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Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wants a defence deal that outshines Qatar’s, AI chips and AI-powered drones, and potentially, American nuclear weapons stationed in his country. The wishlist reveals the confidence of a leader who arrives in Washington on Monday, having withstood pressure to normalise ties with Israel amid its genocide in Gaza. Then over the summer, he emerged unscathed, if not relatively stronger, by sitting out a direct war between Israel and Iran. On the opposite side of the aisle is a US president willing to put up his country’s crown jewels for negotiation: nuclear and AI technology.…

Doug McMillon’s career at Walmart started when he was in high school, picking up orders and unloading trailers at a warehouse. It’ll end with a successful 12-year run as the retail giant’s CEO.McMillon will retire from the role on Jan. 31, 2026, after almost 12 years at the retail giant’s helm, Walmart announced on Friday. The 59-year-old from Memphis, Tennessee, became Walmart’s fifth CEO in February 2014, and his career arc is noteworthy: McMillon first joined Walmart in 1984 as an hourly associate, and held a variety of roles at the company as he moved up the ranks.He became CEO and…

Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2025.CNBCWarren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway revealed a new position in Alphabet, making the Google parent the conglomerate’s 10th largest equity holding at the end of September, according to a regulatory filing.Berkshire disclosed a $4.3 billion stake in Alphabet at the end of the third quarter, a surprising move given Buffett’s traditional value investing philosophy and reluctance toward high-growth, tech names. While Berkshire has owned Apple for years, Buffett has called it more of a consumer products company than a pure tech play.The purchase was also…

New technology is cutting workers’ compensation claims and fraud across industries.But in construction, the results are on camera.  Working with Arrowsight, a safety technology company specializing in video-based behavioral modification and coaching analytics, specialty cameras are installed around job sites. Those cameras will pick up on things like workers scrambling under a load of lumber suspended from a crane or failing to tie into safety harnesses balanced high above the ground. The videos are flagged by a team and safety supervisors are informed. Workers then get feedback and proper training.In New York, where both the cost of workers’ compensation insurance and the frequency…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he had successfully eased hostilities between Cambodia and Thailand, saying that he’d been able to preserve a previous, U.S.-brokered ceasefire that had appeared to be breaking down. “I stopped a war just today,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he flew to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida for the weekend. He said his actions were made possible by his willingness to impose steep tariffs on countries around the world, which he has argued gives the U.S. great leverage on trade and diplomatic leverage. The president said he’d spoken to…

DENVER (AP) — The Trump administration is seeking a transfer from state prison to federal custody of a former Colorado county clerk who has become a hero to election conspiracy theorists, the state and one of her lawyers said Friday.The Colorado Department of Corrections said Friday that it received a letter from the federal Bureau of Prisons regarding Tina Peters on Wednesday. Neither the department nor the Bureau of Prisons immediately responded to a request to provide a copy of the letter but a corrections department spokesperson, Alondra Gonzalez, confirmed the letter was a request to move Peters to federal…

Jeff CarlisleNov 14, 2025, 03:58 PM ETCloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.CHESTER, Pennsylvania — United States men’s national team head coach Mauricio Pochettino reiterated his stance that “no one can feel safe” when it comes to making the World Cup roster, and that players on the current roster deserve to be there.Pochettino said his stance applies to U.S. stars such as AC Milan attacker Christian Pulisic, as well as Bournemouth midfielder Tyler Adams. Both players are out injured, and aren’t available for friendlies against Paraguay on Saturday, and Uruguay three days later.Pulisic has only…

Walmart logo is seen near the store in Austin, United States on Oct. 23, 2025.Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesWhen incoming Walmart CEO John Furner steps into the retailer’s top role, he will try to follow up a period of dramatic share growth that many of Walmart’s rivals have failed to match.Walmart’s stock has more than quadrupled since outgoing CEO Doug McMillon began in the role in February 2014. Across nine of the 12 calendar years when was Walmart’s leader, the company posted positive stock returns.Among Walmart’s main rivals in the retail and grocery business, only Amazon and Costco…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of President Donald Trump’s signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a “technical error.”The replacements came after online commenters seized on striking similarities in the president’s signature across a series of pardons dated Nov. 7, including those granted to former New York Mets player Darryl Strawberry, former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada and former New York police sergeant Michael McMahon. In fact, the signatures on several pardons initially uploaded to the Justice Department’s website were identical, two forensic document experts confirmed to The…

NASA astronaut Anne McClain is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON after she, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov landed in the Pacific Ocean on August 9, 2025 off the coast of San Diego, California. Nasa | Getty ImagesA former Air Force intelligence officer has pleaded guilty to lying to a federal agent by falsely claiming that her estranged astronaut wife illegally accessed her bank account while aboard the International Space Station for six months, prosecutors in Houston, Texas, said Friday.The…