Trump’s Foreign Policy: A Blast from the Past President Trump’s approach to foreign policy is a throwback to the good old days of empire building – you know, when powerful nations just took what they wanted from smaller ones. It’s

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Markets Get Cold Feet Asia-Pacific markets are all over the place today, thanks to a Wall Street pullback sparked by Nvidia’s share price nosedive. It’s a bit of a head-scratcher, given that Nvidia actually beat its quarterly earnings expectations. What’s

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Big Money Move Jeffrey Cheah’s Sunway Healthcare is set to raise a whopping $736 million from its initial public offering (IPO). It’s a bold move, and the company won’t be using the cash to pay off debts or line executives’

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Pentagon’s Power Play Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is threatening Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, with severe repercussions if they don’t hand over full control of the AI by Friday. That’s right, the Pentagon wants to play with the big

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Mexico’s Latest Blow Soldiers are guarding charred vehicles in Michoacán, Jalisco, and other Mexican states after the death of Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, the notorious leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel. It’s a mess, and it won’t be cleaned

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Colorado CEO Skirts Jail Time A former Colorado CEO is getting off easy after grabbing a 15-year-old boy by the neck and tossing him to the ground. The teen’s crime? Splashing water on the CEO’s wife at an In-N-Out. The

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It’s Not Every Day You Get a President to Intervene Columbia University student gets a surprise release from ICE after the school’s president, Mamdani, asks Trump for help. The student was detained when federal agents claimed they were searching for

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Walmart’s Big Payout Walmart’s just agreed to pay $100 million to settle a case with the Federal Trade Commission over its treatment of delivery drivers. The FTC, joined by 11 states, claimed the retail giant lied to its employees about

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The US is attending a key global flu meeting, and it’s a bit of a surprise After ditching the World Health Organization, it wasn’t clear if the US would participate in this WHO-led meeting to determine the recipe for the

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Cellmate Under Scrutiny A 49-year-old inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento, was found dead in his cell on February 23. John Cisneros, who was serving time for sexual assault, didn’t make it despite life-saving measures. His cellmate, 34-year-old Irvin Sanchez,

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