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Spain's Supreme Court strikes down national registry for tourist rentals

Spain's Supreme Court has struck down a national registry for short-term tourist rentals seeking to advertise on platforms such as Airbnb that was introduced by the coalition government last July, a ruling seen by Reuters showed on Thursday.• The national registry for short-term stays required property owners to register and obtain a number before listing on platforms such as Airbnb.• Several regional governments challenged the measure, arguing the central government overstepped its powers.• The Supreme Court agreed, ruling the state lacked authority to impose a national registry on top

Wall St opens lower as oil jumps on renewed Mideast concerns

Critical Metals inks 15-year Greenland rare earth deal with REalloys

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Crypto brokerage Blockchain.com confidentially files for IPO

Crypto brokerage Blockchain.com said on Thursday it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States, as digital assets markets show signs of a rebound after a choppy period.Since a record crash in October, the crypto markets have remained under pressure as a broad risk-off mood took hold among investors, slowing the pace of new listings.Crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments took the wraps off its IPO filing in November, while crypto exchange Kraken announced a confidential New York IPO in the same month, though neither has since moved ahead with their listing

US manufacturing activity rises to four-year high in May, S&P Global survey shows

Private credit bond spreads show smaller lenders priced at greater risk

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Euro zone consumer confidence rises to -19.0 in May

Euro zone consumer confidence rose by 1.6 points in May from the April number, figures released on Thursday showed.The European Commission said a flash estimate showed euro zone consumer morale increased to -19.0 this month from -20.6 in April.Economists polled by Reuters had expected a fall to -20.8.In the European Union as a whole, consumer sentiment rose by 1.7 points to -18.2.For European Commission data click on: (Reporting by Joao Manuel Mauricio in Gdansk)

US weekly jobless claims fall; single-family housing starts tumble in April

Trump will ease refrigerant rule in effort to address surging grocery costs

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The most powerful rocket ever built is now even bigger and more powerful. But will it work?

After a seven-month hiatus, SpaceX is set to launch a new, more powerful version of its Starship megarocket — reigniting a make-or-break testing campaign aimed at hashing out unprecedented rocketry challenges and getting the vehicle ready to carry NASA astronauts to the moon.But experts question whether this vehicle — or a competing spacecraft under development by the Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin — will be ready in time to sway the outcome of what US lawmakers say is an ongoing space race with China.Liftoff, which is slated for Thursday at 6:30 p.m. ET, also comes during a period of mo

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US Republican senator says Trump ballroom funding removed from spending bill

U.S. Republican Senator John Kennedy on Wednesday said there was insufficient support in the Senate to spend $1 billion on a planned White House ballroom and related security measures, and that the proposal would not be included in a $72 billion immigration enforcement bill.Speaking to reporters after leaving a meeting of Republican senators, Kennedy, of Louisiana, said: “We were told that, and again, I haven't looked at the text, but we're told that the ballroom money is out.”Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters that there were "a couple snags" that his 53 Republicans were tr

First on CNN: James Talarico endorses in House runoff to try to block Democrat who made antisemitic remarks

A year on from Washington museum attack, two women battle with survivor’s guilt

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Colorado governor censured by own party over his decision to free election denier Tina Peters

Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis was censured by his own party Wednesday night for his decision to grant clemency to election denier Tina Peters.The Colorado Democratic Party voted to rebuke the governor over his decision to free Peters.“Reducing her sentence now, under pressure from Donald Trump, is not justice,” the state party said in a statement. “It sends a message to future bad actors that election tampering has consequences, unless you’re friends with the president. That’s a dangerous and disappointing precedent to set.”The former Mesa County clerk is set to be freed fro

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Michigan woman whose name inspired band to become Greta Van Fleet dies at 95

