US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing federal agencies to reduce certain mortgage costs, including through the automatic cancellation of mortgage insurance for eligible future borrowers and a permanent
“These tariffs may be modified upward or downward depending on our relationship with your country.” This note, written at the end of Trump’s letter to President Anura, contains a message directed at
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Newly declassified documents from the UK National Archives have revealed how then-Prime Minister Tony Blair was advised by senior officials to slow down President George W. Bush’s push for military action against
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The United States has reportedly returned nuclear weapons to British soil for the first time since 2008, marking a significant shift in NATO’s nuclear posture and the UK’s own strategic deterrent capability.
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As Washington, D.C. sees an influx of Falun Gong followers marking 26 years since China’s crackdown on their movement, a quieter but far more powerful operation is unfolding behind the scenes. At
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An ambitious move by U.S. investment giant BlackRock to acquire a portfolio of strategic global ports has encountered stiff resistance from Beijing, laying bare a deeper struggle over control of 21st-century maritime
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Foreign Policy journal published an article last week by Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes, with the title, When the Threat Is Inside the White House: What CIA insiders make of the MAGA moles and
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Microsoft was caught with its pants down in a brilliant exposé by Propublica that said that a major part of the Defense Department’s Cloud Computer system was run by Chinese engineers and monitored by
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The political future of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky may be hanging by a thread, according to renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who cites informed U.S. officials suggesting that Zelensky could soon be
More Former U.S. President Donald Trump has launched a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against media mogul Rupert Murdoch, The Wall Street Journal, and several executives and journalists, over a report linking him to
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Days after meeting with former U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang was greeted with applause on a stage in Beijing, marking his third trip to
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is raising alarm over what it describes as a “massive surge in attacks” against federal immigration officers since President Donald Trump’s return to office, citing
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Maurene Comey, a prominent federal prosecutor and the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, has been dismissed from her position at the U.S. Department of Justice, according to two sources familiar
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US-Brazil relations have been heating up for a bit, but President Donald Trumpratcheted up the temperature on the Lula administration a week ago when he announced that the United States would slap
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Eighty years after the world’s first nuclear detonation, the National Security Archive (NSA) has released a new collection of declassified documents, eyewitness accounts, and rare historical footage that provide a stark reminder
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I decided to spend part of my 4th of July weekend in Fantasy Park. I’d heard about the new Be the Dictator ride and couldn’t resist. Although the line was extremely long,
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