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Photographer: Wiktor Dabkowski/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Ursula von der Leyen was supposed to sign the European Union’s largest free trade agreement on Saturday, proving the bloc’s position as a geo-economic force. Instead, the European Commission president will have to find a way to save the Mercosur pact by rallying last-minute support from countries including Italy, which … Read more
Democrats’ fearmongering about the Trump economy is looking more and more like sour grapes. Yesterday’s CPI report, showing inflation at 2.7 percent — well below the expected 3.1 percent — was bad political news for Democrats. Since April’s “Deliverance Day,” when President Trump introduced tariffs designed to reset global trade in favor of American companies, … Read more
President Donald Trump came to North Carolina on Friday to talk about the economy. He ended up explaining how his wife organizes her lingerie drawer. “I think you steam them,” he offered at one point, hoping to emphasize the violation Melania Trump felt when, in his story, FBI agents rummaged through her clean underwear — … Read more
Bomb or bust? That’s the question at the heart of a recent preliminary report by the Government Accountability Office on Affordable Care Act subsidy fraud. The nonpartisan watchdog’s report (1), which dropped in early December, is based in part on findings from 2024 and 2025, when the Government Accountability Office (GAO) employed “fictitious applicants” to … Read more
HE NEEDS TO KNOW More than a month after Capt. Dana Diamond died in a UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Ky., his widow is recalling their last moments together. Diamond worked at UPS for 37 years as a pilot and previously served as commissioner and fire chief of his local fire department in Texas. … Read more
Bill Clinton is facing renewed questions about the extent of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after it came to light in a tranche of unsealed documents. Dozens of photos of the former president with the late pedophile have been released by the Trump administration, including some showing him in a hot tub and swimming with … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys for Luigi Mangione say Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was influenced by her previous work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer’s parent company. Bondi was a partner at Ballard Partners before … Read more
Weeks after a rare interstellar comet made its closest pass to the Sun, it will make its closest pass to Earth. Comet 3I/ATLAS was first discovered in July by a regular survey of the sky by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Alert System (ATLAS), after which the comet was named. The name “3I” means “third interstellar” … Read more
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin stressed Friday that Moscow’s troops are advancing on the battlefield in Ukraine and expressed confidence that the Kremlin will achieve its military goals if Kiev does not agree to Russia’s terms in peace talks. Speaking at the tightly orchestrated annual news conference, which lasted about 4 1/2 hours, Putin … Read more