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The U.S. dollar held steady on Tuesday as global currency markets remained largely rangebound, with traders tracking Middle East diplomacy, energy prices and the U.S. economic calendar. The dollar index, which measures the currency against a basket of major peers,

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, making the Claude developer the most valuable private artificial intelligence company by reported valuation. The financing round places Anthropic ahead of OpenAI’s most recent disclosed private valuation and

Eleven people have been confirmed dead after a chemical tank ruptured and imploded at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging pulp and paper mill in Longview, Washington, with crews recovering the last of nine missing workers after several days of searches through debris at

WASHINGTON, D.C. / Content Syndication Services / — U.S. President Donald Trump named Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, as special presidential envoy to Syria and Iraq, adding Iraq to a regional diplomatic brief that already included Syria. Trump announced the

Gold prices advanced on Monday as a softer U.S. dollar made bullion less expensive for buyers using other currencies, while lower oil prices shaped trading across commodities. Spot gold rose 1.5% to $4,574.17 an ounce by 1118 GMT, and U.S.

California authorities kept a state of emergency in place in Orange County after an overheated storage tank containing methyl methacrylate at a GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove forced large evacuations and a hazardous materials response. The incident began May

SpaceX first launch attempt for its upgraded Starship V3 rocket was halted in the final minute of countdown on May 21 after a technical problem at the company’s Starbase site in South Texas, but the vehicle flew the following day

WASHINGTON, D.C. / Content Syndication Services / — Ground beef prices reached a record national average of $6.899 per pound in April, adding pressure to Memorial Day weekend cookouts and household food budgets across the United States. The price, reported

New York’s proposed ban on potassium bromate has put one of the state’s best-known food traditions into a regulatory debate, with pizza makers, bagel shops and food safety advocates focused on a flour additive long used to strengthen dough. The

U.S. stocks closed higher Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average finishing at a record and the S&P 500 extending its weekly advance to eight straight weeks, the benchmark index’s longest run of weekly gains since December 2023. The S&P