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Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, underwent a medical procedure on Saturday afternoon at a hospital in Brasília to treat a bout of persistent hiccups.The intervention, described as successful by his medical team in a Saturday press conference, involved blocking the...

Jeffrey R. Holland, a high-ranking official in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was next in line to become the faith’s president, has died. He was 85.Holland died early Saturday morning from complications associated with kidney disease, the...

Russia’s financial system is reportedly coming under more strain as Moscow’s war on Ukraine nears the end of its fourth full year.The White House is seeking to revive peace talks this weekend with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky due...

Tech billionaires are making plans to bail on California ahead a possible ballot measure that would tax their assets to help pay for healthcare.Sources told the New York Times that venture capitalist Peter Thiel has explored spending more time...

Business professor and entrepreneur Scott Galloway shared some career advice for young people struggling to find a job during a recent appearance on Shane Smith’s Vice News podcast, emphasizing how networking and personal connections remain critical to a long...

New York Assemblymember Alex Bores, a Democrat now running for Congress in Manhattan’s 12th District, argues that one of the most alarming uses of artificial intelligence—highly realistic deepfakes—is less an unsolvable crisis than a failure to deploy an existing...

Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances that mimic real people increased in quality far beyond what even many experts expected would be the case just a few years ago. They were...

As markets reopened Friday after the Christmas holiday, U.S. stocks were little changed, but precious metals saw plenty of action.Silver prices jumped 9.6% to top $78 per ounce for the first time ever. Gold rose 1.3% to a fresh...

Beijing imposed sanctions on Friday against 20 U.S. defense-related companies and 10 executives, a week after Washington annoucned large-scale arms sales to Taiwan.The sanctions entail freezing the companies’ assets in China and banning individuals and organizations from dealing with them,...

The developers of a Virginia offshore wind project are asking a federal judge to block a Trump administration order that halted construction of their project, along with four others, over national security concerns.Dominion Energy Virginia said in its lawsuit filed late...