Tech giants have backed a pledge from President Donald Trump to pay more for electricity to run resource-hungry AI data centers ahead of its signing on Wednesday. Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI and Amazon will join Trump at the White House to sign the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, an agreement…

The longtime Manhattan residence of the late Ivana Trump has finally traded hands, but at a price that reflects a sobering reality for New York City’s luxury real estate market. Property records show the opulent Upper East Side townhouse sold on Feb. 27 for $14 million, the Wall Street Journal…

Companies in the private sector added 63,000 jobs in February, payroll processing firm ADP said Wednesday. The figure is above economists’ estimates of a gain of 50,000 jobs. The prior month’s payrolls number was revised lower to a gain of just 11,000 from an initially reported gain of 22,000.”We’ve seen…

Drone strikes damaged Amazon Web Services data centers in the Middle East, disrupting cloud operations and prompting the company to urge customers to move critical workloads out of the region. AWS confirmed that two of its data center facilities in the United Arab Emirates were directly struck, while a separate…

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as investors eye growing tensions in the Middle East and their potential effects on inflation and global trade. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 403.51 points, or 0.83%. The Dow was down 1,278 points, or 2.6%, at the worst levels of Tuesday’s trading session.The Nasdaq…

Pizza chain Papa John’s said it plans to close hundreds of underperforming restaurants in North America by the end of next year. “We have identified approximately 300 underperforming restaurants across North America that are not meeting brand expectations or lack a clear path to sustainable financial improvement, as well as…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to cut off trade with Spain, accusing the NATO ally of failing to meet defense spending commitments and refusing to allow U.S. forces to use Spanish bases to support operations related to strikes against Iran. Speaking during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz…

close video More than 650,000 plastic bottles of water are being recalled, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Wisconsin-based Valley Springs Artesian Gold LLC is recalling six of its products after they were bottled under “insanitary conditions,” according to the FDA enforcement report. The recall of 651,148 bottles of…

Creators who post artificial intelligence-generated videos of armed conflicts without clear disclosure will be penalized under new X policies aimed at preventing manipulation and misinformation. Nikita Bier, head of product at X, announced the revisions to X’s Creator Revenue Sharing policies in a post Tuesday.”During times of war, it is…

Travelers stranded in Dubai have been left scrambling to find a way home after the airport closed due to the U.S.-Israeli joint military offensive, Operation Epic Fury. Dubai’s two major hubs, Dubai International Airport (DXB) and Dubai World Central (DWC), reopened March 2 with limited operations, according to The Economic…