Displaced Palestinians move southwards after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate to the south, September 20, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas/File Photo |
- The Trump administration is imposing new restrictions on media coverage of the US military, requiring news organizations to agree they will not disclose information that the government has not approved for release.
- Trump hailed slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a "martyr for American freedom" and vowed at his memorial service to carry on his work, while again accusing what he called the "radical left" for Kirk's murder.
- Trump's border czar Tom Homan accepted a $50,000 bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent last year in a since-closed US Justice Department bribery investigation, two sources familiar with the matter said.
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A Tesla robotaxi drives on the street along South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, US, June 22, 2025. REUTERS/Joel Angel Juarez/File Photo |
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk tantalized investors in July with a robotaxi update: After a small-scale test in Austin, Texas, Tesla would rapidly expand driverless cabs to markets including the San Francisco Bay Area. But the reality of Tesla's San Francisco plans did not include driverless taxis at all.
- Alphabet's Google will seek to avoid a forced sale of part of its online advertising business in its latest face-off with US antitrust enforcers at a trial in Alexandria, Virginia.
- US government agencies will be able to use Meta Platforms' artificial intelligence system Llama, a senior administration official said, as the White House pushes to integrate commercial AI tools into government operations.
- A federal judge will consider a request by Danish offshore wind developer Orsted to restart work on the nearly finished Revolution Wind project, which the Trump administration halted last month.
- As alarm over Donald Trump's trade policy was pushing the dollar toward multi-year lows, ECB chief Christine Lagarde pushed to advance Europe's goal of boosting the influence of its single currency. Four months on, the euro is being drowned out by national divisions and other priorities such as the Ukraine war, dealing with Trump, and coping with home-grown political turmoil.
- Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has fully exited Chinese automaker BYD, a filing showed, ending a 17-year investment that grew over 20-fold in value in that period.
- China's securities watchdog has advised some local brokerages to pause their real-world asset tokenisation business in Hong Kong, said two sources, signalling Beijing's concerns of a euphoric drive towards a booming digital assets market offshore.
- An alliance that installs renewable energy in developing countries wants to invest around $7.5 billion during its next five-year plan, executives told Reuters, and is seeking more philanthropic partners as richer nations cut government aid.
- For more on markets, watch our daily rundown.
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Trump's H-1B visa crackdown upends Indian IT industry's playbook |
India's $283 billion information technology sector will have to overhaul its decades-old strategy of rotating skilled talent into US projects following Donald Trump's move to impose a $100,000 fee for new H-1B visas, according to tech veterans, analysts, lawyers and economists. India was by far the largest beneficiary of H-1B visas last year, accounting for 71% of approved beneficiaries, while China was a distant second at 11.7%, according to US government data. Panic, confusion and anger reigned as many workers on the H-1B visa were forced to abandon their travel plans and rush back to the US after the announcement. |
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Fossils tell story of baby flying reptiles doomed by tropical storms |
An artist's impression of a Pterodactylus hatchling during the Jurassic Period, inspired by fossil discoveries in Germany. Rudolf Hima/Handout via REUTERS |
A tropical storm was brewing over a chain of islands on the edge of the vast Tethys Ocean one day roughly 150 million years ago, and a baby pterosaur was caught in the powerful winds. Scientists said they found the exact same apparent wind-caused fracture while conducting the equivalent of postmortem examinations on two well-preserved fossils. |
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