Politics

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued an order establishing supervisory authority over Google Payment Corp., despite the company’s objections, as the agency extends its oversight of nonbank financial platforms.

Software company Palantir Technologies Inc. and weapons maker Anduril Industries Inc. plan to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence in the US military and are inviting other companies to join the effort.

US consumer borrowing increased in October by more than forecast, reflecting the largest advance in credit-card balances since mid-2022.

One in three Americans are stockpiling daily necessities like toilet paper and non-perishable food out of fear that President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to add tariffs to imported goods will lead to higher prices, according to a new survey.

President Mary Daly said the US jobs market still looked healthy after fresh employment data was released Friday.

The US will begin testing raw milk supplies across the country for the presence of the highly pathogenic bird flu virus that’s been spreading in dairy cattle.

SpaceX received a Pentagon contract to expand Ukraine’s access to a more secure, militarized version of its Starlink satellite network, deepening the company’s involvement in the conflict despite founder Elon Musk’s ambivalence over the war.

Brazil coffee exporters owned by Montesanto Tavares Group Participações SA were granted a 60-day grace period to renegotiate debt with creditors.

President-elect Donald Trump’s political operation received an influx of cash in the campaign’s final days from wealthy donors propping up a bid that had far less money on hand than Democratic rival Kamala Harris.

The US Naval Academy’s practice of using race as a factor in admissions passes constitutional muster, a Maryland federal judge ruled in a blow to the conservative legal group behind the US Supreme Court’s landmark order outlawing affirmative action in higher education.

A former Allianz SE hedge-fund manager avoided prison and will instead spend 18 months in home confinement for fraudulently inflating the value of funds that ultimately collapsed, resulting in $3.2 billion in investor losses.

Novo Holdings, the shareholder that controls Novo Nordisk A/S, won European Union approval for its acquisition of Catalent Inc.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said the US Postal Service needs to replace its aging mail trucks and he wasn’t aware of an effort by the incoming presidential administration to cancel plans to buy electric vehicles.

Iran abandoned its short-lived pledge to stop enriching uranium close to levels needed for nuclear weapons, the International Atomic Energy Agency said, ramping up tension with the West just weeks before Donald Trump begins his second term as US President.

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack said policymakers are “at or near” the point where the central bank should slow the pace of interest-rate reductions, citing a strong economy and still-elevated inflation.