China’s trade falters; America’s consumers fret, and more
Inter IKEA, which supplies the Swedish furniture franchise’s stores, suffered a 26% drop in annual operating profit
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Elon Musk’s $1trn pay deal; Nancy Pelosi’s retirement, and more
Over 75% of Tesla’s shareholders voted to approve a mega pay packet for the firm’s boss, Elon Musk.
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SCOTUS sharply questions Trump’s tariffs; America’s Democratic sweep, and more
America’s Supreme Court weighed the legality of Donald Trump’s sweeping reciprocal tariffs, which he authorised without congressional approval by invoking an emergency economic-powers law.
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Mamdani wins; big Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia, and more
Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, won New York City’s mayoral race.
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OpenAI’s latest big deal; White House to partially pay for food stamps, and more
OpenAI, ChatGPT’s creator, agreed to a $38bn deal with Amazon’s cloud-computing company.
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