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by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 1:00 PM ET, Mon December 15, 2025 Carnival Cruise Line is sending another shipment of supplies to Ocho Rios, Jamaica, to help with Hurricane Melissa relief efforts.The shipment, transported aboard Carnival Horizon, includes 24 pallets weighing more than five tons. They include hygiene kits, medical items and other essential goods, coordinated in partnership with Direct Relief, the Miami HEAT and the Micky & Madeleine Arison Family Foundation. In November, Carnival Corporation, the Miami HEAT and the Micky & Madeleine Arison Family Foundation made a joint $1 million donation to Direct Relief, enabling these shipments and…
Ford is ending production of the fully-electric F-150 Lightning as part of a broader companywide shakeup of its electric vehicle plans, the company announced Monday. In its place, Ford will sell what’s known as an “extended range electric vehicle” version of the truck, which adds a gas generator that can recharge the battery pack to power the motors for over 700 miles. The company did not share when the new F-150 Lightning will go on sale, or how much it will cost. The pivot will come with a substantial price tag for Ford. The company will take a $19.5 billion hit to reshape its EV business strategy. Most of those charges,…
With temperatures dropping and dusk arriving early, the firepit section of my garden has been on my mind.It’s a simple setup. Eight colorful Adirondack chairs are arranged in a circle around a stacked stone hearth, surrounded, during the growing season, by easy-growing, low-maintenance button bush, hydrangeas, hosta, clumping Liriope and coleus.And simple is what makes it special. The important part is the feeling it provides — unfussy comfort, serenity and relaxation.The garden, after all, is a sanctuary – a place to hide, relax our shoulders and catch our breath while the rest of the world speeds by. Studies indicate that…
Kraft Heinz announced plans to split into two separately traded companies, reversing its 2015 megamerger, which was orchestrated by billionaire investor Warren Buffett. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesKraft Heinz on Tuesday announced that former Kellanova CEO Steve Cahillane will lead the company ahead of its planned split next year.Cahillane will join the Oscar Mayer owner as chief executive on Jan. 1. After Kraft Heinz divides into two publicly traded companies, he will serve as CEO of the business it is calling Global Taste Elevation, which will include high-growth brands like Heinz, Philadelphia and Kraft Mac &…
Amid Ford’s shift away from making large electric vehicles, the automaker is adding a new product line to find a home for its batteries. Ford said Monday that instead of scuttling plans to build the batteries for those vehicles, it will pivot that capacity into a new battery storage business. Those storage systems, which will use cheaper lithium iron phosphate batteries, will be used to power data centers and help buffer demand on the electric grid. Ford says the battery storage systems will start shipping in 2027 and that the company plans to build 20GWh of annual capacity. Ford will invest about $2 billion into the…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities knocked on doors in search of video and sifted through snow and dumpsters for other evidence that might lead them to the Brown University gunman, whose face was covered or not visible in footage captured before and after the weekend attack that killed two students and wounded nine others.Officials on Monday released three new videos of the man they believe carried out Saturday’s attack that show him wearing a mask and a dark two-tone jacket. Although his face wasn’t visible, the footage from about two hours before the shooting provided the clearest images yet of…
Shoppers carry Macy’s bags outside of Macy’s flagship store on Black Friday in New York, US, on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. Adam Gray | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAndre Lewis said he’s “anxious 364 days of the year.” Yet the rideshare and delivery driver wants to make it a special holiday season for his 7-year-old daughter.”I told myself I’d keep it modest,” said the 31-year-old, who lives in New York City. But he said his daughter wants a pink keyboard that lights up, and he’ll buy it for her — “even if it’s a little over budget.””Christmas is the one day…
Nvidia continues to expand its footprint in open source AI on two fronts: an acquisition and a new model release. The semiconductor giant announced Monday it acquired SchedMD, the leading developer of popular open source workload management system Slurm. Nvidia said the company will continue to operate the program, which is designed for high-performance computing and AI, as an open source, vendor-neutral software. Slurm was originally launched in 2002 and SchedMD was founded in 2010 by the lead Slurm developers Morris Jette and Danny Auble. Auble is the current CEO of SchedMD. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Nvidia declined…
TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of people flocked to Tokyo’s Ueno zoo to have a last glimpse of the popular twin pandas that are set to return to China next month, worried if or when they get to see their replacement in Japan as Tokyo’s relations with Beijing sunk.The Tokyo metropolitan government announced Monday that Xiao Xiao and his sister Lei Lei will return to China in late January and that their last day of public viewing will be Jan. 25. Their departure will leave Japan without a panda for the first time in more than half a century. Prospects for…
Disney’s three-year licensing partnership with OpenAI includes just one of exclusivity, Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC. The company signed the partnership with OpenAI last week that will bring its iconic characters to the AI firm’s Sora video generator. Once that exclusive year is up, Disney is free to sign similar deals with other AI companies. The deal gives OpenAI a high-profile content partner, allowing users to draw on more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars to create content on Sora. For now, it’s the only AI platform that’s legally permitted to do so. For Disney,…