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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) – The U.S. threatens to impose 50% tariffs on goods. canadian Experts say the goods will have a knock-on effect on the country’s economy, but could also be used as a negotiating tactic by the U.S. administration.The new tariff is announced by US President Donald Trump The products covered include honey, alcohol, cement, dairy products, some wood products, hockey sticks, essential oils, perfumes, candles, dog leashes, wigs, and more.Energy products, potash, fish and critical minerals will be excluded, but items previously protected from import duties will also be included. United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. The 2020…

An Iranian attack on a US military facility in Jordan killed three US soldiers, showing the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)’s ability to inflict deadly casualties five months into the US-Israel war.Friday’s airstrike marks the first time that an Iranian attack on a U.S. military facility has killed a U.S. soldier since March 1, just hours after the U.S. and Israel went to war.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe Pentagon has not released details of the attack, but analysts say the deadly incident highlights an uncomfortable reality for the U.S. government. Despite the barrage of U.S. airstrikes, Iran…

Lee este artículo en español After the United States detained Venezuela’s president in January and ramped up economic pressure on Cuba in the months that followed, many wondered whether the White House’s next target would be Nicaragua, another Latin American country with an authoritarian leader, but Nicaragua this week ruled out the possibility of new elections. But the United States has shown little indication of imminent action against Nicaragua, while the country’s co-presidents, Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo, have largely kept a low profile and avoided provoking the Trump administration. Indeed, a few days after the US operation…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday doubled down on his warning against Chinese AI companies and said sanctions remained on the table after White House officials accused Moonshot of unfairly extracting Anthropic’s Fables model. Model distillation is a common AI training technique where a smaller model learns from the output of a larger model. Although this process may violate intellectual property rights, it is also widely used as a legal optimization method. “It’s not open season for open source in US intellectual property,” Bessent wrote on X. “If a[Chinese]company secretly conducts an industrial-scale distillation attack that crosses the line…

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a press conference at Health and Human Services Headquarters in Washington, February 23, 2026.Nathan Howard | ReutersHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that the ongoing cystosporosis outbreak is “under control.””We have identified the source of the infection and the companies involved have been recalled,” President Kennedy said in response to a question at a press conference about health care fraud. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both under President Kennedy’s jurisdiction as secretary of the Department…

tesla reported second-quarter profits were lower than expected, even though sales were higher than expected. Shares fell about 4% in extended trading Wednesday.Analysts surveyed by LSEG estimate the company’s performance compared to Wall Street expectations:Earnings per share: 33 cents adjusted, 51 cents expected; Revenue: $28.24 billion, $25.71 billion expected.Tesla’s earnings report comes amid a steep decline in its stock price, which is down about 11% this month and about 17% for the year as of Wednesday’s close. The decline coincided with a decline in Elon Musk’s other trillion-dollar company, SpaceX. SpaceX made a record market debut in June and has…

Alphabet investors have publicly worried that the company’s large investments in AI aren’t worth the investment. Reading the company’s latest financial results should give such investors some peace of mind. Bottom line: Google’s cloud business is growing rapidly, driven primarily by the adoption of enterprise AI. The search giant has seen its Google Cloud revenue jump 82% from this time last year to $24.8 billion. This far exceeds last quarter’s strong year-over-year growth, when sales rose 63% to $20 billion, and easily exceeds what Wall Street analysts were expecting for this quarter’s growth, which was expected to be $22.46 billion.…

Alphabet investors have publicly worried that the company’s large investments in AI aren’t worth the investment. Reading the company’s latest financial results should give such investors some peace of mind. Bottom line: Google’s cloud business is growing rapidly, driven primarily by the adoption of enterprise AI. The search giant has seen its Google Cloud revenue jump 82% from this time last year to $24.8 billion. This far exceeds last quarter’s strong year-over-year growth, when sales rose 63% to $20 billion, and easily exceeds what Wall Street analysts were expecting for this quarter’s growth, which was expected to be $22.46 billion.…

Young, inexperienced investors often receive the same advice: just buy the market. In fact, market luminaries from Warren Buffett down have advised young people looking to accumulate long-term wealth to own low-cost mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that track broad stock indexes. The idea here is simple. Owning a broad range of the stock market reduces the likelihood that a decline in a single stock will negatively impact your portfolio’s performance. Additionally, owning a fund that tracks a major index can theoretically benefit from the stock market’s historic upward trajectory and avoid the temptation to beat a market that is…

Pichai weighs in on Waymo betA Waymo autonomous taxi outside the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, Feb. 3, 2026.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images”We’re really focused on scaling the business right now and executing to that extraordinary potential,” Pichai said on Google’s Waymo bet. — Samantha SubinPichai talks AI model competition, calls Gemini 4 ‘very ambitious effort’Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs and Gemini, during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGoogle is dedicating resources to its Gemini 4 model…