Nvidia’s startling ascent in the stock market reached another milestone Tuesday as the chipmaker rose to become the most valuable company in the S&P 500. Investors now say the company is worth over $3.3 trillion. Nvidia has seen soaring demand for its semiconductors, which are used to power artificial intelligence applications. Revenue more than tripled in the latest quarter from the same period a year earlier. The company’s journey to be one of the most prominent players in AI has...

Donald Trump will have to keep holding his tongue until his criminal sentencing next month in New York, now that the state’s highest court has rejected his attempts to remove a gag order that has kept him from attacking government employees, prosecutors, and witnesses during his recent criminal trial. The New York Court of Appeals, the awkwardly named institution that serves as the ultimate legal authority in the state, made its decision clear in a document published Tuesday. In March,...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said U.S. military assistance to Israel is “moving as it normally would” aside from one delayed shipment of bombs, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Biden administration of withholding weapons. Netanyahu had earlier slammed the Biden administration in a video posted on X Tuesday morning directly addressing Blinken. “It is inconceivable that in the past few months, the administration has been withholding weapons and ammunitions to...

A three-year U.S. House probe into allegations of ethical lapses including sexual misconduct and illicit drug use by Republican Representative Matt Gaetz will expand to investigate whether he tried to obstruct the inquiry, the committee leading it said on Tuesday. The House of Representatives Ethics Committee said in a statement, "During the course of its investigation, the committee has also identified additional allegations that merit review." The panel noted "difficulty" in obtaining...

Russia's envoy to the United States has outlined to Newsweek what the Kremlin views as a road map toward bringing an end to its ongoing war in Ukraine, a proposal he said diverged significantly from the strategy pursued by Kyiv's Western supporters. "There is a path to peace, even if it is thorny," Ambassador Anatoly Antonov told Newsweek in a statement from the embassy. The remarks came at a time when discussions toward reaching a lasting solution to the yearslong conflict that erupted...

Fisker, a much-hyped startup that sought to mimic Tesla’s success, has filed for bankruptcy, roughly a year after releasing its first electric-vehicle model.  The filing marks the second time an automotive venture by car designer Henrik Fisker has gone bust and follows weeks of quietly winding down its operations. The seven-year-old California-based company sought a cheaper and faster entry into the auto industry by outsourcing manufacturing but struggled with the complexities of...

A group of New Yorkers who recognized the suspect in a horrific rape of a 13-year-old took him down and held him until police arrived around 1 a.m. Tuesday, cellphone video shows. Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, a 25-year-old from Ecuador, entered the country illegally in 2021 near Eagle Pass, Texas, police said. He racked up an arrest in Texas and a handful of infractions in New York City before police say he cornered a pair of 13-year-olds in a Queens park, forced them into the woods at...

Americans should be careful about using the cryptocurrency Tether because of its use by terrorists and drug cartels, according to a new multimillion-dollar campaign by a consumer group. Consumers’ Research, an independent education organization for consumers, launched a multi-pronged media campaign on Tuesday warning that Americans might be opening themselves up to financial risk by using Tether. Tether is one of the world’s most commonly traded cryptocurrencies and is linked one-to-one to...

President Joe Biden is not well. Nowadays this is a truism, but you will recall that once upon a time (and not too long ago in fact) it was forbidden to point this out in public, under threat of social censure. It was obvious enough to me back on August 16, 2021, when I watched with horror as he mumbled and fumbled his way through his Afghanistan withdrawal speech. Partisanship being what it is, people assumed I was upset about the policy itself when I said I couldn’t see him running for office...