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Thousands of Bay Area residents live in RVs, parked along industrial roads, hidden behind warehouses and crowded into residential neighborhoods, one of the only forms of housing they can afford.Across California, the number of people living in their cars has soared in recent years, as soaring rents and chronic housing shortages force even full-time workers out of traditional homes and into temporary housing on wheels. Proliferation of high-tech assets, rise in homelessnessSanta Clara County, home to Apple, Google and eight of the nation’s 50 most expensive zip codes, is seeing a surge in the number of people living full-time in…
The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down sweeping tariffs advanced by President Donald Trump under a law intended to apply to national emergencies, rejecting one of the most controversial assertions of presidential power in a decision with significant implications for the global economy.Friday’s decision comes after President Trump used tariffs (taxes on imported goods) as a key economic and foreign policy tool.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listThey are at the center of the global trade war that President Trump started after taking office for his second term, alienating trading partners, impacting financial markets, and creating uncertainty in the…
geneva AP — An October “campaign of destruction” by Sudanese rebels against non-Arab communities in and around cities in Sudan’s western Darfur region exhibits “characteristics of genocide,” UN-backed human rights experts reported Thursday, a dramatic finding in the country’s devastating war. The Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan reported that rapid support forces committed mass killings and other atrocities in El Fasher after an 18-month siege, during which they imposed conditions “calculated to cause physical destruction” on non-Arab communities, particularly the Zaghawa and Fur communities. United Nations officials say RSF has taken control of El Fasher, the only remaining Sudanese military…
Manchester United are looking for a new midfielder this summer. Elliott Anderson is expected to be the main target, with Adam Wharton and Karos Baleva also said to be on the shortlist.One of this year’s targets is expected to be a big-money approach, but is there frustration that United have a talented midfielder and haven’t seen it? United face an Everton side on Monday night. The midfield is superbly led by James Garner, once a member of the Red Devils’ academy but now one of the Premier League’s top performing midfielders. Garner left United two-and-a-half years ago for £15m despite…
When the first Toy Story movie was released in 1995, Google didn’t exist yet and Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy. No one could have predicted that Pixar would still be making Toy Story movies more than 30 years later, or that the latest installment in the series would pit Buzz Lightyear and a bald Woody against an evil AI tablet called Lilypad. But sure enough, Toy Story 5 pits classic toys like Mrs. Potato Head, Rex, and Slinky Dog against the evil threat of technology. The trailer shows Bonnie, the girl who inherited Andy’s toys from Toy Story…
Let’s check out the companies that are becoming a hot topic for after-hours trading. Akamai Technologies — The cloud computing company’s stock fell nearly 8% in after-hours trading after Akamai released disappointing first-quarter earnings guidance. Akamai said it expects first-quarter adjusted earnings to be in the range of $1.50 to $1.67 per share, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.75 per share among analysts surveyed by LSEG. Dropbox — Dropbox was down less than 1%. Dropbox’s fourth-quarter adjusted earnings were 68 cents per share, narrowly beating analysts’ expectations of 67 cents per share, according to LSEG. Revenues for the period…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Friday. I’ve spent the last 24 hours going back and forth on whether or not I should jump on the “dad shoe” trend.Stock futures were little changed this morning. Major indexes continue to have declining days.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. Is it darkest before dawn?A blue owl sign outside the Seagram Building at 375 Park Avenue in the Midtown East neighborhood of New York City, USA, on Tuesday, January 20, 2026. Bing An | Bloomberg |…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at Coosa Steel Corporation on February 19, 2026 in Rome, Georgia. Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesForty minutes before the federal government revealed that economic growth slowed sharply last quarter, President Donald Trump suggested future numbers would be weaker.”Democrat Shutdown cost US GDP at least 2 points. That’s why they’re doing it again in a smaller way,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social at 7:50 a.m. ET.At 8:30 a.m., the Commerce Department reported that U.S. gross domestic product grew at an annualized rate of just 1.4% in the fourth quarter of 2025. This is…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. economic growth slowed in the final three months of last year, dragged down by a six-week federal government shutdown and a drop in consumer spending. Gross domestic product (total production of goods and services) grew at an annual rate of 1.4% in the fourth quarter, according to the Commerce Department. reported on Fridaydown from 4.4% in the July-September period and 3.8% in the previous quarter. The numbers suggest a slower pace of growth in coming quarters as consumers take on more debt and cut savings to keep up with spending. Business investment in external data centers…
Deir El Bala – On Thursday, US President Donald Trump convened the first meeting of the Committee on Peace (BoP) in Washington, DC, but Palestinians in the Gaza Strip did not discuss diplomatic language or a political framework.In the streets and tents of south-central Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians struggle to survive, a simple question dominates: Will anything actually change in the harsh reality on the ground?Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list”I’ve heard that money is being collected for Gaza, but I don’t see anything. Things like this have happened many times and nothing changes,”…