Business - Saturday, March 14, 2026

The email solicitation to benefit Trump’s PAC also offers donors “private national security briefings.”

Three more members of the Iranian women’s soccer team granted asylum by Australia last week have decided to return to Iran, according to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.

President Trump said in a Truth Social post that he directed U.S. Central Command to execute a bombing raid that "obliterated" military targets on Kharg Island.

A proliferation of data from wearable technology is telling people how to optimize their job performance. Is that a good thing?

Palantir’s CEO says the platforms will have a vast effect on the electoral landscape … especially women. Is it a warning or a sales pitch? Don’t you just love AI? It has inundated the internet with slop, destabilized the concept of truth, and made it much easier to bomb people . And that’s just the beginning. As we look towards the future of our brave new world, AI might also disrupt all those pesky highly-educated female voters who keep casting a ballot for Democrats. To be clear: that assessment isn’t coming from me, a highly exhausted female who wishes the Democrats would work a little harder for people’s votes. Rather, it’s coming from one of the key architects of our glorious AI-driven economy: Alex Karp, the co-founder and CEO of tech firm Palantir. Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

FCC Chair Brendan Carr blasted broadcasters shortly after President Donald Trump called reports that Iran struck five U.S. tanker planes "fake news."

Central banks from Washington to London to Jakarta are about to make their first assessments of economic damage after more than two weeks of conflict between the US and Iran.

The deal, if it gets done, would not be finalized until early April and is not expected to close until 2027.

Exceptionally rare ‘fee’ to be paid by investors who took control of US operations from Chinese parent company Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly poised to be paid $10bn by investors as part of a deal to create a US-controlled version of TikTok. The $10bn, considered by the US government as a sort of transaction fee, will be paid by the administration-friendly investors who took control of TikTok’s US operations from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, according to reporting that first appeared in the Wall Street Journal . Continue reading...

Beijing’s decades-long push to reduce its dependence on foreign oil with huge investments in clean energy sources like electric vehicles is now paying off.