier Al-sudani | ReutersTens of thousands of people gathered on the outskirts of Beirut on Sunday to pay their respects to Hezbollah’s slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike in a stunning blow to the Iran-backed group.The killing of Nasrallah, who led the Shi’ite Muslim group through decades of conflict…
Cooling towers and reactors 3 and 4 are seen at the nuclear-powered Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Waynesboro, Georgia, U.S. Aug. 13, 2024. Megan Varner | ReutersExpanding two power plants in Georgia and South Carolina with big, new reactors was supposed to spark a “nuclear renaissance” in the U.S. after a generation-long absence of new construction. Instead, Westinghouse Electric Co.’s state-of-the-art AP1000 design resulted in long delays and steep cost overruns, culminating in its bankruptcy in 2017. The fall of Westinghouse was a major blow for an industry that the company had helped usher in at the dawn of the nuclear age.…
Mellody Hobson, 54, grew up in a single-parent, low-income household. Her mother’s money habits made her financially anxious at a young age.”There was just a shortage at all times. We would get evicted, our phone would get disconnected. … There was one time we were living in an abandoned building,” Hobson said on an episode of “The Oprah Podcast” that aired in January. “My mom would buy Easter dresses instead of paying the light bill.”Mismanaging your family’s money, and not appropriately demonstrating the value of money to your kids, are two toxic habits, says Hobson, who is now a co-CEO…
Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | APAfter posting almost 200 videos, amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and racking up millions of views, Carla Lalli Music is quitting YouTube. Substack is her new focus. Music is a cookbook author and food content creator, and she is shifting her focus to Substack, a subscription platform that lets creators charge users subscriptions for access to their content. Music told CNBC she came to that decision after earning more in one year of using Substack, nearly $200,000 in revenue, than she did by posting videos on YouTube since 2021. Music is the exact kind of…
In furtive messages, sent through handmade signs, hidden phones and gestures behind glass, some of the migrants expressed a sense of constant, overwhelming fear.Most did not want their faces to be seen, fearful of repercussions for being photographed by journalists. We did as much window-to-window communication as we could.In the central room, Artemis Ghasemzadeh, a 27-year-old migrant from Iran, scrawled “Help” on the window in lipstick. She was one of the few who did not conceal their face.Outside, my colleague, the New York Times reporter Julie Turkewitz, held up a notebook with her phone number, written for the migrants to…
