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U.S. President Donald Trump attends a board meeting for the Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 17, 2025. Carlos Barria | ReutersPreviously classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released Tuesday following an order by President Donald Trump shortly after he took office.The documents were posted on the website of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. The vast majority of the National Archives’ collection of over 6 million pages of records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts related to the assassination have previously been released.Trump told reporters Monday that has administration will be releasing 80,000 files, though it’s…

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The parents of Sudiksha Konanki, the 20-year-old college student who went missing during a spring break trip to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, said they had come to terms with the possibility she had drowned, and asked for privacy to mourn her, according to officials and a statement to the media on Tuesday.Their sorrowful statement came more than a week after her disappearance on March 6 grabbed headlines around the world, and led to repeated questioning of the last person seen with her.“Sudiksha’s family has expressed their belief that she drowned,” the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia said in a…

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CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday suggested that despite the fervor for artificial intelligence, investors are no longer willing to pay high prices for stocks related to the technology because of a pervasive uncertain macroeconomic environment.”Why is this happening to us? Why do our stocks go down when nothing’s happened to the companies underneath?” he asked. “Look, when everyone’s terrified that a piano’s about to fall on their heads, they don’t want to get hit by the baby grand — and right now they don’t want to own the falling stocks either.”Cramer cited “multiple compression,” a term that refers to a stock’s…

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Dividend stocks reward investors with the potential for enhanced returns over time, and a few companies may have the wherewithal to start offering the payments, according to Morgan Stanley. A few big names joined the ranks of dividend payers in 2024, led by tech giants Meta Platforms , Alphabet and Salesforce , that began making cash payouts. The income payments themselves were modest to start with — dividend yields remain well below 1% — but Facebook parent Meta already announced a 5% dividend hike in February, to roughly 53 cents per share. Dividends reward long-term shareholders, who have the option…

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It’s time to buy the weakness in stocks like Alphabet and Block , according to Eva Ados, ERShares COO and chief investment strategist. Ados appeared on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” on Tuesday to give her take on some of the market’s biggest movers of the day. Here is what she had to say during “Three-Stock Lunch.” Alphabet Google parent Alphabet is not only trading at a huge discount to its peers, but it’s also making strides in the security space with its deal to acquire cloud security startup Wiz, according to Ados. “It’s a buy. I like Google. I think it’s…

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Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 14, 2025, at the opening bell. Timothy A. Clary | Afp | Getty ImagesStock futures hovered near the flatline Tuesday night as the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision looms.Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 10 points, or 0.02%. S&P 500 futures slipped 0.01%, while Nasdaq 100 futures were flat.Investors are coming off of a rough Tuesday, which saw the recent market sell-off come back in full force after two winning sessions.The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.6%, while the S&P 500 shed more than 1%. The broad market index ended…

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Federal Trade Commission Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter (L) and Alvaro Bedoya (R) sit behind FTC Chair Lina Khan as she testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 13, 2023 in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesThe two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said they were illegally fired by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies.The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter released separate statements saying they had been…

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