Oil prices and energy stocks fall on Trump’s new Ukraine peace plan

Oil prices and energy stocks fall on Trump’s new Ukraine peace plan

This aerial picture shows the oil tanker Boracay anchored off the Atlantic Coast off Saint-Nazaire, western France on October 1st, 2025. French authorities said Wednesday they were investigating the oil tanker Boracay anchored off the Atlantic Coast and suspected of being part of Russia’s clandestine “shadow fleet”. Damien Meyer | Afp | Getty Images Oil … Read more

House Democratic leader gets in fiery clash as he defends ACA tax credit extension plan

House Democratic leader gets in fiery clash as he defends ACA tax credit extension plan

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Friday rejected as “ridiculous” an accusation that Democrats want to let pivotal Obamacare subsidies lapse in order to deal a political blow to Republicans. “Shame on you,” Jeffries, D-N.Y., said at one point as he pushed back on that notion in a fiery exchange with CNBC’s Becky Quick on … Read more

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says Kyiv ‘geared up for clear and honest work’ as U.S. pushes for progress on peace plan

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says Kyiv ‘geared up for clear and honest work’ as U.S. pushes for progress on peace plan

U.S. President Donald Trump (L) greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy outside the West Wing of the White House on October 17, 2025, in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images News | Getty Images Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that Kyiv is “geared up for clear and honest work” to develop a peace plan … Read more

Nvidia earnings takeaways: Bubble talk, ‘half a trillion’ forecast and China orders

Nvidia earnings takeaways: Bubble talk, ‘half a trillion’ forecast and China orders

Nvidia on Wednesday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat expectations, and provided a strong forecast for the current quarter. Wall Street welcomed the report, and Nvidia stock rose after the release and during the conference call. Other stocks in the so-called artificial intelligence trade also saw a boost. A closer look at Nvidia’s report shows … Read more

White House crafting executive order to thwart state AI laws

White House crafting executive order to thwart state AI laws

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on artificial intelligence at the “Winning the AI Race” Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters An executive order that could soon be signed by President Donald Trump would thwart states’ artificial intelligence laws by launching legal challenges and withholding federal funding, according to … Read more

A cold gold rush? The race for the Arctic’s critical minerals is heating up

A cold gold rush? The race for the Arctic’s critical minerals is heating up

Traditional painted houses overlooking sea ice in the Old Nuuk district near the Sermitsiaq mountain in Nuuk, Greenland, on Thursday, April 3, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A global scramble to exploit the Arctic’s untapped resources appears to be kicking into overdrive. In a push to break China’s mineral dominance, countries around the … Read more

Trump to meet with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at White House on Friday

Trump to meet with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at White House on Friday

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani reacts during a “New York is Not For Sale” rally at Forest Hills Stadium, in the Queens borough of New York City, U.S., October 26, 2025. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters President Donald Trump said on Wednesday night that he will meet with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani … Read more

House Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick charged with stealing $5M in Covid aid funds

House Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick charged with stealing M in Covid aid funds

Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Fla.-20th, hosts a news conference regarding the ongoing crisis in Haiti on March 11, 2024, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. South Florida Sun-sentinel | Tribune News Service | Getty Images A federal grand jury charged U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., with stealing $5 million in Covid-19 disaster funds — a chunk of which … Read more

Trump says he’d love to fire Powell, urges Bessent to ‘work on’ him to lower rates

Trump says he’d love to fire Powell, urges Bessent to ‘work on’ him to lower rates

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would love to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, but suggested that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is holding him back. “[I’ll] be honest, I’d love to fire his ass,” Trump said of Powell at the U.S. Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C. Trump urged Bessent to “work on” … Read more

Tom Steyer is running for California governor as a populist billionaire

Tom Steyer is running for California governor as a populist billionaire

Tom Steyer, co-chair of Galvanize Climate Solutions, speaks during the Aspen Ideas: Climate conference in Miami Beach, Florida, US, on Monday, March 6, 2023. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Billionaire businessman and activist Tom Steyer, who once self-financed an unsuccessful White House campaign and spent his own money advocating for President Donald Trump’s impeachment, has launched his bid … Read more