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Todd Lyons, Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), speaks at a press conference about Operation Midway Blitz, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement campaign, from a hangar in Gary, Indiana, on October 30, 2025. Leah Millis | ReutersA detained immigrant whose case prompted a senior Minnesota federal judge to threaten the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with contempt of court has been released in Texas, according to a court filing Wednesday.In a letter, the released immigrant’s lawyer, Juan Hugo Tobay Robles, told the judge that “contempt proceedings may still be appropriate” given that the federal government violated…
Over the last year, we’ve seen a number of AI browsers from companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, Opera, and The Browser Company aiming to replace Chrome with features like sidebar assistants and automated tasks. Now, Google is enhancing its AI capabilities by adding similar features to Chrome, the world’s largest browser by market share. Google introduced Gemini to Chrome last September, but the assistant existed in a floating window. With this update, the company will put an AI helper in a persistent sidebar, so you can ask questions about your current website or other open tabs. One interesting feature that Google…
On Wednesday, January 28, 2026, a television station broadcast the Federal Reserve Board’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting held at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, USA.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesof S&P500 It reached a milestone on Wednesday, reaching 7,000 for the first time, but lowered the level after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged and raised its economic growth assessment.The broader market index ended the day down 0.01% at 6,978.03. Earlier, the S&P 500 index rose 0.3% on the day to hit an intraday high…
Election Day, November 5, 2024, at a polling place at the Davis Student Center at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.Washington Post | Washington Post | Getty ImagesThe age of AI super PACs is here, with ballot drop boxes being installed at sites across the country ahead of the midterm elections. If there is an election-winning formula that the AI industry is trying to replicate, it is the crypto industry’s highly effective lobbying drive in 2024.Crypto-friendly super PAC Fairshake was the single largest corporate donor in the 2024 election cycle, supporting more than 50 candidates elected to…
The FBI raided Fulton County, Georgia’s election office over 2020 election concerns related to the Trump-Biden race.Published January 28, 2026January 28, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareThe U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is executing a search warrant against the Fulton County, Georgia, election office in connection with the 2020 U.S. election, an agency spokesperson said.An FBI spokesperson said agents were “conducting court-authorized law enforcement operations” at the county’s main elections office in Union City, just south of Atlanta. A spokesperson declined to provide further information, citing ongoing issues.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listFBI agents were…
Patrick Reed is set to return to the PGA Tour after announcing his retirement from LIV Golf.The 2018 Masters champion joined LIV in 2022, but last week announced he was interested in returning to the PGA Tour after fellow American Brooks Koepka was given a path to the same transfer through the newly established Returning Players Program. Reed released a statement on Wednesday confirming his decision to leave LIV and play on the DP World Tour for the remainder of 2026, but said he would “return to the PGA Tour as a past champion member” in 2027. The PGA Tour…
Handshake, an AI data label startup, has acquired Cleanlab, a data label audit startup, the companies told TechCrunch. Handshake started in 2013 as a platform for hiring college graduates and launched its human data labeling business about a year ago to serve basic AI modeling companies. Founded in 2021, Cleanlab is a startup that provides software that improves the quality of data created by human labelers. The purpose of this transaction is primarily a talent acquisition, otherwise known as an acquisition, which will add nine key Clean Lab employees to Handshake’s research organization. This includes the startup’s co-founders Curtis Northcutt…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday that President Donald Trump has a force to be reckoned with in the stock market, but whether he helps or hurts companies depends on where they stand. “Whatever you do, you have to factor in both the positive and negative aspects of government,” Cramer said on “Mad Money” after outlining the impact of the president’s policies on five stocks that made notable moves in Tuesday’s trading. First, Kramer singled out the group that went bankrupt on Tuesday: the nation’s largest health insurance company. shares of united health and humana It plummeted by more than 20%.…
American businessman Tim Cook looks on at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 20, 2026.Ludovic Marin | AFP | Getty Imagesapple CEO Tim Cook said in a memo to employees this week that he was “heartbroken” by the situation in Minneapolis and called for de-escalation, CNBC confirmed Wednesday.”Now is the time to relax,” Cook wrote in a memo obtained by Bloomberg, which first reported the news. “I believe America is strongest when we live up to our highest ideals, treat all people with dignity and respect, no matter who they are or where they come…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at the Hoover Institution’s George P. Shulz Memorial Lecture Series in Stanford, California, December 1, 2025.Jason Henry | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Fed has not yet responded to a grand jury subpoena issued by federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., as part of a criminal investigation into Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC on Wednesday.The investigation into Mr. Powell continues, said the person, who spoke hours before the Fed announced its decision to hold interest rates.Powell said on January 11 that he was under criminal investigation. The investigation is being…