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2 scandals, 1 destination—Why Nvidia can’t shake China smuggling allegations

For more than a year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has repeated the party line about covert smuggling of his highly coveted premium chips: There’s no

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In-N-Out owner vows chain ‘will always be’ in Calif., calling exit ‘dumbest business decision ever’

Lynsi Snyder, president and owner of In-N-Out, moved her family to Tennessee recently but reaffirmed that the iconic burger chain will never abandon California. In

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Appeals court clears path for Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax, ruling homeowners can’t sue over rollout

A New York appeals court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit over the rollout of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax, ruling that the homeowners who

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Why the Philippines seems stuck in an ‘recurring cycle of underachievement’

When the Philippines took over from Malaysia as chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), expectations ran high that the country could use

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‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ icon Patrick Stewart dies at 86: ‘We lost one of the greats of stage and screen today’

Patrick Stewart, the classically trained actor who added Shakespearean gravitas to the “Star Trek” and “X-Men” franchises, has died. He was 86. Stewart died Wednesday

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Anthropic’s 7 cofounders are splitting $200 billion almost evenly, down to the last stock option

When Anthropic goes public, the stock its seven cofounders hold stands to be worth up to $200 billion between them, carved up into seven nearly

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Starbucks China ends free seating, requiring purchases at 8,000 cafés

Want a seat at your nearest Starbucks in China? Make sure you order something first. Starbucks China now asks customers to buy something before they

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Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX are weighing a $3.5 trillion merger—without him in the room

It’s official: Tesla and SpaceX are in talks. Independent board members at the two Elon Musk-led companies have formed special committees to hash over a

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Trump boasts about his self-proclaimed power and vows to revive a Kentucky drug plant if GOP wins

President Donald Trump touted his power in his second go around in the White House Saturday while rallying in Kentucky to bolster Republican turnout as his party

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An Ohio police lieutenant allegedly used Flock cameras 29 times to track someone he knew

A police lieutenant in a Cincinnati suburb has been indicted on a felony charge for allegedly using his department’s Flock license plate reader cameras to