BEIJING (AP) — Chinese humanoid robots broke records set by humans, including beating Usain Bolt’s 100-meter sprint world record, on the opening day of the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday. More than 2,000 humanoid robots were participating in the event, the organizer
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has urged a federal judge to reject the BBC’s request for the court’s help in securing testimony and documents from three family members in response to his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster. The BBC is trying to gain “politically-
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who is increasingly seen secluding herself at home, said on Saturday that she is using her official residence next to her office more for work to maximize efficiency. In December, Takaichi moved into the official residence, a brick-and-stone mansi
The economy, inflation and how those forces could impact the lives of Americans were front and center over the past week. Trips to the grocery store and gas station are more painful than they were last year, and rising costs are impacting the decisions of both households and businesses. Here’s a sna
One day there was a roof. The next morning it was gone. Jeffrey Huber still remembers the day some 34 years ago when Hurricane Andrew blew off the roof of his childhood home, one of tens of thousands damaged and destroyed across southern Florida. For days, first responders couldn’t get to them. For
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street will get key updates next week on closely-watched measures for consumer confidence and inflation. The latest consumer confidence report from business group The Conference Board will be released Tuesday. Wall Street expects the report to show that confidence in the U.S. ec
By Giselda Vagnoni ROME, Aug 22 (Reuters) – The Vatican will build a roughly €100 million ($117 million) renewable energy plant that could power the Holy See within two years via a system combining solar power and agriculture, sources involved in discussions on the project said. The agrivoltaic plan
SEOUL, Aug 22 (Reuters) – A South Korean container ship sets sail on Saturday for Europe via the Arctic in the nation’s first commercial voyage on the route to test its viability, with the hope of turning the southeastern port of Busan into a global maritime hub. The PanStar Acro will sail north, hu
TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ending a 2024 lawsuit alleging the company violated federal children’s privacy laws. The DOJ said Friday that TikTok will pay $300 million immediately and another $100 million after an order vacates an earlier consent
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday dismissed major portions of a Ben & Jerry’s lawsuit accusing its former parent Unilever of trying to silence the ice cream maker’s social activism, dismantle its board and stop funding its namesake foundation. U.S. District J
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he did not direct Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to intervene in the bond market this week and that the Treasury chief acted on his own authority based on his understanding of the issues. Here are details:
WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will hold a press conference on Monday, according to a statement, after the U.S. warned of more sanctions against Iran and took steps to try to lower long-dated Treasury bond yields. • The press conference, which will be held at th
By Nora Eckert and Mike Colias Aug 21 (Reuters) – Electronic door handles of the kind that are at the center of China’s largest-ever vehicle recall have proliferated across the globe over the past decade, especially on electric vehicles. Tesla and eight other automakers said on Friday they will reca
Dutch data protection authorities have fined Uber nearly $1 billion, saying the ride-hailing company used automated software to suspend driver accounts, sometimes permanently, with no human review to check for mistakes. The Dutch Data Protection Authority said Friday it is imposing a fine of 825 mil
MEXICO CITY, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Mexican Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Friday he expects Mexico to reach trade understandings with the United States that are “similar in many aspects” to those being discussed between Washington and Ottawa, adding that Mexico does not see Canada’s parallel n
By Dan Catchpole SEATTLE, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Boeing engineers and technical workers overwhelmingly rejected the U.S. planemaker’s four-year contract offer, union officials said on Friday. The 17,000 members of SPEEA, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, also voted convinci
PHOENIX (AP) — State prosecutors declined to file criminal charges against Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs over allegations that she took part in a pay-to-play scheme with a group home company that received a rate increase from the state after contributing $100,000 to her inaugural celebration, Attorney Ge
By Andreas Rinke BERLIN, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Sebastian Lechner, the CDU state chairman of Lower Saxony, is calling for the European Union to quickly impose import tariffs on Chinese hybrid cars, a letter seen by Reuters on Friday showed. • “It is precisely these hybrids that are currently facing the
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that his administration will allow more beef to be temporarily imported into the U.S. without triggering higher tariffs, which drew swift pushback from cattle producers and conservative rural-state Republicans. Beef prices have climbed to rec
CHICAGO (AP) — They arrived in a kaleidoscope of colors, but one won. For decades, the American school bus has maintained such a standard look that “school bus yellow” is national shorthand for their deep, glossy hue. No act of Congress mandated the color, with its slight orange tint. Rather, a 1939
NEW YORK (AP) — The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch is mentally competent to stand trial as he faces sex trafficking charges after being hospitalized for months for dementia and Alzheimer’s symptoms, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Nusrat Choudhury, in her Thursday decision, concl
By Anirban Sen and Arasu Kannagi Basil Aug 21 (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Ken Griffin’s Citadel has shed more than 80% of bets from the original portfolio of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness that it recently purchased, according to a letter to investors seen by Reuters on Friday. S
A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli settlers Friday after a rock-throwing incident in the occupied West Bank. Also, Turkey announced it is asking for an international warrant for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his role in stopping several boats trying to break a
By Anirban Sen and Arasu Kannagi Basil Aug 21 (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Ken Griffin’s Citadel has shed more than 80% of the aggregate risk from the original portfolio of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness, which it recently purchased, according to a letter sent to investors that wa
By Milana Vinn NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase is hiring veteran dealmaker David Fishman from Bank of America as part of a newly formed investment banking group to focus on key clients in the technology sector, according to a memo seen by Reuters. Fishman will join JPMorgan later this ye
By Christina Amann BERLIN, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume warned on Friday that the car sector’s problems would only intensify in the coming years, arguing deep cost cuts were needed to keep Europe’s top automaker afloat as it gears up for weeks of crunch talks over a planned revamp.
Aug 21 (Reuters) – The strongest growth in the U.S. services sector in nearly two years powered a sharp acceleration in overall business activity in August, offsetting a slowing of growth in a manufacturing sector being restrained by reduced stock building and supply disruptions from the U.S.-led wa
By Promit Mukherjee OTTAWA, August 21 (Reuters) – Canada’s retail sales rose 0.6% in June, beating an average analyst expectation of 0.4%, as sales jumped at clothing and general merchandise stores, data showed on Friday. Retail sales, which include purchases of cars, furniture, food and gasoline, a
Aug 21 (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday after getting hammered in the previous session, though markets remained on track to end the week in the red as surging government bond yields and geopolitical tensions weighed on risk appetite. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ros
By Stefano Rebaudo Aug 21 (Reuters) – Money markets are bracing for an increasingly hawkish European Central Bank, wagering that geopolitical tensions will complicate its inflation battle and keep price pressures stubborn enough to lift the key deposit rate to almost 3% by late 2027. The ECB is expe
