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There are reports that the administration is cooking up a plan to allow married couples with a stay-at-home spouse to collect childcare subsidies, using funds from a Health and Human Services program, also intended to assist working parents. The HHS fund was created a while back to help low income…

Target is set to open eight new stores this fall, bringing its total store openings for 2026 to 32 as the retailer works toward opening more than 300 locations by 2035. The new stores will open in Mississippi, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, following the 24 locations Target…

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is accusing Ford Motor Co. of becoming too dependent on Chinese companies, warning CEO Jim Farley that the automaker’s business ties to China threaten U.S. national security and American manufacturing. In a letter sent Tuesday to Farley and obtained by FOX Business, Duffy criticized Ford’s growing…

Meta on Tuesday rolled out a long-planned personal artificial intelligence agent aimed at helping users complete daily tasks. The Muse agent can autonomously send emails, book travel on a person’s behalf, sell a car and lower a bill, according to the social media giant.Modeled on the open-source AI agent OpenClaw,…

The Treasury Department slammed Iran Tuesday by sanctioning 36 targets linked to its aviation sector, which officials said the regime uses to “move weapons, personnel, and illicit cargo.”  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration is taking action under Operation Economic Outcast, where the Treasury “promised severe consequences for those…

Hunter Biden is teasing the launch of a cryptocurrency meme coin inspired by his notorious laptop as his next business venture. “$LAPTOP September 9,” Biden wrote Monday on X, sharing a video of media reports referencing infamous computer that was left at a Delaware repair shop before its contents were…

Retail footwear veteran Genesco Inc. is shuttering more than two dozen underperforming stores as part of a broader push to reduce its physical footprint, cut overhead and boost overall profitability. The Nashville-based parent company of Journeys, Johnston & Murphy and U.K.-based Schuh closed 25 retail stores during its second quarter…

Canada’s retaliatory tariffs kicked in just after midnight on roughly $20 billion worth of U.S. goods, setting up a high-profile trade standoff between President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. The escalatory actions come after trade talks collapsed at the 11th hour last month. Canada’s tariffs put 15%,…