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Wall St opens higher after last week's AI rout

Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Monday, as investors attempted to shake off last week's AI anxieties while awaiting more clarity on the controversy surrounding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 540.52 points, or 1.05%, at the open to 51,826.25. The S&P 500 rose 59.90 points, or 0.81%, at the open to 7,436.76, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 200.72 points, or 0.82%, to 24,780.15. (Reporting by Niket Nishant and Utkarsh Hathi in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath)

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Ethnically split Cyprus' rival leaders agree to 2 more crossings across island's dividing line

The rival leaders of the ethnically split island of Cyprus agreed on Monday to open two new crossing points for vehicular traffic along a U.N.-controlled buffer zone in the first such development in nearly a decade. There are currently nine crossing points along the entire 180-kilometer (120-mile) length of the buffer zone that separates the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north from the Greek Cypriot south, where the internationally recognized government is seated. Long lines of vehicles at some of these checkpoints have been a point of grievance for many, and it’s ho

Syria, Jordan seek to mend ties after deadly airstrikes, sign cooperation deals

PNC to offer stablecoin payments to clients in Coinbase partnership

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Bon Secours affiliate sweetens bid for Surgery Partners to up to $6 billion

HealthSpan Partners, an affiliate of nonprofit hospital system Bon Secours Mercy Health, sweetened its bid for Surgery Partners to up to $6 billion on Monday, after the receipt of an unsolicited competing proposal from a third party.Shares of Surgery Partners climbed 12% in morning trading.Private equity group Bain Capital, which has been a minority shareholder since 2017 and owns 39% of Surgery Partners, will back the deal, the companies said.Under the terms, Surgery Partners shareholders, excluding Bain Capital affiliates, would receive $25 per share in cash, up from the prior offer of $23.

Germany set to get its first female president after Merz backs Bavarian conservative Aigner

Man who sent racist threats to UK Conservative leader Badenoch receives jail sentence

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‘Where is Cindy Hyde-Smith?’: In a nail-biter Senate race, the incumbent stays out of view in Mississippi

As the Mississippi Senate race still remains too close to call, Democrat Scott Colom and GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith have taken completely different approaches towards the public.Since Election Day, Colom has held at least eight events and capitalized on the national attention of the race to flood the airwaves and make his case for why Democrats should no longer count out a state historically considered a Republican stronghold. Meanwhile, Hyde-Smith has not been seen publicly since she left her election night watch party just outside of Jackson after declaring that she would remain her state’s

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Trump suggests he would rather go to hell than forgive enemies

President Donald Trump offered his most extensive assessment yet of historic Republican losses in an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday evening, appearing to extend an invitation to Democrats to work together on the contentious issue of immigration.Trump took no personal blame for the wipeout, despite his record unpopularity. He said GOP candidates weren’t able to translate his popularity to their own races.And while he acknowledged areas where his record was unpopular, he made clear he wasn’t in a conciliatory mood on most issues as Democrats prepare to take majorities on C

Police make arrest in a deadly shooting at Winston-Salem State during homecoming weekend

Schumer faces skepticism among some Democrats over majority leader role

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His daughter was abducted during a sleepover and killed. He is among families grappling with Newsom’s death row commutation

On a summer day in 1996, Marc Klaas sat in a San Jose courtroom and clutched the hands of his family as a clerk read aloud the guilty verdict that would eventually place his 12-year-old daughter Polly’s killer on death row. When the man who had fatally strangled Polly Klaas after kidnapping her from a sleepover, Richard Allen Davis, learned of his fate, he turned to the courtroom with his shirt hanging out of his belt, and made an obscene gesture to the room.When Davis was sentenced to death, Klaas thought to himself, “This is what he deserves.”He felt the judge and jury had seen the man

John Roberts sets the stage for publicly funded religious schools to reject children of same-sex couples

