Yum Brands said on Tuesday it was exploring strategic options for its Pizza Hut chain as the unit struggles to keep pace in a highly competitive fast-food industry vying for sales from a stressed consumer. “Pizza Hut‘s performance indicates the need to take additional action to help the brand realize its full value, which may […]
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U.S.-based companies announced more than 153,000 job cuts in October, the research firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported Thursday. “This is the highest total for October in over 20 years, and the highest total for a single month in the fourth quarter since 2008,’ the firm said in a news release. From January through the […]
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Justice Department officials in Miami and Washington, D.C., are actively preparing to issue several grand jury subpoenas relating to an investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan, Fox News has learned. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason Reding Quiñones is supervising the probe, Fox News is told. Fox News reached out to the […]
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House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday sharply diverged from the direction that Senate negotiations were headed in to end the government shutdown. Johnson told reporters Thursday that he would not commit to holding a vote on extending COVID-19 pandemic-era enhanced Obamacare subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of this year without congressional […]
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Top Democrats emerged from a classified Capitol Hill briefing Wednesday expressing confidence in the intelligence behind recent U.S. strikes on suspected narco-trafficking vessels near Venezuela. But they also faulted the Biden administration for what they called a failure to confront Nicolás Maduro after Venezuela’s disputed 2024 election. The Office of Legal Counsel presented lawmakers with […]
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Any optimism either side of the aisle had that the government shutdown could end this week appeared to fade on Capitol Hill, as Senate Democrats appear ready to hold out longer for a deal on expiring Obamacare subsidies. Senate Democrats left another long closed-door caucus lunch on Thursday, signaling a unified front as the shutdown […]
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Bitcoin took a nosedive on Friday, falling below $110,000 and wiping out a jaw-dropping $19 billion from the crypto market. The culprit? US President Trump’s surprise announcement of a 100% tariff on Chinese imports starting November 1, plus some new rules on critical software exports. Investors freaked out, worried a full-blown trade war was back […]
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This method uses a very specific signal to activate a single quantum bit (qubit), the fundamental building block of quantum computing. The encryption methods used to safeguard sensitive information in banking, medicine, and the military are vulnerable to cracking by a quantum computer with enough processing power. Google researchers claimed to have achieved the first verifiable quantum […]
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According to Farside, spot Bitcoin ETFs had net withdrawals of around $1.23 billion from October 13th to the 17th. As per analysts, Bitcoin’s price has reached a critical juncture where a further decline might serve as a key warning signal. The persistent bleeding of US-based spot Bitcoin ETFs after the latest crypto market crisis has analysts worried […]
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Crypto investors were anticipating more gains as October approached. The month has been nicknamed “Uptober” due to its long history of significant gains for Bitcoin and the crypto market as a whole. However, due to heightened global trade tensions, October 2025 has been anything but bullish. Following one of the largest single-day liquidation event, which erased around $20 […]
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