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From left, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms; Lauren Sanchez; Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com; Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet; and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, during the 60th presidential inauguration in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025.Julia Demaree Nikhinson | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIf 2025 was the year Wall Street came to grips with massive artificial intelligence infrastructure spending from tech’s megacaps, 2026 looks to be more of the same. But as the price tag for AI goes up, so do expectations for the returns on investment. Earnings season kicks off this week for tech’s…

KENYA | Ukrainian Helicopters, a private air services provider regularly used by the United Nations, has begun operating out of Nairobi. Source (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by PostX News and is published from a syndicated feed.)

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – With very cold temperatures expected this weekend across the Lowcountry, and the potential development of an offshore low, we could see some type of winter weather in the Lowcountry. Before you get too excited, it really depends on the track and timing of that low-pressure system. Tuesday’s daytime temperature will be […] Source (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by PostX News and is published from a syndicated feed.)

The city’s five borough presidents now wield more power over housing decisions than they have had in decades — and some are already strategizing for how to transform what was a largely ceremonial role into a final authority on what gets built and where.Voters last November approved a ballot measure that establishes a three-member appeals board — made up of the mayor, city council speaker and local borough president — with the power to overturn Council land use votes that kill or modify housing plans. The referendum restored tangible land use powers to the borough president for the first time…

Congress is ratcheting up its scrutiny of the killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol in Minneapolis on Saturday.Top Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Monday asked Justice Department officials to hand over records about the probe of Pretti’s killing to the panel by Monday, Feb. 2, in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi obtained by CBS News.Democrats on the panel, including ranking member Rep. Jamie Rasin of Maryland, are also seeking documents about the department’s decision to forgo a civil rights investigation into the immigration agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Jan.…

STATE OF HAWAIʻI KA MOKU ʻĀINA O HAWAIʻI JOSH GREEN, M.D. GOVERNOR KE KIAʻĀINA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS KA ʻOIHANA PONO LIMAHANA JADE T. BUTAY DIRECTOR KA LUNA HOʻOKELE Hawaiʻi Internship Summit Scheduled For March 4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 20, 2025 HONOLULU — Hawai‘i will host its first statewide Internship Summit on March 4, 2026. It will be a collaborative event bringing together state leaders, private-sector employers, and workforce partners to strengthen internship programs and celebrate excellence in work-based learning. The summit will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i,…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Parts of Australia sweltered in record temperatures of close to 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday as the country sweated through a prolonged heat wave.The rural towns of Hopetoun and Walpeup in Victoria state registered preliminary highs of 48.9 C (120 F), which if confirmed overnight would top records set on the day in 2009 when 173 people were killed in the state’s devastating Black Saturday bushfires. No casualties were reported from Tuesday’s heat wave, but Victoria authorities urged caution as three forest fires burned out of control.Melbourne, the state’s largest city, also came…

(AP) — When a massive winter storm descended on the Northeast and parts of the South over the weekend, Lisa Patterson planned to stick it out at her family’s home in Nashville.But after she and her husband lost power, trees fell onto their driveway and their wood stove proved no match for the frigid temperatures, the couple and their dog had to be rescued and taken to a warming shelter.“I’ve been snowed in up there for almost three weeks without being able to get up and down my driveway because of the snow. I’m prepared for that. But this was unprecedented,” Patterson…

Former Pakistan spinner Saqlain Mushtaq has spoken out strongly against the growing influence of politics on international cricket, calling it “against humanity” and detrimental not just to the sport but to global harmony. Saqlain lamented the prolonged absence of bilateral cricket between India and Pakistan, stressing that the game has historically served as a bridge between nations rather than a point of conflict.India and Pakistan have not played a bilateral series since the 2012–13 season, when Pakistan toured India for a limited-overs series comprising three ODIs and two T20Is. While the T20I series ended level, Pakistan clinched the ODI series 2–1.…

A federal appeals court on Monday set aside limits a lower judge had placed on federal agents and their ability to use crowd control tactics on anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the lower court ruling was too broad and unworkable. It blocked the ruling while the case develops further. Judge Katherine Menendez, a Biden appointee, had ruled that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was too quick to blast protesters with pepper spray,” and had been too aggressive in shutting down anti-ICE activists who had been trailing federal officers in their vehicles. She said…