The Supreme Court said Monday that President Donald Trump can continue construction of his controversial White House ballroom as legal challenges to the project play out.

In the unsigned order, a majority of the nine-member court said that the plaintiff challenging the ballroom, the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, is likely to be shown to lack legal standing to sue to block the ballroom project.

Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s three liberal members dissented from the order.

“The President ordered the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make way for a new, privately funded state ballroom in its place,” the dissent said. “Construction of the ballroom has proceeded apace for the better part of a year.”

“That construction is likely unlawful.”

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Elon Musk is continuing his push into the Southern U.S. with SpaceX, his aerospace and tech conglomerate, planning a $100 billion new launch facility in Louisiana.

In a joint statement, the Louisiana Economic Development office said that SpaceX will establish its Starbase, Louisiana in Vermillion Parish to, “support thousands of launches annually.”

Shares of SpaceX rose about 2.5% on Tuesday after the announcement.

Once built, Starbase, LA will serve as the main launch facility for Starship, SpaceX’s in-development rocket that is the largest ever built or flown, and which is designed to be fully re-usable.

Musk has ambitions to massively expand SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network, to launch orbital data centers, and someday colonize Mars. Those ambitions, and justification for SpaceX’s nearly $2 trillion market cap, hinge on the success of Starship.

SpaceX said, in a video posted to its website on Tuesday, that the search for a site to build launch pads and have access to ample fuel for its operations took about 7 years. Musk said in the video that the company would bring “probably 10,000 really exciting jobs” to Louisiana with the spaceport.

In the Tuesday announcement, SpaceX said it would work on a “historic coastal restoration” in Louisiana, in partnership with the state to “bring the marsh back” and ensure the wetlands around its new facility will have “storm protection.”

Previously, SpaceX has faced community backlash, lawsuits and fines following environmental violations at its first Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, in the company town now known as Starbase.

In its first test flight of Starship in April 2023 in Texas, energy from the rocket caused SpaceX’s concrete launchpad to explode, and its spacecraft to blow up in mid-air. Chunks of concrete were flung into a nesting and migration site important to some endangered species nearby and a fire chewed through around 4 acres of Boca Chica State Park Land south of the Texas launchpad.

In 2024, SpaceX was also found to have violated the Clean Water Act at the Texas launch facility by repeatedly releasing pollutants into or near bodies of water in Texas, a state agency said in a notice of violation focused on its water deluge system.

SpaceX’s work in Louisiana follows Musk’s move from California into Texas, Tennessee and Mississippi. The company said Louisiana was its fourth launch site.

Musk’s AI venture, now known as SpaceXAI, built out its Colossus data centers and a power plant in Greater Memphis. Before that, Musk relocated the headquarters of his automaker, Tesla, from California to Austin, Texas. Tesla now operates a massive vehicle assembly plant in Austin and is testing its driverless, Robotaxi service and Cybercab vehicles in the region.

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Jacalyn Lee first sensed something was off with her daughter, Isla, just before her first birthday.

“She was just under a year old, and nobody believed me, including the pediatrician,” she said.

Isla was missing some of the developmental milestones that her sisters had hit at her age. Doctors told Lee that her two other daughters were just advanced, and that she should not be measuring Isla’s development against theirs.

But by the time Isla was 15 months, Jacalyn had grown more insistent.

“I said to my husband, because I couldn’t go to the pediatrician appointment, ‘You do not leave that pediatrician appointment without getting some type of referral for an eval. Something is different, I’m telling you.'”

A few months later, Isla was diagnosed with autism. It wasn’t until her parents received the results of a genetic test when Isla was 3 years old that they realized the cause of her struggles. Isla was diagnosed with DEAF1-Associated Neurodevelopmental Disorder, or DAND — an ultra-rare group of genetic conditions characterized by developmental delays, intellectual disability, and autism. Only about 200 patients have been diagnosed with the disease worldwide.

“We were handed this diagnosis, and little else. There was no roadmap, barely any research, no community that I was aware of at the time,” Jacalyn said.

Lee, who works as a communications strategist, said she channeled her grief into action — gathering all the information she could about DAND while connecting with researchers and other parents of children with the same condition. She and four other mothers launched The DAND Alliance, a group that was able to raise money towards developing a treatment. But figuring out what to do next became more difficult.

For the five working moms, life had already become an unsustainable series of meetings with researchers. Lee said the group needed to find a partner who understood the work that they were doing, and knew how to help move the project forward.

“We were trying to figure out where should we spend money, knowing that we only have so much. But really we wanted this final document that was board-ready, that we could use to fundraise against, that we could use to operationalize against… almost like a pipeline with sequencing of, okay, you need A to get to B to get to C,” Lee said. “We still needed to kind of untangle and create a path forward that was easy to understand, easy to digest in terms of what we needed to…

As consumers look for ways to strengthen their financial footing, a new trend is gaining steam on social media — and, for once, it doesn’t involve buying anything.

“Moneymaxxing,” a movement aimed at financial improvement, encourages people to maximize their budgets by trimming recurring expenses, redeeming rewards points — a related trend known as “pointsmaxxing” — and stashing extra cash in a high‑yield savings account.

