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Despite high tensions between the Trump administration and some of America’s closest allies over tariffs and Ukraine, foreign ministers from the Group of 7 industrialized democracies who were meeting this week in Canada forged common ground in a communiqué that glossed over many of their sharp differences.Top diplomats from Canada, the host of the gathering, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the European Union meeting at the idyllic resort town of La Malbaie in Charlevoix, Quebec, presented a cautiously united front, notably on Ukraine, a key point of divergence since President Trump took office.In a statement released…

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JPMorgan touts Bristol Myers Squibb as a top biopharma pick. Jim Cramer is also quite fond of it. The news In a Friday note, JPMorgan analysts said Bristol Myers is well positioned to “further re-rate” as Cobenfy goes wider. The oral drug designed to help treat adults with schizophrenia has the potential to reach peak sales of $10 billion or more annually, according to the analysts. Bristol Myers also has “several additional pipeline readouts pending” this year and in 2026, the analysts said, adding that the drugmaker’s shares are still trading at a steep discount in comparison to its peers.…

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In this photo illustration, the logo for the US tech firm “Block” is displayed and reflected in a number of digital screens on March 03, 2023 in London, England. Leon Neal | Getty ImagesWith its stock down more than 30% this year and revenue growth slowing, Jack Dorsey’s Block is going bigger in lending.The company on Thursday said it secured approval from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to originate loans through its banking subsidiary, Square Financial Services, allowing it to offer small-dollar consumer loans directly rather than relying on external banking partners.It’s an expansion of Cash App Borrow, the company’s short-term…

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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — A decade on, it’s not the tension they remember most. It’s not the fear that after 14 years of anger and hurt, after all the attempts at rapprochement between the BNP Paribas Open tournament organizers and Serena Williams that never seemed to go anywhere, that one person among the 16,000 in the main stadium of the Indian Wells Tennis Garden might wreck it all once again.They don’t remember the tension because they tried to ignore the possibility. Maybe if they thought only about the opposite, they could manifest it.“Just a lot of anticipating how she would…

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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) holds a press conference following the Senate Democrats weekly policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., November 19, 2024. Elizabeth Frantz | ReutersSenate Republicans teamed up with a small band of Democrats on Friday to advance a stopgap funding bill, clearing the path for a final vote to avert a government shutdown.The bill cleared a key procedural hurdle on a 62-38 vote, with 10 Democrats joining all but one Republican in voting in favor. Sixty votes were needed to overcome a filibuster.The vote came after a dramatic 48 hours during which Senate…

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U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance attends a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesVice President JD Vance expressed confidence Friday that a deal to sell TikTok and keep the social media app running in the U.S. would largely be in place by an April deadline.”There will almost certainly be a high-level agreement that I think satisfies our national security concerns, allows there to be a distinct American TikTok enterprise,” Vance, whom President Donald Trump has asked to help…

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Pedestrians walk by an advertisement for Klarna.Daniel Harvey Gonzalez | In Pictures via Getty ImagesKlarna, a provider of buy now, pay later loans filed its IPO prospectus on Friday, and plans to go public on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol KLAR. Klarna, headquartered in Sweden, hasn’t yet disclosed the number of shares to be offered or the expected price range.The decision to go public in the U.S. deals a significant blow to European stock exchanges, which have struggled to retain homegrown tech firms. Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski had hinted for years that a U.S. listing was more…

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Time zones don’t affect Jordan Chiles.She declares this while sitting in a hotel conference room near the University of Maryland, more than 2,600 miles from her Los Angeles townhouse. It’s 10 p.m. on a Friday in January, the night before a competition. She already split her week between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where she flew for a Time Magazine “Women of the Year” photoshoot that Thursday, and she and her teammates had just spent their day touring Washington D.C., making stops at the Washington Monument and the World War II Memorial.The schedule sounds exhausting. But…

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