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As Wall Street launches into earnings season, CNBC’s Jim Cramer bemoaned the difficulties of anticipating stock action and discussed Nvidia, Wells Fargo and BlackRock.”This is the ups and downs of earnings seasons for the pros that are so terrifying,” he said. “I felt glorious that I had nailed Nvidia. But you could have gagged me with a spoon after Blackrock and Wells, and I would’ve deserved it.”While Nvidia isn’t set to post earnings until August, its stock shot up on Tuesday and hit a new high as Wall Street learned the White House would allow the artificial intelligence powerhouse to…

Melbourne AP  —  Bradley John Murdoch, known as the “Outback Killer” and convicted of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio who vanished in arid central Australia 24 years ago, has died, authorities said Wednesday. He was 67. Murdoch died on Tuesday night in the palliative care unit of the Alice Springs Hospital, according to a statement from the Northern Territory Department of Corrections. He was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer in 2019 and was recently transferred to the hospital from the Alice Springs prison. His death leaves the mystery of the whereabouts of Falconio’s body unsolved. The territory’s police did not…

Kumagaya, Japan CNN  —  Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a revered Buddhist monk, and in the minds of those whose city was turned to ash in a matter of hours. Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of jellied gasoline — napalm — on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. The resulting fires, burning at 800 to 1,200 degrees Celsius, killed at…

CNN  —  It remains to be seen just how lasting and severe President Donald Trump’s turn against Vladimir Putin will be. Trump has criticized the Russian president in unprecedented terms in recent days and signaled he’ll send vital weapons to Ukraine. But he’s also given Putin plenty more time – 50 days – before really dropping the hammer with economic punishment. To the extent this shift is genuine, though, it’s coming with a healthy dose of rewriting history. Repeatedly this week, Trump has suggested he never really trusted Putin. “He’s fooled a lot of people,” Trump said Monday at the…

The top stories and transfer rumours from Wednesday’s newspapers…DAILY MAIL Liverpool have floated the idea of pursuing Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford this summer.Liverpool have drawn up a shortlist of striker targets and have asked about Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins, Brentford’s Yoane Wissa, Napoli’s Victor Osimhen and Eintracht Frankfurt’s Hugo Ekitike.Liverpool are alert to Real Madrid selling Rodrygo this summer. Aston Villa are monitoring Manchester United winger Alejandro Garnacho. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Antony, Alejandro Garnacho, Tyrell Malacia, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho have all informed Manchester United they want to leave the…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange moments before the Closing Bell and the start of President Donald Trump’s news conference on tariffs on April 02, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesStock futures ticked lower on Tuesday evening, as investors awaited earnings releases from several big banks and the latest wholesale inflation report.Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average pulled back 84 points, or 0.19%, while S&P 500 futures lost 0.21%. Nasdaq 100 futures slipped 0.24%.In the regular trading session, the S&P 500 lost 0.4% and the Dow fell more than 400…

Plant Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant in Waynesboro, GA, August 15, 2024.Van Applegate | CNBCWestinghouse plans to build 10 large nuclear reactors in the U.S. with construction to begin by 2030, interim CEO Dan Sumner told President Donald Trump at a roundtable in Pittsburgh on Tuesday.Westinghouse’s big AP1000 reactor generates enough electricity to power more than 750,000 homes, according to the company. Building 10 of these reactors would drive $75 billion of economic value across the U.S. and $6 billion in Pennsylvania, Sumner said.The Westinghouse executive laid out the plan to Trump during a conference on energy and artificial intelligence at…

Jul 15, 2025, 05:27 PM ETLAFC and United States defender Aaron Long will miss the rest of the season after having surgery to repair a ruptured left Achilles.The team — which said the surgery was successful — made the announcement on Tuesday, three days after Long was injured in the 76th minute of a 2-0 win over FC Dallas.- Sources: MLS players got boost in CWC money- MLS Power Rankings: Messi can’t be stopped, Miami back on top- Garber: CWC a milestone moment for U.S. soccerThe 32-year-old Long is in his third season with LAFC and has started all 15…

CNN  —  The medals for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics were unveiled in Venice on Tuesday, 206 days before the games begin. The medals, created by the Italian State Mint and Polygraphic Institute (IPZS), will use recycled metal recovered from production waste, and will be created in induction furnaces powered by renewable energy, organizers explained. The medals are designed with two halves to represent both Olympic and Paralympic values, organizers revealed. Italian athletes Federica Pellegrini, who is a double Olympic medalist and Italy’s most successful swimmer, and Francesca Porcellato, the winner of 15 Paralympic medals after appearances in 13 Summer…

Jeff KassoufJul 15, 2025, 05:20 PM ETCloseJeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics.Denver’s 2026 NWSL expansion team is close to finalizing the hire of Nick Cushing as the club’s first head coach, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN.Cushing is the former head coach of Manchester City Women and MLS side New York City FC.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedHe has spent the past two decades with the City Football Group, initially joining the organization in…