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Stock futures are lower ahead of key earnings week: Live updates
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Jan. 21, 2025. NYSEStock futures traded lower on Sunday night as investors look ahead to a major earnings week.Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 67 points, or 0.2%.…
CIA becomes latest intel agency to conclude COVID-19 likely originated from Chinese lab
The Central Intelligence Agency has thrown its weight behind the lab leak theory as the most plausible origin of COVID-19.
Without providing details about why the spy agency was changing its position, the CIA informed…
Covid-19: CIA says lab leak most likely source of outbreak
The CIA on Saturday offered a new assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, saying the coronavirus is "more likely" to have leaked from a Chinese lab than to have come from animals. But the intelligence agency cautioned it had "low…
CIA shifts assessment on Covid origins, saying lab leak likely caused outbreak
The Central Intelligence Agency on Saturday said it has shifted its previous assessments and has concluded that it’s likely the Covid-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global pandemic but added that the agency had…
UC, a top recipient of federal research funding, is concerned about Trump pause on grant
Leaders of the University of California, the nation's top higher education recipient of federal research funding, are raising questions and voicing concerns about the ramifications of a temporary Trump administration pause on research…
BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Could Enable In-Kind BTC Redemptions: Nasdaq Filing – Decrypt
BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF could receive a significant update, per a Friday 19b-4 form filing from Nasdaq, which proposed a rule change to the exchange-traded fund that would enable in-kind BTC redemptions rather than just for…
Trump freeze on NIH grant reviews alarms scientists, with long-term impact uncertain
While the National Institutes of Health employs 20,000-plus workers and spans 27 institutes and centers, the agency’s main job is to fund researchers working outside its walls. But an unprecedented disruption of grant review panel…
Donald Trump attacks Zelensky: “he’s no angel”
President Donald Trump has said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is "no angel" and suggested that he shares the blame for the start of the Russia-Ukraine war.In his first sit-down interview since returning to the White House,…
Trump Davos address lifts S&P 500 to record, dents oil prices
US President Donald Trump is seen on a giant screen during his address by video conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 23, 2025. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP)
New York, United States…
Stock market today: Nasdaq slides, S&P 500 backs off from record as techs lose steam
US stocks faltered on Thursday, pulling back from a bid for fresh records as AI optimism waned and markets waited for more detail on President Donald Trump's tariff plans. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) slipped almost 0.2%, coming off a…