Hiring in the US slows, though employers still added a solid 139,000 jobs in May
U.S. employers slowed hiring last month, but still added a solid 139,000 jobs amid uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s trade wars. Hiring fell…
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Wall Street opens higher following a solid jobs report
Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street following a better-than-expected report on the U.S. job market. The S&P 500 index rose…
Elon Musk pulls back on threat to withdraw Dragon spacecraft
As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk argued on social media on Thursday, the world’s richest man threatened to decommission a space capsule used to…
Wall Street listless in premarket ahead of more US labor market data releases
Wall Street was slightly uneven in modest premarket trading Thursday ahead of pair of employment reports coming from the…
Ukraine’s drone attack on Russian air bases is a lesson for the West on its vulnerabilities
The targets were Russian warplanes, including strategic bombers and command-and-control aircraft, worth hundreds of millions of…
Wall Street drifts as financial markets worldwide hold relatively steady
U.S. stocks are drifting on Tuesday, and financial markets worldwide are holding relatively steady as the wait continues for more updates on…
Trump asks the Supreme Court to clear the way for federal downsizing plans
President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday renewed its request for the Supreme Court to clear the way for plans to…
Tulsa’s new Black mayor proposes $100M trust to ‘repair’ impact of 1921 Race Massacre
Tulsa’s new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the…
Thousands evacuated in 3 provinces as Canadian wildfires threaten air quality into some US states
More than 25,000 residents in three provinces have been evacuated as dozens of wildfires remained active Sunday and diminished air quality in…
US inflation gauge cools with little sign of tariff impact, so far
A key U.S. inflation gauge slowed last month as President Donald Trump’s tariffs have yet to noticeably push up prices, while American incomes jumped.