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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) speaks to reporters outside his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 15, 2026 in Washington, DC. Nathan Posner | Anadolu | Getty ImagesTwo Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday they are undecided on a vote to confirm Todd Branch as U.S. attorney general, jeopardizing President Donald Trump’s pick to be the nation’s top law enforcement official.”It’s still under review,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told MS NOW when asked about Blanche’s position on the controversial, now-defunct $1.8 billion Justice Department fund, a day after she and other members…
The new rules abolish unlimited stay and require extensions after the fixed visa period for students and foreign media.Published July 16, 2026July 16, 2026President Donald Trump’s administration will impose new deadlines on visas for foreign students, exchange visitors and journalists, ending a decades-old system that allowed many students to stay in the United States as long as they attend school or serve on assignments.Under new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations announced Thursday, international students and exchange visitors will generally be limited to four years in the country, while foreign journalists will be allowed in the country for up to…
London — The International Criminal Court (ICC) is under intense scrutiny as member countries prepare to vote this month on whether to remove Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan following an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct. For months, the United Nations watchdog has investigated claims made by a female ICC employee who worked as a direct assistant to Khan. According to a confidential, leaked copy of a UN investigative report that CNN obtained, she alleged that he sexually harassed her and repeatedly subjected her to non-consensual sexual acts, including groping, attempted kissing and digital and genital penetration. Khan has repeatedly denied those…
The latest version of China’s AI research institute Moonshot AI’s Kimi model series is expected to perform as well as or better than Anthropic’s Opus 4.8, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. Moonshot’s Kim K2 model has been well received in the open source AI market, ranking highly in benchmarks and demonstrating capabilities comparable to the latest Frontier models. The company’s next release, Kimi K3, is said to take this a step further and close the gap with closed source models such as OpenAI and Anthropic. FT reports that Kimi K3 will be China’s largest open-weight AI model with…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday that investors can avoid paying back big gains in high-flying stocks by following one simple rule. “When you get a parabolic move, sell half of it, because you can’t beat a parabolic move,” Kramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” “We don’t know when the rise will stop.” Parabolic movements are rapid and large stock price increases. It often starts with good reason, before the animal spirits of the market take over and push stock prices to overheated levels. The danger is that they can disappear just as quickly, and in some cases even more…
Beef, coffee and rare earth materials have escaped U.S. tariffs amid a trade dispute with Brazil over alleged misconduct.The United States plans to impose 25% tariffs on thousands of Brazilian imports, including sugar, clothing, paper and steel, as the White House reviews its tariff policy.The new tariffs on Brazil were announced late Wednesday by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. These are the first tariffs under the White House’s new trade strategy, which takes advantage of Section 301, a provision of existing U.S. trade law that allows the U.S. to investigate so-called unfair trade practices, which the U.S. uses…
While other companies in the AI industry race to label their work “AGI” or “superintelligence,” Alexandre Leblanc, CEO of Yann LeCun’s global model startup AMI Labs, avoids the term altogether. Lebrun said in an interview with TechCrunch that the company doesn’t use terms like “AGI” or “superintelligence” at all. “We never used the term AGI, and I just realized that no one uses it anymore. They switched to the term superintelligence,” he says. “Next time I’ll switch to something else.” He’s also not sold on the new label. “There’s no good definition. What is superintelligence? I don’t know. It’s not…
On July 14, 1789, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille, marking the violent end of the Ancien Régime’s absolute authority. Today, on the very same day (albeit 237 years later), the stock market launched its own financial revolution against the Uncivil Regime of technology: the International Business Machine.IBM The stock price fell more than $73 to about $217. This is an astonishing 25% drop in one day. This is the steepest single-session decline in my lifetime, rivaling a scale of destruction not seen since January 3, 1968, before I was born.The catalyst for this sudden coup was a preliminary…
The stock market has continued to rise since the last CNBC Investment Club monthly meeting, but behind the scenes there has been a change of leadership. The Dow Jones Industrial Average led the way, gaining 2.3% from June 17 to Wednesday’s close. The 30-stock average closed at a record high on July 6, but has declined slightly in recent days. The S&P 500 is up 2.1% since its June meeting, while the Nasdaq is up a more modest 1%. As Thursday morning’s losses further evidence, investors are becoming increasingly selective about their exposure to artificial intelligence. Cybersecurity stocks rose another…
Chen Xin | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe company behind social media network Truth Social announced Thursday it is launching a service that will give paying customers interested in market-moving information “authorized real-time access” to posts from President Donald Trump and other top accounts.President Trump’s family is the largest shareholder Trump Media & Technology Groupa public company that operates Truth Social. According to a 2025 study by SEO.ai, the president’s @realDonaldTrump account is the largest account on Truth Social. His account had 12.9 million followers as of Thursday morning. Trump regularly posts official communications first to Truth Social, making…