Meta Platforms broke out Thursday while software stocks led, extending June's big rebound. The Biden-Trump debate and Fed inflation gauge loom.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said on Thursday that the country's culture ministry is set to fire 300 employees who are promoting agendas that are "incompatible" with the government's vision. "Furthermore, we will save public funds in the process," Bukele said on X. "Bitter medicine." Bukele took office at the start of June for a second term after winning a landslide re-election, pledging to cure the "illnesses" of the Central American country by prescribing "medicine" to fix the economy, following what described as a cure for the "cancer of the gangs" during his first term.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 200 people have been charged in a sweeping nationwide crackdown on health care fraud schemes with false claims topping $2.7 billion, the Justice Department said on Thursday.