US homebuilder shares slide • Meta shuts down its AI character accounts • Microsoft to spend $80bn on "ai-enabled data centres", and more - Monday 06/01/2025 Top News Headlines

Monday 06/01/2025 Top News Headlines

• US homebuilder shares slide on fears of higher ratqes and Trump tariffs
• Meta shuts down its AI character accounts that users called 'creepy and unnecessary'
• Microsoft announced plans to spend $80bn on “ai-enabled data centres” in the current fiscal year
• India Stock market crash: Sensex cracks over 1,100 points, Nifty 50 slips below 23,800
• US Justice Department urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s push to pause TikTok ban
• Biden blocks Japan's Nippon Steel from buying US Steel
• Trump to be sentenced in hush money trial but will not face jail time
• New Orleans attacker had a transmitter to set off explosive devices, F.B.I. says
• Mike Johnson reelected as Speaker of the House with Trump's support
• International flights to resume at Syria's Damascus airport
• Rosalynn Carter, former US first lady and mental health activist, dies at 96
• Soldier who died in Las Vegas Cybertruck blast likely had PTSD, FBI says
• New Syrian FM on first official visit to Saudi Arabia aims for regional reset
• 63 million hit by massive winter storm in US, 2 states declare emergency

Source: News Agencies