Home Depot expects a smaller decline in annual store sales following better-than-expected performance over the past three months, which was partly driven by hurricane recovery efforts. “As weather normalized, we saw better engagement across seasonal goods and certain outdoor projects as well as incremental sales related to hurricane demand,” CEO…

British oil giant Shell won a major court victory on Tuesday when a Dutch appeals court overturned a landmark 2021 case brought by green groups that found the company partially responsible for climate change and ordered it to aggressively slash carbon emissions. The appeals court in The Hague, where Shell…

Elon Musk renewed calls on Tuesday to defund NPR after a controversial video of its CEO questioning the importance of truth resurfaced online. Footage of NPR CEO Katherine Maher from an August 2021 Ted Talk reappeared on X Tuesday, sparking new debate over the taxpayer funded broadcaster’s alleged bias, which…

Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson has chosen not to seek a job within President-elect Trump’s upcoming administration, FOX News confirmed Tuesday. Paulson, who has been an ardent supporter of Trump’s for years, was among a group of people being considered by Trump to be the next Treasury secretary. “I’m…

An investigation is underway to determine what led to the death of a man whose body was found inside a tanning bed three days after he entered a Planet Fitness in Indianapolis. Just before 8:30 a.m. on Monday, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department received a report of a body found…

Doughnut lovers listen up: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts will give away a dozen of its original glazed doughnuts to the first 500 guests at each participating store starting Wednesday morning, with no purchase necessary. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based company said the doughnuts are being given away as part of a global…

Only nutty Democrats would be dumb enough to oppose President Trump’s deportation plan, and that’s the subject of the riff.  Just before the election, the acting chief of Joe Biden’s ICE released a letter to Republican Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales that said this: “Over 662,000 migrants with criminal records have…

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will lay off a significant portion of its workforce on Wednesday, according to a memo that the company sent on Tuesday. The lab, which specializes in robotic spacecraft and is managed by the California Institute of Technology, is laying off 5% of its workforce. According…

Wall Street firms are expected to pay out higher bonuses this year in what would be the first increase since 2021, according to a report by compensation consulting firm Johnson Associates. Bonuses are expected to rise after recent months saw an uptick in deal-making, the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates…

Netflix’s ad-supported plan has notched a new level of monthly active users. The ad-supported plan that the streaming giant offers in a dozen countries around the world has hit a whopping 70 million MAUs, according to Netflix.The company announced the new MAU figure on Tuesday, two years after it debuted…