"This bill is a scam. It is not a congressional stock trading ban," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Business Insider. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images A GOP-backed bill to cu...
Bill and Hillary Clinton have refused to testify in a Republican-controlled congressional committee's investigation into convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, accusing Republican chair James Comer...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is headed to Davos. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to call out President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum. Newsom has been a vocal...
President Donald Trump holds an image showing the scale of Meta's new data center under construction in Louisiana. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images ICE arrested two drivers on Wednesday near a Meta co...
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Semafor CEO Justin Smith says his company hosted close to 100 events in 2025. His ambition is to build a Washington, DC-based event that's supposed to rivals the annual Davos gathering in Switzerland....
Marine Le Pen's presidential ambitions hang in the balance as the French far-right leader goes to court to appeal against an embezzlement conviction, which barred her from running for office for five ...
Whole milk is heading back to school lunch cafeterias...
In tonight's edition, Sadio Mane thrashed home a dramatic winner to send Senegal into the Africa Cup of Nations final after they edged Egypt 1-0. And the shutdown of the internet in Uganda ahead of t...
Grok - the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk's company - is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have ...
Proposed policy changes could lead more consumers to turn to private or personal loans. Tatiana Maksimova/Getty Images New caps on student-loan borrowing could prompt more Americans to turn to private...
Missile and drone barrage unleashed on Kyiv comes hours after Donald Trump invited Vladimir Putin to join his ‘Board of Peace’...
A Ukrainian soldier fires a Javelin anti-tank missile. Dmytro Smolienko via Reuters Connect NATO's secretary general said up to 25,000 Russian soldiers are being killed in Ukraine each month. Mark Rut...
Big financial companies expand beyond traditional securities to arbitrage event contracts in sport and politics...
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Thailand’s election season has triggered a dizzying array of cash giveaway offers from parties vying for votes, from a US$2,000 payment for newborns to debt write-offs and US$100 monthly top-ups for t...
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Spending on Xi Jinping’s signature overseas investment project hit a record in 2025, new research shows...
President Donald Trump’s pursuit of Greenland is creating a rift between the US and other NATO allies, fracturing the alliance and “playing straight into Russia’s hands,” said Jean-François Bélanger, ...
Inflation held steady in December, continuing to prove stubborn just days after reports of a Department of Justice probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell....