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[ad_1] Investors wondering where the S&P 500 is headed, at least for the next month or so, will want to pay attention to three key days this week. Between Tuesday and Thursday, five Big Tech companies with a combined market value of more than $10 trillion will report earnings: Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. Meanwhile,…

[ad_1] Depending on how you count, India has at least 120 languages, and another 1,300 “mother tongues,” an Indian term that refers to local dialects. The country’s government recognizes 22 languages but primarily operates in just two: Hindi, mostly spoken in India’s north, and English. That excludes tens of thousands of Indians who speak neither. Enter Microsoft’s AI for Good…

[ad_1] A jury has awarded a huge $83.3 million in additional damages to advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault. The verdict was delivered Friday by a seven-man, two-woman jury in a trial regularly attended by Trump, who abruptly left the…

[ad_1] General Motors Co. blamed poor leadership for mishandling its Cruise robotaxi crisis, an admission the company is hoping will help get its cars back on the roads. A report by the law firm Quinn Emanuel, which was paid by Cruise, outlines how executives took an adversarial approach with regulators after one of its autonomous cars struck and seriously injured a woman. Federal prosecutors…

[ad_1] The groundwater that supplies farms, homes, industries and cities is being depleted across the world, and in many places faster than in the past 40 years, according to a new study that calls for urgency in addressing the depletion. The declines were most notable in dry regions with extensive cropland, said researchers whose work was published Wednesday in the…

[ad_1] Netflix’s great day continues. After inking a $5 billion deal with the WWE for its first major bit of live programming, the streamer had a home-run quarter, adding 13 million subscribers, bringing its total to 260 million worldwide.  On its year-end earnings call Tuesday, Netflix reported booming numbers for its final quarter, making for a promising start to 2024.…

[ad_1] Amer Sports Inc., the maker of Wilson tennis rackets and Salomon ski boots, is seeking to raise as much as $1.8 billion in what would be one of the year’s first major initial public offerings. In a listing that could further accelerate the pace of IPOs after a two-year slump, Amer Sports is selling 100 million shares at $16…

[ad_1] Nikki Haley pressed her attack on Donald Trump’s age and mental fitness over the weekend as she seeks an upset win in the New Hampshire Republican primary. “He’s just not at the same level he was in 2016,” the former South Carolina governor said Sunday of Trump on CBS’s Face the Nation. “I think we’re seeing some of that decline.” Haley, 52,…

[ad_1] Ron DeSantis on Saturday tried to frame his White House campaign as the one that can top GOP front-runner Donald Trump and Nikki Haley in pivotal South Carolina, but some who came out to see him in this coastal tourist mecca said they felt the state was likely to go the former president’s way in next month’s primary. It was some of the same…

[ad_1] After a brief false start at the beginning of the new year, the stock market has returned to form in recent weeks, capping multiple record highs. On Friday, the S&P 500 climbed 1.2% to a record high of 4,839, eclipsing its previous peak of 4,796, set more than two years ago on January 3, 2022. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones…