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Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous and Aarthi Swaminathan discuss Afterpay’s Stripe partnership with Nick Molnar, Afterpay Co-CEO.
Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous and Aarthi Swaminathan discuss Afterpay’s Stripe partnership with Nick Molnar, Afterpay Co-CEO.
If Nvidia were an all-night party, this would be 10 p.m., argues Wedbush analyst Dan Ives.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson defended a stopgap measure aimed at funding the federal government through mid-March and averting a partial government shutdown despite complaints from some fellow Republicans and Donald Trump ally Elon Musk. Johnson, in an interview on Fox News, said the bill was necessary to keep the government operating until U.S. President-elect Trump and his fellow Republicans had full control of Congress and could fully enact promised bigger spending changes. Tesla founder Musk, who along with fellow businessman Vivek Ramaswamy were tasked by Trump to lead an outside advisory panel that they say will make the government more efficient, balked at the spending bill and urged lawmakers to reject it.
International lawyers for the Democratic Republic of Congo welcomed Apple's decision to stop sourcing minerals from there due to worsening conflict, but said they would press ahead with their cases against the company in Europe. Criminal complaints were filed against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium this week on behalf of Congo, accusing the tech firm of using conflict minerals in its supply chain. Congo is a major source of tin, tantalum and tungsten, so-called 3T minerals used in computers and mobile phones.
In November, the world's most powerful democracy elected as its next president a man who schemed to overturn its last presidential election. Incumbent parties and leaders were battered in elections that covered 60% of the world's population, a sign of widespread discontent in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. From Asia to Africa to the Americas, it produced examples of democracy working and citizens standing up against attempted coups or authoritarians.
A recent study found black plastic kitchen tools had high levels of toxins - but researchers admit they overestimated the risk.
Photographs are an essential aspect of how The Associated Press covers religion and spirituality around the world, as evidenced by this gallery featuring some of 2024’s most compelling images. In Lakeland, Florida, a more intimate joy is palpable as Sam and Tori Earle watch their infant daughter, Novalie, swing in their backyard.
Human societies need a radical overhaul to stop the destruction of the planet, according to the UN biodiversity expert panel's "transformative change" report released Wednesday. The assessment, the second by the expert panel this week, says overconsumption in richer countries, a concentration of wealth and power, and a society increasingly disconnected from nature, were driving ecological destruction.
In what would be a political makeover for the ages, Donald Trump says that moments after taking the oath of office next month, he'll cast himself as something notably off-brand: a unifier.
No threat of national security or public safety has been determined from more than 5,000 reported sightings, federal officials say.
Russia Wednesday expanded an operation to clean up thousands of tonnes of oil that spilt into the sea and contaminated 50 kilometres of beaches after tanker ships were wrecked in a storm.It said they had collected about 80 tonnes of oil and cleaned up more than eight kilometres (five miles) of beach.
Investors widely expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates Wednesday by a quarter percentage point, but their bigger question is whether the central bank is ready to scale back its expected cuts for 2025.
Wrapping up their own investigation on the January 6, 2021 US Capitol attack, House Republicans have concluded GOP former Rep. Liz Cheney should be prosecuted for probing what happened when then-President Donald Trump sent his mob of supporters as Congress was certifying the 2020 election.
A 17th-century English tomb linked to the beloved Tintin comics has been granted official protection as a "remarkable" historic place by heritage chiefs.Mary Haddock's tomb is "notable as a single monument dedicated to a named woman in a period of gender inequality", according to Historic England, which announced "17 remarkable and unusual historic buildings and places" listed this year on Wednesday.
Climate change intensified Cyclone Chido as it barrelled toward the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte, said a preliminary study by scientists studying the link between global warming and tropical storms.In the absence of conclusive studies, France's weather service has stopped short of attributing Chido's intensity to global warming, but says warmer oceans driven by human-caused climate change have made storms more violent.
The indictment of UnitedHealthCare CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione for murder as an act of terrorism involved multiple factors, prosecutors say, including a “frightening, well-planned, targeted” killing, as well as an outpouring of praise for the suspect and the tangible fear reported by executives since the shooting – but some legal experts caution the charge may be an overreach.
The duo had traveled to the ISS in June for the test mission, but their return was extended by eight months to February, after the Boeing Starliner capsule they arrived on was deemed unfit to return them to Earth. NASA said Williams and Wilmore, along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, would return to Earth after the four-member Crew-10 mission, now expected to take off in late March, reaches the space station.
France's flagship nuclear reactor at Flamanville in Normandy will finally enter service on Friday after a dozen years of delay, operator EDF said Wednesday.The energy operator said the coupling to the network of the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor "is planned for December 20, 2024," but added that operation "will be marked by different power levels through to the summer of 2025" in a months long testing phase.
President-elect Donald Trump lost a bid Monday to get his hush money conviction tossed out based on presidential immunity. Will he now be sentenced?
As vigils in Madison honored the victims of the Abundant Life Christian School shooting, police pushed to identify a motive for the attack.
Russia said on Wednesday it had detained a man from Uzbekistan over the killing of a senior Russian general and his assistant in Moscow a day earlier.