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House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday he is confident the House of Representatives will clear a Senate-amended spending package by Tuesday, a move he believes will allow federal agencies affected by a partial shutdown to resume full operations within days. The government’s funding lapse began early Saturday after Congress missed the 30 January deadline […]
Walmart Inc. is receiving renewed attention from Wall Street after a series of technology-focused initiatives and operational changes aimed at accelerating growth across its vast retail network. Tigress Financial, citing quicker adoption of artificial intelligence and automation, raised its price target for the Bentonville, Arkansas-based company to $135 from $130 on January 23 while reiterating a […]
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has made public approximately three million pages of documents connected to federal investigations of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, completing what officials have described as the final release of materials in the long-running case. The trove began appearing on Jan. 30, 2026, when the department uploaded the first […]
The final week of January delivered sharp price movements across a 34-stock portfolio as a series of earnings releases, a Federal Reserve policy meeting and an unexpected nomination for the next Fed chair intersected with shifting investor sentiment. Indexes end January little changed The S&P 500 slipped on Friday but still added 0.34% for the five-session […]
WhiteFiber Inc. (NASDAQ: WYFI) has moved to expand its data-center footprint through a decade-long co-location agreement with United Kingdom–based Nscale, a transaction that could generate substantial recurring revenue and position the company for additional capacity growth at its North Carolina campus. The agreement, announced on 18 December 2025, covers an initial 40 megawatts (MW) of […]
Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, are expected to leave the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley no later than Tuesday after a federal court in San Antonio ruled that their continued detention is not permissible under current circumstances. Who Was Detained Liam and his father are Ecuadorian nationals seeking […]
A U.S. District Court on Saturday declined to block an intensified U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement campaign in Minnesota, rejecting an emergency motion filed by the State of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez ruled that the plaintiffs did not meet the legal threshold required for a […]
New York, Jan. 30, 2026 — Brokerage firm Clear Street has increased its 12-month price target for Critical Metals Corp. (NASDAQ: CRML) from $14 to $20 following the miner’s decision to establish a 50–50 joint venture with Saudi Arabian industrial group Tariq Abdel Hadi Abdullah Al-Qahtani & Brothers. The firm reiterated its “Buy” rating, citing […]
The winter storm that swept across large sections of the Southeastern United States on January 31, 2026, brought an unusual combination of heavy snow, ice and sub-freezing temperatures to a region more accustomed to mild winters. As the system intensified and an arctic air mass surged southward, state and local agencies placed millions of residents under […]
Bitcoin retreated sharply late Saturday, slipping underneath the $79,000 threshold as individual investors contended with a tumultuous week marked by a historic plunge in silver prices and President Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve. The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization dropped 6.1% to $78,932 shortly […]
USA Rare Earth Inc. (NASDAQ:USAR) received two significant analyst upgrades on January 27 after disclosing a major commitment from the U.S. government’s CHIPS Program and a new collaboration with the Department of Energy. The separate revisions, issued by Canaccord Genuity and Benchmark, reflect increased confidence in the company’s ability to finance and accelerate its vertically integrated […]
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday began publishing almost three million pages of records tied to investigations of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, complying with the recently enacted Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). Scale of the disclosure Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters that the first public “data set” contains roughly […]