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Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager, defended Amazon on his X social media account over the weekend after the e-commerce giant came under criticism for its silence over an Israeli employee being held hostage by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. Sasha Troufanov, a 28-year-old computer engineer with the Tel Aviv-based microelectronics firm Annapurna

A passenger has died after jumping from the world’s largest cruise ship on the first night of his week-long voyage, officials said. The unidentified man jumped from Royal Caribbean’s new 1,200-foot-long Icon of the Seas — which holds 7,600 passengers and 2,350 crew members — soon after it left Florida for Honduras on Sunday morning,

A Michigan mom was fatally struck by an out-of-control vehicle while heroically saving her two-year-old daughter’s life at a drag racing event on Sunday. Kadie Price, 33, was in the crowd with her family when a 1980 Jeep CJ lost control and veered off the racing strip before slamming into another vehicle, police said. The

Elon Musk is escalating the artificial intelligence arms race against his former colleagues at OpenAI by amassing cash for his own AI startup. The Tesla mogul’s firm xAI — which powers the snarky Grok chatbot — announced on Sunday that it raised $6 billion in a fresh round of fundraising — soliciting investments from venture capital

Amazon is slashing grocery prices by up to 30% in hopes of luring inflation-weary customers — following in the footsteps of other major retailers such as Target and Walmart. The company said that it will reduce prices of 4,000 items at its Amazon Fresh grocery stores online as well as at its handful of brick-and-mortar

Walmart promoted its new Pride apparel on social media ahead of Pride month on Saturday, writing on Instagram, “Not just a slogan. #PrideAlways is a reminder to lead with love.?” The companys promotion comes just weeks after Target said its Pride collection would only be available in “select stores” following a major backlash by conservatives last year.  Target has