US Federal Reserve officials have announced a pause in interest-rate hikes, leaving rates at 5% to 5.25% after more than a year of consecutive rate increases.The decision, made by the Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), marks a shift in how Fed officia... More »
The entrance hall has grand staircases and a dome with handmade glass. Image Credit: Luxhabitat Sotheby's International Realty via Bloomberg Dubai: A mansion evocative of Versailles is for sale in Dubai for Dh750 million ($204 mill... More »
Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if everyone suddenly disappeared?What would happen to all our stuff? What would happen to our houses, our schools, our neighborhoods, our cities? Who would feed the dog? Who would cut the grass? Although it’s... More »
(Bloomberg) -- Texas’s fragile power grid will be pushed to the brink in coming days as unusually hot weather grips the second-largest US state.Most Read from BloombergElectricity usage is forecast to break the all-time high by the end of the week, the Electri... More »
© Stringer/Reuters A Ukrainian service member on Tuesday near Neskuchne in the Donetsk region. (Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters)ANDRIIVKA, Ukraine — The men of Ukraine’s 37th Brigade were freshly trained and armed with Western-supplied weapons, tasked with ... More »
Armed Forces of Ukraine/Handout via ReutersUkraine’s counteroffensive has reportedly claimed the life of a Russian general described as one of the army’s “most effective military leaders.”Major General Sergei Goryachev, Chief of Staff of the 35th Combined Arms... More »
A woman pushing her 3-year-old daughter in a stroller down a Brooklyn street was stabbed multiple times by an unhinged stranger in a blond wig who threatened to knife the toddler, police said Wednesday.‘Why are you looking at me?” the stranger asked the mom, a... More »
© Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post A crowd responds to Kari Lake at an event in West Palm Beach, Fla. on Monday.MIAMI — Lazaro Ecenarro believes Donald Trump is guilty of something. But it has nothing to do with the Espionage Act. “In a way, I b... More »
Elon Musk. Maja Hitij/Getty Images Twitter has taken action against two accounts linked to a frequent critic of Tesl... More »
Elon Musk has claimed that people are “already cyborgs” as our “memory is outsourced to computers”. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO took to Twitter to make the shocking claim, in response to a question posed to Marc Andreessen’s AMA (Ask Me Anything). Andreessen is a... More »
Bankruptcy is not the only thing that proceeds gradually, and then suddenly. While Syd Barrett may have appeared fine in an interview in May 1967, his teetering mental state would change drastically by the summer. Locking himself in his bedroom for days, the f... More »
(Bloomberg) -- Google was accused of abusing its dominance over advertising technology to crush competition as the European Union fired off an antitrust charge sheet that threatens a breakup of parts of the lucrative business, kicking off a process that could ... More »