Scott Bessent wins Senate confirmation as Treasury secretary
Scott Bessent, founder and chief executive officer of Key Square Group LP and US treasury secretary nominee for US President-elect Donald Trump, during a Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Al Drago…
Why Bill Gates is being dragged into a row over vaccinating cows in Kenya
Methane expelled by livestock belching and farting contributes about 15% of global emissions each year, UN estimates show. It is the most common greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide (CO2). Jonathan Mueke, a senior official in Kenya’s agriculture ministry, has denied…
Trump military executive orders on DEI, vaccines, transgender troops
U.S. President Donald Trump signs documents as he issues executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, U.S., Jan. 20, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters President Donald Trump is expected Monday to sign…
Survivors of Auschwitz deliver warning from history as memories die out
As he toured the camp he laid a wreath in memory of the victims. Sources close to the King said it was a profound visit for him, and one aide described it as a “deeply personal pilgrimage”. Hours earlier, he…
How buzz on Chinese AI model DeepSeek sparked massive Nasdaq sell-off
A young Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, sparked a massive rout in U.S. technology stocks Monday as its highly competitive — and potentially shockingly cost-effective — models stoked doubts about the hundreds of billions of dollars that America’s biggest tech companies…
Denmark to spend billions more on Arctic military security
Asked earlier in January whether he could rule out using military or economic force to pursue his desire to take over the territory, Trump said he could not. Greenland, the world’s most sparsely populated territory, is home to about 56,000…
Here’s what you should know
On Monday, Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek took over rival OpenAI’s coveted spot as the most-downloaded free app in the U.S. on Apple‘s App Store, dethroning ChatGPT for DeepSeek’s AI Assistant. Global tech stocks sold off and were on pace…
Nvidia sheds almost $600 billion in market cap, biggest drop ever
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holds a Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU (L) and a RTX 5000 laptop as he delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2025. Patrick T….
Power stocks plunge as AI energy needs questioned due to new China AI lab
The cooling towers of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30, 2024. Danielle DeVries | CNBC Power companies that are most exposed to the tech sector’s data center boom plunged early Monday, as the debut…
Inside the race for Greenland’s mineral wealth
President Donald Trump has said he thinks the US will gain control of Greenland, underlining his persistent claim on the Arctic island, on one occasion pointing to “economic security” as the reason. While the autonomous Danish territory has been quick…
