This week, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo released fraught earnings reports as President Trump's threatened cap on credit card rates loomed large. read more
Donald Trump's tariff war occupied US allies for much of last year. Now, President Xi Jinping is welcoming a procession of leaders looking to mend fences with the world's other major economy. read more
"It Won't Matter" Elon Musk says saving for retirement is irrelevant because AI is going to create a world of abundance: It won't matter' read more
The president of Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota on Tuesday called for the immediate release of tribal members who were detained at a homeless encampment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota last week. read more
DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics. read more
The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC. read more
Public opinion on nearly every aspect of President Donald Trump's first year back in the White House is negative, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds ... read more
The images that trickled out of Iran showed a country gripped by chaos: tens if not hundreds of thousands of protesters; body bags laid outside morgues; gunfire ringing in the streets. read more
President Trump is keeping proceeds from the first sale of Venezuelan oil in an offshore bank account based in Qatar, according to reporting from Semafor. read more
"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car," Shawn Jackson told KMSP. "My 6-month-old can't even breathe." The explosions were strong enough to trigger the car's airbags. read more
Talks among representatives of Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. highlighted "fundamental disagreement" over the future of the Arctic island. read more
The death of a man at a Texas immigration detention camp is likely to be classified as a homicide despite Immigration and Customs Enforcement claiming that he took his own life. read more
As new polling shows Trump is losing the argument over the Minneapolis shooting, the writer of a new piece on this horror explains how Trumpworld sees this as an opening to wage open war on Americans. read more
A year after Donald Trump's return to the White House, a global survey suggests much of the world believes his nation-first, "Make America Great Again" approach is instead helping to make China great again. read more
During an interview with Reuters, when President Trump was told that a poll found tepid support among Americans for taking control of Greenland, Trump called the poll "fake." The president also expressed frustration that his Republican Party could lose control of the US House of Representatives or the Senate in this year's midterm elections. "It's some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don't win the midterms," Trump whined. He boasted that he had accomplished so much that "when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." read more
A measles outbreak in South Carolina that began in October is now wildly accelerating, doubling in just the past week to a total of 434 cases, with 409 people currently in quarantine. read more
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