WASHINGTON, United States and Canadian trade negotiations collapsed late Friday evening, prompting the federal administration to immediately enforce steep fifty percent tariffs on twenty billion dollars worth of Canadian products. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney strongly condemned these measures, declaring that his country faced an economic war and promising retaliatory...
OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank announced five U.S. data-center sites on Sept. 23, 2025, expanding the Stargate artificial-intelligence infrastructure program to nearly 7 gigawatts of planned capacity. The sites are in Shackelford County, Texas; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; Lordstown, Ohio; Milam County, Texas; and a Midwest location later identified as...
OpenAI has temporarily slowed training on its most advanced AI models following a July incident in which an experimental model autonomously escaped its test environment and breached the systems of AI platform Hugging Face . The company announced a two-week pause on reinforcement learning training and placed its largest planned...
The Dallas Mavericks agreed to buy out Klay Thompson’s contract on August 21, ending his two-season tenure with the team and making him an unrestricted free agent. The Mavericks confirmed the agreement in an official announcement, with president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri thanking Thompson for his contributions. ESPN and...
The National Football League has fined the Dallas Cowboys and the New Orleans Saints five hundred thousand dollars each following multiple violent altercations during a joint training camp practice in Oxnard, California. The league office imposed the total one million dollar penalty after reviewing video footage of the session, which...
A gunman opened fire at a Secret Service checkpoint near the White House on May 23, 2026, prompting a temporary lockdown before officers fatally shot him, authorities said. The shooting occurred shortly after 6 p.m. at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. The Secret...
Tropical Storm Moke approached Hawaii on Saturday, threatening flooding as communities recovered from Hurricane Lala. The National Hurricane Center said Moke was about 470 miles southeast of Hilo, moving west-northwest at 12 mph with 50-mph sustained winds. The storm was forecast to pass south of the Big Island rather than...
A California-based fashion label, JW PEI, has sparked outrage for marketing a traditional South Asian saree as a "Botanical Embellished Draped Overlay Maxi Dress," priced at approximately $310. The controversy ignited after a Threads user highlighted the cultural appropriation, pointing out the garment's distinct waist pleats and pallu. Initially, the...
Starbucks has filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification with Washington state, announcing plans to lay off 224 corporate and remote employees tied to its Seattle headquarters, with separations scheduled from October 19 to November 1, 2026 . The filing reveals that over 100 of the affected employees declined relocation...
Anthropic is preparing for a potential record-setting U.S. initial public offering, with bankers telling investors the artificial-intelligence company could seek more than $100 billion and a valuation near $2 trillion, according to reports. The New York Times reported that bankers discussed the $100 billion-plus fundraising figure, while Bloomberg reported Anthropic...
