Yahoo Finance Live’s Brian Sozzi breaks down the stat of the day.
BRIAN SOZZI: All right, let's switch gears here. As is often the case, it pays to be Apple. The tech giant ended its most recent quarter with $193 billion in cash. That's after it spent $27 billion to pay out dividends to shareholders and buy back its own stock.
TikTok and its Chinese parent company are facing off against the Justice Department Friday in a hearing before the Supreme Court that will help determine the fate of the popular social media app.
CES 2025 has come and gone. But it brought us a ton of intriguing new technologies to look forward to in the year ahead.
A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as usual, meteorologists said Thursday. La Nina, the flip side of the better-known El Nino, is an irregular rising of unusually cold water in a key part of the central equatorial Pacific that changes weather patterns worldwide. The last El Nino was declared finished last June, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasters have been expecting La Nina for months.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy vigorously denounced a “plot” he said was staged by “liars and crooks” on Thursday at a Paris trial over the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the Libyan government led by former leader Moammar Gadhafi. In his first remarks since the trial started on Monday, Sarkozy, 69, said "You will never find one Libyan euro, one Libyan cent in my campaign.” The former French president, who served from 2007 to 2012, is facing charges of passive corruption, illegal campaign financing, concealment of embezzlement of public funds and criminal association, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Bitcoin (BTC-USD) fell more than 3% Thursday to just over $92,000 — its lowest level since November.
Police were out in force in Venezuela 's capital Thursday ahead of what the opposition hoped would be major protests against Friday's swearing-in of President Nicolás Maduro for a third term following a disputed election. Protests remained limited as of Thursday morning and the usually busy streets of Caracas were relatively quiet. In the late morning, a handful of opposition demonstrators began walking into the street in one part of the city and others who were on the sidewalk, hesitantly at first, joined them.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Rome Thursday for talks with European counterparts on bringing stability to Syria in the face of Turkish threats against Kurdish forces there.A war monitor said that battles between Turkish-backed groups supported by air strikes and Kurdish-led forces had killed 37 people Thursday.
The Sunset Fire started as a brush fire in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills amid windstorm conditions.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke with Trump on Tuesday, while he has an appeal before the high court to block his New York sentencing.
Ukraine's leader says partners sending ground troops would help "force Russia into peace," as America's European allies ponder Trump's next move.
Unhoused residents who ordinarily keep to themselves outside sought warmth at churches this week.
La Niña has finally emerged after months of anticipation, but there’s a catch, and it could impact its influence on the weather.
For British luxury automaker Rolls-Royce, it turns out being even more exclusive is good for business.
A baby girl was born at sea on a migrant dinghy en route to Spain from Africa on Monday, according to the Spanish maritime rescue service.
New York's highest court on Thursday declined to block Donald Trump's upcoming sentencing in his hush money case, leaving the U.S. Supreme Court as the president-elect's likely last option to prevent the hearing from taking place Friday. One judge of the New York Court of Appeals issued a brief order declining to grant a hearing to Trump's legal team. Trump has asked the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing.
Current acting ICE Director P.J. Lechleitner also told NBC he felt the Biden administration should have been more transparent and forthcoming on immigration.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one of the European leaders closest to Donald Trump, said on Thursday she believed the U.S. president-elect would defend Western interests once he took office and would not abandon Ukraine. Meloni flew to Florida last weekend for unannounced talks with Trump, winning praise from the incoming president, who called her "a fantastic woman". Addressing a press conference in Rome, Meloni said she had received an invitation to Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration and was keen to fit it into her schedule.
Italy's far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said on Thursday Elon Musk's political interventions only caused outrage because he wasn't left-wing -- and that foreigners had been interfering in Italian politics for years.She compared "left-wing" outrage over Musk's vocal support for the extreme-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ahead of elections there, with "left-wing" silence over what she said was "interference" by top German politicians in Italy's 2022 general election.
Jimmy Carter began his final journey Thursday, with his flag-draped coffin being moved from the US Capitol for his state funeral at Washington's National Cathedral as mourners paid their respects to the 39th US president.US service members in ceremonial uniforms moved the coffin down the steps of the Capitol building, before a motorcade transported it through the snowy streets of Washington to the cathedral.
The number of norovirus cases is increasing across the US, but there are ways to reduce your chances of infection and stave off dehydration and other symptoms.
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