(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday it has confirmed a human infection with H5N1 bird flu in a child in California. CDC said this is the first reported bird flu H5 virus infection in a child in the United States. Consistent with previously identified human cases in the…
By Michelle Conlin NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nick Pickles, the former head of global affairs at Elon Musk’s social media platform X, is joining forces with one of Musk’s rivals, his fellow OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman. Pickles, who resigned from X in September, told Reuters on Wednesday that he will serve as chief policy officer…
By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s lawyers told a judge that the Republican’s conviction for illegally covering up hush money payments to a porn star should be dismissed because he won the U.S. presidential election and sentencing would threaten government stability. In a letter filed on Tuesday and made public Wednesday, the Republican president-elect’s…
(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s government efficiency panel said in a Wall Street Journal opinion story on Wednesday that they will apply recent Supreme Court rulings that can be used to take power away from federal agencies to reduce rules the panel finds unnecessary, costly and inefficient. Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and…
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set on Tuesday to launch the sixth test of its giant Starship rocket from Texas, eyeing improvements in its hypersonic reentry into Earth’s atmosphere and a novel technique for landing its booster, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump watches in person. Trump is expected to be joined…
By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden pledged a $4 billion U.S. contribution to the World Bank’s International Development Association fund for the world’s poorest countries, two sources with knowledge of the commitment said on Monday. Biden announced the U.S. pledge during a closed session of the Group of…
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A U.S. labor board whose enforcement powers are being challenged in a series of lawsuits is set to defend itself from attacks by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Amazon.com in a conservative U.S. appeals court, as the agency also braces for a potential overhaul under President-elect Donald Trump. Amazon, SpaceX, and…
(Reuters) – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee on Friday signaled he feels the U.S. central bank will likely end up cutting the policy rate by another quarter of a percentage point this year and a full percentage point further next year, as Fed policymakers projected in September . “I think we are…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s government efficiency panel wants “high IQ” employees and plans weekly livestreams, according to X posts about President-elect Donald Trump’s initiative to streamline the U.S. bureaucracy. Trump named Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the panel on Tuesday. Their mission is to…
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nvidia Corp’s results in the coming week could guide the U.S. stock market on its next path, as investors turn their focus to the technology sector and artificial intelligence trade after an election-fueled rally stalled. A nearly 800% run in shares of Nvidia over the past two years,…
