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McDonald’s is the latest fast-food chain to jump on the GLP-1 train, testing new menu items to appeal to growing swaths of customers on the popular weight-loss drugs.
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Shares of C.H. Robinson Worldwide on Thursday headed for their steepest drop ever, as investors seemed to focus their fears about AI disruption onto the transportation and logistics company.
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My investigation found 76 Risk Retention Groups insure nearly 30,000 motor carriers linked to more than 6,300 fatal crashes, all without state guaranty fund protection for crash victims. The findings come as reports indicate that major insurers, including Chubb and AmTrust, are exiting the Chicago trucking market, funneling high-risk carriers into RRGs that have already incurred $199 million in unpaid losses and multiple insolvencies. The post Inside the Shadow Market: 200,000+ Trucking Crashes Without Guaranty Fund Protection appeared first on FreightWaves.
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Eufy’s midrange X10 Pro Omni robovac has fallen to its best-ever price
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The order comes days after federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., tried and failed to get a grand jury to indict Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin.
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The service issue comes as the the crypto giant is set to report earnings on Thursday.
Seventeen-year-old Choi Ga-on denies American great Chloe Kim snowboarding history as she brushes off an early fall to win Winter Olympic halfpipe gold.
The top antitrust official in the Trump administration is leaving her post amid tension about greenlighting big mergers in recent months
The EPA said it will end credits for the start/stop feature, which shuts off gas engines when cars are idle to save fuel.
Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych has been disqualified from the Milan Cortina Games over his use of a helmet that honors athletes killed in Russia's war on his country. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Seth Doane has more.
Robinhood’s stock is hitting a fresh low as it follows the selloff in bitcoin, even through crypto trading is a relatively small part of its business.
The $30 billion Series G funding round, which involves Microsoft and Nvidia as backers, comes as Anthropic’s products begin to pressure legacy software companies.
PTA officials in Montgomery County, Maryland reportedly hosted controversial ICE response training for families, sparking debate over school activism.
Lance Cpl. Chukwuemeka E. Oforah died at the age of 21 after falling overboard from the USS Iwo Jima, the Marine Corps said.
After OpenAI raised the largest private tech financing round on record last year at over $40 billion, Anthropic is now second, with its $30 billion raise.
'Barack Hussein Obama'
Fiserv launches a 24/7/365 settlement platform for digital asset companies, aiming to reduce banking friction and improve liquidity in the US dollar.
Most voters call the Democratic Party weak, while most describe the GOP as extreme.
The athleisure company’s stock falls after more “see-through” complaints surfaced about a new leggings line.
Didero functions as an agentic AI layer that sits on top of a company’s existing ERP, acting as a coordinator that reads incoming communications and automatically executes the necessary updates and tasks.
After the retired Navy captain told servicemembers they don't have to obey illegal orders, Defence Secretary Hegseth moved to cut his rank.
The Trump administration intends to appeal the ruling, which says the retired Navy officer’s right to free speech was under attack.
Chinese AI startup MiniMax, headquartered in Shanghai, has sent shockwaves through the AI industry today with the release of its new M2.5 language model in two variants, which promises to make high-end artificial intelligence so cheap you might stop worrying about the bill entirely. It's also said to be "open source," though the weights (settings) and code haven't been posted yet, nor has the exact license type or terms. But that's almost beside the point given how cheap MiniMax is serving it through its API and those of partners.For the last few years, using the world’s most powerful AI was like hiring an expensive consultant—it was brilliant, but you watched the clock (and the token count) constantly. M2.5 changes that math, dropping the cost of the frontier by as much as 95%.By deliveri
The infusion of funding for the AI startup takes place as it is vying for customers and cultural attention with its competitor, OpenAI.
Arista’s stock is dropping ahead of earnings, after Cisco’s report sparked renewed fears about the impact of high memory prices.
Border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday that Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota is wrapping up with a drawdown of federal immigration officers set for the next week. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion has more from Capitol Hill, where immigration officials and Minnesota leaders were testifying at a hearing on the immigration crackdown.
FedEx management on Thursday explained the rationale for their new investment in InPost, a fast-rising European parcel carrier. The post FedEx execs say InPost deal will boost European performance appeared first on FreightWaves.
BorgWarner’s deal with TurboCell has investors excited about the auto supplier’s potential to adapt to the AI-economy.
