On Tuesday in Washington, Congress is holding a high-stakes hearing that goes well beyond Hollywood — it’s about American jobs, who controls our media and U.S. national security. If Ronald Reagan were alive today, he would urge every American to watch this hearing closely. Reagan understood that culture, storytelling and media are powerful weapons in […]
Laura Fernández Delgado declared victory in the Costa Rican presidential election on Sunday after preliminary results showed her Sovereign People’s Party leading the national vote with just over 48% support. The National Liberation Party followed in second place with approximately 33% of the vote, according to the latest official tally from Costa Rica’s Supreme Electoral […]
President Donald Trump urged Republicans to ‘take over’ and ‘nationalize’ voting on Monday. Trump made the comments during an interview with former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino. Under the Constitution, states set the rules for both federal and state elections, establishing ‘the times, places, and manner of holding elections for the House of Representatives and […]
Speaker Mike Johnson said in an interview Tuesday morning that Republicans have given Bill and Hillary Clinton a noon deadline Tuesday to provide details of how they plan to comply with a pair of subpoenas issued by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which have until this point gone unheeded. Otherwise, Johnson said, Republicans […]
House Republican leaders are facing a white-knuckle vote Tuesday morning as they move to end the partial shutdown after four days. Here’s what we’re watching on both sides of the aisle as an unpredictable day shakes out in the House. — Razor-thin rule vote: Speaker Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump got involved in wrangling hard-liner […]
Relations between President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro have swung sharply from open confrontation to cautious engagement over the past year, setting the stage for a pivotal White House meeting scheduled for Tuesday. Once considered a model partnership in the Western Hemisphere, U.S.–Colombia ties are now being tested by deep disagreements over drug […]
The ongoing partial government shutdown is now in its fourth day, but House GOP leaders are confident that the end is near. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is aiming to hold a chamber-wide procedural vote on the Senate’s funding compromise on Tuesday afternoon, teeing up a subsequent vote on final passage potentially later in the […]
Oracle shares were higher on Monday after the company disclosed plans to raise between $45 billion and $50 billion in funding as it accelerates investment in cloud infrastructure designed to support artificial intelligence workloads. The stock climbed about 2.5% as investors digested details of the financing strategy, which underscores the scale of Oracle’s ambitions in […]
The Ibovespa, Brazil’s stock market benchmark, has started the year strongly, prompting XP Investimentos to raise its base-case year-end target for the index to 190,000 points from 185,000. The revision follows a January rally that saw Brazilian equities advance, placing the country among the world’s top-performing markets. In its monthly strategy note, XP’s strategists wrote […]
US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States and India have agreed to a landmark trade deal following a phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The centerpiece: the American reciprocal tariff on Indian goods will drop from 25% to 18%, effective immediately. Trump also claimed Modi pledged to stop buying Russian […]