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A French professional model recruiter who arranged for late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to meet multiple models over a decade was found dead in his home near Paris on Monday. Daniel Siard’s body was found in his home on the outskirts of the French capital, Colombes, Marie-Céline Loris, deputy public prosecutor at the Nanterre Court of Justice, told CNN in a statement on Wednesday. An autopsy will be conducted on the body to determine the cause of death. CNN’s Katie Polgrase recently interviewed Mr. Shead and said there is no reason to believe that two women who recommended him to…
Nike flagship store on Nanjing Road sidewalk in Shanghai on November 4, 2025.Photo | Future Publishing | Getty Imagesnike The sneaker giant plans to close thousands of online retailers in China starting in January, the company announced Tuesday, as it looks to clean up its cluttered digital market and put the region back on a growth path. Starting next year, Nike’s online presence will primarily shift to the retailer’s official website and app, as well as stores operated on Tmall, Jingto.com and Douyin, which are some of China’s largest online marketplaces and social platforms. Consumers can now purchase Nike through…
Biggs overwhelmingly defeated David Schweikert and will face Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs in November.Published July 22, 2026July 22, 2026Congressman Andy Biggs, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, has won the Republican nomination for Arizona’s most competitive gubernatorial race in November.Biggs, who overwhelmingly defeated fellow U.S. Rep. David Schweikert in Tuesday’s primary election, will face Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs in what could be one of the closest gubernatorial races of the midterm elections.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listArizona used to be a Republican-dominated state, but the state has swung back and forth between Republicans and Democrats in recent…
For a war that forces such fundamental changes on the battlefield, the retention of 60-year-old Oleksandr Shirschiy as Ukraine’s top commander is an unusual situation. That’s not ageism, but a reflection of the mindset of the recently dismissed Ukrainian military commander. Seen from this perspective, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s decision on Tuesday to replace Shirschiky with 43-year-old Mykhailo Drapati, a young general from a new generation of military leaders, seems perhaps premature. Shirushky was a Soviet-era figure who brought tenacity and brutal tenacity to the first years of the war, as well as a blossoming strategic genius. He suited Ukraine’s initial…
Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, has emerged from stealth as a unicorn, convinced that artificial intelligence is reshaping the way companies protect employee devices. The Palo Alto-based startup announced Wednesday that it has raised $180 million in an all-stock Series A funding round valued at $1.2 billion, backed by Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Index Ventures, Swish Ventures, Lux Capital, Operator Collective, and Holly Ventures. This investment makes Glow one of the latest cybersecurity startups to achieve unicorn status before releasing revenue metrics. As more companies deploy AI tools…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attends a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Wednesday, June 3, 2026 in Washington, DC, USA. Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesHello, my name is Justina Lee from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC’s Daily Open.The AI race between the US and China continues to intensify amid signs that the Trump administration may impose sanctions on China over the “theft” of AI models, while OpenAI ramps up efforts for a potentially large initial public offering. President Donald Trump’s tariffs also appear to be on the way, as the White House works to recreate the…
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD).Eric Lee | Graham Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCongressional Democrats aim to close what they characterize as a loophole created by the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision that allows foreign groups to funnel money into U.S. elections.The bill, sponsored by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Ir., and first shared with CNBC, would establish foreign ownership standards to determine which U.S. companies should be barred from campaigning, voting, or contributing to referendums.”The Roberts court’s reckless decision in Citizens United continues to spell disaster for American democracy, allowing oligarchies…
President Donald Trump continues to insist that the United States will attack Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, drawing attention to what Israel believes is an underground nuclear facility where Iran stores part of its enriched uranium stockpile and state-of-the-art enrichment centrifuges. “We’ll probably get to that area soon, and there’s nothing they can do,” Trump said Tuesday. In response, the Iranian government warned that any U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would be treated as an escalation of war in the region, state media reported early Wednesday. Here’s what we know about Pickaxe Mountain. Pickaxe Mountain is a heavily fortified facility located…
Poland – 25/01/2025: In this photo illustration, the company logo of Wistron Corporation is displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo illustration by Piotr Swat/SOPA Images/LightRocket, Getty Images)Sopa Images | Light Rocket | Getty ImagesWistron Co., Ltd. Shares rose 9.7% Wednesday after the Taiwan-based technology services provider announced the opening of its first U.S. facility to build AI servers. Nvidia.The D1 AI Smart facility, a $700 million, 324,000-square-foot facility in Fort Worth, Texas, currently produces Nvidia’s GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip, an advanced AI processing platform. It will then be expanded to produce Nvidia’s Vera Rubin Superchip, which is critical to…
new delhi — Streets and parks in the heart of India’s capital have been abuzz for days with the largest demonstrations in years. Young protesters are demanding changes to the national exam system, which they say deprives millions of people of a fair chance. Earlier this week, protesters, mostly Gen Z, tried to make their demands known at Parliament, the world’s largest center of democracy, but were met with tear gas and police brutality with clubs and batons. The protesters are refusing to back down and preparing for a continued confrontation with the Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi, which…