The SpaceX Starship sits on a launch pad at Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on October 12, 2024, ahead of the Starship Flight 5 test. The test will involve the return of Starship’s Super Heavy Booster to the launch site. Sergio Flores | Afp | Getty Images Over the weekend, Elon Musk got his new…
Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia has decided against running for Senate in 2026, robbing Republicans of their top potential recruit against Senator Jon Ossoff, who is seen as the chamber’s most vulnerable Democrat on the ballot next year. Mr. Kemp is a popular two-term governor who won re-election in 2022 despite a primary challenge fueled…
A member of staff next to a trading board at the London Stock Exchange on April 25, 2025. Carl Court | Getty Images While global markets have been gripped by turbulence in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s seesawing tariffs policies, British stocks have enjoyed a bumper rally. London’s FTSE 100 index, which has…
Former Credit Suisse boss Tidjane Thiam is to run for president in Ivory Coast’s forthcoming election, his party has confirmed. Thiam, 62, was the only candidate vying to represent the country’s main opposition party, the PDCI. Thiam has spent the last two decades living abroad, and had to give up his French citizenship to be…
Former Representative Mike Rogers, Republican of Michigan, announced on Monday that he would run for his state’s open U.S. Senate seat, his second bid for the chamber after losing to Senator Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, by fewer than 20,000 votes last fall. The seat opened after Michigan’s senior senator, Gary Peters, a Democrat, said that…
Whether Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to patch up relations with his US counterpart Donald Trump is wise depends on who you ask in Ukraine. “A very bad decision,” remarked blogger and army serviceman Yuriy Kasyanov, who thinks the US “won’t help Ukraine with anything” after this mineral deal is signed. “The president behaved with…
US Senator Mitch McConnell has announced that he will not seek re-election in 2026 following a 40-year career in Congress. McConnell, 83, was the longest-serving party leader in Senate history, but stepped down from Republican leadership while facing health issues. Despite supporting much of Donald Trump’s agenda during his first administration, McConnell has become a…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 6, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know,…
In a fresh development in the abduction and murder case of billionaire heiress Eliza Fletcher in the US, the accused has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. Cleotha Abston was sentenced to 80 years in prison on May 17 for raping a woman in 2017. (X) Accused Cleotha Abston, who is from Tennessee, admitted in the…
Prince William has admitted to normalising discussion with his three kids about homelessness while ferrying them backwards and forwards to school. Prince William and Kate Middleton with their kids Princess Charlotte, Prince George and Prince Louis(Reuters) According to several sources, the 42-year-old Prince of Wales reveals the details in the upcoming documentary Prince William: We…
