WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives approved a bipartisan federal spending bill Friday and sent it to the Senate, just hours before a midnight deadline to fund the government. It was unclear Friday whether the Senate could pass the bill before 12:00 a.m. ET, when funding technically lapses. The bill continues funding the federal government … Read more
Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images Bitcoin fell sharply on Friday amid broader investor caution toward risk assets. Bitcoin dipped below the $93,000 mark earlier in the day before trading above that price in volatile trade. The digital asset was last trading at $97,491.71, according to Coin Metrics, down around 5% from 24 … Read more
Tesla electric vehicles are parked in a parking lot at the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg plant. Patrick Pleul | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Shares of Tesla continued to slide on Friday, in what appeared to be a case of investors taking profits from the electric car maker’s blistering post-U.S. election rally. As of around 6:30 … Read more
Aytac Unal/ | Anadolu | Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump this week transferred his entire stake of shares in Trump Media to a revocable trust of which he is the sole beneficiary, regulatory filings revealed Thursday evening. Trump did not receive any money for the gift of the 114,750,000 shares of Trump Media to the … Read more
The United States Congress has until Friday at midnight to pass a bill raising the country’s borrowing limit, also known as the debt ceiling, without which large sections of the government could stop operating. A bill that would have extended the deadline until March 14, prepared by both Democrats and Republicans, was scuttled after President-elect … Read more
Elon Musk (L) shakes hands with Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump back stage during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show grounds on October 05, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday came out against a Republican-backed government spending bill, siding with Elon Musk‘s crusade … Read more
Former US President Donald Trump leaves the courthouse after a jury found him guilty of all 34 felony counts in his criminal trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York, New York, USA, 30 May 2024. Trump faced 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to payments made to adult film star … Read more
United States President-elect Donald Trump has described the toppling of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad as an “unfriendly takeover” by Turkiye, which had aligned itself with several of the opposition groups that led the lightning offensive on Damascus. Trump made the remarks – in apparent praise of Ankara – during a wide-ranging news conference on Monday … Read more
A briefcase filled with Iranian rial banknotes sits on display at a currency exchange market on Ferdowsi street in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018. Ali Mohammadi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Iran is confronting its worst set of crises in years, facing a spiraling economy along with a series of unprecedented geopolitical and … Read more
Backlash has been building in the United States following a news report that links one of President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed cabinet members to an effort to revoke approval for the polio vaccine. On Saturday, The Associated Press news agency published a statement from a spokesperson for Robert F Kennedy Jr, whom Trump has nominated to … Read more