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If happiness is connected to larger anti-democratic trends, then America's future is dire

US President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on the automotive industry might not go into effect on April 2. A new report suggests the administration could take a more targeted approach to implementing Trump’s economic vision, focusing on reciprocal tariffs toward certain countries instead of sectorial ones that apply to specific…

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.18%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.27%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.16%. March E-mini S&P futures (ESH25 ) are up +0.40%, and March E-mini Nasdaq futures...

Lobbyists and politicians with ties to Florida are winning in Trump 2.0.

Federal investigators want to know if producers conspired to raise prices

Officials said to be looking at whether producers have conspired to increase prices or have held back supply

Five Democratic senators said they’re concerned X is using Musk’s influential role to “extract revenue from advertisers,” the Wall Street Journal reported after viewing the letter sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

March 4 is when President Donald Trump pledged to levy tariffs of 25 percent on goods imported to the United States from Canada and Mexico. That's a flat 25 percent on everything crossing the border. Every time something crosses into the US, it will face the fee. And with the…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts AI will become smarter than humans by 2027, echoing Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' previous comment about the technology replacing humans for most things in the future.