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Hampton Inn, Lakeville, MN. Google Earth Hilton Hotels said Tuesday that it will sever ties with a franchise hotel in the Minneapolis area after a new video showed a desk clerk there refusing to book rooms for a person claiming to be a Department of Homeland Security agent. Hilton’s statement came a day after the […]

Visitors to the OC Auto Show at the Anaheim Convention Center check out the newly unveiled Ford Expedition in Anaheim on Thursday, October 3, 2024. Leonard Ortiz | Medianews Group | Getty Images DETROIT — Ford Motor on Tuesday said its U.S. vehicle sales last year increased 6% to achieve the company’s best annual sales

Trump’s Venezuela attack has added to conviction in an asset class investors were already favoring coming into 2026: metals. Rising geopolitical risk and tight supply and demand led to a blockbuster 2025 for precious metals such as gold and silver and industrial metals such as copper. Gold surged more than 64% last year. Silver skyrocketed

A view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street November 13, 2024, in New York City.  Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images A version of this article appeared in CNBC’s Inside Alts newsletter, a guide to the fast-growing world of alternative investments, from private equity and private credit to hedge funds

Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference at the Capitol Hill Club on Wednesday, January 22, 2025. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images California Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa has died, the House of Representatives GOP said on Tuesday. He was 65. LaMalfa’s death tightens the razor-thin House

This aerial view shows icebergs floating in the waters beaten down by the sun with buildings in the background off Nuuk, Greenland, on March 11, 2025, on the day of Greenland, the autonomous Danish territory, legislative elections. Odd Andersen | Afp | Getty Images European leaders on Tuesday issued a joint statement to push back

Greenland’s Head of Government Jens-Frederik Nielsen addresses a press conference in Nuuk, Greenland, on January 5, 2026. Any US attack on a NATO ally would be the end of “everything”, Denmark’s prime minister warned on January 5, 2026, after US President Donald Trump repeated his desire to annex Greenland. Oscar Scott Carl | Afp |

A Lucid Air electric vehicle is displayed at a shopping mall in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S., Sept. 27, 2021. Hyunjoo Jin | Reuters Lucid Group significantly increased its production and sales last year as it continues to ramp up production of its new Gravity SUV. The all-electric vehicle manufacturer on Monday said its deliveries last year

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks to the media ahead of a secure briefing about U.S. action in Venezuela, on Capitol Hill in Washington,, D.C., U.S., Jan. 5, 2026. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The Trump administration on Monday briefed congressional leaders on the U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, sharpening a partisan

Alexa+ signage during an unveiling event in New York, Feb. 26, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon on Monday launched an Alexa+ website that lets some users chat with its assistant via their browser, putting it in more direct competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The Alexa.com website is only available to users of