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Who is Sheinelle Jones’ husband? The same ingenuity that guided Jones’ career led to her quick thinking when she first spied on her future husband. “I was a fake tour guide,” she told Northwestern Magazine about the time she led the boy, then a high school senior, around the lakeside campus. Even though she was on her way to class.”I said I would take her with me because she was cute. ” From there, they planned a decades-long journey. After eight years of dating and two false starts (she once thought he was proposing when he gave her a Tiffany…

Jersey Mike’s Subs is planning its first European expansion this year, bringing its signature sandwiches overseas, the company announced Monday. This drive is led by the brand’s founder and chairman of the board, Peter Cancro, through his company JM Submarines UK Ltd.The deal between Jersey Mike’s and the Cancro entity calls for the company to open 400 stores in the UK and Ireland, the first in a series of plans for international growth. Privately owned Jersey Mike’s was acquired by Blackstone in late 2024 for a reported $8 billion. “All consumers, not just here in the U.S. but around the…

When Meta released its capital expenditure forecast last year, the company revealed that it planned to invest significantly to increase its AI business capabilities. “We expect developing a cutting-edge AI infrastructure to be a core advantage in developing the best AI models and product experiences,” Meta CFO Susan Li said on an earnings call last summer. Now, the tech giant appears to be delivering on that promise. On Monday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Meta Computing, a new initiative designed to power the tech giant’s AI infrastructure. Zuckerberg said the company intends to significantly expand its energy usage…

As Wall Street’s top bankers gathered in New York last month to prepare to persuade Elon Musk’s SpaceX to choose them to head its upcoming IPO, one company couldn’t afford to let its star advisors miss out on the bakeoff.Among the troops of JP Morgan Chase The investment bankers who flew 4,500 miles west to California to pitch SpaceX were the lender’s boss, billionaire CEO Jamie Dimon, a person familiar with the trip told CNBC.The morning after that pitch meeting, Dec. 19, Mr. Dimon was already back in his usual early Friday morning position. I sat in the lobby of…

Smart rings, smart screens, smart TVs, smart pins, smart… ice cube makers? Of course you wouldn’t. AI was everywhere at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, with companies big and small showing off how they’re bringing it to more devices. For Amazon, CES was an opportunity to show off its latest acquisition in the space: Bee. Bee is an AI device that can be worn as a clip-on pin or bracelet. Amazon has already entered the AI ​​consumer device space with Alexa, and its upgraded AI-powered version, Alexa+, can run on 97% of the hardware devices shipped…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has written directly to Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins asking for clarification on how the SEC intends to fulfill its mission of protecting investors as it seeks to uphold President Trump’s order to allow cryptocurrency investments in retirement plans.In August, President Trump signed an executive order clearing the way for alternative assets, including cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and private equity funds, to be more widely offered across traditional retirement plans such as 401(k) plans.”For most Americans, 401(k)s represent a lifeline to retirement security, not a playground of financial risk. Allowing cryptocurrencies into America’s retirement accounts would…

Ukrainian civilians have endured their worst year since Russia began a full-scale invasion of the country in 2022, with more than 2,500 people killed in 2025, the United Nations said in a new report Monday. The United Nations Human Rights Observatory in Ukraine has confirmed that 2,514 civilians were killed and 12,142 injured in conflict-related violence in Ukraine in 2025, almost all of them as a result of Russian attacks on Ukrainian-controlled areas. The UN report clearly shows that no place in Ukraine is safe. During the Russian attack, more than a third of the civilians killed and injured were…

2026 Golden Globe Awards’ Biggest Winners: Timothée Chalamet, One Battle After Another and MoreThere’s no party like Hamnet’s dance party. In fact, Jesse Buckley and director Chloe Zhao celebrated the film’s two major wins at the 2026 Golden Globes (Jesse won Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama, and Hamnet won Best Picture) with an ABBA-themed dance party for the ages. (See all winners here.) The pair, who both wore baby blue silk dresses at the awards ceremony, capped off their triumphant night by dancing and singing to “Dancing Queen” at the Golden Globes afterparty, as seen in footage shared…

The criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is once again testing the independence of the U.S. central bank, reinforcing the view among global investors that they need to diversify away from U.S. assets.”That seems to be happening this morning,” Julien Lafargue, chief market strategist at Barclays Private Bank, told CNBC’s “Europe Early Edition” on Monday.futures of S&P500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq All fell on Monday after the Justice Department launched an investigation into the $2.5 billion renovation of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters.Stock chart iconStock chart iconUS 10 year government bond.In a video statement tweeted by the…

OpenAI has acquired healthcare technology startup Torch, the company announced on Monday. OpenAI acquired Torch for about $60 million, said a person familiar with the deal, who requested anonymity because the details are confidential.Torch was building an “unified medical memory” for artificial intelligence that aims to unify patient health data, typically siled and stored across different vendors and formats, into one place. Torch employees will join OpenAI as part of the acquisition, the companies said. “We can’t think of a better next chapter than putting our technology and ideas into the hands of the hundreds of millions of people who…