Taco Bell removes lettuce linked to cyclosporiasis outbreak from restaurants
Customers enter a Taco Bell restaurant on July 14, 2026 in La Cañada Flintridge, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Taco Bell has removed lettuce linked to a cyclosporiasis outbreak from restaurants, it said Friday. The outbreak has currently affected…
Trump rips Canada for wildfire smoke, threatens tariffs boost
Smoke from massive wildfires in Canada engulf the New York City skyline, reducing visibility and casting an orange haze over the city, July 16, 2026. Selcuk Acar | Anadolu | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Friday blasted Canada for wildfires…
Iraq, Syria to restore oil pipeline that provides alternative to Hormuz
Iraq and Syria signed an agreement on Friday to rebuild an oil pipeline that would provide an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz. Baghdad and Syria inked the deal at a Chamber of Commerce summit in Washington D.C. on U.S. investment in Iraq. Energy…
Anthropic in early talks with Meta to acquire compute power
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic is in very preliminary talks to lease computing power from…
Chinese automakers expand in UK — and many Brits are embracing them
MAIDSTONE, England — Izzy Woodrow is a believer. Four weeks ago, he joined the small but growing number of Brits who have bought a Chinese-made vehicle. «I’ve got a car that I enjoy driving [and is] super comfy. It’s very quiet and the fit…
Democratic socialists top MAGA candidates in CNBC’s ‘All America’ poll
Illapa Sairitupac, Democratic New York State assembly candidate, from left, Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York, and Brad Lander, former New York City comptroller and US Democratic House candidate for New York, campaign during a primary election in New…
Tap-to-pay fraud fuels organized retail crime, police say
When a man in a black Air Jordan T-shirt walked up to a self-checkout kiosk at a Louisiana Lowe’s last spring, he looked like any other customer. Over the course of about seven minutes, he methodically rang up different gift cards for $95 each,…
Iran says civilian infrastructure hit by latest wave of U.S. strikes
A giant banner depicting symbolic images of Iran’s late and current Supreme Leaders, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is displayed on an avenue in Tehran, Iran, on July 16, 2026, amid ongoing tensions between Iran and the…
China’s Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K3 model it says rivals OpenAI, Anthropic
Chinese startup Moonshot AI has unveiled a new model it says closes the gap with leading U.S. offerings and surpasses OpenAI and Anthropic’s most capable systems on some benchmarks. Kimi K3 still trails Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and…
Oil rises as U.S.-Iran hostilities threaten Strait of Hormuz supplies
Oil tankers and cargo vessels remain anchored off Port Sultan Qaboos on June 21, 2026 in Muscat, Oman. Elke Scholiers | Getty Images Oil prices rose Friday as investors weighed escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran after Tehran vowed to target…