Why Japan is one of the only countries that isn’t fed up with housing costs
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Iran’s ballistic missiles have questionable accuracy, but Russia may not care
Russia is adding Iranian ballistic missiles to its arsenal against Ukraine, but claims about their accuracy are dubious. Russia…
Netflix is fighting in court to protect the private sources in ‘Inventing Anna’ magazine article
Rachel Williams is suing Netflix over the way she was portrayed in “Inventing Anna,” a show about scammer Anna…
Stock market today: S&P 500 notches 5-day streak of gains ahead of next week’s Fed meeting
US stocks jumped on Friday as investors assessed look ahead to a likely rate cut from the Federal Reserve…
Xi may be holding back on economic stimulus because of Trump’s tariff threat, an economist says
Chinese leader Xi Jinping could be holding back on economic stimulus as China would be needing it more if…
China to raise its retirement age for the first time in decades
China will gradually raise its retirement age. China will gradually raise its retirement age in response to an aging…
The Fed needs to ‘start getting out of the way’ and deliver a big rate cut next week, famed economist Claudia Sahm says
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell participates in a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the U.S. Treasury…
Justin Timberlake’s post-guilty plea advice: ‘Take an Uber’
“Call a friend. Take an Uber,” Timberlake advised. “There’s many travel apps.” Justin Timberlake took a plea deal in…
OpenAI takes another step closer to getting AI to think like humans with new ‘o1’ model
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The line separating human intelligence from artificial intelligence just got more narrow. OpenAI on Thursday…
Stock market today: S&P 500 hits 4-day winning streak as stocks rise after latest inflation data
The S&P 500 hit a four-day streak of gains on Thursday. Indexes ended higher on Thursday after the latest…