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Every weekday, Jim Cramer’s CNBC Investment Club releases the Homestretch, a practical afternoon update to coincide with the last hour of trading on Wall Street. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell for the third consecutive session as the rotation from tech markets to less flashy areas of the market continued. Thursday’s 1% decline in the S&P 500 index pushed it into the red for the year. The Nasdaq’s 1.4% decline pushed the index further into negative territory in 2026. Bitcoin and silver crashed, with little effect as investors bought bonds for safety. For the club, consumer and healthcare-related stocks worked…
tel aviv — The brother of an Israeli security chief has been arrested along with 14 others in a major police raid on a smuggling ring suspected of transporting crates of illegal goods to the Gaza Strip. Bezalel Zini, the younger brother of Shin Bet leader David Zini, was arrested as part of what Israeli authorities say is a “systematic and sophisticated” operation to smuggle illegal cigarettes into Gaza for profit. According to the indictment, Bezalel Zini allegedly smuggled 14 packs of cigarettes into Gaza and received approximately 365,000 shekels (approximately $117,000) in payment. Prosecutors said in the indictment that…
Emilia Clarke’s brain aneurysmEmilia Clarke, who filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, published an essay in The New Yorker in 2019 titled “A Battle for My Life.”After suffering a severe headache at the gym, the actress writes, “I made it to the bathroom and fell to my knees feeling very, very sick.” “During that time, the pain was getting worse with shooting, stabbing, squeezing pain. On some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was swift and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a life-threatening type…
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) stands at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, February 4, 2026. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call Inc. | Getty ImagesMichigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin announced Thursday that she and five other Democratic senators declined to give a requested interview in response to a Justice Department investigation into a video in which she encouraged U.S. troops to disobey illegal orders.”I am not going to sit down for this investigation. I am not going to justify their actions,” Slotkin said in a videotaped statement posted to X.Mr. Slotkin’s lawyers also sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S.…
Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei speaks at the 56th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2026.Dennis Bariboos | ReutersAnthropic on Thursday announced the launch of its latest artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4.6. This model is said to help you code better, stay on task longer, and produce higher quality professional work products and deliverables. The Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s first major model launch of the year, and it comes just a few months after the company released three other models late last year: Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Claude Haiku 4.5.…
Nancy Guthrie’s health condition revealed, requires medication to survive As the search continues for Nancy, authorities have stressed that she needs to take daily medication to survive, something she likely doesn’t have. “This woman is an 84-year-old woman who suffers from several physical illnesses, has physical problems, and requires medication,” Nanos said at a press conference on February 2. “Medications can be fatal if not taken within 24 hours.” “So we implore anyone who knows anything about this, anyone who has seen anything, anyone who has heard anything, to contact us,” he continued. “Call 911. We don’t need another tragic…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) (left) and Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al NahyanGetty Images | ReutersMassachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will ask the Senate on Thursday to condemn and reverse the sale of 500,000 advanced artificial intelligence chips to the United Arab Emirates. Warren’s resolution, shared exclusively with CNBC, follows last week’s Wall Street Journal report that United Arab Emirates Emir Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, also known as the “Head of Spies,” secretly purchased a 49% stake in the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial just days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The stock reportedly channeled approximately $187 million to Trump family…
Meta is testing a standalone Vibes app, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Launched last September, Vibes lets you create and share short-form AI-generated videos and access a dedicated feed that shows other users’ AI videos. Think TikTok or Instagram Reels. But all the videos you see are generated by AI. Previously, feeds existed within the Meta AI app. By making Vibes available outside of the Meta AI app, the company is positioning it as a more direct competitor to Sora, OpenAI’s AI-generated video and social app, which was released shortly after Vibes. “Following strong early traction for Vibes…
Software, legal services and video game stocks have been sold off in recent weeks on concerns that new AI capabilities and tools could be wiped out. But how real is that threat? We decided to find out.CNBC’s Deidre Bosa and I use Anthropic’s AI coding tool Claude Code to Monday.coma project management platform with a market cap of $5 billion. We are not developers and had no coding experience. However, we are adept at vibe coding tools. It is an AI tool that allows you to build apps that function based on plain English commands from users, including those with…
london — Duchess Kate spoke about her experience with cancer in a very personal video message released on Wednesday to mark World Cancer Day. Kate, 44, who was diagnosed with cancer two years ago and is now in remission, has this to say to those affected by the disease: “Know that you are not alone.” She says the cancer journey is not a linear experience, and there are “moments of fear and exhaustion,” but also “moments of strength, kindness, and deep connection.” In a message posted on social media, she can be heard saying in a video narration that the…