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The stock market surged on Wednesday after the Trump administration granted automakers a one-month exemption from tariffs imposed a day earlier.The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed the trading session up nearly 500 points, or 1.1%, while the S&P 500 also jumped 1.1%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq increased nearly 1.5% on Wednesday.Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump had ordered the delay of auto tariffs after a request from the Big 3 U.S. automakers: Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep and Chrysler.”The president is giving them an exemption for one month so they’re not at an economic…

WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years. Researchers know that early people made simple tools from stones as early as 3.3 million years ago. The new discovery, published Wednesday in Nature, reveals that ancient humans “had rather more complex tool kits than previously we thought,” incorporating a variety of materials, said William Harcourt-Smith,…

NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market is gaining ground Wednesday as the U.S. softens its position on some tariffs against several key trading partners.The shift comes a day after a sharp tumble that wiped out the last of the “Trump bump” that Wall Street received following the presidential election in November. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% in afternoon trading after losing 6% since setting its all-time high last month and returning to where it was before President Donald Trump’s election. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 228 points, or 0.5%, as of 1:48 p.m. Eastern time, and the…

By Ahmed AbouleneinWashington: President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health, vocal U.S. COVID-19 policy critic Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, is widely expected to advance after facing questions on Wednesday in a Senate committee confirmation hearing.Republicans who control the Senate have largely embraced the nomination, arguing that Bhattacharya’s skepticism of federal pandemic policies reflects the need for reform at the NIH. All of Trump’s high-level nominations have been confirmed, regardless of how unconventional or controversial they have been. First, he is likely to be grilled by Senate Democrats about the agency’s independence and commitment to unbiased scientific research…

Rachin Ravindra and Kane Williamson struck commanding centuries as New Zealand hammered South Africa by 50 runs in a high-scoring semifinal to set up a summit clash with India in the Champions Trophy, on Wednesday. Ravindra played a brilliant knock of 108 runs off 101 balls, laced with 13 fours and a six, while Williamson struck 102 off 94 balls, including 10 fours and two sixes, after skipper Mitchell Santner opted to bat. Daryl Mitchell (49 off 37 balls), Glenn Phillips (49 not out off 27 balls) and Michael Bracewell (16 off 12 balls) then capitalized on the…

Six weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump addressed Congress and the nation Tuesday evening, laying out his goals for the next four years.ABC News, along with PolitiFact, live fact-checked Trump’s speech statements that were exaggerated, needed more context or were false.President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on Mar. 4, 2025 in Washington Mandel Ngan-Pool/Getty ImagesTRUMP CLAIM: Joe Biden especially let the price of eggs get out of control—and we are working hard to get it back down.FACT-CHECK: Lacking context.Though egg prices did increase under President Joe Biden, they have recently surged under Trump…

Teaching machines in the way that animal trainers mold the behavior of dogs or horses has been an important method for developing artificial intelligence and one that was recognized Wednesday with the top computer science award. Two pioneers in the field of reinforcement learning, Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, are the winners of this year’s A.M. Turing Award, the tech world’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.Research that Barto, 76, and Sutton, 67, began in the late 1970s paved the way for some of the past decade’s AI breakthroughs. At the heart of their work was channeling so-called “hedonistic” machines that…

Home » MEXICO TRAVEL NEWS » ITB Americas 2026 Debuts in Mexico, Uniting the Travel Industry Across North, Central, and South America for a Premier B2B Trade Show Driving Global Tourism Growth Wednesday, March 5, 2025 In a historic expansion, ITB Americas is set to make its grand debut in Guadalajara, Mexico, from November 10-12, 2026. This landmark event will unite North, Central, and South America, as well as the Caribbean, in a single, influential B2B tourism trade show. Messe Berlin’s strategic expansion signals a major boost to the Americas’ travel industry, bringing together tourism leaders, investors, and global stakeholders…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s attorney general announced Tuesday that his office has opened a criminal investigation into Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are charged with human trafficking in Romania, days after they returned to the U.S.Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on social media that he directed his office to work with law enforcement to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the Tate brothers.“Based on a thorough review of the evidence, I’ve directed the Office of Statewide Prosecution to execute search warrants and issue subpoenas in the now-active criminal investigation into the Tate brothers,” Uthmeier said.After the Tates landed in Fort Lauderdale…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to hear on Wednesday a petition where the parents of two young women who died allegedly due to side-effects associated with Covid vaccination have sought compensation as well as a scrutiny of vaccination records and treatment protocols.The petitioners have sought the top court’s intervention to form an expert panel to investigate the side-effect of Covid vaccination. They want compensation to be paid to the families of all those who may have died after taking the vaccine.They later filed an additional affidavit, written submission and also an application to amend the prayers, seeking that…