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President Costa! President von der Leyen! Dear colleagues, glad to see you all. I’ve already spoken to many of you these days and weeks, and I am grateful for your support. Ukrainians really appreciate that in a time of such great emotions in global politics, European integrity is preserved, and Europe is really trying to…
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shot back at China on Wednesday after the communist nation rattled sabers by stating it is prepared for “any type of war” with the U.S. following the start of President Donald Trump’s additional tariffs on Chinese imports. “We’re prepared,” Hegseth told Fox News, according to Blaze Media. “Those who long for peace…
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Billionaire Elon Musk, who is advising President Donald Trump on plans to radically shrink the U.S. government, said on Wednesday that the U.S. Postal Service and passenger railroad Amtrak should be privatized. “I think logically we should privatize anything that can reasonably be privatized,” Musk said at a Morgan Stanley conference. “I think we should…
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Billionaire Elon Musk arrived on Capitol Hill Wednesday and learned about something new — budget rescission, an obscure legislative tool that could bring legal heft to his federal budget slashing effort and enshrine the cuts into law. Musk joined a lunch meeting with Republican senators just hours after the Supreme Court issued a setback to…
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The U.S. dollar may lose its traditional status as a safe haven as markets adjust to President Donald Trump’s tariffs and suspension of military aid to Ukraine, warned George Saravelos, Deutsche Bank’s global head of FX strategy, Bloomberg reports. “We do not write this lightly,” Saravelos said in a client note Tuesday on the new geopolitical…
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China responded to new U.S. tariffs by announcing Tuesday it will impose additional tariffs of up to 15% on imports of key U.S. farm products, including chicken, pork, soy and beef, and expanded controls on doing business with key U.S. companies. The tariffs announced by the Commerce Ministry will take effect from March 10, though…
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Global politics has never felt more like a boardroom with Donald Trump as the unpredictable businessman pulling all the strings. This week, high-level diplomacy between world leaders has boiled down to two things: Keep the US president sweet whilst getting the bare minimum in return. Keir Starmer’s visit encapsulated that perfectly. Under any other administration,…
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BP’s hiking of fossil fuel production in the face of overwhelming evidence it will worsen the rapidly changing climate was done for one reason – to increase shareholder value. After the announcement, however, its share price was down 1% at points, making it one of the worst performers among the most valuable London Stock Exchange listed…
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The Trump administration is directing all federal agencies to “promptly” begin preparations for large-scale layoffs and restructuring, and submit plans for doing do so by March 13, according to a new memo obtained by ABC News. The memo, from White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, and Charles Ezell, the head of the Office…
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How much have America, Britain and the rest paid Ukraine in aid since the Russian invasion? And do they have any hope of getting money back in return? These are big questions, and they’re likely to dominate much of the discussion in the coming months as Donald Trump pressurises his Ukrainian counterparts for a deal on ending…
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Apple Monday said it plans to help bring online a quarter-million-square-foot factory in Texas by 2026 to build artificial intelligence servers and will add about 20,000 research and development jobs across the U.S. Apple said that it plans to spend $500 billion in the United States over the next four years, though that figure includes…
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of the nation’s senior military officer amid a wave of dismissals at the Pentagon wasn’t unusual, brushing aside outcry that the new administration is openly seeking to inject politics into the military. He also suggested more firings could come. “Nothing about this is unprecedented,” Hegseth told…
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New FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to be named the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a Justice Department official said Saturday. Patel could be sworn in next week, the official said, putting Patel in charge of two of the Justice Department’s largest agencies in an unusual arrangement that…
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Border czar Tom Homan told Newsmax on Saturday that he continues to be perplexed at the pushback the Trump administration is getting from Democrat politicians across the country saying “national security threats should be a nonpartisan issue.” Earlier this week President Donald Trump removed top ICE official Caleb Vitello expressing frustration that the number of deportations of…
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Specific companies are already feeling the effects of cost cutting by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with the first wave of publicly available data showing a number of government consultants facing hundreds of millions of dollars in canceled or renegotiated contracts. They include some prominent names, such as Deloitte. The ended contracts for that multinational…
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President Donald Trump pushed back against reports circulating in the European press that he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in May. “No, I’m not,” Trump told reporters during the swearing-in ceremony for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to The Washington Times. On Friday, French newspaper Le Point reported that Trump was “most likely to visit” Moscow…
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