US President Donald Trump is taking a less combative approach towards China ahead of his meeting with President Xi Jinping this week, reflecting what China experts say is Beijing’s growing leverage through
by Our Correspondent in Washington DC Tensions exploded into a third consecutive day of chaos in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday as protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) escalated into
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U.S. corporations with weaker credit profiles are accelerating their issuance of high-yield bonds as they brace for renewed trade tensions in July, which could disrupt investor appetite and drive up borrowing costs.
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Cuba is once again facing a severe, multi-faceted crisis, not due to the hurricanes that pummel through the Caribbean every year, but from the relentless and suffocating pressure exerted by its powerful neighbour to the
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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is racing to secure a $5 billion debt financing package — but an escalating public spat with former U.S. President Donald Trump is injecting fresh uncertainty
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The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers who absented themselves
More A once-powerful alliance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump unraveled spectacularly this week, culminating in the Tesla CEO publicly calling for the impeachment of the president in a dramatic social media war
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Mutzig, France – First stop on my annual visit to France’s mighty Maginot Line forts is this lovely Alsatian town. Mutzig was built by the Germans 1893-1916 to defend against enemy approaches
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Former President Donald Trump’s signature tax legislation—championed as a cornerstone of his second-term economic agenda—will add $2.4 trillion to the federal deficit by 2034, according to a report released Wednesday by the
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Tensions between China and the United States have flared once again, as Beijing accused Washington of “seriously violating” a recently agreed trade truce and warned of strong retaliatory measures to defend its
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So it’s now official: Elon Musk is leaving Washington and returning to his businesses, running Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, and the other technology companies he founded. The parting was not, evidently, entirely amicable.
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One of the mysteries of the Ukraine endgame is that President Donald Trump did not issue an executive order on January 20 withdrawing all support for Ukraine. That would have been the
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There is a pizza joint in New Jersey that might just be one of the most unlikely crossroads of global power. Bedminster Pizza serves buffalo chicken pies, gets decent Yelp reviews, and
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The mystique of engaging with the US President Donald Trump will remain a hot topic. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s sensational visit is the latest instance underscoring that it can be dangerous
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The Trump family’s media venture, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), is preparing to raise up to $3 billion to invest in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, according to reporting by the Financial Times.
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The decade-long shale boom that made the United States the world’s top oil producer is showing signs of faltering as Donald Trump’s renewed trade tariffs and falling crude prices squeeze the industry’s
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