OCTOBER 14, 2025
People watch the sunset from the Washington Monument ahead of the first supermoon of the year, known as the Harvest Moon, rising above the National Mall, in view of the dome of the U.S. Capitol during the sixth day of a shutdown of the federal government in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 6, 2025.
Douglas Jackson, a service-disabled veteran...
OCTOBER 14, 2025
President Donald Trump holds a signed document during a summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. via Associated Press
A BBC Middle East expert has delivered a brutal reality check to Donald Trump’s claims that the war between Israel and Hamas “is over”.
The US president made the bold prediction as world leaders gathered in Sharm El-Sheikh in...
OCTOBER 14, 2025
Several major US airports - including Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International, Portland International, Seattle-Tacoma International, Charlotte Douglas International Airport and three in New York - are refusing to play a video of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in which she blames Democrats for the federal government shutdown.
The dispute highlights the remarkable push by the Department of...
OCTOBER 12, 2025
Andrew Ross Sorkin and Lesley Stahl at the NYSE / Credit: 60 Minutes
After nearly a decade spent studying the most famous stock market crash in history, financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin warns that the Wall Street of today echoes the market of 1929, when highs preceded a massive slump, leading to the Great Depression.
Artificial intelligence and technology...
OCTOBER 12, 2025
Patrick James borrowed billions from some big banks to scoop up auto-parts plants and create First Brands. - Elizabeth Arvelos Coetzee/WSJ
Patrick James was watching the film “Minari” about a family of South Korean immigrants who moved in the 1980s to rural Arkansas when he leaned over to his son and whispered: “This is what it felt like when...
OCTOBER 12, 2025
Pictured: ZEEKR’s Intelligent Factory in Ningbo, China. The country is now viewed as a leader in advanced robotics
“It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen,” said Ford’s chief executive about his recent trip to China.
After visiting a string of factories, Jim Farley was left astonished by the technical innovations being packed into Chinese cars – from self-driving...
OCTOBER 12, 2025
The real winners on clean energy. - Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images
As President Donald Trump pressures world leaders to abandon the energy transition in favor of a U.S.-led fossil fuel resurgence, the status of India’s gas-fired power plants helps explain why his pitch isn’t getting much traction.
Half of that fleet in India is sitting idle. Although electricity demand is exploding, and the...
OCTOBER 10, 2025
Solar panels in the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan area in California are shown. - Tom Brewster Photography/Bureau of Land Management/Flickr
The Trump administration’s cancellation of what would have been one of the world’s largest solar power projects has some industry observers fretting over the future of renewable energy on public lands.
They predicted the Esmeralda 7 project — by far the...
OCTOBER 10, 2025
The U.S. Capitol behind construction sandbags in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8, 2025, the eighth day of the federal government shutdown.
WASHINGTON, D.C. ‒ President Donald Trump on Friday followed through on his long-standing threat to fire federal workers during the government shutdown, taking aggressive action to downsize the government in a dramatic break from past shutdowns.
“The RIFs have begun,” Russell...
OCTOBER 10, 2025
Peter Thiel attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., July 6, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has urged long-time associate Elon Musk to quit the Giving Pledge under which signatories leave the majority of their...
