While meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office Thursday, President Biden joked that he has known leaders from the Jewish state as far back as his childhood. ‘Mr. President,’ Netanyahu said at the start of the meeting, ‘we’ve known each other for 40 years. And you’ve known every Israeli prime minister for 50 years from Golda Meir. So, ...
Less than a week since becoming the presumptive Democratic Party nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris is facing a tidal wave of GOP attack ads as she enters the spotlight in the presidential race and while she is benefiting from a massive surge in ‘earned’ media. The Associated Press reports that former President Trump and his allies are outspending Harris’ campaign ...
Vice President Kamala Harris is beginning to vet her list of potential running mates for 2024, according to sources familiar with the campaign. The presumptive Democratic Party nominee has been moving quickly to formalize a campaign ticket after President Biden stepped down on Sunday afternoon. Harris’ team has requested information on approximately a dozen individuals, according to anonymous sources speaking ...
Vice President Kamala Harris is edging former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical general election match-up, according to a new poll conducted after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. The New York Times/Siena College released a new survey that found that Trump leads Harris by only one percentage point among likely voters, 48% to 47%. Among ...
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to meet former President Trump on Friday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in an effort to repair a fractured relationship. After President Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 presidential election, Netanyahu congratulated President-elect Biden, prompting Trump to call out the Israeli leader and was quoted as saying ‘I haven’t spoken to him ...
A conservative think tank has launched an eight-figure effort to highlight VP Kamala Harris’ record on parental rights and transgender issues that the group’s founder will show that the presumptive Democratic nominee is an ‘extremist’ on those issues. ‘American Principles Project just launched our $18 million, seven states, 7 million voter, Every Family Votes campaign in the most important swing ...
Renewable energy demand will triple over the next seven years as data center growth accelerates to facilitate the proliferation of artificial intelligence, NextEra Energy CEO John Ketchum said Wednesday. NextEra added 3,000 megawatts of renewable and storage projects to its order backlog in the second quarter. Of those, 860 megawatts — or 28% — come from agreements with Google to power the ...
Wall Street’s favorite recession signal started flashing red in 2022 and hasn’t stopped — and thus far has been wrong every step of the way. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note has been lower than most of its shorter-dated counterparts since that time — a phenomenon known as an inverted yield curve which has preceded nearly every recession going back to ...
At Berkshire Hathaway’s annual investor meeting earlier this year, Warren Buffett and his top insurance executive Ajit Jain issued a headline-grabbing warning that Berkshire would exercise caution regarding cyber insurance — in fact, it advised insurance agents to only sell cyber policies if they absolutely had to do so to satisfy a client, and to expect losses. A primary reason cited is ...
U.S. stocks had their worst day since 2022 on Wednesday amid a broad pullback in tech companies as Wall Street traders sought to reduce their exposure to firms that have made big bets on artificial intelligence. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index closed down 3.6%, while the broader S&P 500 index closed down 2.3% — both their worst performances in more than ...
Chipotle Mexican Grill on Wednesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ expectations as it saw higher traffic at its restaurants, bucking an industry slowdown. Shares of the company rose after the closing bell. As of Wednesday’s close, Chipotle’s stock had slid 17% this month, hurt by investor concerns about the health of the restaurant industry. In late June, the ...
Economic activity in the U.S. was considerably stronger than expected during the second quarter, according to an initial estimate Thursday from the Commerce Department. Real gross domestic product, a measure of all the goods and services produced during the April-through-June period, increased at a 2.8% annualized pace adjusted for seasonality and inflation. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for ...