AXA SA reported first half profit higher than the same period a year ago, as the Paris-based insurer assesses the impact of wildfires currently affecting France and Spain. The French insurance group’s underlying earnings came in up 2% to €4.5 billion, the firm said in a statement Friday, meeting estimates. Net income stood at €4.2…
With the holidays still months away, your Christmas cactus may not be top of mind. But August is one of the most important months in its growing cycle. While your plant is focused on producing new stems rather than flower buds, the care you provide now will have a direct impact on how well it…
Shares of Apple (AAPL -7.35%) fell on Friday after the iPhone maker warned of supply shortages and soaring component costs that were delaying sales and denting its profit margins. Image source: Getty Images. iPhones and Macs are selling well Apple’s revenue grew 16% year over year to a whopping $109 billion in its fiscal 2026…
Delft-based architecture studio DP6 has completed the Rear House and Painter’s Studio project in the historic city center of Delft in the Netherlands. The DP6 studio renovated the historic canal-side building and built a painter’s studio at the far end of a secret hidden green oasis. This new workspace perfectly hides behind the rear building,…
Someone must have challenged the Dunellen Borough (New Jersey) Police Department to get creative with traffic enforcement. As the department reported on Facebook, an officer conducted a distracted driving enforcement detail on a “highly-trafficked, pedestrian-heavy” downtown area on Wednesday of this week. The mission was to enforce the state’s handheld cell phone law. The officer…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks, as he signs executive orders, while Howard Lutnick stands in the background, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., Feb. 10, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Democratic senators on Friday demanded information on more than a dozen critical mineral deals with the federal government that potentially…
Linda McMahon, US education secretary, speaks during a roundtable on education at the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, June 11, 2026. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers have gotten their debts forgiven, or soon will, due to a $23 billion class-action settlement…
People shop for groceries at a store in Brooklyn on July 13, 2026 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Pricing data from June indicated that outside of some select items where costs continue to grow, inflation is trending back towards the Federal Reserve’s inflation goal. So-called trimmed mean measures, which exclude outliers…
Amazon (AMZN +15.32%) reported its second-quarter results on Thursday afternoon, and the release carried a figure that can scare investors off: Free cash flow for the trailing 12 months came in at an outflow of $7.6 billion. A year earlier, that figure was an inflow of $18.2 billion. The market barely blinked. Shares of the…
nthropic PBC said its artificial intelligence models breached three organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a similar incident. Anthropic said in a blog post Thursday that it made the discovery after performing a review of its own cybersecurity tests, following OpenAI’s announcement…