The Supreme Court voided 2025's IEEPA tariffs in February, opening up roughly $166 billion in refunds. Companies with a customs compliance staff are collecting fast. Businesses without one are stuck in line.
Meta's new AI shopping agent has been downloaded more than 900,000 times. As of September 21, it can no longer buy anything on Amazon, the site says, because of privacy and security problems Meta has not fixed.
A federal report tracking 8,717 Canadian adults found reinfection tied to much higher odds of new back and respiratory diagnoses, though the back-problem estimate carries a wide margin of uncertainty its own authors flagged.
Nvidia's CEO put a precise number on an unknowable risk, rejecting warnings from two Anthropic researchers who put the odds above 10 percent. Neither side is showing its math.
AI-generated Cat in the Hat threats have triggered lockdowns and juvenile arrests across a dozen states since August. Criminologists have been measuring this exact copycat surge since Columbine.
Real spending on data centers and other information-processing equipment hit 752 billion dollars in the second quarter, edging past the 748 billion spent on housing, the first time that has happened in a series the government has tracked since the early 1950s.
A newly published patent describes pausing free-to-play games at boss fights and loading screens to run commercials, with ad-free credits as the reward. Microsoft ran a nearly identical business in the 2000s and shut it down in 2010.
A University of Maribor analysis spanning three decades and six World Values Survey waves found lagged internet access is the strongest predictor of religious decline worldwide, ahead of education, income or globalization. The lead researcher says the pattern might not hold going forward.
Nearly 2,700 cases of foaming hand soap distributed to 15 states carry a Class II recall label from the FDA after two of six products tested positive for five bacteria species tied to skin and bloodstream infections.
A GAO report found coal operators dispute 40 percent of approved black lung claims and appeals take a median of three-plus years, while the Labor Department's mine safety arm has left a 2024 silica dust rule indefinitely unenforced pending litigation both sides agreed to pause.
The small-business health benefits startup hit a $2.7 billion valuation this month, but $400 million of the headline figure is a tender offer buying out existing shareholders, not new cash for the company. A quieter number in the same release, a premium gap of 5 to 7 percent versus an 18 percent industry median, matters more to actual employers.
JamShare's new JamArtist tool turns one song link into a page that opens fans straight into their own streaming platform, free to start, with a paid tier that undercuts established competitors on price.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met China's Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York on September 20, four days before a Washington summit, with a trade truce, AI guardrails and rare earths all on the table and expectations for a breakthrough low.
The nationwide average broke a four-year-old high on September 18, gasoline is up $1.53 since the Iran war began, and Bank of America says a durable deal before the midterms is unlikely.
The unanimous First Circuit ruling does not stop third-country deportations outright. It requires notice and a chance to object, a distinction DHS's general counsel says means the policy 'continues' for now, with a Supreme Court trip likely next.
Secret Service officers confiscated three reporters' badges at the gates within hours of Trump's Friday announcement. First Amendment lawyers say the administration already lost this exact fight once, in 2025, over the Associated Press.
DAMO RADAR flags nearly 150 conditions, including several cancers, in a single abdominal CT scan. Alibaba published the code and model weights on September 18, 2026, with a license that blocks anyone from selling access to it.
A Canberra researcher took remote control of a BYD Shark 6's lights, locks and microphone in under two weeks, no credentials required. Australia has no minimum cybersecurity rules for connected cars, and the car industry says current standards are already enough.
Xenon Pharmaceuticals stopped enrolling new patients in two late-stage trials of azetukalner for depression after neuropsychiatric side effects appeared that had not shown up in earlier testing, and its stock fell more than 26 percent in a single session.
The September 18 approval pairs two Eli Lilly drugs against a resistance mutation that develops in up to 40 percent of women with metastatic ER-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer after hormone therapy, based on a trial that nearly doubled progression-free survival.
A Washington University team discovered lymph node-like hubs in mouse skull bone marrow that respond to brain tumors faster than the body's regular lymph nodes, and found early evidence the same structures exist in humans.