� current trajectory protecting the free exercise of religion in January 2016. But after Justice Antonin Scalia suddenly died the next month, creating a possible 4-4 split, the court postponed the hearing for 15 months, past the presidential election.Only when President Donald Trump’s first appointee, Neil Gorsuch, joined the bench in April 2017 did the justices hear Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer. That June, the court issued a decision breaking new ground in requiring direct public funding for religious institutions.That decision continues to reverberate today.At the time, Chief Justice J

Grieving father of Florida Learjet co-pilot defends his daughter's reputation after crash

Houston will limit ICE cooperation in response to Democrats taking power in Texas, mayor says

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The $500 million gamble to make India’s ‘Ramayana’ a global phenomenon

Namit Malhotra looks awfully relaxed for a man taking a $500 million gamble.Reclining into a sofa in a discreet London office, the movie producer bats away questions about the box office potential and estimated price tag of his two-part blockbuster adaptation of the Hindu epic, “The Ramayana.”“I’m not motivated by the bean-counter logic of, ‘How much money did we make or not make,” he said. “If we don’t make money with the movies, we’ll make it in the merchandise. If we don’t make it in the merchandise, we’ll make it in the theme park. If we don’t make it in the theme p

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Pope Leo urges President Milei, a Trump ally, to ‘safeguard democracy’ on arrival in Argentina

Pope Leo XIV has called on Argentine President Javier Milei and the country’s political leaders to “safeguard democracy” and demonstrate a “careful use of words” during his first speech in Buenos Aires.The American pope arrived in Argentina on Sunday, embarking on a trip that his predecessor, the first Argentine pope, was never able to make.Leo’s highly anticipated papal visit to Argentina began with a private meeting with President Milei shortly after the pope landed. Milei has received strong backing from US President Donald Trump, with whom Leo, first American pontiff, has publi

Trump says renewed attacks on Iran ‘highly unlikely’ if talks show progress

Israel’s president taps opposition candidate Eisenkot to form a government, in setback for Netanyahu

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Two trains collide in Egypt, killing 7 people and injuring more than 100, authorities say

At least seven people were killed and 112 people injured after two trains collided in Egypt on Sunday, the country’s health ministry said.Several carriages were derailed after one train collided with the rear of another between Kafr Ammar and Al-Raqqa stations in Giza, near the capital Cairo, the Egyptian National Railways Authority said in a statement.Dozens of ambulances were dispatched to transport the injured to nearby hospitals, while cranes were deployed to remove the wreckage after traffic on the railroad was disrupted, Egyptian authorities said.Among the dozens injured in the collisi

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Israeli president picks Gadi Eisenkot, Netanyahu rival, to try to form government

Israel's president on Saturday chose Gadi Eisenkot, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's strongest rival, to try to form a new government following a deadlocked election that left neither man with a clear path to power. Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving leader, is fighting to stay in office after his religious-nationalist coalition lost its majority in an October 27 election but still emerged as the largest bloc in parliament. Eisenkot, a former military chief, has declined to join forces with Arab parties, whose support would give him a majority of seats in parliament. But Arab leaders, inc

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Washington made Moscow a pariah. Now a tanker of Russian diesel is headed for US shores

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits affair as company launches investigation into foreign spy claims

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New Zealand's new lawmakers start to arrive at parliament as government remains in limbo

Dozens of newly elected lawmakers will start to arrive at New Zealand's parliament this week, even as the country faces a weeks-long wait

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How this key lesson can protect your 401(k) savings from deep AI stock losses

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Netanyahu rival tasked with forming next Israeli government. But the path remains complicated

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Trump orders DOJ to look into Democrats for 'threatening' people

President Donald Trump ordered the US Justice Department on Saturday to look into Democrats for "threatening a lot of people" with impeachment and other forms of

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Trump says he wants UFC chief Dana White for White House press secretary

US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he had asked mixed martial arts promoter Dana White to serve as White House press secretary and called on him to bring some

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Nithya Raman to take charge in LA amid homeless crisis and political division

In her bid for Los Angeles mayor, Nithya Raman ran as an outsider

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls