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The Senate on Tuesday approved Gail Slater, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department antitrust division, by a vote of 78-19. Ms. Slater, a veteran tech and media lawyer, has pledged to be skeptical of corporate power across the economy, and has been particularly critical of power in the tech industry. At her confirmation…
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With Greenland thrust into the spotlight by President Trump’s insistence that the United States will “get” the remote island at the top of the world, its parliamentary election on Tuesday took on unusual importance — not just for the outside world, but for Greenlanders. Voter turnout was at its highest in 12 years, so much…
Donald Trump has shared a Nazi-era Pink Triangle logo on Truth Social (Getty) President of the United States Donald Trump has reposted an article featuring a ‘Pink Triangle’ graphic on his social media platform Truth Social – a logo that was commonly used by the Nazis to identify queer men. The first few months of…
President Trump’s sweeping tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum went into effect on Wednesday, escalating America’s trade spats with global competitors, including close allies already reeling from his on-and-off approach to trade penalties. Mr. Trump’s tariffs of 25 percent on the metals hit imports that enter the United States from any country in the world….
“The next couple of months may remain unpredictable, but for long-term investors, this is an opportunity to accumulate fundamentally strong companies. Investors who enter during this period could see substantial returns in the next two to three years.”, says Mohit Khanna, Fund Manager at Purnartha Investment Advisers. We’ve seen significant volatility in the past few…
When Ukrainian and American officials sit down in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for their first high-level meeting since an Oval Office shouting match between their presidents last month, the goal will be finding a way to halt the bloodiest European war in generations. But the United States, Ukraine and Russia appear to have very different…
The U.S. power grid added more capacity from solar energy in 2024 than from any other source in a single year in more than two decades, according to a new industry report released on Tuesday. The data was released a day after the new U.S. energy secretary, Chris Wright, strongly criticized solar and wind energy…
The railroad tracks that slice through downtown Freehold, N.J., used to be lined by dozens of men, waiting for work. Each morning, the men — day laborers, almost all from Latin America and undocumented — would be scooped up by local contractors in pickup trucks for jobs painting, landscaping, removing debris. In recent weeks, the…
The Trump administration invoked an obscure statute over the weekend in moving to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent legal resident of the United States who recently graduated from Columbia University, where he helped lead campus protests against high civilian casualties in Gaza during Israel’s campaign against Hamas. Mr. Khalil was arrested by immigration officers on…
