A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 1, 2025. NYSE Stock futures are little changed Wednesday night after the S&P 500 logged a fresh high and investors appeared to shrug off concerns tied to the latest U.S. government shutdown. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 30 points, or…
Before Jonathan Anderson presented Dior‘s Spring 2026 womenswear collection, his first for the house, he asked his guests to look back. Over a reading of Lord Byron’s 1815 poem “She Walks in Beauty,” the creative director screened a montage of Dior women through the decades—and through different designer eras. Runways from predecessors Maria Grazia Chiuri,…
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s last captive whales will remain at the Marineland park near Niagara Falls for now after the federal government denied the zoo’s request to ship the 30 belugas to China. The Canadian government will not grant an export permit to send the whales to the Chimelong Ocean Kingdom aquarium, Fisheries Minister…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert for ready-to-eat meals that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The alert comes as part of an ongoing investigation into a Listeria outbreak, originally announced in June, which has caused 20 illnesses to date, including 19 hospitalizations and four deaths. The…
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by the Israeli forces while she, along with several others, on board a flotilla sailing towards Gaza were intercepted as they approached the besieged Palestinian territory. A screengrab from a video shows Swedish activist Greta Thunberg sitting next to a person wearing tactical gear, as vessels of the…
AI giant OpenAI debuted Sora 2 this week, its “flagship video and audio generation model.” Sora 2 is OpenAI’s answer to Google Veo 3, which is widely considered the most advanced generative AI video model to date. With the launch of Sora 2 has come lots of strange videos, which you can see for yourself…
Washington — President Biden is awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to Hillary Clinton and 18 others “who have made America a better place,” the White House announced Saturday. Clinton, who served as first lady, senator, secretary of state, and was the first woman to be nominated for president by…
The university in Edinburgh said the vibroacoustic sensor could end “years of suffering for millions of patients across the UK”. The device measures material changes in each layer of skin using small vibrations on the surface to detect changes in tissue stiffness and fluid. The sensor has been awarded £275,000 from Scottish Enterprise and just…
Jane Goodall, the iconic British primatologist and conservationist who died Wednesday at age 91, once compared President Donald Trump’s behavior to that of “a male chimpanzee,” while also expressing deep concern for the “divisiveness” in America. Goodall, renowned for her chimp field research and environmental advocacy, in 2022 told MSNBC’s Ari Melber that Trump displays…
Key Takeaways Shares of Fermi, which is in the early stages of developing a massive data center and energy complex in the Texas Panhandle, soared on their first day of trading Wednesday. AI-related IPOs have been red hot this year, with investors piling into the stocks of buzzy companies cashing in on AI fervor. Fermi…