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Cable-laying vessel Marmac 306 in New York Harbor, New York, USA, Thursday, July 17, 2025. The crew of a U.S.-flagged barge will lay cables to connect the Empire wind farm to New York City’s power grid, a milestone for a sector facing conflict. Brian Darvala Bloomberg | Getty ImagesEmpire Wind will resume construction off the coast of New York after a federal judge on Thursday temporarily lifted a blockade on the project by the Trump administration. The preliminary injunction issued by Judge Carl J. Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is the latest setback in…
As millions of Venezuelans wait to see what will become of their economically and politically devastated country, a fight has erupted between two female leaders over the country’s future leadership and the support of the US president. On one side is Maria Colina Machado, an opposition leader and Nobel laureate who has made a name for herself in recent years for her tenacious fight for democracy in Venezuela, facing off against ousted former dictator Nicolás Maduro. She largely went into hiding after Venezuela’s disputed 2024 presidential election, after which government-controlled election authorities declared Mr. Maduro the winner, allowing Mr. Maduro…
Actor Awards 2026 nominations: Cynthia Erivo, Gwyneth Paltrow and other snubs and surprisesThe Met Gala crown may be up for grabs for the acting award. The annual awards ceremony, formerly known as the SAG Awards, will have a dress code on the red carpet for the first time in its 31-year history. The fashion theme for the 2026 ceremony, which will be held on March 1 in Los Angeles and streamed on Netflix, will be “Reimagining the Hollywood Glamour of the ’20s and ’30s.” And the introduction of a dress code isn’t the only change that has drawn comparisons to…
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon speaks in an interview at the Economic Club in Washington, October 30, 2025.Kevin Lamarque | Reutersgoldman sachs CEO David Solomon said Thursday that the Wall Street investment giant is actively exploring opportunities in prediction markets, signaling growing institutional interest in a corner of finance that is gaining prominence among traders.”Prediction markets are also very interesting,” Solomon said on Goldman’s fourth-quarter earnings call, according to a FactSet transcript. “I personally met with two large forecasting companies and their leadership in the past two weeks and spent several hours with each to learn more about it. We…
U.S. President Donald Trump (right) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. CEO CC Wei (left) shake hands at the announcement of TSMC’s additional $100 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing at the White House on March 3, 2025 in Washington, DC.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBoosted by another blockbuster earnings report and a new trade deal between the US and Taiwan; Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is poised to accelerate its multibillion-dollar expansion in Arizona. The world’s largest contract chipmaker has already invested $165 billion in the United States, in line with Washington’s efforts to reshape domestic chip manufacturing. But TSMC…
Beijing — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney praised a new “strategic partnership” with China in a meeting with leader Xi Jinping on Friday, as the U.S. ally took steps to mend relations with China in the face of historic friction with Donald Trump. In a statement after the meeting, Ottawa said Canada will ease tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles and expects China to significantly lower barrier tariffs on Canadian canola seed later this year, a major step toward easing long-standing trade tensions. Mr. Carney’s visit to Canada will be his first since 2017, when relations between the two countries soured…
Nikki Glazer reveals cut jokes about Brad Pitt and other celebs at 2026 Golden Globessean penn I’m going out one after another. Three days after he attended the meeting, 2026 Golden Globe Awardsthe two-time Oscar winner enjoyed a low-key date with his girlfriend in Santa Monica, Calif. Valeria Nikov. During their Jan. 14 outing, Sean and Valeria, who made his red carpet debut at the Marrakech International Film Festival in November 2024, walked hand in hand with the actor, 65, who wore a navy jacket over a white long-sleeved button-down, gray pants, and white sneakers. Meanwhile, the 30-year-old model wore…
SEOUL, South Korea – Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner entered an all-white hall wearing costumes that embody the yin and yang of their bodies. Last week, at Hyundai Card’s headquarters in Seoul, Sinner, dressed all in black, and Alcaraz, in a white top and black bottoms, were greeted with thunderous applause.Their contrasting playing styles and on-court demeanors make the tennis rivals stand out as modern-day examples of a famous Chinese philosophy, but the two superstars, who flashed wide smiles and surprised faces in front of a crowd of reporters, photographers and nearly 100 employees in the South Korean capital, had…
A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Sports Newsletter with Alex Sherman. This newsletter brings you the biggest news and exclusive interviews from the world of sports business and media. Sign up to receive future editions directly to your inbox.As prediction market trading volume soars, Trust analysts say there may be a surprising reason behind the surge. Analyst Barry Jonas wrote this week that 18- to 20-year-olds, who are too young to gamble legally in most states, could be a big contributor to prediction market growth.Specifically, data from HoldCrunch, founded by a former FanDuel executive, shows that…
alphabet The stock price began 2025 as investors questioned whether Google could catch up with ChatGPT maker OpenAI in the AI race. By the end of the year, the stock had recorded its best performance since 2009. Google has regained its AI mojo. Much of it came from DeepMind, a British company that Google acquired in 2014 for around £400m.In a wide-ranging interview on CNBC’s new podcast “The Tech Download,” DeepMind founder and CEO Demis Hassabis called DeepMind the “engine room” for Google’s AI efforts, adding that the changes were made to help the tech giant quickly deploy AI products…