It’s the latest iteration of the viral “maxxing” trend: see vacationmaxxing to make the most of paid time off, sleepmaxxing to optimize rest and even fibermaxxing, the term for loading up on fiber-rich food.

“Moneymaxxing is now about getting the absolute most out of your money by being proactive, resourceful, and creative to achieve a life of abundance,” said Winnie Sun, co-founder and managing director of Sun Group Wealth Partners, based in Irvine, California. It’s a “cultural shift,” Sun said, one that’s “not about living with less, but rather it’s about seeking more for yourself.”

“It’s better than credit-card maxxing, which is what we’ve been doing for way too long,” said Klontz, who is also managing principal of YMW Advisors and a member of CNBC’s Financial Advisor Council.

Americans have been racking up more and more credit card debt. Credit card balances increased 4.4% year over year to a collective $1.14 trillion, according to a new, quarterly credit industry insights report from TransUnion. The average balance per consumer now stands at $6,610, also up 2.1% year over year.

Largely because of rising costs, young adults are having a hard time making it on their own, other studies show. Over half of millennials and 72% of Gen Zers still rely on their parents for financial support, according to Northwestern Mutual’s 2026 Planning and Progress study. Now, on average, young adults don’t expect to be financially independent until age 37.

It’s a movement that may have staying power, according to Jack Howard, head of money wellness and a behavioral finance expert at Ally Bank.

“Instead of jumping from one money trend to the next in search of a quick fix, moneymaxxing focuses on creating everyday habits to create long-term financial success,” she said.

Howard recommends starting with a clear assessment of your cash flow, including both income and recurring expenses. While there are several tried-and-true techniques for creating a basic budget, the most effective approach helps to “identify spending patterns that no longer support your financial goals,” she said.

From there, set specific — and attainable — financial priorities. Whether the objective is to reduce debt or build a savings cushion, having a clear milestone can help you stay…

Shares of South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean plunged about 23% Tuesday, after the company lost its bid to build Canada’s next fleet of submarines.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Monday that Germany’s Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems, or TKMS, would be the preferred supplier for the submarines. 

That is expected to be a setback to Hanwha Ocean, as the contract was estimated to be up to $100 billion over three decades, according to The Korea Times.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on his Facebook page that although the results were not as expected in this Canadian submarine project, “challenges inevitably bring both successes and disappointments. What matters is that we do not stop but continue to move forward,” according to a Google translation of his comments in Korean.

TKMS’ 212CD submarine platform is shared by Germany and Norway, two of Canada’s closest allies. “The announcement marks the start of a new chapter in defence cooperation between three close NATO allies, bringing together shared expertise and common security interests,” TKMS said in a statement.

The TKMS contract will allow Canada access to European defense and industrial networks at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been piling on pressure over NATO defense spending.

“Canada’s choice of TKMS should therefore not be read as a rejection of South Korea or the Indo-Pacific,” according to Vina Nadjibulla, vice-president of research & strategy at Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

“It is better understood as a decision that reflects the enduring pull of NATO, Arctic capability, transatlantic defence-industrial integration and procurement risk,” Nadjibulla said.

The Energy Department announced Tuesday that it will provide $17.5 billion in loans to speed the deployment of 10 big nuclear reactors across the U.S.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the loans will lower construction costs and accelerate the deployment of the reactors by up to three years.

The loans will support the construction of five projects that each host two big nuclear reactors. The money will help finance complex, big-ticket components that typically take a long time to manufacture and deliver.

The five projects will use Westinghouse’s AP1000 reactor design that can generate 1.1 gigawatts of electricity, roughly enough to power more than 800,000 homes.

Westinghouse will partner with up to five eligible utilities or energy companies on the projects. It already has signed letters of intent with seven potential partners, each with identified project sites.

Wright declined to disclose the locations of the candidate sites in a call with reporters. He said final decisions have not yet been made on which sites will receive the funding.

“They’re geographically spread across the country,” the secretary said.

Shares of Westinghouse’s parent company, Cameco Corp., were up more than 1% after the DOE announcement.

The loans will not go directly to Westinghouse, said Greg Beard, who heads DOE’s loan office. Instead, the financing will go to five special purpose vehicles, Beard said. Westinghouse and its partners have to contribute nearly $1 billion in equity to each SPV to unlock the loan money, he said.

The Trump administration anticipates that the big tech companies will sign long-term power purchase agreements with the projects to support the construction of the reactors, Beard said.

The tech sector has played an instrumental role in stimulating renewed demand for nuclear power, as they search for reliable, emissions-free power sources to fuel the data centers they are building for artificial intelligence.

Microsoft and Alphabet‘s Google have signed agreements to support the restart of Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and Duane Arnold in Iowa, respectively. But the tech sector has not inked a deal yet that supports the construction of a new big plant.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in May 2025 that called for construction to start on 10 large nuclear reactors by 2030. Westinghouse subsequently committed to meeting that goal. The AP1000 is the only large reactor design that is licensed to operate in the U.S.