Pending home sales drop sharply in December, dampening 2026 outlook
There were just 1.18 million homes on the market in December, down 9% from November, and matching the lowest inventory level of 2025.
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There were just 1.18 million homes on the market in December, down 9% from November, and matching the lowest inventory level of 2025.
The AI startup is on track to announce its first hardware device in the second half of this year, OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane said during an interview Davos.
OpenAI and Anthropic are moving into the complicated world of health information. Will ChatGPT help or hurt patient health?
Activists are demanding a way to hold the memory-chip maker accountable to its promises to protect the environment and embrace communities of color in central New York.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell planned to attend the oral arguments at the Supreme Court.
The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea mining this week, announcing a "consolidated" permitting process for both searching for and commercially extracting minerals that have so far remained relatively untouched. These minerals are found so deep in the sea that they're beyond any single nation's national jurisdiction – which is why […]
The move follows renewed tensions between the US and EU, as Donald Trump pushes to acquire Greenland.
The U.S. president doubled down on his demands for territory — he just wasn't always clear which Arctic island he wanted.
Donald Trump ist zurück auf der Weltbühne und sorgt in Davos für maximale Spannung. Mit scharfer Kritik an Europa, Seitenhieben gegen Emmanuel Macron und Angriffen auf die NATO setzt der US-Präsident altbekannte Marker. Der zentrale Satz seiner Rede fällt spät und wirkt dennoch wie ein Signal der Deeskalation: Trump erklärt, Grönland nicht militärisch angreifen zu […]
From the ‘big bazooka’ to a world cup boycott, Europe has powerful weapons beyond ‘dialogue. An emergency EU summit could be a turning point• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here“I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland,” wrote Emmanuel Macron in a private message to Donald Trump this week. Trump posted the text on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday, seemingly to humiliate the French president. But Macron might have been speaking for millions of bewildered European citizens.As Russia’s war physically tears into Ukraine, Trump’s phoney war on Europe over Greenland risks breaking apart the western defence alliance Nato. Continue reading…
There were just 1.18 million homes on the market in December, down 9% from November, and matching the lowest inventory level of 2025.
The AI startup is on track to announce its first hardware device in the second half of this year, OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane said during an interview Davos.
OpenAI and Anthropic are moving into the complicated world of health information. Will ChatGPT help or hurt patient health?
Activists are demanding a way to hold the memory-chip maker accountable to its promises to protect the environment and embrace communities of color in central New York.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell planned to attend the oral arguments at the Supreme Court.
The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea mining this week, announcing a "consolidated" permitting process for both searching for and commercially extracting minerals that have so far remained relatively untouched. These minerals are found so deep in the sea that they're beyond any single nation's national jurisdiction – which is why […]
The move follows renewed tensions between the US and EU, as Donald Trump pushes to acquire Greenland.
The U.S. president doubled down on his demands for territory — he just wasn't always clear which Arctic island he wanted.
Donald Trump ist zurück auf der Weltbühne und sorgt in Davos für maximale Spannung. Mit scharfer Kritik an Europa, Seitenhieben gegen Emmanuel Macron und Angriffen auf die NATO setzt der US-Präsident altbekannte Marker. Der zentrale Satz seiner Rede fällt spät und wirkt dennoch wie ein Signal der Deeskalation: Trump erklärt, Grönland nicht militärisch angreifen zu […]
From the ‘big bazooka’ to a world cup boycott, Europe has powerful weapons beyond ‘dialogue. An emergency EU summit could be a turning point• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here“I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland,” wrote Emmanuel Macron in a private message to Donald Trump this week. Trump posted the text on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday, seemingly to humiliate the French president. But Macron might have been speaking for millions of bewildered European citizens.As Russia’s war physically tears into Ukraine, Trump’s phoney war on Europe over Greenland risks breaking apart the western defence alliance Nato. Continue reading…