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 –
The last American military parade that I saw was the inauguration of President Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 – not counting my days in the US Army. It was a hell of a
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Plans for a grand military parade in Washington to celebrate President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday and the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army face uncertainty as weather forecasts predict thunderstorms over the
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Amid growing protests in cities like Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco against Donald Trump’s strict immigration policies, historian and New York Times journalist Clay Risen warns that the president is
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Elon Musk has acknowledged that he went “too far” in his recent public criticism of former U.S. President Donald Trump, following a heated exchange between the two influential figures that led to
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In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s humiliating public break-up with his billionaire ally Elon Musk, and Musk’s tweeted accusation that Trump refuses to release the Epstein files because he’s in them, and
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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
More 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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