Musk pledges SpaceX shares for kids
Elon Musk on Monday pledged to give one share of his company SpaceX to “every kid in America” next year. The offer arrived a day after artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced in a social media post that it will commit 5% of its shares to a new “public benefit” fund. In a response to that Sunday post, Musk wrote, “I recommend giving the shares directly to the public.” Shares of SpaceX, which will report its quarterly earnings on Tuesday, closed at $146.03 on Friday. With approximately 73 million children under the age of 18 in the United States, that would put ...
AI stocks lead rebound; European markets drop
NEW YORK — Stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry bounced back on Wall Street Monday and recovered some of their steep losses from last week, but the rest of the market and stocks worldwide were shaky. The S&P 500 rose 0.4%, coming off its worst week since June, and the Nasdaq ...
Altoona Area School District to study water system cost at Juniata Gap Elementary
The Altoona Area School District entered into two agreements with the EADS Group on Monday to compare costs for its water treatment system and to prepare conceptual floor plans for a potential upgrade to the high school’s A building science labs. The only property in the district that has a well system is Juniata Gap Elementary School, and after finding out a lot of the materials used for water purification are no longer available, Altoona Area is faced with the choice of either redoing their well system with more modern equipment or transition to extending a city waterline to the ...
Dems hope rematch can topple Rep. Perry in Harrisburg suburbs
HARRISBURG — Of all the Republican members of Congress who represent swing districts, there may be none as closely linked to President Donald Trump as Scott Perry of Pennsylvania. Perry backed Trump’s signature tax-cutting laws in 2017 and 2025. He’s aggressively defended Trump’s war ...
Rules for minors’ mental health records approved despite outcry
A state commission approved new rules for the release of mental health records despite thousands of comments from the public urging them to reject the changes over questions about parental notification requirements. The Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted 4-1 Thursday to approve changes proposed by the Department of Human Services in response to a 2022 state law dealing with who has access to minors’ mental health records. The bulk of the pushback against the new rules was triggered by the department’s move to eliminate language spelling out that parents must be granted ...