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Some of the suspected members of a theft ring charged with slipping into the homes of famous athletes to rob them entered the U.S. legally. But their arrests have underscored problems with a post-9/11 program that is supposed to vet certain travelers to keep out criminals and terrorists.Authorities in Florida have charged seven Chileans in connection with a string of million-dollar burglaries of homes of professional athletes across the country. Jewelry, cash, designer luggage and other items were stolen. NBC News confirmed that some of those charged in the thefts traveled to the country under the U.S. visa waiver partnership with…
Mark Carney, Canada’s soon-to-be prime minister, weathered two era-defining implosions in his career as a central banker: the 2008 global financial crisis and Brexit.He has dealt with political chaos, societal upheaval and economic meltdown.Now he faces what is arguably the challenge of a lifetime: Donald J. Trump.Can Mr. Carney negotiate with Mr. Trump over tariffs and other combustible issues and find room for compromise, while trying to win a federal election on a full-throated anti-Trump platform?Mr. Carney was elected on Sunday as leader of the Liberal Party and, in line with Canada’s parliamentary political system, will be sworn in as…
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was losing popularity at home for months, seen by many as a thin-skinned leader who had concentrated power around him. Political opponents saw an opening to win a future election against him. His former top general in the war against Russia had a higher approval rating.Enter President Trump. In recent weeks, he has echoed Moscow’s talking points on the war and called Mr. Zelensky a “dictator without elections” who “has done a terrible job.” Mr. Trump and his allies have demanded new presidential elections in Ukraine, despite the war, and humiliated Mr. Zelensky at a…
Elon Musk, the tech billionaire and one of President Trump’s top advisers, on Monday accused Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona, of being a “traitor” after he visited Ukraine and said the United States should keep supporting its war against Russia.Mr. Kelly, a former NASA astronaut and Navy pilot who flew combat missions during Operation Desert Storm, visited Ukraine over the weekend, meeting with members of the Ukrainian military, nurses and others, concluding in a social media post that what he saw “proved to me we can’t give up on the Ukrainian people.”In reply, Mr. Musk wrote: “You are a…
People wait in line for T-shirts at a pop-up kiosk for the online brokerage Robinhood along Wall Street after the company went public with an initial public offering earlier in the day on July 29, 2021 in New York City.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesIt was a bad day for tech stocks, and a brutal one for fintech.As the Nasdaq suffered its steepest decline since 2022, some of the biggest losers were companies that sit at the intersection of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.Stock trading app Robinhood tumbled 20%, bitcoin holder Strategy fell 17% and crypto exchange Coinbase lost 18%. Much…
White House Senior Advisor Elon Musk walks to the White House after landing in Marine One on the South Lawn with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) on March 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. Samuel Corum | Getty ImagesDOGE chief Elon Musk said Monday that he is running his businesses “with great difficulty,” as shares of his automotive firm Tesla suffered their worst drop in a half-decade, and as his social media company X experienced several outages.Musk also said during an interview on Fox Business that he expected to remain in the Trump administration for another year.Tesla’s stock has fallen every…
Larry Ellison, chairman and co-founder of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2017.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOracle issued quarterly results on Monday that trailed analysts’ estimates and gave a forecast that came up short of expectations.Here is how Oracle did compared to LSEG consensus:Earnings per share: $1.47 adjusted vs. $1.49 expectedRevenue: $14.13 billion vs. $14.39 billion expectedRevenue increased 6% from $13.3 billion in the same period last year. Net income rose 22% to $2.94 billion, or $1.02 a share, from $2.4 billion, or 85 cents a share, a year earlier.…
Asana CEO and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA | AFP | Getty ImagesDustin Moskovitz, the CEO of Asana and one of the original founders of Facebook, is retiring from the software company he started in 2008.Asana announced Moskovitz’s upcoming departure on Monday as part of the company’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report, and its board has retained an executive search firm to help choose a new CEO. Moskovitz notified its board “of his intention to transition to the role of Chair when a new CEO begins,” the company said Monday.”As I reflect on my journey since co-founding Asana nearly…
The administration of President Donald Trump has revealed it has overhauled the online application known as CBP One, which was formerly used to process asylum claims at the southern border of the United States. Now, the app has been reimagined as a platform for “self-deportation”. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem made the announcement on Monday in a statement outlining the changes. “The CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream,” Noem said. “If they don’t, we will…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deported fewer immigrants in February than they did under the Biden administration during the same month a year ago, according to ICE data obtained by NBC News that has not been previously reported. According to the data, ICE deported around 11,000 migrants last month, the first full month Trump was in office, compared to just over 12,000 in February 2024. One major reason for the higher numbers under the Biden administration was higher traffic from attempted border crossings, both legal and illegal, in 2024 compared to 2025. People who were first arrested by Customs and Border Protection,…