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  • Tesla's stock slide looks to be unrelenting

    Tesla's shares continue to sell off as concerns mount on Elon Musk's many distractions.

  • Double-duty dogs at Westminster Dog Show aid victims of LA fires, war

    Straight from the dog-show circuit at the 149th Westminster Dog Show in New York City, a four-year-old Borzoi named Ziggy is heading to Los Angeles to offer comfort to those displaced after the recent California wildfires and to emergency response workers who battled them. Ziggy, who has been a therapy dog for two years, won a merit award for her breed this week at the show put on by the American Kennel Club (AKC). Her owner and handler, Randi Chylinski, who splits her time between Grosse Point east of Detroit and Los Angeles, says she and Ziggy will at first start work with the Red Cross and through Therapy Dogs International.

  • Drought leaves Canadian farmers unpaid, reveals holes in safety net

    Canadian farmer Bill Prybylski planned to buy a new tractor with proceeds from crops sold to two grain companies in early 2024. Now Prybylski has no money to replace his old tractor. Hundreds of Canadian farmers have received delayed payments for their crops or not been paid at all, as a growing number of grain-buying firms declare bankruptcy amid drought and low commodity prices, according to interviews with dozens of farmers, a government agency, and a review of bankruptcy documents.

  • I'm a man who would like Valentine's Day flowers - so why don't I get them?

    Women have received flowers - specifically red roses - for Valentine's Day for decades. But just 5% of men are given them. Writer Gavin Newsham asks why.

  • Romania's Iohannis steps down, leaving caretaker president in charge until election rerun in spring

    After over a decade in office, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis stepped down on Wednesday and has been replaced by the senate president who will serve in an interim capacity until a new presidential election is held in spring. Ilie Bolojan, a 55-year-old former mayor and leader of the center-right National Liberal Party, or PNL, will serve as acting president at Cotroceni Palace in Bucharest until a successor is elected in a presidential race scheduled for May in the European Union and NATO member country.

  • Sterling steady ahead of U.S. data, tariff updates

    The British pound was steady within the middle of its recent range on Wednesday as investors awaited key U.S. inflation data, while uncertainty stemming from U.S. President Donald Trump's trade policy continued to keep investors on edge. Attention in currency markets on Wednesday was on U.S. inflation data - due at 1330 GMT - which could help cement market expectations for the Federal Reserve to keep rates unchanged for the time being. On Tuesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers the central bank was in no rush to ease more given the strength of the economy.

  • Musk cuts based more on political ideology than real cost savings so far

    The first phase of the rapid-fire effort by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump to cut waste from government agencies appears driven more by an ideological assault on federal agencies long hated by conservatives than a good-faith effort to save taxpayer dollars, according to two veteran Republican budget experts. Since Trump's inauguration on January 20, Musk has dispatched members of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to scrutinize sensitive personnel and payment information in government computer systems and led a successful drive to dismantle two agencies - one that provides a lifeline to the world's needy and another that protects Americans from unscrupulous lenders.

  • Dow Jones Futures: Will CPI Inflation Be Market Catalyst? DoorDash, Upstart Jump, Tesla Keeps Falling

    The stock market is still rangebound. Tesla dived as Elon Musk plays DOGE ball. DoorDash, Upstart are earnings winners late.

  • When do the final episodes of 'Cobra Kai' Season 6 come out? Release date, cast, more

    The final part of "Cobra Kai" Season 6 will deal with the aftermath of Miyagi-Do's trip to Spain for the Sekai Taikai, says Netflix.

  • Trump's DOJ antitrust nominee to be grilled on enforcement

    President Donald Trump's pick to oversee the U.S. Department of Justice's blockbuster antitrust cases against Alphabet's Google and Apple will have her commitment to enforcement tested by a Senate panel at her confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Gail Slater, a veteran antitrust attorney and economic adviser to Vice President JD Vance, would lead the DOJ division that enforces laws against illegal monopolies and anticompetitive business behavior, if confirmed as assistant attorney general of the antitrust division.

  • Tropical Cyclone Zelia Intensifies as It Moves Towards Australian Coast

    Tropical Cyclone Zelia intensified as it moved toward the Western Australia coast on February 11, the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) said, publishing this footage.The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said the cyclone was a Category 2 and would likely reach Category 3 by Thursday.It was expected to make landfall on Friday or Saturday, the BOM said. Credit: (CSU/CIRA & JMA/JAXA) via Storyful

  • Michelin Bib Gourmands: 10 new London restaurants celebrated for 'quality, good value cooking'

    London has seen an influx of hot new affordable restaurants in the past 12 months

  • Trump doubles down on plan to empty Gaza. This is what he has said and what's at stake

    Behind U.S. President Donald Trump’s vows to turn Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” lies a plan to forcibly drive a population from its land, rights groups say, warning it could be a war crime under international law. Trump doubled down this week on his vows to empty Gaza permanently of its more than 2 million Palestinians, saying they would not be allowed to return and suggesting at one point he might force Egypt and Jordan to take them in by threatening to cut off U.S. aid. Whether it’s serious, a negotiating tactic or a distraction, Palestinians have roundly rejected the idea of leaving.

  • MLB win totals 2025: Projecting every team's record for the new season

    Our six-person panel forecasts the Dodgers as the lone 100-game winner, while parity rules everywhere else.

  • US Republicans find unity on taxes a heavy lift in Trump 'golden age'

    Barely a month after predicting a new "golden age" under President Donald Trump, congressional Republicans are struggling to move forward on the president's tax-cut agenda, despite their control of both the Senate and House of Representatives. House and Senate Republicans are pursuing rival plans for enacting Trump's tax proposals, including an extension of the 2017 tax cuts that were the signature legislative accomplishment of his first presidential term, and key party members in both chambers claim they can largely ignore an estimated cost of more than $4 trillion. With only a 218-215 majority, House Republicans are split between lawmakers from Democratic states who want a bigger federal tax deduction for state and local tax payments, hardliners pushing offsetting spending cuts and centrists worried about the potential ill-effects of those cuts back home.

  • Civil servants ‘dragging feet’ to blame for police vetting row, Met chief says

    The Metropolitan Police Commissioner has blamed civil servants for “dragging their feet” and failing to give the force powers to sack rogue officers.

  • Israeli PM takes the stand again in his ongoing corruption trial for alleged corruption

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stand again on Wednesday in his ongoing trial for alleged corruption.

  • I track deals for a living — today's best sales are on Bissell, Crest, Kate Spade

    Save on a portable carpet cleaner, teeth whitening strips, a leather crossbody bag, Apple AirTags and more — up to 70% off.

  • Fox News Host: Trump Voters Frustrated by ‘Level of Chaos’

    Fox News host Jessica Tarlov said that even some of President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters are growing weary of the “chaos” of his first weeks in office. Tarlov, who previously said on The Five that the rollout of Trump’s agenda has been “complete chaos,” was talking about Elon Musk’s “federal government takeover” with Scott Galloway on his The Prof G Podcast. The Fox News host and Galloway, a clinical professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, were disc

  • Analysis-Trump's Justice Department hits the brakes on anti-corruption enforcement

    The U.S. Justice Department has sharply stepped back its anti-corruption efforts under President Donald Trump, from loosening enforcement of laws meant to stop companies from bribing foreign officials to directing its prosecutors to drop a criminal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams. It has disbanded an effort to enforce sanctions against Russian oligarchs and fired veteran public corruption prosecutors who played a role in the department's two criminal cases against Trump during his years out of office.