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Why So Many Key Institutions Have Folded Rather Than Challenge Trump
And the Post has in some ways changed its management structure. The paper has gone from an owner who almost never intervened in journalism…
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White House readies order to fine banks for dropping clients over politics: WSJ
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Business
Asia: Markets track Wall Street rally on Fed rate cut bets
Stock markets rose on Tuesday as investors grow increasingly confident the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next month, despite…
Business
European shares rebound after Friday’s selloff, Swiss stocks fall
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Politics
Texas Democrats Defy Abbott Deadline—as Republicans Threaten Arrest
“Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shit, we know that. He is,” Crockett said, to applause. “But in a functioning democracy, he still…
Politics
White House Christmas Auditions Are Open. Do With That What You Will.
“Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shit, we know that. He is,” Crockett said, to applause. “But in a functioning democracy, he still…
Politics
Pete Hegseth Brings in Worst Person Ever on Paranoid Hunt for Leakers
Far-right extremist Laura Loomer says that she is now working with the federal government to identify individuals within the Department of…
Politics
MTG Has an Original Thought for Once in Her Life
MAGA isn’t MAGA enough anymore for Marjorie Taylor Greene, who seems as surprised as we do at her break with the party that gave her a…
Politics
MAGA Melts Down After Jasmine Crockett Calls Trump a “Piece of S***”
“Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shit, we know that. He is,” Crockett said, to applause. “But in a functioning democracy, he still…
Politics
Trump Finds a Brilliant New Way to Wreck the Tourism Industry
The day prior, the president had been informed that Sweeney is reportedly a card-carrying Republican. Then and there, he grew fond of her…
Politics
Trump Issues Wild Threat to States That Boycott Israel
“This tragic moment has highlighted for the world the long overdue need to recognize Palestinian self-determination,” reads the letter…
Politics
GOP Representative Rushes to Block Texas’s Growing Redistricting War
“This tragic moment has highlighted for the world the long overdue need to recognize Palestinian self-determination,” reads the letter…
Business
RevPAR is mixed across Frasers Hospitality Trust’s markets in Q3
Frasers Hospitality Trust saw its revenue per available room (RevPAR) drop in three of the five key markets in which it operates for the…
Politics
Trump Weighs In on Sydney Sweeney as if He Has Nothing Better to Do
Jonathan Thompson, executive director and CEO of the National Sheriffs’ Association, told NBC the move was “inappropriate behavior of a…
Business
Emerging market funds adjust bets as ‘sell the dollar’ trade loses appeal
THE US dollar’s bounceback in July is convincing some emerging market investors to bet that it will keep rising in coming months. T Rowe…
Politics
The Media’s Urge to Be “Fair” to Trump Is Killing the Republic
Uh, no. Here are a few facts and figures, none of which appear in the article. Federal revenue from all sources in recent years has been…
Politics
Fighting Wildfires Is Hellish Work. It’s Even Worse Under Trump.
The administration’s claims about being well-equipped to fight fires are selective, at best. Of the estimated 4,000 U.S. Forest Service…
Politics
When Did Republican Women Get to Be So Vile as These Four?
On the main stage, Attorney General Pam Bondi has proven a singularly dutiful and hollow-eyed Trump soldier. (For Manson family…
Business
GIC takes 25% stake in Spain’s broadband venture
Sovereign wealth fund GIC will take a 25 per cent stake in a fibre optic broadband venture between MasOrange, partly owned by France’s…
Business
Gold succumbs to profit-taking after US jobs data-fuelled rally
Gold prices slipped on Monday (Aug 4) as investors booked profits after a sharp rise in the previous session following…
Business
The AI race has big tech spending US$344 billion this year
If there’s any lesson to take from the spending plans issued by the world’s largest technology companies over the past two weeks, it’s to…
Business
Wall Street banks lose ground in Europe as tariffs spook clients
AS US President Donald Trump has ratcheted up his rhetoric against trading partners in Europe, corporates across the continent are taking…
Business
As Trump’s tariffs bite, investors should ensure the companies they own have strong fundamentals
It seemed like Groundhog Day again when US President Donald Trump unveiled revised reciprocal tariffs on imports from dozens of countries…
News
Trump Wants a Police State—But Even Some Cops Want Something Better
I left daily journalism in 1995 to write a book about racial politics, a matter with which I’d long been engaged, but Mancuso and I have…