Elias 2-24 b is less than a million years old and sits 55 times farther from its star than Earth does from the sun, a combination current planet-formation models cannot fully explain.
The homebuilder's third-quarter results show what it now costs to keep selling houses: a 52 percent profit drop, a 9 percent order decline, and a CEO who says almost half of prospective buyers cannot qualify for a mortgage.
The president says the US will build an "AI Force" modeled on Space Force and appoint a new AI czar to replace David Sacks. His Saturday post included no appointee, no budget, and no timeline, even as Anthropic's own CEO says the industry understated AI's risks.
The proposed board would need unanimous sign-off from budget director Russ Vought and NIH director Jay Bhattacharya before any of the agency's roughly $48 billion in annual grants goes out, reviving a political-review push Congress had just blocked.
The state's Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy told legislators this week it will send its first rule recommendations in October and November, built from what companies do inside a regulatory sandbox that lets them operate beyond current law.
A new analysis of NHS data by the charity Rethink Mental Illness found that adults with conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are dying years earlier than the general population, mostly from cancer, heart disease and other physical illness the psychiatric diagnosis itself did not cause.
An unsealed filing in The New York Times' copyright suit against Microsoft and OpenAI puts a name and a date behind a line that had circulated for weeks. Microsoft says it does not speak for the company. Its own click-through numbers, cited in the same filing, tell a harder story.
The eighth Resident Evil movie opened to $60 million domestically and $108.3 million worldwide, the biggest debut the 24 year old franchise has ever had, with the best reviews too.
The vaccine reaching frontline workers in Ituri province was built for a different Ebola strain than the one that has killed more than 3,600 people this year, and DRC's health ministry is running a year-long trial to find out if it works against this one.
In 17 months, the president's investment accounts logged more individual stock trades than the entire House and Senate combined, a pace a former Bush administration ethics lawyer calls a financial conflict of interest.
All four seasons of the 1982 David Hasselhoff series are streaming free with ads on Tubi and The Roku Channel, right as a movie reboot from the Cobra Kai creators moves through development at Universal.
California health officials say a hospitalized, unvaccinated passenger traveled by train and connecting bus through Los Angeles, Kern, San Joaquin, Butte, Sacramento, and Alameda counties over five days in September, as the state's 2026 case count reached 59.
The hashtag cortisoldetox has racked up hundreds of millions of views built around cortisol face, a term with no medical definition. The real hormone science behind it is a rhythm, not a level you can flush out.
A24 took 5.5 percent of the summer domestic box office, ahead of two of the five major studios, on the strength of a $10 million horror film adapted from a teenager's viral liminal-space videos.
A $620 million Pentagon loan to rare-earth magnet startup Vulcan Elements followed a $65 million funding round that included Donald Trump Jr.'s venture firm by about three months. Two senators and a House member are now demanding the Pentagon preserve records after ProPublica reported a White House adviser pushed staff to move fast.
A 2-justice dissent was all the Trump administration got. The Court's September 14 order leaves a nationwide injunction in place, meaning states keep running their existing mail-ballot procedures through November, not the Postal Service's new envelope and barcode requirements.
Twenty months into Trump's second term, the S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq are all ahead of where Biden's market stood but behind both Obama's and Trump's own first term, according to Axios. A near 20 percent April 2025 tariff selloff and a sharp earnings rebound explain most of the gap.
Gulf markets opened lower Sunday after Yemen's Houthis said they struck sensitive targets near the Saudi capital with missiles and drones. Brent crude has already climbed from near $96 to above $103 a barrel since April as the wider Iran war has spread into Yemen and the Red Sea.
Alphabet's data center guarantees jumped from $16.9 billion to $43.8 billion in six months, and less than 2 percent of that shows up as a liability. Nvidia, Meta, and Broadcom are running the same play, and a Senate letter to Treasury Secretary Bessent wants to know what happens if the bet doesn't pay off.
