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Coca-Cola bottles are seen at a shop in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on Jan. 28, 2025.Firdous Nazir | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesCoca-Cola will shift more of its packaging from aluminum to plastic bottles if President Donald Trump implements his latest wave of tariffs, CEO James Quincey said Tuesday.”As it relates to our strategies around ensuring affordability and ensuring consumer demand, if one package suffers some increase in input costs, we continue to have other packaging offerings that will allow us to compete in the affordability space,” Quincey said on the company’s earnings conference call. “For example, if aluminum cans become…

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday made some clarifications but left intact a ban for now that prevents Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records containing sensitive personal data for millions of Americans.Judge Jeannette A. Vargas in Manhattan issued an order to continue a ban prior to a hearing Friday. The ban was put in place last week by another federal New York jurist in response to a lawsuit that 19 Democratic attorneys general brought against President Donald Trump.Justice Department attorneys told Vargas in a filing on Sunday that the ban was unconstitutional…

President Donald Trump unveiled plans Sunday to halt production of the penny — but getting that initiative underway requires a few additional steps and possibly congressional approval. Additionally, while Trump said he instructed the Treasury Department to stop minting them due to their high costs, supporters of the penny claim it’s wiser to evaluate changes to the nickel instead. “For far too long, the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday. “This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies.”MUSK’S…

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Tesla has confirmed plans to bring its revolutionary adaptive driving beam and Matrix headlights to the U.S. with the new Model Y, as stated in a video this week with two of the company’s top executives. In a video shared to the Jay Leno’s Garage YouTube channel on Monday, Tesla Head Designer Franz von Holzhausen and Vice President of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy spoke with the former talk show host about the newly released Model Y refresh and some of its new features. The nearly-hour-long video touches on several new design choices deployed with the upgraded Model Y, including the…

RESTON, Va. — The U.S. Space Force is ramping up efforts to reform its acquisition processes, tightening oversight of underperforming programs and accelerating a shift toward fixed-price contracts, a senior official said Feb. 11.Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, the Space Force’s acting acquisition executive, said his office is intensifying efforts initiated by former space acquisition chief Frank Calvelli to streamline programs and control costs.“We’re continuing those efforts, but doing it more aggressively,” Purdy said at the National Security Space Association’s Defense and Intelligence Space Conference.As military deputy for space acquisitions, Purdy is authorized by Congress to serve as acting acquisition executive…

Este artículo también está disponible en español. The past 24 hours have seen bullish momentum return to XRP, with the cryptocurrency now reclaiming the $2.5 price level. This bullish momentum comes after a seven-day stretch of range consolidation between resistance at $2.5 and support at $2.3. Despite this consolidation of the price, technical analysis shows that XRP is still trading in a bullish setup, especially on the daily candlestick timeframe. Notably, this bullish setup shows that the XRP price is about to make a new all-time high run to $5. Bullish RSI Divergence And Strong Support Set The Stage Technical…

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni and quarterback Jalen Hurts celebrate with the Vince Lombardi Trophy after winning Super Bowl 59.Mike Segar | ReutersThe Philadelphia Eagles weren’t the only ones that scored big at the Super Bowl.The National Football League’s championship game attracted a record 127.7 million viewers on Sunday, according to Nielsen Media Research.The supersized live audience was of most importance to the advertisers that shelled out big bucks to have their brands featured during the Super Bowl. It is rare that programming on live TV attracts such a big audience in one sitting, making the hefty price tag…

PARIS (AP) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has dismissed a $97.4 billion takeover bid led by rival Elon Musk, but the unsolicited offer could complicate Altman’s push to transform the maker of ChatGPT into a for-profit company.“We are not for sale,” Altman said Tuesday at an artificial intelligence summit in Paris. Musk’s bid, announced Monday, is the latest in a bitter years-long battle with Altman over control of the AI startup they both helped found a decade ago as a nonprofit and is now a leading force in the global boom surrounding generative AI technology.“OpenAI has a mission,” Altman told…

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