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Delta Air Lines Is Soaring to a Record $1.8 Billion Profit as Summer Vacationers Pack Planes

Delta Air Lines soared to a record quarterly profit of more than $1.8 billion as summer vacationers packed planes, especially to international destinations, and the airline enjoyed a tailwind from falling fuel prices. The results released Thursday beat Wall Street expectations, and Delta raised its forecast of full-year earnings. Delta officials said strong demand for…


Google Rolls out AI Chatbot Bard to Europe and Brazil and Adds More Features

LONDON—Google said Thursday that it’s rolling out its AI-powered chatbot Bard across Europe and in Brazil, expanding its availability to hundreds of millions more users. The company also said it’s adding more features to Bard as it scrambles to keep up with rival Microsoft—which uses OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT service in its Bing search engine—in the…


Costco ‘Star of Death’ Mark Adds to Bud Light’s Nose-Diving Sales Figures

Retail chain Costco appears to have decided to stop selling Bud Light at its stores as the company has given the beer the dreaded “star of death” suggesting an end to product sales. Images shared online show notices at Costco announcing the sale of Bud Light together with an asterisk sign, popularly known as the…


Google Being Sued Over New AI Data-Scraping Privacy Policy

One week after Google updated its user privacy policy to allow data scraping from millions of users for artificial intelligence (AI) training purposes, the tech giant is now facing a class-action lawsuit. Google, its parent company Alphabet, and Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind, were accused in a July 11 filing in a federal court in San…


Former Anheuser-Busch Exec Warns More Layoffs Could Occur Amid Bud Light Struggle

A former Anheuser-Busch executive warned that Bud Light’s continuous decline in sales will lead to more layoffs amid a months-long boycott that was initiated in early April, saying that “more employees” could be “at risk.” The executive, Anson Frericks, a former president of operations for Anheuser-Busch, recently spoke with Fox Business Network’s “The Claman Countdown”…


‘Highest Principles of Journalism’: Congressman Reads History of The Epoch Times on House Floor

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) spoke on the House floor on Thursday about the origins of The Epoch Times, shedding light on its ongoing mission to provide uncensored information to readers around the world despite facing oppression by the Chinese communist regime. Mr. Norman began his speech by telling the story of John Tang, founder of…


Congressman Reads History of the Epoch Times on House Floor

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) spoke on the House floor on Thursday about the origins of The Epoch Times, shedding light on its ongoing mission to provide uncensored information to readers around the world despite facing oppression by the Chinese communist regime. Mr. Norman began his speech by telling the story of John Tang, founder of…


Over 100 Million Americans Affected by Tax Data Sharing: Expert

Three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Google and Facebook parent company Meta over the course of at least two years, according to a group of congressional Democrats Wednesday. …


Wall Street Opens Higher on Signs of Disinflation

Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Thursday after producer prices data provided further evidence of inflation cooling in the world’s largest economy, and stoked hopes that the Federal Reserve will soon end its monetary policy tightening. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 64.88 points, or 0.19 percent, at the open to 34,412.31. The S&P…


Pricewaterhouse Coopers to Ban Political Donations in Australia

One of the Big Four accounting firms, PwC, will extend its ban on political donations to include bodies using indirect means to channel election funding. On Monday, PwC acting chief Kristin Stubbins announced that the consultant giant will scrap its political donation program. She said although the firm always took the utmost care to ensure political donations…