Official tallies in the Netherlands showed Democrats 66 and Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom locked on the same number of seats, ANP reported, turning a tense overnight lead for the centrists into a tie by morning. With about 15,000 more votes out of over nine million, Mr. Jetten’s party edged...
Stocks slid Thursday as Meta plunged about 12% and Microsoft fell more than 3% despite solid results and higher spending plans. Jim Cramer called Meta’s drop a buy and the CNBC Investing Club lifted both Meta and Microsoft to its top 1 rating. He applauded the Federal Reserve’s quarter-point cut...
Ohio’s bipartisan redistricting commission is poised to unveil a congressional map that modestly favors Republicans, shifting two Democratic districts right and one left while keeping 10 GOP-leaning seats and two Democratic strongholds. The unexpected deal averts a likely stalemate that could have sent mapping to the Republican-run Legislature and triggered...
Canva is relaunching Affinity as a single, all in one creative app for photo editing, vector illustration, and page layouts, promising it will be free forever with no subscription. Available now on Windows and Mac and coming to iPad, the app uses one universal file type and links directly to...
A famed Montana find known as the Dueling Dinosaurs, first uncovered on a summer day, has upended decades of T. rex dogma. In Nature, paleontologists Lindsay Zanno and James Napoli report that the carnivore entangled with a triceratops isn’t a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex but a grown Nanotyrannus lancensis, based on...
Fox News host Mark Levin slammed Steve Bannon for promoting a supposed plan for Donald Trump to seek a third term, calling him a liar and “self-serving demagogue.” Bannon fired back on Gettr and told The Economist there are “many different alternatives,” urging Americans to “get accommodated” to the idea....
The Senate passed a 51–47 resolution to end President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, with Republicans Rand Paul, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and former GOP leader Mitch McConnell joining Democrats. It was the third such vote this week, after measures targeting tariffs on Canada and Brazil. The resolutions would unwind the...
After a bruising two years, Dutch voters delivered a seismic yet inconclusive verdict. Preliminary forecasts put centrist liberal D66 on top with 26 seats, vaulting Rob Jetten, cheered by a boisterous crowd in Leiden, into pole position to try forming a coalition that many parties refuse to share with PVV...
Britain is stepping up efforts to evacuate its nationals from hurricane-battered Jamaica, chartering flights for Brits and immediate family with valid documents while prioritising children and those with medical needs. As many as 8,000 British nationals are believed to be on the island, where at least five people have died,...
A randomized trial of 850 adults with mild to moderate depression found that as-needed text or email psychotherapy led to similar 12 week improvements as weekly video sessions, according to JAMA Network Open. Though not an equivalence study, researchers saw no outcome differences and no adverse events. Participants were more...
