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Yahoo Finance The Fed tries to stay above politics. But a lot is at stake for the central bank on Election Day. The Federal Reserve and Chairman Jerome Powell have a lot riding on Tuesday's election, even as the central bank has spent 2024 keeping as much distance as it can from politics.

Yahoo Tech The week's juiciest Apple sales, including a $200 iPad — an all-time low Take a bite out of these delicious deals ahead of Black Friday, including a record $299 off a MacBook and $70 off the Apple Watch Series 9.

Waymo's latest funding round boosts it to a $45B valuation Waymo recently closed a $5.6 billion Series C funding round led by parent company Alphabet and joined by a who's who of Silicon Valley venture firms. Alphabet had previously announced in July that it was pledging another $5 billion to Waymo, but was mum on the specifics, saying only that it was a "multi-year" commitment.

Amazon begins drone delivers to Phoenix, provided the weather is favorable Amazon has started making deliveries by drone to customers in Phoenix, Arizona. There are 50,000 products to choose from, but they must weigh five pounds or less.

Google Cloud to make multi-factor authentication mandatory in 2025 Google has confirmed plans to require all Google Cloud customers to use multi-factor authentication (MFA), a process that kicks off this month with prompts and "helpful reminders" embedded inside the Google Cloud console, before a gradual enforcement period starting in the new year. The internet and cloud giant quietly announced its MFA plans in a document published in October, though the company's VP of engineering, Mayank Upadhyay, formally announced this in a blog post this week. "We will be implementing mandatory MFA for Google Cloud in a phased approach that will roll out to all users worldwide during 2025," Upadhyay wrote.

Nintendo expects to sell fewer Switches than planned as new model looms Nintendo was prepared to suck it up financially this year as sales of its aging Switch decline, but things are going a bit worse than it hoped.

Yahoo Sports Are the Warriors for real? Plus Haliburton's struggles, NBA Soap Opera teams & is Gradey Dick making a leap? | The Kevin O'Connor Show On today's episode of The Kevin O'Connor Show, Kevin is joined by True Hoops' David Thorpe to discuss the biggest headlines from the start of the NBA season. They break down the reason for the Golden State Warriors' hot start this year and what has held back Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton.

Yahoo Personal Finance CD rates today, November 5, 2024 (Lock in up to 4.50% APY) CD rates today are well above historical norms. But they're trending down following the Fed's recent rate cut. Find out where to get the best CD rates right now.

WWE Raw results, highlights (Nov. 4): No. 1 contenders are crowned; plus, we need to start a Dragon Lee conversation Two new No. 1 contenders were crowned, Dragon Lee put on a banger, plus much more from "WWE Monday Night Raw" for November 4, 2024.