FCC approves SpaceX plan to deploy an additional 7,500 Starlink satellites

FCC approves SpaceX plan to deploy an additional 7,500 Starlink satellites

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it has approved SpaceX’s request to deploy another 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites as it works to boost internet service worldwide. The FCC said Elon Musk‘s SpaceX can now operate an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites, bringing the total to 15,000 satellites worldwide. … Read more

Trump faces headwinds on Venezuela, health care as some Republicans break rank

Trump faces headwinds on Venezuela, health care as some Republicans break rank

President Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela and threats to other countries, as well as concerns about affordability, exposed fractures within the congressional GOP this week at the start of a challenging midterm election year. Trump avoided defeat when most House Republicans declined to override the first of two vetoes of his presidency, which spiked a … Read more

Trump calls for one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%

Trump calls for one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%

A shopper pays with a credit card at the farmer’s market in San Francisco on March 27, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he was calling for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10% starting on Jan. 20, but he did not provide details … Read more

U.S. Supreme Court to hear suit claiming Cisco helped China pursue Falun Gong

U.S. Supreme Court to hear suit claiming Cisco helped China pursue Falun Gong

People walk past the U.S. Supreme Court building on the first day of their new session in Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 6, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by Cisco Systems in which the tech company and President Donald Trump’s administration are asking the justices … Read more

France’s economic miracle never came — here’s what went wrong

France’s economic miracle never came — here’s what went wrong

ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Look at the way the French work, and you’ll start to see why “Macronomics” fell short. When Emmanuel Macron took office in 2017, he promised a French economic renaissance. His supply-side strategy aimed to slash taxes and curb public spending to spur … Read more

Jim Cramer says don’t trade Apple and Nvidia as money rotates into overlooked stocks ahead of earnings season

Jim Cramer says don’t trade Apple and Nvidia as money rotates into overlooked stocks ahead of earnings season

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday that investors shouldn’t read too much into uneventful unemployment data, arguing that a lack of surprises on the labor front is actually giving the market room to reveal the real story: a broad-based rally spreading well beyond last year’s winners. “When you get an employment report that’s basically uneventful, it … Read more

Judge blocks Trump from freezing $10 billion in child, family aid to five U.S. states

Judge blocks Trump from freezing  billion in child, family aid to five U.S. states

U.S. President Donald Trump holds an umbrella as he speaks to members of the media while departing the White House en route to Florida in Washington, D.C., U.S., Jan. 9, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing access by five Democratic-led states to more … Read more

Trump: ‘We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not’

Trump: ‘We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not’

U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters, as he attends a meeting with oil industry executives, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Jan. 9, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump said Friday his administration will take action on Greenland “whether they like it or not,” further escalating his rhetoric as … Read more

New cellphone video of Minneapolis ICE shooting incident revealed

New cellphone video of Minneapolis ICE shooting incident revealed

New video that appears to show Renee Nicole Good in her car right before she was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis was posted Friday on social media by the site Alpha News. The 47-second-long video appears to have been taken by a phone held by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent … Read more

Grok and X should be suspended from Apple, Google app stores, Democratic senators say

Grok and X should be suspended from Apple, Google app stores, Democratic senators say

Elon Musk looks on as President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Nov. 19, 2025. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images Three Democratic senators are calling on Apple and Google to suspend the X and Grok apps from their stores, … Read more