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China ties U.S. talks to tariff removal as stalemate deepens

If the U.S. "continues to engage in blackmail, China will resolutely counteract it,” Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said.

yesterday 9

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Bloomberg

Analysts at Trump ally Howard Lutnick’s former firm call RFK Jr. ‘an anti-vax, conspiracy theorist with inadequate training’

RFK Jr. was reportedly behind the ouster of FDA’s top vaccine official and said last week that around 10,000 employees will be laid off at the...

yesterday 9

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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Myanmar rescuers save 63-year-old woman from rubble 91 hours after being buried but hope of finding more earthquake survivors fades after death toll passes 2,700

The earthquake hit a wide swath of the country, leaving many areas without power, telephone or cell connections and damaging roads and bridges,...

yesterday 10

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David Rising

Keeping employees engaged ‘isn’t about gimmicks, it’s about listening’

Also: Trump’s tariff announcement begins at 4 p.m. ET, TikTok’s fate will be decided today.

yesterday 10

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Diane Brady

What degree of power will America command in NATO? Europe warily awaits U.S. secretary Marco Rubio to determine the future of the alliance

For 75 years, NATO has been anchored on American leadership. With Trump now back in office, European officials have expressed deep concerns.

yesterday 8

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Matthew Lee

Mass layoffs hit HHS researchers, scientists, doctors, support staff and leaders in RFK Jr. overhaul: ‘The revolution begins today!’

HHS said layoffs are expected to save $1.8 billion annually — about 0.1% — from the department’s $1.7 trillion budget.

yesterday 7

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Carla K. Johnson

AI is changing work and how to look for work. A top LinkedIn executive explains how his service is adapting

The professional social network says 70% of the skills needed for your job will change by 2030.

yesterday 40

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Jeremy Kahn

Trump team were still hashing out ‘Liberation Day’ tariff plans 24 hours before the announcement

The White House said Trump was still “with his trade and tariff team perfecting it to make sure this is a perfect deal for the American people".

yesterday 10

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Christiaan Hetzner

Starting today, European visitors are now required to purchase an entry permit to enter the U.K.

The permit can be bought online for £10 ($13), but the price is rising swiftly from April 9 to £16.

yesterday 10

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Laurie Churchman

‘The smell of stagflation’ is mounting as Trump’s Liberation Day arrives

Stagflation fears are mounting, warns Deutsche Bank, as Donald Trump's latest tariff announcements tick closer.

yesterday 30

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Eleanor Pringle

Elon Musk defeated in Wisconsin Supreme Court race after spending almost $25 million to back losing candidate

“A seemingly small election could determine the fate of Western civilization,” the billionaire said Tuesday in a last-ditch call to voters on his...

yesterday 20

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Nicholas Riccardi

Aliens, rovers and energy crystals: How Lego’s obsession with detail has kept fans hooked for 92 years and counting

Making toys for kids isn't rocket science, but few others have done it as well (or for as long) as Lego has. Fortune takes a look at how the Danish...

yesterday 20

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Prarthana Prakash

How Disney World is preparing for the enemy at the gate

Families with young kids could be critically important to the company this summer.

yesterday 5

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Chris Morris

Pennsylvania just demolished its largest coal plant to make way for a $10 billion AI data center

The former Homer City Generating Station will host seven gas-fired turbines to power data centers on site with up to 4.5 gigawatts of electricity.

yesterday 1

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The Associated Press

Elon Musk’s Tesla surrenders EV sales crown to BYD after worst quarter in nearly three years

Tesla's EV deliveries fell 13% to 336,700 vehicles over Q1 of last year, far fewer than arch-rival BYD, as CEO Elon Musk's crisis deepens.

yesterday 30

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Christiaan Hetzner

Premier’s 100 Top Hospitals 2025: Community Hospitals

Fortune partnered with Premier, Inc. on the 2025 ranking of the 100 Top Hospitals in the U.S.

yesterday 10

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Fortune Editors

LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’

