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Greg Bensinger and Deborah Mary Sophia  |  ReutersAmazon Alexa now wants you to go hands-free in a carColumnist Marc Saltzman reviews one of the hands-free driving options, Alexa in a car.Marc Saltzman, Special for USA TODAYAmazon AMZN.O chief executive Andy Jassy on Thursday justified the company's billions of dollars in outlays for artificial intelligence development, saying the investment was necessary to remain competitive."If your mission is to make customers' lives better and easier every day, and you believe every customer experience will be reinvented by AI, you're going to invest deeply and...

US and Russian officials have met in Turkey to discuss ways of normalizing the operations of their countries' embassies. Russia's state-run Tass news agency says the US and Russian diplomats held talks for five and a half hours at the Russian Consulate General in Istanbul on Thursday. The officials reportedly agreed to make it easier for diplomats to travel and receive visas. The agency also says the two sides discussed the need to resume direct air service between the countries. The Russian side is said to have mentioned that it...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will pause reciprocal tariffs for 90 days to more than 75 U.S. trading partners except for China, whose tariff rate he said will increase to 125%, effective immediately.U.S. markets reacted favorably, surging higher in afternoon trading. The Dow gained nearly 3,000 points and the S&P 500 rose 474. The Nasdaq rose more than 1,800.Trump's decision is the latest is a series of market-wrenching moves that have taken place since the president announced a series of tariffs on April 2. Stock market declines and a...

Maurie Backman  |  The Motley FoolUS stocks suffer worst quarter since 2022 amid tariffs fearsTwo major US stock indexes ended their worst quarter in over two years, with the S&P 500 dropping 4.5% and the Nasdaq dipping 10.4%.The Dow Jones dropped 1.3%, marking its first consecutive monthly loss since October 2023, as the broader market faces uncertainty ahead of Trump's new tariffs.unbranded - NewsworthyA tumbling stock market has many Americans worried about their retirement portfolios. And if you feel similarly, that's quite understandable.Even if you've been through a stock market...

Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman on Drayk Bowen's leadershipNotre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman praises the leadership qualites of third-year linebacker Drayk Bowen, the former Indiana Mr. Football at Andrean High School.SOUTH BEND — It hasn’t been that long since Josh Lugg and Tommy Kraemer completed their Notre Dame football careers as starting offensive linemen.Yet they are proving just as effective as budding entrepreneurs in real estate management.South Bend-based Golden Legacy Partners, with Lugg and Kraemer as co-founders, announced Wednesday the strategic acquisition of ESC Property Services, which serves...

4-minute readPresident Trump calls tariffs 'medicine' as stock market plungesPresident Donald Trump spent the weekend at a golf tournament in Florida as the stock market continued to plunge.The worst market crash was seen in 1929 and led to the Great Depression. It was caused by speculative investments, excessive debt and banking system weakness.The Dot-Com Bubble collapse caused a global financial crisis from 2007 to 2009.COVID-19 caused a sharp and rapid decline in the market, but it also was short-lived and regarded as one of the shortest plunges in history.The U.S....

Keeping a cool head can be pivotal amid market turmoilPresident Trump calls tariffs 'medicine' as stock market plungesPresident Donald Trump spent the weekend at a golf tournament in Florida as the stock market continued to plunge.Have you checked your 401k balance since President Donald Trump announced widespread tariffs last week on what he called “Liberation Day”?Chances are, it’s down — maybe way down.The markets have lost more than $11 trillion since Trump’s inauguration and more than half of that happened on Thursday and Friday, according to global investment research company...

President Trump calls tariffs 'medicine' as stock market plungesPresident Donald Trump spent the weekend at a golf tournament in Florida as the stock market continued to plunge.The mass tariffs President Donald Trump announced last week sent the stock market tumbling.The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are now in a bear market.Economist and financial institutions are even more concerned about the possibility of a recession in the U.S.President Donald Trump's mass tariffs have sent the stock market tumbling in recent days and has sparked vocal concerns from economists and financial institutions over...

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun speaks during rally for property tax reform at Indiana StatehouseIndiana Gov. Mike Braun speaks during a rally for property tax reform Monday, March 17, 2025, at the Indiana Statehouse.Property tax relief has become one of the top debates of the 2025 legislative session with hours of testimony from concerned local officials, a veto threat from Gov. Mike Braun and a rally of hundreds at the Statehouse in March chanting “Where’s my money?”Three different property tax plans from Republicans have been presented at the Statehouse this year...

Where does the money generated from tariffs go?The Trump administration predicts tariffs will generate billions of dollars, but where will that money go?Aerospace and defense manufacturer Textron lost the most ground in the sell-off.CVS may be the best positioned to weather a recession.Companies across industries saw earnings prospects sink on downturn fears.It's been a tough week on Wall Street and Rhode Island's biggest publicly traded companies have not been spared in one of the worst market sell-offs in years.The 10 largest publicly traded companies all saw their stock price fall...