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
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
Nancy Pelosi delivers remarks at the Anti-Corruption Champions Award Ceremony at the Department of State in Washington, D.C, on Dec. 9, 2024. Celal Gunes | Anadolu | Getty Images Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received successful hip replacement surgery after being injured while traveling with a congressional delegation in Luxembourg, her office said Saturday. Pelosi, … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday after vowing an economic boom to a cheering crowd of traders and business leaders. “We’re with you all the way,” the incoming Republican president said in the NYSE building in lower Manhattan, where he was invited after becoming TIME’s “Person … Read more
A federal appeals court on Friday cited national security concerns as it upheld a law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell the popular social media app TikTok next month or face an effective ban in the United States. The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., rejected TikTok’s … Read more
Zenefits CEO David Sacks speaks at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Calif. Paul Chinn | San Francisco Chronicle | Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images Venture investor and podcaster David Sacks will join the Trump administration as the “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar,” President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday on Truth Social. Sacks will … Read more
A television screen shows a news broadcasting of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol delivering a speech on emergency martial law, in Goyang, northwest of Seoul, on December 3, 2024. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images South Korea’s won on Tuesday cut losses against the U.S. dollar after the country’s parliament swiftly passed a … Read more
SEBASTIEN BOZON | AFP | Getty Images France’s government is hanging by a thread with the far-right National Rally party threatening to bring down Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s administration by the end of the year. National Rally’s figurehead Marine Le Pen suggested Monday that talks with Barnier, aimed at extracting concessions on a tax-hiking 2025 … Read more