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Eddie Howe believes Newcastle’s Saudi supporters remain firmly behind the club’s efforts to establish itself as one of the best clubs in the world, after having “difficult conversations” with owners this week.The 48-year-old head coach reflected on a disappointing season at Matfen Hall on Thursday and revealed he believes Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which holds 85% of the club’s shares, remains committed to the ambitious vision he set out when he took power in October 2021. The “constructive” talks with Newcastle and PIF chairman Yassir Al Rumayyan came as Saudi Arabia announced its decision to end funding for…

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Dr. Nicole Safia appears on FOX Nation’s “Love Mama the Live Show” at the FOX News Channel Studios on April 3, 2024 in New York City. John Rampartsky Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will nominate Dr. Nicole Safia to be the next U.S. Surgeon General, after rescinding his previous nomination of Dr. Casey Means, whose confirmation process had been stalled in the Senate for months. Saphier is a breast radiologist and former Fox News contributor. She is the Director of Breast Imaging at Monmouth Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the author of several books. That includes…

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Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael said Friday that while Anthropic remains a supply chain risk, Mythos, the company’s artificial intelligence model with advanced cyber capabilities, is “another national security moment.””I think the Mithos issue that we’re dealing with across the government, not just the Department War, is another aspect of national security and it’s time to make sure we’re hardening our networks, because that model has specialized capabilities to find and patch cyber vulnerabilities,” Michael said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday.Michael’s comments came after a violent clash between the Pentagon and Anthropic leaked into the public domain earlier…

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Front Royal (Virginia) — King Charles III of England visited the United States to commemorate Britain’s defeat in the War of Independence. He left with a historic victory. The 77-year-old monarch faced a number of potential pitfalls from a bombastic US president known for stirring up controversy and generating headlines during the worst period for US-UK relations in modern history. But Charles showed he could disagree with the president at times and crack jokes while delivering a message of unity and celebrating the “eternal bond” with the United States as it celebrates its 250th anniversary. In a landmark speech to…

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Save the season? That could save the Spurs’ season.With Tottenham on the brink of their first Premier League win of 2026, Antonin Kinski’s 98th-minute sprint to deny Joao Gomez’s narrowly well-placed free-kick was key to last weekend’s win against Wolves. Victories against relegation rivals Nottingham Forest and West Ham last weekend also prevented Spurs from moving up the table. But they gained confidence and strengthened their belief that they had reached the turning point and could start to overturn a two-goal deficit to safety. Wonder save? “I’m glad to hear that,” Kinski smiled modestly in an exclusive interview with Sky…

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Construction continues at the Mariner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Building on December 30, 2025 in Washington, DC.Brendan Smialowski AFP | Getty ImagesFed officials who voted against the statement after this week’s meeting said they did not think it was appropriate to suggest that interest rates would be lower next time.Regional President Neel Kashkari of Minneapolis and Beth Hammack of Cleveland issued statements explaining their votes and provided similar rationale for the wording of their statements. However, this was not the case with the decision to leave interest rates unchanged from the current position.Kashkari said the statement “contains a form of…

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The Education Department on Thursday finalized the student loan overhaul introduced in President Donald Trump’s “Big and Beautiful Act,” also known as the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, which was signed into law in July.The final regulations include new borrowing limits on federal student loans for graduate and professional degrees beginning July 1, 2026.Students in graduate degree programs can borrow up to $20,500 per year, up to a total of $100,000, and students in professional programs, such as medicine or law, can borrow up to $50,000 per year and up to $200,000 over the course of their studies. Previously, the…

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This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Friday. My colleague and I will cover Berkshire HathawayTomorrow’s annual meeting will be the first without Warren Buffett as CEO. Watch special coverage on TV and online.The S&P 500 futures index was little changed this morning after closing above the 7,200 level for the first time yesterday.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. clear skyAmerican multinational technology company Intel displayed its motherboard at the artificial intelligence exhibition AI EXPO 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan on March 25, 2026. Daniel…

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Elon Musk’s sign is placed in the bushes of the federal courthouse as the court over his lawsuit against OpenAI is underway in Oakland, California, April 30, 2026.Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty ImagesProgressive Democrats in Delaware are backing key opponents of six incumbent Democratic state legislators who have pushed changes to the state’s corporate laws that benefit executives and billionaires, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, who are facing shareholder lawsuits in the state.The Delaware Working Families Party exclusively told CNBC that it is supporting six Democratic candidates in the primary against Democratic incumbents who support SB21. The bill,…

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A man has been charged with attempted murder after two Jewish men were stabbed to death in London in what police said was a terrorist attack. Two men, aged 76 and 34, were stabbed in Golders Green, north London, on Wednesday. On Friday morning, police announced that Essa Suleiman had been charged with two counts of attempted murder in a public place and one count of possessing a knife in connection with the attack. The 45-year-old, from Camberwell, south London, was also charged with attempted murder in connection with a separate incident the same day, just a few miles away,…

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