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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (left) speaks with US President Donald Trump during a bilateral meeting held in the Oval Office of the White House on March 19, 2026 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty ImagesIn an admittedly awkward moment in the Oval Office on the American side on Thursday, US President Donald Trump mentioned Pearl Harbor during his first meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who won a landslide election victory. Asked by a Japanese reporter why the United States did not notify allies such as Japan before carrying out the attack on Iran on February 28, the…
The U.S. Commission on Fine Arts, a federal agency, has approved plans for a commemorative gold coin featuring one of President Donald Trump’s recent portraits.A Trump-appointed committee voted unanimously Thursday to mint the coins. However, the legality of such efforts has been repeatedly questioned.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listFederal law prohibits depictions of living presidents on U.S. currency. However, Thursday’s coins may circumvent this rule because they are intended as souvenirs and not for circulation as currency.Still, the Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to include the president’s face on the $1 coin, in addition to commemorative…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves in pre-market trading: Micron Technology — Shares fell nearly 6%. Micron reported strong quarterly results, with adjusted earnings of $12.20 per share easily beating consensus estimates of $9.31, according to LSEG. Sales came in at $23.86 billion, compared to analysts’ expectations of $20.07 billion. Investors may have taken note of comments about increased spending to expand production. The stock price has increased more than 350% in the past 12 months. Memory stocks — Several memory companies fell after Micron’s financial results. Seagate Technology fell nearly 3%, Western Digital fell 3% and SanDisk…
Pablo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Light Rocket | Getty ImagesA day after announcing it was discontinuing Horizon Worlds from the Quest virtual reality headset. Meta The course has been changed. The company announced Wednesday that its VR platform will be available “for the time being.””We actually decided today to continue Horizon Worlds in VR for our existing games to support our fans who reached out to us,” Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth said in an Instagram Story Q&A.Meta previously announced on Tuesday that Horizon Worlds would be removed from the Quest Store at the end of this month and completely…
Sky Sports News understands that Aston Martin is interested in hiring Audi boss Jonathan Wheatley as team principal to allow Adrian Newey to prioritize car development.Newey, who joined Aston Martin from Red Bull in March last year but only became team principal earlier this year, is thought to have welcomed the possibility of Wheatley joining. The legendary F1 designer will be freed up to focus on Aston Martin’s cars after a nightmare start to the season for the team. Newey’s position as Aston Martin team principal was always seen as an interim measure. The new team principal will not diminish…
A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Orrick. Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for real estate investors, from individuals to venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors and large publicly traded companies. Sign up to receive future editions directly to your inbox. Just four years after soaring interest rates drove investors out of commercial real estate funds, some are pulling back from the once-hot private credit market. Investments in non-traded, publicly registered REITs increased from $33.2 billion in 2022 to $5.7 billion in 2025, but the increase in…
Nvidia Owned the first era of AI — CEO Jensen Huang is making sure to own the next one. He is transforming Nvidia from a chipmaker that helps drive market cycles to an operating system for the future of artificial intelligence. This change has gone largely unnoticed and has not yet been priced in by investors. But this week saw the clearest sign yet.At Nvidia’s annual developer conference GTC, Huang announced NemoClaw, an open-source, chip-agnostic platform for building and deploying AI agents, autonomous software programs at the heart of the industry’s latest advances.”Every company in the world should have an…
Samuel Boivin | Null Photo | Getty ImagesPublic relations firm Global Situation Room sent a cease-and-desist letter to Polymarket on Thursday over Prediction Market’s planned bar pop-up in Washington.According to a letter obtained by CNBC, Polymarket named the bar “The Situation Room,” which the consulting firm’s lawyers argued was infringing on its trademark. The company said Polymarket’s use of the name gave the false impression that Global Situation Room was “in some way related to or associated with Polymarket’s services.””In fact, there is a clear overlap between the uses of GLOBAL SITUATION ROOM and THE SITUATION ROOM, as both marks…
The United States has been under a partial government shutdown since February 14, affecting a single, vast department: the Department of Homeland Security.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is mired in a partisan battle between Democrats and Republicans.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listDemocrats are calling for reform at the department in the wake of the violence in the immigration crackdown. Republicans have rejected the request as unreasonable.But while the Department of Homeland Security has a variety of missions from border security to emergency management, the closure’s most visible impact has been felt at the nation’s airports.The U.S. Transportation…
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