How this CEO turned free blog posts into a successful paid business
Lift with your knees (literally) to prevent manual-labor related construction injuries. The post Safe Lifting Techniques for Construction Workers first appeared on Construction Executive.
The move strengthens institutional support for 21Shares’ multibillion dollar digital asset investment platform and broadens its regulated staking capabilities.
Investors got some good news this week on the state of the labor market, and more may be on the way Friday on inflation.
Cisco shares plunged 12% Thursday after the company issued lukewarm guidance as memory prices weigh on profit margins
StopTech, one of the pillars of aftermarket performance brakes, is ending its run, alongside Raybestos and Centric.
From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.
Scottish salmon exports increased in tonnage by 9%, while the volume of Scotch whisky exports dropped by 4.3%.
JPMorgan is reorganizing its commercial and investment bank as part of its AI push
'It might end badly'
Kendrick Simpson, 45, was executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma on Thursday for a 2006 double homicide that killed Anthony Jones, 19, and Glen Palmer, 20.
In one swoop, Trump kills US greenhouse gas regulations
While ETH’s price action remains weak, rising institutional investor inflows and surging network activity suggest that Ether is building a base for a possible rally to $2,400.
'I want to deal with all the vandalism,' one child said.
Emails published by the Justice Department revealed cybersecurity veteran Vincenzo Iozzo emailed, and arranged to meet, Jeffrey Epstein multiple times between 2014 and 2018.
A Georgia K-9 Robbi was struck by a car during a bank robbery chase but kept pursuing the suspect until capture. The brave dog is expected to recover.
The Oklahoma governor has found himself in a protracted dispute with the president over an upcoming event at the White House.
Two powerful, OLED-equipped gaming laptops are hundreds off
'I'm not going to vote for funding'
The EPA's new deregulatory action effectively ends the mandate of auto stop/start on new vehicles.
Copper prices are under renewed pressure after satellite data showed 1.2 million tonnes of January smelter capacity outside China went idle.
The transaction is expected to close during the second quarter of 2026.
This film makes cold calling names from the phone book look as thrilling as Indiana Jones outsmarting the Nazis.
MASS SHOOTING Strikes Canada, Media COVERS UP Shooter Was Trans
In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says his political donations support OpenAI's mission—even if some employees at the company disagree.
The funding follows a $305 million Bitcoin sale and increases a key investor’s voting power to nearly 50%, as the company restructures its balance sheet amid sector volatility.
The Congressional Budget Office’s latest forecasts are out on the U.S. government’s deficit situation — and they don’t look very good.
The company is developing solid-state batteries, which promise to help lower the cost of electric vehicles. But achieving that goal will be expensive for QuantumScape.
The U.S. Treasury can and should prevent Chinese-linked firms from accessing U.S. tech subsidies.
The Federal Trade Commission sent a letter to Tim Cook one day after President Trump circulated a report raising questions about Apple News' practices.
The EPA overturns a key climate regulation that underpins US efforts to tackle climate change.
Repression alone cannot explain the vast protest gap between Moscow, Tehran, and Kyiv.
Bitcoin and Ether spot ETF holders are nursing steep losses as the market continues to search for a local bottom, but data from Bloomberg suggests neither cohort is capitulating.
The potential 2028 presidential candidates will sound off on a range of burgeoning crises as European leaders recoil at America’s populist politics.
AI will disrupt labor.
Prosecutors are investigating the European Commission’s sale of 23 office buildings to Belgium two years ago
'Smuggled 6,000 Starlink kits'
South Korea's espionage agency informed lawmakers that it thinks North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's daughter is near to being set apart as the nation's future leader, the AP reported.
New restrictions try to shield ICE from being watched from above.
Police say the suspect's firearms licence expired two years ago, and exactly who owned the guns used in the attack is unclear.
Buying gold in retirement? Watch for the warning signs that could indicate that a scammer is targeting your money.
Money market account interest rates are still high. Here's how much a $100,000 money market account can earn now.
How retail investors are looking at bitcoin's recent rut, what the software sell-off means for AI
Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.
Jeffrey Epstein might not have created /pol/, but he helped carry out its mission
Best Buy continues to sell the TCL QM6K for a staggering discount.
Anthony Pompliano says, "If bitcoin doesn't go to $0, it's going to a million at some point." 💸
Consumer outlet Which? has been campaigning on access to loyalty schemes, calling it a "huge win for shoppers".
