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By Neil J Kanatt (Reuters) -Gap on Thursday reported comparable sales below Wall Street estimates as customers pulled back on discretionary spending, and it said U.S. tariffs would squeeze its margins in the current quarter. Shares of the company were down about 2% in extended trading. Inflationary prices and uncertainty arising from the Trump administration’s trade policy have curbed consumer …

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Topline An air-traffic control supervisor at the Philadelphia facility managing flights in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport blasted the FAA for management “akin to criminal negligence” after an equipment outage led to a temporary ground stop on Thursday that caused hundreds of delayed flights, highlighting a problem that has persisted for years without a resolution. A view of …

The world’s most powerful rocket aced a critical test launch this week, and the images from liftoff are stunning. Starship Flight 10 lifted off from SpaceX‘s Starbase site in South Texas on Tuesday evening (Aug. 26). The rocket met each of its objectives, ending a streak of subpar performance that had plagued the developing launch vehicle since the beginning of …

Recently, we found out about something of a potentially serious issue brewing for legacy automaker Ford (F). The United Auto Workers (UAW) union was attempting to establish a presence at the BlueOval SK plant in Kentucky, a move that would put the UAW in a position to build the next generation of vehicles. Now, the UAW is claiming victory, though …

Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on August 20, 2025. NYSE U.S. equity futures were little changed on Thursday evening, after the S&P 500 registered a fresh record driven by renewed optimism around the artificial intelligence trade. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 62 points, or 0.1%. S&P 500 futures pulled back 0.07%, while Nasdaq …

Thank you, Jon, and thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today.1 Since I last spoke on the economy and monetary policy on July 17, economic data have reinforced my view of the outlook and my judgment that the time has come to ease monetary policy and move it to a more neutral stance.2 In July, I argued …

Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT’s propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it’s scanning users’ conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems sufficiently threatening. “When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by …

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Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers’ personal information. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers’ personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations. TransUnion claimed “no credit information was accessed,” but provided no …