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The US government has said it aims to control Venezuelan oil sales indefinitely.Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Wednesday that “we need influence and control over oil sales to drive the change that absolutely must happen in Venezuela.”Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listHis comments came days after U.S. forces abducted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on Saturday. Since then, the administration of US President Donald Trump has announced an agreement in which Venezuela will deliver 30 million to 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil to the US for sale.This is driven by demands that Venezuelan government officials open access to…
Thomas Frank believes he has earned the right to spend more time in charge at Tottenham as pressure continues to mount on the head coach.Wednesday’s loss to Bournemouth leaves Tottenham languishing in 14th place in the Premier League, with just one win in their last six competitive matches. A bad night was made even worse by further upset from supporters and club captain Cristian Romero appearing to criticize the club’s hierarchy on social media. Despite the turmoil, Frank believes he has done enough to merit patience.”There’s no doubt about it. Let’s put it this way: Do we want to move…
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI will go to court after a US judge says there is evidence to support the billionaire’s case. Musk sued OpenAI and co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in 2024, claiming they breached their original contractual agreement by pursuing profit instead of the nonprofit’s founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity. Musk, who started his own commercial company xAI, was an early financial backer and co-founder of OpenAI. Altman resigned from the board in 2018 after the company’s other co-founders rejected his nomination to be CEO. Musk has publicly cited Tesla’s own AI development for…
Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced Apple Card at a launch event at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, on March 25, 2019.Noah Berger | AFP | Getty ImagesJP Morgan Chase an agreement was reached to take over the apple Credit card from original issuer; goldman sachsThe two banks said in separate releases on Wednesday.The deal, completed after a year of negotiations between the parties, means even greater growth for the credit card and overall retail banking giant. JPMorgan will take over more than $20 billion in credit card loans in 2022 from Goldman, which has begun a shift away from consumer…
Astronauts from the Crew 11 mission wave as they depart from the Operation Neil A. Armstrong Checkout Building on their way to launch Complex LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 1, 2025. From left/right: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Mike Finke, NASA cosmonaut and mission commander Zena Cardman, and JAXA. Astronaut Kamiya Yui.Greg Newton AFP | Getty ImagesNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced Thursday that due to the medical condition of an unnamed crew member, NASA will return Crew 11 astronauts to Earth from the International Space Station on Saturday, earlier than scheduled.NASA earlier announced that…
Law enforcement members investigate the scene after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shot a woman on January 7, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Steven Maturen | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesMinnesota law enforcement officials announced Thursday that the FBI is blocking access to evidence related to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Wednesday in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis.The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Enforcement said the FBI’s stance was at the behest of the Minnesota Attorney’s Office and reversed the BCA’s original agreement to jointly investigate Goode’s murder…
It is becoming increasingly unlikely that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Michael Carrick will be asked to work together in an interim role at Manchester United for the remainder of the season, Sky Sports News has reported.Both former players will remain at the forefront of United’s plans, but with one of them in charge of the first team for the final 17 Premier League games of the season and the FA Cup games beyond that, it could be a straight choice between the two. In terms of evaluation, United’s leaders seem to consider both Solskjær and Carrick to be natural No.…
Snowflake plans to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake’s database from its inception. (Observability platforms help businesses monitor performance issues and bugs in their software systems and data.) The cloud data company announced on January 8 that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Observe, subject to regulatory approval. Snowflake will integrate Observe’s products into its products to provide customers with a unified location to collect and store telemetry data (logs, metrics, and traces from software systems) to better discover potential bugs and issues in their data and software. Founded in 2017 by Jacob Leverich, Jonathan Trevor,…
“We’re Hiring” sign at Cookout Fast Food Restaurant in Durham, North Carolina, November 25, 2025.Al Drago | Getty ImagesThe US labor market showed perhaps modest improvement in December, providing some encouragement for the year ahead, but not much to get excited about.Nonfarm payrolls are likely to increase by 73,000 people last month, and the unemployment rate has fallen slightly to 4.5%, according to the Dow Jones Consensus. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the report at 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday.If these numbers are approximately accurate, that would be a slight increase from the average monthly increase of 55,000…
Jensen Huang doesn’t seem fazed by his expected $7.75 billion tax bill.That’s what the CEO of NVIDIA could end up owed to the state of California if the proposed ballot measure succeeds in imposing a one-time 5% wealth tax on the state’s billionaires. Hwang, who is the ninth richest person in the world with a net worth of $155 billion, according to Bloomberg estimates on Jan. 6, told Bloomberg TV on Tuesday that he would be “absolutely fine” with that outcome.”I have to say, I’ve never thought about it,” Huang, 62, said when asked if the proposed tax would concern…