Pentagon orders aircraft carrier to Latin America, boosting U.S. military buildup in the region to more than 10,000 sailors and Marines
The USS Gerald R. Ford, which has five destroyers in its strike group, is now deployed to the Mediterranean Sea.
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From trading floors to streaming wars: Grindr’s ex-CFO on taking career risks at the right time
From Wall Street, to streaming, to social tech, Vanna Krantz says her biggest career wins came from trusting her instincts and knowing when to jump.
Does the UN need to be run like a business? Ikea CEO Jesper Brodin may get the chance
The outgoing Ikea chief is Sweden’s nominee to serve as the UN high commissioner for refugees.
With $1 trillion pay package on the line, Elon Musk blasts influential firms telling shareholders to reject it: ‘Those guys are corporate terrorists’
Musk also criticized the role of proxy advisory firms generally.
The Fed just lost a key data feed on the job market days before its next rate meeting. A former BLS chief warns it’s ‘very concerning’ as Powell is left ‘flying blind’
A once-obscure data-sharing deal between ADP and the Fed helped shape monetary policy for years—until it abruptly vanished.
Prince Harry, Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, and ‘AI godfathers’ call on AI labs to halt their pursuit of ‘superintelligence’—warning the technology could surpass human control
An open letter backed by AI pioneers, policymakers, and public figures urges tech companies to pause the race toward superintelligent AI, warning that unchecked development could outpace human control and endanger society.
An American chess grandmaster is dead at 29, and players are in an uproar about it. Here’s what’s going on
Daniel Naroditsky, a chess prodigy, achieved the title of grandmaster when he was just 18 years old.
As government shutdown persists, ICE agents are among the still-paid employees receiving ‘super checks’ including lost pay and overtime
Public finance expert Linda Bilmes says the “arbitrariness” of who gets paid and who doesn’t during shutdowns exposes the “dysfunction” of the budget approval process.
Former Sears boss says CEOs won’t challenge Trump’s tariffs out of ‘cowardice’—but the holidays are fast approaching, and ‘the party is over’
He expects many shelves at retailers will be empty this holiday season.
