The Windows-maker will give its customers an option to either choose a Microsoft 365 subscription plan with Copilot AI features or one without it. It will also increase the prices of subscription plans in the U.S. by $3. Copilot will assist users in a host of apps in the Microsoft 365 suite — Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote and Designer.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes if a long-awaited ceasefire agreement halts the Israel-Hamas war, but many will find there is nothing left and no way to rebuild. Israeli bombardment and ground operations have transformed entire neighborhoods in several cities into rubble-strewn wastelands, with blackened shells of buildings and mounds of debris stretching away in all directions. The agreement for a phased ceasefire and the release of hostages held by Hamas-led militants does not say who will govern Gaza after the war, or whether Israel and Egypt will lift a blockade limiting the movement of people and goods that they imposed when Hamas seized power in 2007.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas of trying to 'extort last minute concessions' on a ceasefire deal.
Bitterly cold air that originated in Siberia will arrive in the U.S. in the coming days, resulting in dangerously cold wind chills for millions of Americans.
The Houthis have carried out more than 100 attacks on ships since November 2023 and have sunk two vessels, seized another and killed at least four seafarers. The Houthis have targeted the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, which are joined by the narrow Bab al-Mandab strait, a chokepoint between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East. The waterway is a strategic link between the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean through which exports to Western markets from the Gulf and Asia must pass before entering the Suez Canal.
Foreign Affairs Relations Chair Jim Risch said money from the AIDS relief program paid for abortions.
The popular social media app will likely go dark for its 170 million American users on Jan. 19 after months of fighting the federal government’s demand that it separate from its China-based parent company, ByteDance.
The vast majority of Americans are about to get an extended taste of frigid Siberian weather. Another polar vortex disruption will stretch Arctic air across the top of the globe and make Donald Trump's second inauguration the coldest in 40 years, meteorologists said. Up to 280 million Americans will have a day or two where it’s colder than Anchorage, Alaska, said private meteorologist Ryan Maue.
Al Jazeera posted a similar clip showing the crash in January 2024, predating the California wildfires by a year.
The powdered, pink fire retardant sprayed over the California fires is called Phos-Chek. It contains ammonium phosphate — an ingredient found in fertilizer.
Cuba on Thursday released jailed opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrer, the dissident's family confirmed, part of a landmark deal struck with departing US President Joe Biden in return for sanctions relief.Analysts said Cuba's drip release of prisoners was aimed at ensuring Trump upholds the deal agreed with Biden when he returns to the White House, with the remaining prisoners acting as Havana's bargaining chip with the Republican leader.
The EU's influential former tech enforcer Thierry Breton will join Bank of America's advisory council, he told AFP on Thursday, a move denounced by one lawmaker as flouting a lobbying ban.Breton confirmed to AFP that he would be a member of the global advisory council, a role he held before joining the commission, from 2013 to 2019.
December's CPI print finally showed some relief in core inflation. But the threat of sticky prices is still a reality for most economists.
President Joe Biden's outgoing administration on Thursday announced $211 million in new funding to develop mRNA vaccines against emerging biothreats and said it was accelerating bird flu testing, as fears loom of another pandemic.Companies including Moderna and Pfizer are working on mRNA vaccines for bird flu.
Gov. Ron DeSantis chose Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to replace Sen. Marco Rubio, who’s bound for the State Department.
Jason Oppenheim, one of the leading voices in Southern California’s real estate industry and star of the Netflix reality show “Selling Sunset,” spoke to CNN in an interview about offering his brokerage’s services for free to those who were impacted by the deadly LA wildfires and how he became one of the first notable figures to sound the alarm about illegal price gouging.
Donald Trump's pick for Treasury secretary repeatedly defended a range of tariff ideas during his confirmation hearing before Senate lawmakers Thursday.
UnitedHealth reported its first earnings since the murder of its insurance executive last month.
Some women are thinking about the economic impact Donald Trump could have—and they're determined to be prepared.
The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital, after a government review raised concerns about the potential for “unnecessary pain and suffering.” Attorney General Merrick Garland's order to withdraw the lethal injection policy comes days before President-elect Donald Trump, who is expected to restart federal executions, is set to return to the White House. Trump’s Justice Department could reinstate the protocol to use pentobarbital as a single drug to carry out executions.
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