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Job-seeking impostors, including deepfakes, are exploiting the remote work trend, defrauding U.S. companies and potentially threatening U.S. national security, according to experts.Approximately 17% of hiring managers surveyed said they had encountered candidates using deepfake technology to alter their video interviews, according to career platform Resume Genius. It surveyed 1,000 hiring managers across the United States.By 2028, 1 in 4 job candidates worldwide will be fake, according to research and advisory firm Gartner.”Deepfake candidates are infiltrating the job market at a crazy, unprecedented rate,” said Vijay Balasubramaniyan, CEO of voice authentication startup Pindrop Security, who said he recently caught a deepfake…

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Inflation has fallen considerably, but it is still too high for Federal Reserve policymakers’ tastes. And tariffs make the calculation even more complicated.”We’ve had goods inflation just moving up a bit,” said Fed Chairman Jerome Powell at a news conference last month. “We do expect to see more of that over the course of the summer. It takes some time for tariffs to work their way through the chain of distribution to the end consumer.” CNBC considers Cost of Living among ten categories of competitiveness in our annual America’s Top States for Business rankings. Companies seeking to attract as many workers…

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Is President Donald Trump on the verge of firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell? It is a provocative question, to be sure, especially since the Supreme Court recently ruled that the Fed could not be included among the federal agencies whose employees and/or leaders that the president could fire at will. However, in recent days, Office of Management and Budget Chair Russell Vought, among other government officials, has accused Powell of mismanaging the renovation of the Marriner Eccles building, which is essentially Fed headquarters. Vought alleged that cost overruns have brought the price tag of modernizing the aging building to…

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A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in seven California counties, including Los Angeles.Immigrant advocacy groups filed the lawsuit last week accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of systematically targeting brown-skinned people in Southern California during its ongoing immigration crackdown. The plaintiffs include three detained immigrants and two U.S. citizens, one who was held despite showing agents his identification.The filing in U.S. District Court asked a judge to block the administration from using what they call unconstitutional tactics in immigration raids. Immigrant advocates accuse immigration officials of detaining someone based on their…

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One of the biggest problems with inflation is that once it has burrowed into an economy, it is very difficult to rid of it. Just when Federal Reserve policymakers thought they might have finally gotten the better of the inflation that gripped the U.S. economy following the pandemic, along came the specter of tariffs.Inflation varies by location. Corporate executives know this, too. As they seek locations that are more attractive to prospective employees, living costs are a key consideration. That is why we consider Cost of Living as one of ten categories of competitiveness in CNBC’s annual rankings of America’s…

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CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday told investors what to follow next week as earnings season kicks off, highlighting reports from JPMorgan, Netflix, Goldman Sachs and PepsiCo.”Once we process the new tariffs, we’ve got a ton of earnings reports coming next week, so you better keep your eyes open,” he said.Tuesday brings earnings from financial giants JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and BlackRock, and Cramer said he’ll be waiting to hear whether there has been any slowdown in spending or pick up in loan losses. While he said JPMorgan is “the star of the show,” he also cares about Wells Fargo, which…

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A farmworker at a Southern California cannabis farm died after being injured during a chaotic immigration raid by federal officers, the United Farm Workers said Friday.The labor union did not provide the name of the employee of Glass House Farms north of Los Angeles but confirmed that the worker plummeted some 30 feet.”These violent and cruel federal actions terrorize American communities, disrupt the American food supply chain, threaten lives and separate families,” UFW President Teresa Romero said in a statement to NBC News.Immigration officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Federal agents lobbed less-lethal weapons and tear gas…

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