Seoul has been putting its weight behind lowering the temperature on stalled US-North Korea denuclearisation talks. The issue remains fraught with tension: Washington has grown increasingly sceptical ...
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📋 Key Facts ✓ Clarity Act delays triggered $952 million in weekly global crypto ETP outflows. ✓ Global crypto products recorded their f...
Dominion Energy, an offshore wind developer and utility serving Virginia's "data center alley," filed suit against the Trump administration this week over its decision to pause federal leases for larg...
📋 Key Facts ✓ The DOJ has released more Epstein files, but not the ones survivors want. ✓ The DOJ still has “hundreds of thousands” of ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Caroline Pham served as acting chair of the CFTC. ✓ Monday marked Caroline Pham's last day at the regulator. ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Bitcoin reached new heights in 2025 ✓ Interest from Wall Street and Washington grew ✓ Tensions ar...
Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy said he would meet with his US counterpart soon to advance peace talks to end Russia's ongoing all-out war, nearing its four-year mark....
Officials from Thailand and Cambodia begin four days of border talks as deadly clashes displace civilians and strain a fragile truce. The meeting is the first after fruitless efforts to reinstate a ce...
Prime Minister Kurti's governing Self-Determination party won nearly 50% of the vote, results showed with most of the votes counted. It is not yet clear whether he will be able to form a cabinet witho...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Under President Trump, the SEC has backed down from nearly all its fights with crypto firms. ✓ The biggest lawsuits and i...
Donald Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura won Honduras’ presidential election, electoral authorities said on Wednesday, ending a weeks-long count that has whittled away at the credibility of the Cent...
Matt Winkelmeyer/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images Jimmy Kimmel delivered an "alternative Christmas message" on British TV on Thursday. The talk show host used the opportunity to hit out...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Bari Weiss is two months into her role as CBS News editor-in-chief. ✓ She spiked a 60 Minutes segment on brutal condition...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Bari Weiss, editor-in-chief of CBS News, censored a 60 Minutes segment about men deported to an El Salvador prison. ✓ The...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Pam Duncan-Glancy is a Labour MSP set to quit Holyrood due to links to a sex offender. ✓ She stood down as the party'...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Fighting groups are active in the Sahel region ✓ These groups are putting increased pressure on Mali ✓ ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Gold and silver have hit record highs due to geopolitical tensions. ✓ US blockade on Venezuelan oil drives up precious me...