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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 […]
Adults who show up at U.S. airport security checkpoints without a Real ID–compliant driver’s license, a passport or another federally accepted credential will soon face a new expense. Beginning Feb. 1, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will collect a $45 fee from travelers aged 18 or older who need to verify their identity through the agency’s […]
President Donald Trump has publicly suggested that a future surge in tariff collections might allow Washington to phase out the federal individual income tax. The idea, first raised during his 2024 campaign and mentioned again in January 2026, would require legislation from Congress and has drawn immediate scrutiny from economists who question both its feasibility […]
ABC News Live devoted part of its Jan. 30, 2026 programming to the life and work of Catherine O’Hara, the Canadian-born comedian and actor who died earlier the same day at the age of 71 following what the network described as a brief illness. The four-minute segment, presented by anchor David Muir and labeled “David […]