Reid Hoffman, the visionary behind LinkedIn, is not a believer in work-life balance for serious startup entrepreneurs. With the exception of one...

yesterday 8

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Preston Fore

Macy’s to claw back executive bonuses due to accounting scandal

Macy’s is clawing back more than $600,000 in cash bonuses from executives after an accounting scandal led to inflated pay. 

yesterday 1

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Bloomberg

24-year-old eats a 65-cent breakfast every day, skips salon visits and has saved $90K—she’s part of Gen Z’s FIRE movement and plans to retire by 40

Gen Z and young millennials may have a bad rep for wasting money on avocado toasts, designer bags and luxury holidays—but a growing number are...

yesterday 3

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Orianna Rosa Royle

No one can clearly define an AI agent. LinkedIn’s engineering boss says that’s okay

Mohak Shroff, who leads engineering at Microsoft subsidiary LinkedIn, encourages an expansive view of AI agents.

yesterday 20

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John Kell

Hundreds of federal buildings, some of them historic, are on the auction block as part of DOGE’s effort to privatize everything  

DOGE staff are pushing the private-equity playbook of selling government buildings just to pay to lease them back.

yesterday 20

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Irina Ivanova

Why a16z’s ‘speedrun’ accelerator is playing a new game

A16z’s gaming accelerator this week opened applications for its 5th LA cohort, bumping up investment per company to $1 million from $750,000.

yesterday 6

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Allie Garfinkle

This parental leave policy stands out as a bright spot in a gloomy corporate climate for women

One of Fortune's Best Companies to Work For offers 26 weeks paid parental leave in the U.S.

yesterday 1

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Brit Morse

GameStop now has $1.5 billion to splurge on a Bitcoin reserve after private offering 

The video game retailer is expanding from selling video games to also investing in Bitcoin.

yesterday 1

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Catherine Mcgrath

The world’s billionaires now hold more wealth than every country in the world except the U.S. and China—and they’d be even richer if it wasn’t for tanking stocks

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg still dominate the billionaire ranks, but their fortunes have taken a hit as S&P 500 losses and boycotts...

yesterday 1

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Emma Burleigh

Vitamin D may improve gut health and help prevent chronic disease. How to make sure you’re getting enough

Deficiency in this vital nutrient could negatively impact your gut health.

yesterday 1

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Ani Freedman

America’s housing crisis is solvable—if we choose to build

The housing crisis is not a red or blue issue—it’s a purple issue affecting every community. There’s a win-win solution.

yesterday 2

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Justin Schair

The vibecession is back. But a change in mood about the economy is often ‘a harbinger of things to come’: a drop in consumer spending and business investment, economist says

“If you believe the latest survey data…you would think the economy is on the cusp of a recession,” said Jeffrey Roach, LPL Financial chief...

yesterday 0

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Alena Botros

Kyla Scanlon, the Gen Z economic commentator who coined the word ‘vibecession,’ says we’re not in one

“What people are feeling is not just vibes,” Scanlon said. “There’s real data to support a downturn.”

yesterday 0

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Alena Botros

Modern parenting is hurting kids and adults, ‘Anxious Generation’ author warns

Jonathan Haidt has these 3 urgent messages for parents worried about the effects of screen time.

yesterday 0

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Beth Greenfield

Trump reportedly told members of his Cabinet that Elon Musk will pull back from DOGE ‘soon’

The White House rejected these claims, saying Musk will remain at his post.

yesterday 0

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Stuart Dyos

Greece set to invest $27 billion on military shake-up. The most groundbreaking reform in the ‘history of the Greek state’

"Our country is protecting itself, arming itself, and strengthening itself."

yesterday 10

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Hélène Colliopoulou

Amazon is reportedly joining a long list of potential suitors to buy TikTok with last-minute bid

Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said.

yesterday 0

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Aamer Madhani

Even the wealthiest Americans are suffering from shorter lifespans than those in Europe. A new study cites 3 major reasons

“There's something systemic that's happening that affects every American.”

yesterday 0

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Alexa Mikhail

Goldman Sachs CEO says U.S. economy still in ‘good shape’ despite uncertainty

David Solomon pointed to the country's 'huge, diverse, powerful economic engine' that can withstand shocks better than 50 years ago.

yesterday 0

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Alicia Adamczyk

Summers blasts Trump threat to Harvard funds as ‘authoritarian’

Former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers blasted moves by the Trump administration to scrutinize or freeze federal funding to top...

yesterday 0

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Christopher Anstey

Trust fuels financial success at the 100 Best Companies

High-trust workplaces achieve more than eight times more revenue per employee and outperform the market by nearly four times.

yesterday 0

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Michael Bush

A $1.8 billion accounting error snowballed over 10 years in South Carolina—and could cost the state’s treasurer his job

For the first time in over two centuries as a U.S. state, South Carolina lawmakers are going to try to remove a statewide elected official from...

yesterday 0

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Jeffrey Collins

Donald Trump announces sweeping reciprocal tariffs against ‘friend and foe’ with a 10% minimum 

“We’re not taking it anymore," the president said, announcing the U.S.' tariffs would amount to half of trading partners'.

yesterday 0

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Alena Botros

Trump claims his tariffs are ‘kind’ to other countries. In America, consumers will ‘feel the pinch quite quickly,’ top economist says

President Trump announced a 10% baseline tariff and “discount” reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday during a widely anticipated Rose Garden address.

yesterday 0

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Amanda Gerut

Bill Ackman urges everyone to read Peter Attia’s ‘Outlive:’ Here are 3 key takeaways from the book

The billionaire endorses this book on longevity. Here's what it's all about.

previous day 20

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Alexa Mikhail

Trump’s tariffs may trigger the return of ‘shrinkflation’ with shoppers paying more for less

Companies are exploring cost-cutting options, both ones that consumers likely would notice and ones that exist too far down the supply chain for...

previous day 20

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Anne Dinnocenzio

President Trump wants action from the Fed, but one bank president says April 2 has only delayed their cuts

President of the Richmond Fed, Tom Barkin, hinted that confidence the FOMC needs to cut rates further has been hindered by President Trump's tariff...

previous day 30

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Eleanor Pringle

Millennial multimillionaire presenter Maya Jama unwinds between hosting Love Island and running multiple ventures by binge-watching Netflix—or no-phone retreats in nature

After conquering British TV, Maya Jama’s now dipping her toes in the business world. Here’s how she spends her time and money when she’s not...

previous day 20

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Orianna Rosa Royle

Donald Trump’s strategy to weaken the dollar could already be a success—in making it too expensive for Americans to travel to Europe

Virgin Atlantic, which made $1.3 billion from the U.S. last year, is seeing a decline in demand from Americans.

previous day 20

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Ryan Hogg

Super Micro, which has had a bumpy ride since its auditor quit, finally hired a general counsel

The server manufacturer also recruited an audit and accounting veteran as its latest independent director to join the corporate board.

previous day 10

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Amanda Gerut

South Korea’s president could lose his job on April 4, four months after he tried and failed to impose martial law

The court has held weeks of impeachment hearings to determine whether to officially remove Yoon from office, and then took weeks to deliberate on...

previous day 8

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Amanda Gerut

Xiaomi shares fall after reports of deadly SU7 car crash

Xiaomi fell as much as 6.1% in Hong Kong. Shares have slumped almost 18% since Xiaomi raised about $5.5 billion in an equity sale last week

previous day 10

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Linda Lew

Sam Altman says 1 million people signed up for ChatGPT in just 60 minutes after the company launched its viral image-generation feature

The OpenAI CEO said the new feature sparked "biblical demand."

previous day 3

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Chris Morris

Farewell ‘ElonJet’: The FAA just made it much more difficult to track private jets from the likes of Elon Musk and Taylor Swift

This is almost certainly the final nail in the coffin of popular flight-tracking services like those created by Jack Sweeney.

previous day 4

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Chris Morris