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What’s open—and closed—on July 4th for Independence Day 2025

The nation's birthday can be a mixed bag, depending on what you have to do.

yesterday 10

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Chris Morris

The first big winners in the race to create AI superintelligence: the humans getting multi-million dollar pay packages

Despite the pessimism about job security in the AI era, one tiny group of humans has become extraordinarily valuable: Those creating AI.

yesterday 20

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Verne Kopytoff

The U.S. is turning 249. Here are 10 Fortune 500 companies that have been around just as long

As the U.S. approaches its birthday, Fortune takes a look at 10 Fortune 500 companies whose age rivals the nation’s.

yesterday 20

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Emily Steinberger

BRICS leaders are set to meet in Brazil as they try to build a united front against trade protectionism

Trade and tariffs will be high on the agenda for the upcoming BRICS Summit in Brazil, but geopolitical divisions and conflict could be distractions.

yesterday 10

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Cecilia Hult

Nokia helped build the mobile world. Now it wants to seed the next one—from inside Bell Labs

The 160-year-old company has repeatedly reinvented itself.

yesterday 10

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Anna Heim

Rural hospitals brace for $1 trillion Medicaid cut in ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’: ‘If we do see a cut of that, it’ll be difficult to keep the doors open’

States and rural health advocacy groups warn that cutting Medicaid would hit already fragile rural hospitals hard and could force hundreds to close.

yesterday 10

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Margery A. Beck

Del Monte Foods’ bankruptcy rebounds on its Singapore-listed parent company

Philippines-based Del Monte Pacific, No. 142 on the Southeast Asia 500, bought Del Monte Foods in 2014.

yesterday 10

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Lionel Lim

Thinking about buying an EV? Most are set to become $7,500 more expensive come October

Carmakers may begin reducing production volumes now in order not to be stuck with excess inventory after September, so buyers only have weeks left...

yesterday 10

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Christiaan Hetzner

Why Wall Street got the jobs number so wrong

“Seasonal noise” around government hiring skewed the numbers upward, analysts say, and payrolls are in fact pretty weak.

yesterday 10

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Jim Edwards

Jane Street curbed in India after $4.3 billion trading gain

The Securities and Exchange Board of India will seize $570 million from Jane Street, which it claimed is the total “unlawful gains” made by the...

yesterday 10

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Abhishek Vishnoi

Wall Street was expecting a TACO Tuesday. But Dow futures fall 250 points after Trump says he will set tariffs as high as 70%

Trump said that about “10 or 12” tariff letters would go out Friday, with additional letters coming “over the next few days.”

yesterday 1

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Jason Ma

China exempts major EU brandy makers from anti-dumping duty

China imposed anti-dumping duties on European brandy for five years, while exempting major cognac makers that committed to keeping their prices...

yesterday 10

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Bloomberg

Microsoft suspends 3,000 Outlook and Hotmail accounts created by North Korean IT workers

The company said it discovered a repository of resumes and email accounts the workers are using to apply for jobs.

yesterday 10

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Amanda Gerut

An over-employed engineer was caught secretly working for multiple Silicon Valley startups at once—picking up salary offers of up to $200K per job

The saga began on Wednesday when the engineer started going viral on social media as startup founders discovered he had worked for multiple companies.

yesterday 10

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Beatrice Nolan

France’s industry minister says 10% tariffs not good deal for EU

The European Union has until July 9 to clinch a trade arrangement with Donald Trump before tariffs on nearly all exports to the US jump to 50%.

yesterday 9

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William Horobin

Trump plans to start notifying countries of U.S. tariffs up to 70%

Trump told reporters that about “10 or 12” letters would go out Friday, with additional letters coming “over the next few days.”

yesterday 8

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Akayla Gardner

Democratic Congressman Suozzi’s $50,000 stock sale took advantage of a loophole in Congressional disclosure rules 

The New York rep never disclosed owning the stock, prompting the question of how he managed to sell a security he didn’t appear to own in the first...

yesterday 8

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Dave Levinthal

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs timeline: From one of hip-hop’s most nimble entrepreneurs to prostitution-related convictions

In his trial, Sean Combs was convicted of prostitution-related offenses but acquitted of higher-level charges of racketeering and sex trafficking.

yesterday 10

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The Associated Press

Amazon AI exec’s top career advice is always pick up your phone—it’s a disaster for Gen Z who have telephobia

Ignoring unknown callers could be costing millions of unemployed Gen Z their big break. Take it from Amazon’s AI exec Rohit Prasad.

yesterday 30

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Orianna Rosa Royle

Trump signs ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ into law: What that means for your money

The bill will have ripple effects throughout the economy—and Americans' bank accounts.

yesterday 4

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Alicia Adamczyk

At least 13 dead in Texas floods and more than 20 children missing from a girls summer camp

At least 10 inches of rain poured down overnight in central Kerr County, causing flash flooding of the Guadalupe River.

yesterday 1

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Hannah Fingerhut

RFK Jr.‘s top FDA vaccine official restricts 2 COVID vaccine approvals against advice of agency scientists

The new memos from the FDA show how the agency’s vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, personally intervened to place restrictions on COVID shots from...

previous day 20

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Matthew Perrone

Private equity firm Capitol Meridian started in 2021 to bet on defense. Suddenly it’s the hottest sector around

Founded by two veterans of the Carlyle Group, Adam Palmer and Brooke Coburn, Capital Meridian is one of a newish breed of sector specific funds.

previous day 10

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Luisa Beltran

Ocean technology startup that sold 200,000 carbon credits faces scientists’ doubts: ‘Trust us, it sinks’

Formed three years ago by a group of entrepreneurs in Israel, the company says it has designed particles that when released in the ocean will trap...

previous day 10

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Helen Wieffering

Trump administration says some of the $6 billion education grants it withheld were funding ‘a radical leftwing agenda’

