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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is scheduled to voluntarily meet with the House Oversight Committee on May 6 to answer questions about his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a person familiar with the schedule.Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced in early March that Mr. Lutnick had “affirmatively agreed to appear voluntarily” before the committee. However, no date has been decided until now.CNN first reported the date of Lutnick’s interview.The Commerce Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment…

IE11 is not supported. For the best experience, please visit our site in a different browser.Currently playingArtemis II crew prepares to fly behind the moon07:19to the nextPrices for food, airfare, gasoline, etc. rise as war continues in Iran02:00Inside the military’s daring rescue of a downed US airman in Iran03:36Iran and US receive 45-day ceasefire proposal: report02:07High school teacher shares footage of Artemis II launch from airplane03:54Civil rights leader Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr. dies at age 8502:10Looking back at Pope Leo XIV’s historic first year as pontiff04:26Plane makes emergency landing on busy Pennsylvania Highway00:18Artemis II crew speaks to NBC from space…

UCLA women’s basketball coach Cori Close replaced her starting lineup one by one in the final minutes of her team’s national championship game Sunday.Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Point guard Kiki Rice is a senior.All-American center Lauren Betts, fourth year;Gabriella Jaquez, Sr.Janna Neepkens, graduate student. No college basketball team this season, men’s or women’s, has designed its roster to rely on veterans as much as UCLA. UCLA’s 12-man roster included eight seniors or graduate students. During the NCAA Tournament, the Crows’ minutes rotation featured almost exclusively the oldest players. Those…

You may think you know your age, but your body doesn’t follow a calendar.Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.This means that your chronological age, which is the number of years since you were born, may not correspond to your biological age, which reflects your body’s wear and tear at the cellular level.Based on factors such as genetics, lifestyle, and medical history, you may be biologically older or younger than your chronological age. That’s because these two measures don’t necessarily move at the same pace, said Dr. Douglas Vaughan, director of…

HOUSTON — Artemis II astronauts are now more than halfway across the moon and have glimpsed the far side of the moon for the first time.Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.In an interview with NBC News from space, NASA astronaut Christina Koch said she looked at the moon through the window of the Orion capsule and noticed that it looked different than what we’re used to seeing on Earth.“The dark parts just aren’t in the right place,” she said. “And something about you just felt like this wasn’t the moon…

BEIJING — Young Chinese people hoping to improve their chances of success have a new digital lucky charm. That’s Kris Jenner, an American reality TV star.Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Gen Z social media users are harnessing the “mommy” energy of the wealthy Kardashian-Jenner matriarch to express their prosperity in a tough economy. Images of Jenner, 70, have proliferated on Chinese platforms such as Weibo, Xiaohongshu and Douyin in recent days, most commonly used as profile pictures or screen wallpapers. Digitally transform into a CEO in a suit, a doctor…

WASHINGTON – Less than 48 hours after President Donald Trump told Americans that the U.S. military had “defeated and completely annihilated Iran,” Iran shot down an F-15E fighter jet and launched a risky scramble by the U.S. military to rescue two service members from deep inside Iranian territory. Iran also attacked two Black Hawk helicopters and an attack aircraft that were supporting search and rescue operations.Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.The tragic incident underscores the growing challenges facing the president as the war enters its second month. Despite daily bombing…

The U.S. labor market recovered in March, and although the overall picture of a slow-growth labor market remained, job creation was much stronger than expected.Nonfarm payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 178,000 jobs in the month, reversing a decline of 133,000 in February and beating the Dow Jones consensus estimate of 59,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday. February’s figure was revised downward by 41,000, and January’s figure increased by 34,000 to 160,000, bringing the three-month average to about 68,000.The unemployment rate declined slightly to 4.3%, but this was mainly due to a sharp decline in the labor force.”The…

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OPINION is building the People’s Terminal for Global Economic Trading, a high-performance predictive exchange that transforms economic insights into tradable markets. By combining AI oracles, on-chain trading infrastructure, and DeFi configuration capabilities, OPINION enables anyone to act as a market economist, trading global macro signals without institutional barriers or expensive terminals.At the heart of its architecture is the Opinion Stack, a four-tier system that powers the mainnet.Opinion.Trade – A live prediction exchange that allows users to create, trade, and settle real-world markets. Opinion AI – The first decentralized multi-agent AI oracle that can solve complex unstructured data. Beyond solutions, Opinion…