Gretna Van Fleet didn't play music with Greta Van Fleet. But maybe she got the next best thing: The Grammy-winning rock band uses her name. The 95-year-old Michigan woman died Monday at a senior living center in Frankenmuth, according to her obituary, the same community where the band was formed in 2012 when Van Fleet was in her 80s. “I think they checked out my background to make sure I wasn’t on the Ten Most Wanted list or something, and they went ahead with it,” Van Fleet jokingly told MLive.com in 2019, ahead of the band's appearance on “Saturday Night

Trump and Netanyahu diverge on Iran war’s future in tense phone call

Blanche insists violent conduct will be weighed when applying for new anti-weaponization fund payouts

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India's 'Cockroach' group goes viral, spotlights Gen Z worries

A five-day-old group that channels Gen Z concerns has gone viral in India, overtaking Instagram followers of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, discussing issues like politics, inflation and unemployment - with a touch of humour.The Cockroach Janta Party has amassed nearly 15 million followers on Instagram in less than a week, compared with fewer than 9 million for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP, which says it is the world's largest political party.The CJP, whose logo is an outline of a cockroach on a mobile phone, calls itself the "Voice of the Lazy and Unemployed".The group's 30-year-

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Andrew was not vetted for controversial UK trade envoy role that was late Queen’s ‘wish,’ files show

The British government has found no evidence that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was vetted prior to his appointment as a trade envoy in 2001, a minister said Thursday, alongside the release of documents which showed that the former prince’s mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, pushed for his appointment to such a role.The documents were made public after opposition lawmakers asked the government to release all papers related to the creation of the role of “Special Representative for Trade and Investment” and Mountbatten-Windsor’s controversial appointment to that position.Mountbatten-Wind

Radio station apologizes after accidentally announcing death of King Charles

More gasoline price shocks might hit US drivers this summer travel season

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Trump says he’s willing to talk to Taiwan’s leader, a major departure from diplomatic norms

US President Donald Trump has raised the prospect of speaking to Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te, in what would be an unprecedented move for a US leader and a major departure from diplomatic norms.US and Taiwanese presidents have not spoken directly since 1979, when Washington shifted diplomatic recognition to Beijing from Taipei.“I’ll speak to him,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Wednesday when asked whether he would call Lai before making a decision on whether he will sign off on a major Congress-approved arms sale to the island.“I speak to everybody. We

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AI turned Samsung into a $1 trillion company. Its workers want a bigger slice of the pie

Samsung Electronics has become one of the leading beneficiaries of the global artificial intelligence boom. Surging demand for semiconductors has turned South Korea’s largest corporation into a $1 trillion company this year, propelling Seoul’s stock market to rank as the world’s sixth-largest.But one segment of the country is unhappy with the result: Samsung workers. Tens of thousands of employees have threatened to strike, in an unprecedented walkout that would disrupt a crucial source of memory chips at a time when the AI industry is desperate for more.Hours before the strike was sched

Iran rebuilding military industrial base faster than expected, already producing drones, according to US intel

Iran war injects fresh urgency into Modi’s ‘Wed in India’ campaign

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Trump promised no-cost IVF treatment for all. That’s still a long way off

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SpaceX files for long-awaited public stock offering that could make Elon Musk a trillionaire

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As CFP barrels toward 24 teams, the questions remain: Who's paying for this, and how much?

The Big Ten is pushing to expand the College Football Playoff to 24 teams, but the question is who will televise it

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‘This is long overdue’: Jan. 6 rioters and election deniers celebrate Trump’s $1.8 billion compensation fund

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Video showing far-right Israeli minister taunting Gaza flotilla activists sparks global outcry

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Barney Frank, liberal icon who regulated a ‘too big’ financial industry, dies at 86

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Democrat "angered" & "saddened" by Republican's primary loss

After working together to force the release of the Epstein files, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna speaks about Republican Rep. Thomas Massie's primary loss.

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IRS barred from investigating Trump or his family for past tax issues, as part of controversial lawsuit agreement

The Internal Revenue Service cannot ever bring claims against President Donald Trump, his family or businesses for past tax issues under the additional terms published Tuesday in the agreement the Justice Department reached with Trump to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for the disclosure of his tax returns.

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls