The Democratic Party has flipped the House and the Senate. While there are still votes left to be counted and races yet to be determined, the Democrats’ victory is unambiguously big –
Ronald Lauder, a billionaire scion of the Estée Lauder cosmetics empire and a fixture in Washington’s political and lobbying circles, has emerged as a key figure behind former President Donald Trump’s infamous
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The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell, the central bank confirmed Sunday, Reuters and The Washington Post reported. The inquiry centers on Powell’s
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President Trump called for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates on Friday, without providing details on implementation. Financial analysts immediately noted that such a move would require congressional approval and
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I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before. I saw them during the “Dirty War” in Argentina, where 30,000 men, women and children were “disappeared” by the military junta.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has firmly rejected any suggestion that a Nobel Peace Prize can be revoked, shared, or transferred, delivering a decisive setback to Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado amid
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The scene inside the White House’s East Room on Friday had the air of a modern court, with President Donald Trump at its center, buoyant after a daring U.S. military operation that
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Francis Fukuyama, the renowned political scientist and Stanford fellow, cautions that the Trump administration’s approach to Venezuela risks becoming another failed foreign intervention. In a recent column for Persuasion, Fukuyama argues that
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Trump has a serious problem. He wants to be the `stupor mundi’ i.e. the master of the world, but he is running out of things to conquer. Alexander the Great ran into
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The fatal shooting of a 37-year-old Minnesota mother by a U.S. immigration agent has shaken Minneapolis and reverberated across the country, prompting protests in multiple cities and intensifying political tensions. Reuters reports
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U.S. oil companies are signaling serious hesitation about pouring billions of dollars into Venezuela’s beleaguered oil sector without firm assurances from the federal government, even as President Donald Trump intensifies efforts to
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On the early morning of January 3, the United States government launched a massive attack on Caracas, Venezuela, and three of the country’s states. Roughly 150 aircraft swarmed the skies, bombing with
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President Donald Trump’s proposal to raise the United States defence budget to an unprecedented $1.5 trillion in the 2027 financial year would add an estimated $5.8 trillion to the national debt over
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If there were an award for Most Unfulfilled Personal Wish of the Year, Donald Trump would be the runaway winner. His desire to receive the Nobel Peace Prize has been so overt –
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U.S. President Donald Trump has warned Republican lawmakers that failure to retain control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections could lead to his impeachment by Democrats, framing the vote as a
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More than 2 million documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein remain under review, Justice Department officials told a federal judge on Monday, offering the most detailed estimate yet of the
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