Alibaba-affiliate Ant Group released a new AI-powered healthcare app on June 26, 2025. Ant Group BEIJING — Alibaba-affiliate Ant Group is doubling down on health care with a new smartphone app, based on artificial intelligence technology that the company says could be rolled out overseas. It’s the latest sign of how China-developed AI is quickly…
Planned Parenthood signage is displayed outside of a health care clinic in Los Angeles, California on May 16, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for South Carolina over its effort to defund Planned Parenthood, concluding that individual Medicaid patients cannot sue to enforce their…
US President Donald Trump uses a cellphone aboard Marine One before it departs Leesburg Executive Airport in Leesburg, Virginia, on April 24, 2025. Trump is returning to the White House after attending a MAGA, Inc. dinner at the Trump National Golf Club Washington, DC. Alex Wroblewski | AFP | Getty Images The Trump Organization scrapped…
Pro wrestling has gone from a once a week show on SiriusXM to having its own channel. The satellite radio provider announced Thursday that Pro Wrestling Nation 24/7 will take over Channel 156 beginning Tuesday. Channel 156 has been SiriusXM Fight Nation, which has carried pro wrestling, MMA and boxing shows. “I couldn’t be more…
Doug McIntyre Soccer Journalist It may not feel like it just yet, but there’s a party like never before happening next year. And it’s been building since 1994. Except this bash is being compared to having “104 Super Bowls in one month.” Having covered soccer for two decades and at five World Cups across the…
My top 10 things to watch Thursday, June 26 1. Wall Street was heading for a higher open after the S & P 500 dipped slightly yesterday but remained less than 1% off its February record close of 6,144. The Nasdaq rose yesterday and was just over 1% off its December record close of 20,173….
A still from Disney and Pixar’s animated film “Elio.” Disney Disney’s Pixar animation studio had its worst opening ever over the weekend — and its problems aren’t unique. “Elio,” the story of a young boy who is mistakenly identified as Earth’s ambassador to the universe, tallied just $21 million in ticket sales during its first…
People check out an electric SUV Xiaomi YU7 at a Xiaomi Store in Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang province Thursday, June 26, 2025. Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi is taking aim straight at rival Tesla with a new electric SUV. Xiaomi’s luxury YU7 SUV will start…
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on June 23, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters An aggressive trade war, Middle East escalation and AI competitions overseas — None of 2025’s big curveballs managed to spoil the market’s epic comeback from the year’s lows as stocks stand within reach of a new…
Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO of Salesforce, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22nd, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBC Salesforce is accelerating its use of artificial intelligence in automating workloads, according to CEO Marc Benioff. “All of us have to get our head around this idea that…
