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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends a press conference at the White House on January 7, 2026 in Washington.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersThe federal government’s new dietary recommendations have sparked mixed reactions from the struggling restaurant industry, as the change in guidelines could lead Americans to eat out less often or choose from fewer restaurants when they go out.The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture released nutritional guidelines on Wednesday. The recommendations, updated every five years, call for increasing intake of protein and full-fat dairy products and decreasing intake of…
Various Halliburton equipment stored at an equipment yard in Alvarado, Texas.Cooper Neal | ReutersFresh off a bumper harvest in 2025, retail investors are rushing back into the market with an eye on energy stocks.Daily traders bought at the start of the 2026 trading year at the second-highest level in about eight months, according to a JPMorgan report released Wednesday. Oil stocks received particular attention among retail investors following the U.S. attack on Venezuela over the weekend, data showed.”Retail investors are favoring some companies that could quickly benefit from the potential return of Venezuelan heavy crude oil (to the U.S.) and…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gives a speech introducing Meta’s new line of smart glasses wearing Meta Ray-Ban display glasses during the MetaConnect event held at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, USA on September 17, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reutersmeta announced Friday deals with three nuclear power producers, including one backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as part of an effort to secure the resources needed for its AI ambitions. The deals with Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo, all of which work on nuclear technology, are for Meta’s Prometheus supercluster computing system being built in its New Albany, Ohio, data…
US President Donald Trump’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3 emboldens him to move forward with the annexation of the Danish-owned autonomous territory of Greenland, effectively ending NATO and furthering Russia’s war aims in Ukraine, experts told Al Jazeera.The day after President Maduro was abducted by U.S. forces, President Trump irritated Europe by telling The Atlantic, “We absolutely need Greenland. We need it for our defense.” I never seem to get tired of this sport.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of list”The official position of the U.S. government since the beginning of the administration has been that…
When Lynette Elser from Crossville, Tennessee, first moved to the Italian village of Latronico with her 5-year-old autistic adopted son, Kenny, she didn’t plan on making it her new home. And Kenny, who has a severe respiratory illness, was there the first night, a first for Elser, a former federal government scientist. Normally, she would check his blood oxygen levels with a fingertip pulse monitor in the middle of the night and hear him sound like he was having trouble breathing, but something was different in Latronico’s case. “Honestly, I thought his blood oximeter was broken and wasn’t reading the…
Rene Sleggers has signed a new contract as Arsenal’s head coach, keeping him at the club until June 2029.The 36-year-old was given the job permanently just under a year ago and led the team to Champions League glory in May. After several months of discussions, Sleggers has agreed to a new three-and-a-half year contract. “I am delighted to have signed a new contract here, as I believe we have much to achieve together this season and for years to come,” Slegers said in a club statement.”Having played in the academy, watched Arsenal win the Champions League in 2007 in the…
People carrying shopping bags walk through Herald Square in New York, December 11, 2025.Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty ImagesAmericans are slightly more bullish about 2026, according to a New York Fed survey released Thursday.The central bank’s monthly consumer expectations survey found that while consumers expect inflation to rise in the short term, households are generally more optimistic about their future financial situation.According to a New York Fed survey, perceptions of current financial conditions and expectations for next year have both improved, with fewer Americans expecting financial conditions to worsen and a larger portion expecting financial conditions to improve one…
Venezuela has released “a number” of high-profile political prisoners, including several foreign nationals, in an apparent concession to the United States less than a week after Venezuelan forces abducted President Nicolás Maduro.Thursday’s announcement is the first since Delcy Rodriguez, Maduro’s former vice president, took over as interim leader and has the support of President Donald Trump, who has said he is happy to let her rule as long as she gives Washington access to the country’s oil.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listAmong those released Thursday was Enrique Marquez, a former Venezuelan opposition candidate who opposed President Maduro in…
In recent days, leaked audio recordings and documents have revealed the broad outlines of a plot to start an uprising in Syria’s Alawite-held coastal areas. Many senior officials from the exiled former regime of Bashar al-Assad are behind this plan. The leaks revealed the recruitment of fighters within the Alawite community, the movement and storage of weapons, and the transfer of payments to families.The revelations come months after an uprising in the coastal region in March killed more than 1,000 people, including civilians, government forces and Alawite fighters.Similar violence erupted again in Suweida, a Druze stronghold in southern Syria, in…
AI lab Anthropic continues to win big corporate deals. Its latest effort calls for bringing its large-scale language model to the traditional German insurance giant. Anthropic on Friday announced an agreement with Allianz, a global insurance conglomerate based in Munich, Germany, to bring “responsible AI” to the insurance industry. Both parties declined to share the financial terms of the deal. This partnership consists of three specific initiatives. The first is to make Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding tool, available to all Allianz employees. Anthropic and Allianz will also build custom AI agents for Allianz employees that can perform multi-step workflows…