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Nvidia has started the $5 trillion club. A look at its rise, by the numbers

Associated Press Nvidia on Wednesday became the first public company to reach a market capitalization of $5 trillion. The ravenous appetite for the Silicon Valley company's chips is the main reason that the company's stock price has increased so rapidly since early 2023. Nvidia's ...

Federal trial over Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland begins

By CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal trial over whether President Donald Trump can deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, was underway Wednesday, with police officials expected to testify that federal agents at the city's U.S. ...

Paramount to lay off 2,000 employees shortly after its merger with Skydance

WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer (AP) — In long-awaited cuts just months after completing its $8 billion merger with Skydance, Paramount has begun layoffs set to impact about 2,000 employees. Paramount initiated roughly 1,000 of those layoffs company-wide on Wednesday, according ...

Trump says ‘it’s too bad’ he can’t run for a third term

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and LISA MASCARO Associated Press GYEONGJU, South Korea (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that "it's too bad" he's not allowed to run for a third term, conceding the constitutional reality even as he expressed interest in continuing to serve. "If you read ...

Jury deliberations start in trial of Illinois deputy who killed Sonya Massey

By JOHN O'CONNOR Associated Press PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois jury has begun deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of a sheriff's deputy who shot Sonya Massey, a Black woman who had called 911 for help and was later killed in her home because of the way she was handling a pan ...

US appeals court overturns West Virginia landmark opioid lawsuit decision

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a landmark decision in West Virginia that had rejected attempts by an opioid-ravaged area to be compensated by U.S. drug distributors for a influx of prescription pain pills into the ...

Florida man executed for the 1998 rape and murder of his neighbor

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of raping and killing his neighbor decades ago was put to death Tuesday evening in a record 15th execution in Florida this year. Norman Mearle Grim Jr., 65, was pronounced dead following a three-drug injection ...