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A Florida federal judge in a scathing order Monday said President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service "for an improper purpose" — to gain the appearance of "judicial legitimacy for a 'settlement' that had no viable basis in law or fact."

President Donald Trump said Monday that the US was the “guardian” of the Strait of Hormuz and proposed charging a 20% fee on cargo shipped through the waterway. He also formally notified Congress that fighting with Tehran had resumed, as Washington reimposed its naval blockade on

The US Federal Reserve must consider raising interest rates if inflation reads “hot” this week, a top central bank official said Monday, reflecting the pressure facing the world’s monetary policymakers as the US and Iran resume fighting. “Sternly staring at inflation until it mel

President Donald Trump on Monday said the U.S. will impose fees in the Strait of Hormuz "at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped," after declaring America the "guardian" of the major oil shipping route. Trump, in a Truth Social post, also said the U.S. will reimpose its blockade

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Monday that tech stocks remain the market's best hunting ground for investors looking for outsized gains. "The tech companies, especially big tech, just have so much more to offer than the rest of the market," the "Mad Money" host said. As oil prices climbe

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Monday that tech stocks remain the market's best hunting ground for investors looking for outsized gains. "The tech companies, especially big tech, just have so much more to offer than the rest of the market," the "Mad Money" host said. As oil prices climbe

President Donald Trump plans to claim in a Thursday night speech that newly declassified intelligence reports reveal a foreign nation's plans to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, two White House officials told MS NOW on Monday. Trump will be joined by officials includi

'Easy to create divisions' - Kane says England are 'completely together' - Published England captain Harry Kane says the squad are "completely together" before their World Cup semi-final against Argentina after Jude Bellingham questioned Thomas Tuchel's assessment of their perfor

Space Watch SpaceX’s stock threatens to fall below the IPO price. Do investors face a ‘crisis’ if it does? The company has shed more than $800 billion in market value from its $2.67 trillion peak in less than a month SpaceX is nearly trading back at its initial-public-offering pr

A US citizen doing humanitarian work in the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for Ebola, marking the second American infected amid the DRC’s explosive Ebola outbreak—and the second to be sent for care in Germany rather than the US. The Ebola outbreak, which was fir

Ex-Canada MP arrested after police seize 439 guns and antique cannon from his home - Published Ex-Canadian MP Inky Mark has been arrested after police found a trove of guns, ammunition and an antique cannon along with thousands of dollars in cash in his home. The Royal Canadian M

The Scoop Linklaters approached Cleary Gottlieb about a merger earlier this year and was rebuffed, in what would have been the latest tie-up of white-shoe law firms, according to people familiar with the matter. Linklaters has more than 3,000 lawyers globally. Cleary is smaller,

A parasitic infection called cyclospora, often transmitted through contaminated food or water, is spreading across the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports at least 843 cases of the illness — which can cause weeks of watery diarrhea, as a primary symptom —

England to make late call on Rice for World Cup semi-final - Published England will make a late decision on whether Declan Rice is fit to start the World Cup semi-final against Argentina. But there remains optimism the Arsenal midfielder can shake off the effects of an illness to

Ann Widdecombe suspect not known to Prevent as counter terrorism police take over investigation - Published Counter terrorism police are now leading the investigation into the death of Ann Widdecombe after "new information and evidence" came to light, officers say. A white Britis

Burnham cements Labour leadership with backing of 349 MPs - Published Andy Burnham has effectively been confirmed as the new Labour leader with 349 of the party's MPs having now nominated him to replace Sir Keir Starmer. After a second day of nominations, the MP for Makerfield re

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has tapped Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, to fill her brother's Senate seat through the rest of the year. McMaster, a Republican, made the announcement Monday afternoon at a press conference at the Sou

The federal government is warning users of home and small office routers to secure their devices as Russia state hackers continue to mass-compromise them for use in obscuring nefarious actions against sensitive organizations in the public and private sectors. Both the Russian and

Artificial Intelligence OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock Build with the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet, on Amazon Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine. Organizations scaling autonomous agents and AI-powered product

Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley. Their fear is that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses. The concern is that, a

iOS 27 escaped the developer world today with the launch of the first public beta. I’ve been testing the new operating system since early June, looking for quirks and seeing if it can live up to the hype Apple promised in the keynote. Siri AI is already changing how I use my iPho

Ukrainian drone strikes have forced Russia to completely halt shipping in the Sea of Azov in less than a week—showing once again how a country without traditional naval power can still effectively blockade maritime corridors. Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces have flown one-way a

AWS Compute Blog Eliminating Java cold starts with AWS Lambda Managed Instances A single cold start can push your Java Lambda function’s response time from milliseconds to seconds, enough to violate your p99 SLA, timeout a downstream service, and page your on-call. The Java Virtu

Shares of SpaceX hit a new all-time low on Monday, bringing Elon Musk's company closer to its $135 initial public offering price just days after making its entrance into the Nasdaq-100. The stock sank 4.51% Friday and lost another 4.24% Monday. Through its first month as a public

Shares of SpaceX hit a new all-time low on Monday, bringing Elon Musk's company closer to its $135 initial public offering price just days after making its entrance into the Nasdaq-100. The stock sank 4.51% Friday and lost another 4.24% Monday. Through its first month as a public

Fast casual chain Chipotle is set to open its first restaurant in Mexico this week, the company announced on Monday. The store will open on Thursday in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, part of the Monterrey metropolitan area. Chipotle said the opening is part of the Mexican fo

On Friday, Apple dropped the bombshell news it was suing OpenAI over the alleged theft of trade secrets, claiming that OpenAI stole Apple’s confidential data and engaged in efforts to learn proprietary information while recruiting former Apple employees. In accusing OpenAI of ste

With the biggest theme of this year’s Computex 2026 trade show being all things AI, we saw a wide variety of systems for the task, big and small. But between the desktops, workstations, and rackmount servers galore, one of the most interesting bits we came across was a far less c

At the end of last September, electric vehicle adoption in the US began to crater. That followed the abolition of the IRS clean vehicle tax credit as part of a series of moves by President Trump and congressional Republicans to undermine energy efficiency and pollution control me

Apple is gunning for OpenAI, demanding steep penalties after stumbling on a “rare” bug that temporarily allowed a poached employee that joined OpenAI to maintain access to confidential information on Apple servers for weeks after his termination. In a lawsuit filed Friday, Apple

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller on Monday expressed concern about inflation but cautioned against "fighting the last war," saying the central bank should wait for more data before raising interest rates. In remarks delivered for a speech in New York, Waller said infla

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Meta’s 5 GW Hyperion Turns AI into a Grid Anchor Meta’s Louisiana AI campus grows to 5 GW, a scale analysts say could influence generation, transmission, and utility planning across the region. Meta is expanding its Hyperion campus in northeast Louisiana into what it calls a 5 GW