White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Friday talks on a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas will continue into the weekend, rejecting reports that an agreement was on the verge of collapse. "We had constructive discussions last night in Cairo, and those discussions are going to continue today," Kirby told reporters, adding that...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the property management software company RealPage on Friday, alleging that its pricing algorithm enables landlords to share sensitive pricing information and raise rental prices. The lawsuit, which was joined by the attorneys general of North Carolina, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee and Washington, accuses RealPage of violating antitrust...
Around 90 percent of residents in the Gaza Strip have been displaced by successive evacuation orders from Israel following the start of its war with Hamas last year, according to the United Nations. "Mass evacuations in Gaza choke survival and severely constrain aid operations," Muhannad Hadi, a top U.N. official, was quoted saying in a...
We’ve all heard the refrains. From the colleague that says they’re so swamped they can’t remember the last time they had a lunch break, the manager who shares that they were in the office until midnight, and the teammate who hasn’t taken a vacation in years. ‘Busy bragging’ and ‘stress bragging’ may be new terms...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave the all clear for interest rate cuts to begin and sounded dovish notes about U.S. labor conditions in a Friday speech from Jackson Hole, Wyo., that looked back over the monetary response to the pandemic. “The time has come for policy to adjust,” Powell said. “The direction of travel...
Uber and Cruise LLC, a self-driving car startup owned by General Motors, have announced a partnership in which Cruise will provide Chevy Bolt self-driving vehicles to the ridesharing giant beginning next year, per a release from Cruise. “As the largest mobility and delivery platform, we believe Uber can play an important role in helping to...
Former President Donald Trump took the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, several minutes after the Secret Service first began tracking the former president’s attempted assassin, and Trump's team was none too happy about it.