The freeze sent schools and summer camp providers scrambling to determine whether they can still provide programs like day camps this summer or...

previous day 10

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Bianca Vázquez Toness

New London IPOs hit 28-year low amid AstraZeneca exit concerns

More than $100 billion worth of London-listed companies have announced or executed plans to move to New York in recent years.

previous day 10

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Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro

Congress just backed off an AI regulation moratorium—Here’s how states like California are trying to regulate ‘robo bosses’ at work

California has a bill in progress, and Colorado already has one on the books.

previous day 20

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Brit Morse

House GOP can’t pass Trump’s tax bill as holdouts on center and far-right push back in late-night session

The idea of quickly convening to for a vote on the more than 800-page bill was a risky gambit, one designed to meet Trump's demand for a holiday...

previous day 20

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Kevin Freking

CEOs have a new AI flex

Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

previous day 10

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Sharon Goldman

Trump touts a Vietnam trade deal victory—but details on transshipment and import pledges remain unclear

Trump said the U.S. will impose a 20% tariff on Vietnamese exports to the U.S. Goods transshipped through Vietnam will get 40%. 

previous day 10

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Lionel Lim

Nissan is recalling nearly half a million cars—and the flaw is so serious some may need new engines

Several Infiniti cars, as well as Nissan's popular Rogue and Altima models, are affected.

previous day 10

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Chris Morris

Amazon has a new performance review system: Stricter standards and what it means for employees

Amazon has introduced a stricter performance review process.

previous day 30

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Ashley Lutz

The GOP’s $4.5 trillion spending bill creates a parallel, harsher tax system for immigrants and their relatives

The bill just passed by the Senate excludes immigrants and their citizen relatives from certain tax credits while dramatically hiking the fees...

previous day 20

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Azure Gilman

Key takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s memo on Meta’s new ‘superintelligence’ AI effort and big hires

The hiring spree and restructuring come as pressure mounts on Zuckerberg to justify Meta's massive capital spend on AI infrastructure

previous day 20

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Jeremy Kahn

How Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will affect women

Women are most affected by cuts to Medicaid.

previous day 20

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Sara Braun

Figma has filed for an IPO—here are 7 key takeaways

Design software company Figma has filed for an IPO, which is expected to raise up to $1.5 billion.

previous day 20

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Ashley Lutz

Bosses are right: remote workers spend 2.5 fewer hours on the clock than their coworkers in the office

In-office employees work nearly 2 days more weekly than their remote counterparts, as staffers binge-watch TV and fake keyboard activity from home....

previous day 10

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Emma Burleigh

Trump to speak with both Putin and Zelensky as U.S. freezes weapons aid to Ukraine

The announcement came as the U.S. has paused military aid to Ukraine.

previous day 10

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Jim Edwards

Bosses are catching on to their ‘overemployed’ staff—one worker says they’re making $3k a day doing 5 jobs

After a tech entrepreneur discovered he might have been duped by someone trying to work at four startups at once, overworking has caught the eyes...

previous day 9

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Preston Fore

Airbnb exec quit her job to take a gap year with her husband and 3 kids—she credits the reset for propelling her to CEO of TaskRabbit

If you’re debating a career break, take note: Ania Smith’s year off in Argentina reshaped her life—paving the way to her current CEO role at...

previous day 4

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Orianna Rosa Royle

Exclusive: Telegram blockchain startup TOP raises $28.5 million as messaging platform expands crypto footprint

Ribbit Capital led the Series A fundraise, with participation from Pantera Capital.

previous day 5

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Ben Weiss

Trump may have dropped a clue on social media that the jobs number won’t be good

Trump got an advance look at the jobs number last night and then raged against U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on social media.

previous day 3

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Jim Edwards

Six signs North Korea has embedded agents in your company—and what to do about it

North Korea’s shadow IT workforce is a global, for-profit operation embedding operatives inside major companies.

previous day 3

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Michael Barnhart

Tesla’s shock Q2 delivery surprise may have been driven by smaller unexpected markets, leaving Wall Street puzzled

In order to meet Q2 delivery estimates, Elon Musk may have redirected sales to smaller markets not deep enough to sustain such high volumes over...

previous day 2

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Christiaan Hetzner

The next phase of Starbucks’ turnaround plan is offering executives up to $6 million in stock grants, as baristas scrap to get annual raises above 2%

Baristas reportedly received 2% to 3% pay increases at the end of 2024 following a tough financial year. New CEO Brian Niccol received nearly $100...

previous day 3

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Sasha Rogelberg

RFK Jr. wants more people wearing health wearables in the name of ‘MAHA’

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making health wearables a major part of his preventive health agenda.

previous day 3

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Alexa Mikhail

Runway’s AI transformed films. The $3 billion startup’s founders have a bold, new script: building immersive worlds

Runway, the $3 billion AI video startup, has hosted the AI Film Festival since 2023 to showcase short films made with AI. This year’s festival...

previous day 4

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Allie Garfinkle

Accenture warns AI’s carbon emissions could surge 11-fold. But Big Tech’s still racing to build—and not slow down for sustainability

Accenture says AI’s carbon surge can be avoided—but as Big Tech races to build ever-larger data centers, the question is whether anyone’s really...

previous day 3

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Sharon Goldman

This India-born founder built a multimillion-dollar spice company after seeing turmeric lattes in California coffee shops. This is how she did it

Sana Javeri Kadri has built a business around small farmers in India.

previous day 3

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Jessica Mathews

Katie Miller—who left Trump’s White House with Elon Musk—surfaces at xAI

Katie Miller has emerged as a key spokesperson for Musk while her husband, Stephen Miller, remains President Trump's deputy chief of staff.

previous day 3

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Jessica Mathews