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Speaking at Semafor’s World Economy event in Washington, D.C., President and COO of Goldman Sachs John Waldron warned that some managers have oversold how easy it is to get money out—especially to retail investors, who’ve helped balloon the market into a $1.7 trillion behemoth just as the space faces growing scrutin…
El presidente del Estado Mayor Conjunto de Estados Unidos, general Dan Caine, le habla a la prensa en el Pentágono en Washington el 16 de abril del 2026. (AP foto/Kevin Wolf)
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Sarah Mullally urges Anglicans to join Leo’s ‘courageous’ call and says human cost of war is incalculable
Justin Fairfax, the former lieutenant governor of Virginia, was a “rising star” in the Democratic Party and seen as having the potential to make it all the way to the White House — until sexual assault allegations against him sank his career.
President Donald Trump’s top military advisor, Gen. Dan Kaine, describes Navy warships maintaining the blockade against Iran as “like driving a sports car through a supermarket parking lot on a payday weekend.”
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday urged Iran to "choose wisely," stressing that the U.S. military ensures that it is "maximally postured" to resume combat operations should the Islamic Republic not agree to a peace deal with the United States.
Quando um americano dá descarga num vaso sanitário dos Estados Unidos, ele ouve um som característico de sucção. Um jato de água enche a bacia e depois puxa o conteúdo para baixo com um grande "golpe" final.
Pope Leo XIV in Bamenda, Cameroon. (REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane)
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BAMENDA, Cameroon — Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was “being ravaged by a handful of tyrants,” in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon on Thursday after US President Trump attacked him again on social media.
From soybeans and tariffs to Chinese-American plays, here are highlights from our US correspondents in early April 2026
From soybeans and tariffs to Chinese-American plays, here are highlights from our US correspondents in early April 2026
Sarah Mullally speaks to the public after the Enthronement Ceremony installing her as archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury, England, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, the first woman ever to lead the Church of England. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Pontiff denounces leaders who invoke religion to justify war, after US bishops offer him support after Vance remarks
The U.S. Navy has turned back 13 ships since its blockade of Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman began more than 24 hours earlier, the Pentagon said Thursday.
At first glance the 0.5% MoM decline in US Industrial production (considerably worse than than the 0.1% MoM rise expected - and dragging YoY growth in IP down to +0.74%) is bad news... suggesting immediate impacts from the war are being felt and sparking headlines decrying President Trump's actions.
El secretario de Defensa estadounidense Pete Hegseth (d) con el ministro de Defensa de Indonesia Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin en el Pentágono en Washington, el 13 de abril del 2026. (AP foto/Kevin Wolf)
With less than 2 weeks remaining until the next European Central Bank meeting, the bloc's policymakers appear undecided on the future of interest rates.
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth read a fake Bible verse from Quentin Tarantino's 1994 cult classic film Pulp Fiction on Wednesday, during a Christian prayer and worship service at the Pentagon.
WASHINGTON — The US military will “actively pursue” any Iranian-flagged vessels or any ships attempting to support the regime elsewhere in the world, Gen. Dan Caine Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced Thursday — in an expansion of the blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz.
Pope Leo XIV has blasted the “handful of tyrants” who are ravaging Earth with war and exploitation, as he preached a message of peace in the epicentre of a separatist conflict considered one of the world’s most neglected crises.
An Iranian embassy has shared an AI-generated video depicting Jesus casting Donald Trump into hell, following backlash over a social media post in which the US president appeared to portray himself as a Christ-like healer.
Washington and Tehran will have to make compromises and the current deadline must be extended. But with the will there’s clearly a way
Design among projects before US Commission of Fine Arts as lawsuits challenge scale and impact
‘The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet often a lifetime is not enough to rebuild,’ Leo says
‘The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet often a lifetime is not enough to rebuild,’ Leo says
Stock futures are edging higher on continued optimism about an extended truce in the Middle East, while Taiwan Semi's solid results have sparked another leg higher in AI trade. As of 8:15 am ET, S&P 500 futures rose 0.1%, while Nasdaq 100 contracts +0.2%, and on pace for a 12th day of gains. The early hours of the s…
The US Senate has voted against two resolutions blocking American arms sales to Israel put forward by independent lawmaker Bernie Sanders.
Pope Leo has criticised leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world is "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants," in unusually forceful comments during his visit to Cameroon.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is no longer a lone voice in Europe standing up to US President Donald Trump.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, welcomes Minister of Defense for Indonesia Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin to the Pentagon, Monday, April 13, 2026 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
United States President Donald Trump has announced that leaders of Israel and Lebanon will speak to each other for the first time in 34 years on Thursday, raising cautious hopes for a diplomatic solution to the fighting that has continued for more than six weeks.
El Pentágono visto desde un avión, el martes 7 de abril de 2026, en Washington. (AP Foto/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
South Africa has appointed Roelf Meyer, a former minister and negotiator in the apartheid government, as the new ambassador to the United States in a move by President Cyril Ramaphosa to mend its strained ties with Washington.
With an eye on elections in 2027, Italy’s far-right PM appears to be making a tactful pivot away from US president
The Pentagon is seen from an airplane, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
With two active conflict areas in Eurasia - the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Eastern Europe and the U.S.-Iran theater in the Gulf - the world is moving deeper into a war cycle. The latest indicator is not only that militaries around the world are beginning to stockpile one-way attack drones, but also the early-stage p…
A US lawmaker has introduced six articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over actions tied to the war on Iran.
From the outset of US-Iran negotiations, a key fault line emerged: whether the ceasefire applied to the Israel-Hezbollah front. As expected, Tehran tested American resolve, seeking concessions beyond the framework, from unfreezing assets to pressing President Donald Trump to restrain Israel in Lebanon.
While Israel and America bombarded Iran, US President Donald Trump barraged the world with words. It’s a fascinating leadership technique. The most garrulous president in American history has built a massive audience of equally obsessed friends and foes, when the world has never been so wired, so tuned in, so addict…
More than 100 Afghan human rights advocates and women’s rights defenders have written a letter to Melania Trump, the first lady of the United States, urging her to use her influence to support women and girls in Afghanistan who are facing severe restrictions under Taliban rule.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds up an artist rendering of the new triumphal arch as she speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Wednesday, April 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The U.S. Capitol is photographed Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Guardian readers describe how their lives have been upended by cost hikes stemming from Trump’s Iran war
‘Trump has no right to wake up in the morning and threaten a country,’ Brazil’s president says
‘Trump has no right to wake up in the morning and threaten a country,’ Brazil’s president says
President Trump announced the leaders of Israel and Lebanon will speak to one another — for the first time in decades — on Thursday.“Trying to get a little breathing room between Israel and Lebanon,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday. “It has been a long time since the two leaders have spoken, like 34 years.
House Democrats file impeachment articles against Trump’s defense secretary as Senate Democrats fail to pass measures to check White House power over Iran war
Iranian expatriate Nik Kowsar poses for a photograph at the Lincoln Memorial, March 31, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)