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When Mondelez International CEO Dirk Van de Put sat down with Yahoo Finance’s Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer, they discussed why he decided to continue doing business with Russia.
When Mondelez International CEO Dirk Van de Put sat down with Yahoo Finance’s Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer, they discussed why he decided to continue doing business with Russia.
Gabbard, who oversees 18 spy agencies, said she would be "aggressively pursuing recent leakers" in order to hold them accountable for unauthorized disclosures. "Politically motivated leaks undermine our national security and the trust of the American people, and will not be tolerated," Gabbard wrote on Friday in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. Gabbard listed recent examples of what she said were leaks of information concerning Israel-Iran, the U.S.-Russia relationship and the National Counterintelligence and Security Center to media outlets including Huffington Post, The Washington Post, NBC News, and the Record.
Rubrik CEO Bipal Sinha strikes a bullish tone on his business after a well-received quarter.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday announced sanctions against officials from Thailand, a U.S. ally, for their role in deporting at least 40 Uyghurs to China, where Washington says the members of the Muslim group will face persecution. The U.S. is "committed to combating China's efforts to pressure governments to forcibly return Uyghurs and other groups to China, where they are subject to torture and enforced disappearances," the State Department said in a statement. The move appeared intended to discourage Thailand and other countries from such deportations.
Donald Trump is expected to invoke a rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in an effort to ramp up deportations.
An American Airlines plane that caught fire after landing in Denver, sending 12 people to the hospital, is the latest in a string of aviation incidents that are fueling safety concerns about flying. Incidents have ranged from the midair collision that killed 67 people near Washington in January to an airliner clipping another in February while taxiing at the Seattle airport. — Two small planes collided in midair near an Arizona airport in mid-February, killing two people who were on one of the aircraft.
A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in the state since the death penalty resumed last fall following a 13-month pause. Mikal Mahdi’s execution will take place April 11 at 6 p.m. at a prison in the capital of Columbia, the state Supreme Court announced Friday. The court postponed a potential sixth execution, that of Steven Bixby, who killed two police officers in an Abbeville County land dispute in December 2003.
The US Department of Education opened an investigation on Friday into dozens of universities over diversity, equity and inclusion programs that President Donald Trump alleges discriminate against white students.In one of his first moves after taking office, Trump ended diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal government that are intended to redress historical inequality but that he claims disadvantage white people, particularly men. cl/md
A federal judge refused Friday to block the destruction of classified documents as part of the building cleanout at the U.S. Agency for International Development, finding that records slated for shredding or burning are old or no longer needed. The documents don’t appear to be related to the ongoing court battles over the near-dismantling of USAID by the Trump administration, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols found as he refused to grant a temporary restraining order. A second federal judge is expected to consider a separate lawsuit over the document destruction Friday afternoon.
Gold surpassed $3,000 for the first time Friday as US President Donald Trump's trade wars boosted demand for the safe-haven asset, while stock markets bounced on signs US lawmakers would avert a government shutdown.The precious metal was "boosted on increased haven demand amid trade war risks and recent stock market volatility", said Fawad Razaqzada, an analyst at City Index and Forex.com.
Syria's foreign minister made his first visit to Iraq since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and called on Baghdad to reopen the border between the two countries that it had shut in the wake of the revolt that toppled him. Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani said the aim of Friday's visit was to enhance trade between the two countries, and reopening the border would be a fundamental step in doing so. Iraq, which battled Islamic State fighters that captured territory on both sides of the border from 2014-2017, shut the frontier on security grounds following the revolt that toppled Assad.
Chevron is advancing plans to tap into data center power demand, with the oil major recently entering the permitting and engineering phases for multiple U.S. sites to develop the centers and the electricity to supply them, a company executive told Reuters this week. Energy use for U.S. data centers, which are essentially giant server warehouses, is expected to triple in the next three years as the race to expand artificial intelligence intensifies. Big Tech has struck unprecedented power purchase deals to quickly access vast quantities of electricity, including buying directly from nuclear power plants and inking agreements with utilities to bring power generation to the grid.
A federal judge in Baltimore on Friday rejected the city's effort to temporarily block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from emptying its reserves and returning the money to the U.S. Federal Reserve or Department of the Treasury. U.S. District Judge Matthew Maddox said Baltimore did not deserve a preliminary injunction because it was unlikely to prove the CFPB made or acted upon a "discrete and final" decision to defund itself.
Syria's interim foreign minister said in Baghdad on Friday his government was ready to "reinforce cooperation" with Iraq in the fight against remnants of the Islamic State group."We are ready to reinforce cooperation with Iraq in the fight against Daesh (an Arabic acronym for IS) along the whole length of the border.
Amid widespread economic turmoil, the price of gold has soared to levels never seen before. The price to buy gold on the spot market in New York is following closely behind. Interest in buying gold can rise sharply in times of uncertainty, as anxious investors seek safe havens for their money.
Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an inclusive society in a country with a delicate sectarian and religious mix. His pledge is being tested by a campaign of killings against Syria's Alawites - the minority sect to which ousted leader Bashar al-Assad belongs - that was triggered by an attack on new government forces by Assad loyalists. Some Syrians and foreign powers have worried that Sharaa may impose strict Islamic governance or exclude some communities from positions of power in a country with numerous minority groups such as Druze, Kurds, Christians and Alawites.
With a big storm system threatening the U.S., experts share top tips on how you can best prepare yourself and your home.
Russia accused Norway of militarising the Svalbard archipelago and said on Friday it had summoned the Norwegian ambassador to Moscow over the matter. "Moscow called on the Norwegian side to renounce any activity that undermines the international legal foundations of the archipelago's regime," a statement by the Russian foreign ministry said. Spitsbergen is the largest island in the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, located roughly halfway between the North Pole and the European mainland.
President Donald Trump's volatile tariff threats are unleashing historic jumps in public anxiety, with the potential to undermine his pledges to strengthen a U.S. economy that is increasingly weakened. The University of Michigan's index of consumer sentiment tumbled 10.5% on a monthly basis in March and plunged 27.1% over the past year. The preliminary report released Friday shows that consumers’ expectations of annual inflation climbed to 3.9% from 3.5%, the largest monthly jump since 1993.
Wombats are furry, nocturnal marsupials found only in Australia. Baby wombats have recently been in the news after an American influencer filmed herself snatching a young joey from its mother, setting off a global conversation about mistreatment of wildlife. Wild animals are cute -- but please don't touch, for your sake and theirs.
A proud advocate for conservative causes, former senator Alan Simpson had a strong libertarian streak that supported abortion rights and gay equality.