Recently, the S&P 500 ($SPX) has been racking up a good number of wins. Since late April, the index has logged its third winning streak of at least five: a nine-day streak from April 22–May 2 and a six-day streak from May 12–May 19. That makes for a cluster of long winning streaks, which is something that also showed up ...
Dominik Lett The White House has sent a special spending cut package to Congress requesting $9.4 billion in rescissions to foreign aid and federally funded media programs. This is a welcome opportunity to lock in real savings from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and cut wasteful and low-priority spending. However, given the federal government’s massive $2 trillion deficit, this rescission package ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth kicked off Pride month this year with a shot across the bow of wokeness, as his plan to rechristen a Navy ship honoring gay rights icon Harvey Milk has emerged. Milk was one of the first openly gay elected officials in the country as a member of ...
Alex Nowrasteh President Trump announced that he’s banning almost all travel and immigration from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen for “terrorism-related and public-safety risks.” There are some exceptions for adoptions, immediate family members of US citizens, and a handful of other visas. A single terrorist from those countries ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Elon Musk’s diatribe against President Donald Trump’s ‘one big, beautiful bill’ continued Wednesday as Senate Republicans embarked on their own course to tweak and reshape the gargantuan legislative package. The former head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) rehashed a similar talking point from his takedown of a previous House GOP ...
Tata Steel, the UK’s largest steelmaker, faces potential exclusion from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s new tariff-free trade agreement with the United States, prompting urgent talks between ministers and US counterparts. The company, which operates the vast Port Talbot site in south Wales, fears it may fall foul of stringent US origin rules that threaten its $100 million annual export business ...
Stores opened their doors at midnight across the globe as Nintendo fans scrambled to get their hands on the highly anticipated Switch 2, the gaming giant’s first direct console sequel. The launch saw eager queues from Tokyo to Toronto, with UK tech retailer Currys calling it their “biggest gaming pre-order ever” after selling 30,000 units ahead of release. Despite the ...
More than 2,500 leading voices from the UK’s arts sector, including the heads of the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company, have signed an open letter warning that Labour’s proposed changes to the Access to Work scheme risk excluding disabled people from the workforce entirely. Indhu Rubasingham, artistic director of the National Theatre, and Tamara Harvey and Daniel Evans, co-artistic ...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former President Joe Biden doubled down on his use of an autopen on Wednesday, insisting that he was in control of the White House during his term in office. President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into Biden’s administration, alleging that top officials used autopen signatures to cover up the former president’s cognitive ...
Scammers stole £47 million from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) by fraudulently accessing more than 100,000 taxpayer accounts using phishing tactics, the tax authority has revealed. The large-scale fraud was exposed during a Treasury Select Committee hearing, where senior HMRC officials were criticised for failing to inform MPs earlier. According to the department, the criminals used stolen personal details to ...