Meta Platforms just delivered one of the strangest earnings reports of the season: revenue of $64.6 billion, up 26% from $51.24 billion a year earlier and above the roughly $63.3 billion expected β paired with net income of only $9.86 billion because a single roughly $9.89 billion legal charge ate almost everything. The stock initially … Read more
Americans are voting early in numbers that have caught both parties’ attention. An Associated Press analysis finds early voting in Texas up 74% versus the same point in 2022. Kansas has more than doubled its early vote totals; Maine, North Carolina, and Ohio are each up more than 30%. With the November 3 midterms less … Read more
Saudi Arabia woke up on Thursday to its worst week of Houthi strikes in months. The Saudi Civil Aviation Authority announced early Thursday that one person was killed and eight injured in a late Wednesday attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam. The latest Houthi attacks Saudi Arabia has absorbed mark a sharp escalation: … Read more
Pope Leo XIV Discharged from Gemelli Hospital After Successful Lung Surgery: Full Recovery Timeline Pope Leo XIV is officially back at the Vatican. In a remarkable display of resilience for a 71-year-old, the pontiff was discharged from Romeβs Agostino Gemelli University Hospital on Saturday afternoon, just four days after undergoing a major surgical procedure to … Read more
An arizona severe storm tornado warning jolted Flagstaff awake before sunrise on Wednesday, the sharpest alert in a climatologically rare outbreak that kept most of Arizona under some kind of weather alert through Thursday. By midmorning, forecasters had issued six tornado warnings across northern Arizona, hail was smashing cars in Mesa, and floodwater had shut … Read more
The eBay layoffs 1100 jobs announcement arrived on October 21 in the form that has become grimly routine in corporate America: a staff memo, a carefully worded statement about "thoughtful choices," and roughly eleven hundred people about to learn their jobs are gone. Reuters reviewed the internal memo from CEO Jamie Iannone, who told employees … Read more
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang strode onto a stage in Berlin this week with a message for the world: the Vera Rubin era of AI computing has officially begun. The centerpiece of Nvidia’s first-ever GTC event in the German capital was the unveiling of the Vera Rubin DSX Pod β a full-stack AI supercomputing platform packaged … Read more
The announcement came Wednesday at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center, and it landed exactly the way everyone expected after Sunday's fireworks: the giants start jj mccarthy texans plan is official. John Harbaugh told reporters that J.J. McCarthy will be the Giants' starting quarterback for Sunday's Week 7 matchup in Houston, with Jameis Winston sliding to … Read more
The supreme court transgender inmate policy fight just handed President Donald Trump something he's rarely gotten from the nation's highest court: a straight-up no. On October 21, the justices declined to let his administration enforce a sweeping rule that would have stripped gender-affirming care from transgender people in federal prisons while the underlying lawsuit plays … Read more
Elon Musk didn't dodge the question this time. Asked about a possible combination of his two companies on SpaceX's third-quarter earnings call Tuesday, he confirmed the SpaceX Tesla merger talks are real — both boards have formed special committees of independent directors — and called a merger “a good idea.” SpaceX shares jumped more than … Read more
