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Good morning. I’ve spent the past several days digesting consumer data. Countless headlines breathlessly trumpeted a Black Friday bonanza after MasterCard Spending Pulse estimated retail sales rose 4.1% to a new record on shopping’s biggest day of the year,...

Article contentPEMBROKE, Bermuda — Gold Reserve Ltd. (TSX.V: GRZ) (BSX: GRZ.BH) (OTCQX: GDRZF) (“Gold Reserve” or the “Company”) announces that today it filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (the “appeals...

Air travelers in the U.S. without a REAL ID will be charged a $45 fee beginning in February, the Transportation Security Administration announced Monday.The updated ID has been required since May, but passengers without it have so far been allowed to clear...

Costco Wholesale Corp. joined a fast-growing list of businesses suing the Trump administration to ensure eligibility for refunds if the US Supreme Court strikes down the president’s signature global tariffs policy.The nation’s biggest warehouse club chain is among dozens of companies to...

It used to be that the frenzy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday was tied to a set few days at the end of November.That’s no longer the case.The window for holiday-timed sales has crept up earlier and earlier,...

Luigi Mangione watched stoically in court Monday as prosecutors played surveillance videos showing the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York City sidewalk last year and Mangione’s arrest five days later at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.The videos, including...

Most higher education has AI backward. Rather than evolving curricula to prepare students for an AI-driven workforce, some universities have restricted AI use, primarily over fears of cheating and misuse. AI didn’t create cheating behavior; it simply changed the...

New York’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, campaigned on a promise to raise the city’s income tax on its richest residents from 3.9% to 5.9%. Combined with the state income tax, which is 10.9% for the top...

HSBC’s recent analysis of the financial challenge facing OpenAI shows how massive the scale of the company’s thinking is. It already claims revenues of $20 billion. It has committed to $1.4 trillion to build out the new data centers...

Meanwhile, the coming week could see President Donald Trump nominate a successor to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, and a special election in Tennessee could further narrow the GOP’s House majority.Futures tied to the Dow Jones industrial average fell 48 points...