As President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs announcement sent shockwaves across Wall Street, the world’s richest people lost billions of dollars in net worth almost overnight. On Wednesday, Trump announced a baseline 10% tariff for imported goods from all countries set to take effect on April 5, and “individualized” tariffs as high as 50% on a…
Crocs are cool again. But the footwear company’s comeback story is more than just a fashion statement. The iconic clog was a staple of early 2000s fashion. However, the brand’s profitability eroded in the years following the Great Recession as it struggled to expand internationally. From 2008 to 2016, there were four years where the…
Mobile phone footage has emerged that appears to contradict Israel’s account of why soldiers opened fire on a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck, killing 15 rescue workers. The video published by the New York Times, and said to have been filmed by a Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) paramedic who was killed, shows…
A man checks his phone next to an electronic board showing stocks on the Heng Seng Index in Hong Kong on April 3, 2025. Peter Parks | Afp | Getty Images China’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday said “the market has spoken” following the U.S. imposition of sweeping new tariffs and called for the White House…
“There’s a lot of other rich countries in the world, they should all be pitching in. “We’re going to do our part. We already have people there. We’ll have more people there. We’ll help as much as we can [but] it’s not the easiest place to work… they have a military junta that doesn’t like…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting held by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on March 24, 2025. Win McNamee | Getty Images No one is getting hit harder than technology megacaps as markets hit selloff mode. Once powering the market to new highs, the group known as the Magnificent Seven…
At Microsoft‘s 50th anniversary celebration on Friday, a software engineer in the company’s artificial intelligence division interrupted the event with a message: Stop allowing the Israeli military to use Microsoft’s AI products. At the time, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman was delivering a speech. “Mustafa, shame on you,” the employee, Ibtihal Aboussad, said as she…
The inspector general of the US Department of Defense has launched an investigation into Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal application to message other top-level officials about military strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen. The White House faced a backlash after a journalist was inadvertently added to a group chat – where specific details of…
Getty Images Well-wishers celebrate the Thai king’s birthday, in Bangkok on 28 July, 2024. A Thai court has issued an arrest warrant for an American academic under Thailand’s lese-majeste law that forbids insulting the monarchy. The army filed a complaint against Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University in central Thailand, under lese-majeste and computer…
A Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has killed at least 16 people and left dozens of others wounded, according to regional head Serhii Lysak. Six of the dead were children, said President Volodymyr Zelensky, who grew up in Kryvyi Rih. Images from the scene showed at least one victim…
