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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Nearly 17 months into President Donald Trump's second term, new state-level polling shows a map that follows familiar partisan lines -- but with noticeably weaker margins almost everywhere. read more


Shares have been trailing since late Tuesday, wiping out almost all of the gains of the average investor who bought shares after the IPO, as CNBC reported on Thursday. read more


Brexit was supposed to let Britain return to a time when it still counted as a global power. A decade later, the costs are blindingly apparent. read more


NYT's David French writes about the significance of the DOJ dropping charges against some of the ICE protestors in Chicago and taking the very rare step of paying for their legal defense costs. read more


Monday, June 22, 2026

President Donald Trump has spent the better part of a decade trying to outrun the ghost of Herbert Hoover ... read more


Former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan died at age 100. Greenspan's love of low interest and low regulation oversaw economic booms that ultimately ended with the subprime crisis that triggered a global financial downturn in 2008. His death was announced by NBC news anchor Andrea Mitchell. read more


Sunday, June 21, 2026

America's swelling debt pile bodes ill for the the US economy, Societe Generale said. read more


Report finds close ties between the Trump administration and Geo Group, which profits from anti-immigration crackdown read more


Michael Butler was operating his Tesla Model III with the automated driving assistance system when it crashed into a Texas house ... read more


Vice President JD Vance held talks in Switzerland with Iranian officials Sunday as Tehran protested President Donald Trump's recent comments potentially threatening the days-old peace. read more


The attack on a girl's elementary school in the Iranian town of Minab was one of the US military's deadliest civilian bombings in decades. read more


Suggestion that Scott Bessent so described a world leader included in Regime Change, by New York Times reporters read more


Television stars are paying tribute to director James Burrows following his death at age 85. read more


Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Beto Coral's criticism of a presidential candidate in his home country of Colombia undermined U.S. foreign policy. read more


The partial reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's oil passes, was the principal achievement of the Memorandum of Understanding and a key priority for the United States seeking to avoid a global economic crisis. read more


Israel, a nation that has received the most US economic and military aid since 1948 at $317.9B, plus an additional $12bn in 2025 alone, will undermine Donald Trump's effort to reach a lasting peace deal with Iran, according to the USIC. read more


 

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