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Donald Trump is right when he says there would have been no conflict in Ukraine if he had been the President before the conflict started," Russian President Vladimir Putin said

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he agrees with Donald Trump's claim that the war in Ukraine likely wouldn’t have happened if Trump had been in office before it began. “He has said more than once that there would have been no war if he had been president.

Iran Foreign Minister: Iran is ready to consider diplomacy once again

Tehran is willing to “consider diplomacy” once Israel halts its aggression and is held accountable, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said after meeting with European officials to discuss Iran’s nuclear program. “Iran is ready to consider diplomacy once again—once the aggression is stopped and the aggressor is held

39% of people say financial limitations prevented them from having a child

The UNFPA surveyed 14,000 people across 14 countries—ranging from high-income to low-income nations, and those with both high and low fertility rates. The countries included South Korea, Thailand, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, the U.S., India, Indonesia, Morocco, South Africa, and Nigeria—together representing one-third of

Trump extends the TikTok closing deadline for another 90 days

President Trump has once again postponed enforcement of a bipartisan law aimed at effectively banning TikTok in the U.S., as efforts to separate the app from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, remain unresolved. On Thursday, the president announced he had signed an executive order extending the deadline by 90

White House says: Trump will make the decision on whether to attack Iran within two weeks

The White House has confirmed that Donald Trump will decide within two weeks whether to launch a military strike on Iran. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt cited a statement from Trump, noting that “given the substantial chance of negotiations with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether

16 billion Apple, AAPL, Facebook, META, Google, GOOGL, and other passwords leaked

If the leak of 184 million credentials in May seemed alarming, brace yourself—researchers have now uncovered a staggering 16 billion compromised login credentials in what may be the largest data breach ever. The breach, discovered across 30 datasets, likely stems from a range of infostealer malware. Most of the

Trump has approved attack plans for Iran, but he is holding off on giving the final order to see if Iran will abandon its nuclear program

Donald Trump has reportedly approved military plans to strike Iran, though he has yet to make a final decision, according to CBS News, citing a senior intelligence source. The U.S. president is said to be holding off on action in the hope that Tehran might still agree to abandon

Trump has approved attack plans on Iran Tuesday night, but hasn’t made a final decision to strike

Donald Trump has reportedly approved military plans to strike Iran, though he has yet to make a final decision, according to CBS News, citing a senior intelligence source. The U.S. president is said to be holding off on action in the hope that Tehran might still agree to abandon

The US is considering an attack on Iran this coming weekend

Donald Trump has reportedly approved military plans to strike Iran, though he has yet to make a final decision, according to CBS News, citing a senior intelligence source. The U.S. president is said to be holding off on action in the hope that Tehran might still agree to abandon

'In the name of the noble Haidar, the battle begins,' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a series of ominous warnings Tuesday night as President Donald Trump considered three military strategies in response to the escalating war. Khamenei shared a striking image showing fireballs raining down on an ancient city, with a sword-wielding figure storming its gates. “In the name

Sam Altman says Meta offered OpenAI staff $100 million bonuses, as Mark Zuckerberg ramps AI poaching effort

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has offered OpenAI employees signing bonuses as high as $100 million in an effort to lure talent away, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “They started making giant offers to a lot of people on our team,” Altman said during an appearance on the Uncapped podcast

General Mills, GIS, to remove artificial colors from all its US cereals and foods

Natural food colors have long faced resistance due to consumer preferences for brighter, artificial hues. When General Mills reformulated its Trix cereal in 2016 using natural colors, sales dropped as customers criticized the duller appearance. Just a year later, the company reintroduced the original version with artificial dyes in response

ARK sees Tesla, TSLA, hitting $8 trillion by 2029

ARK Investment Management has released an updated forecast for Tesla, projecting a 2029 share price of $2,600 based on its open-source Monte Carlo model. The analysis includes over one million simulations using 45 independent variables and presents a range of outcomes: a bull case of $3,100 per share

The U.S. government posted a $316 billion budget deficit for May, down 9%, or $31 billion, from a year earlier

The U.S. government recorded a $316 billion budget deficit in May, marking a 9% decline—$31 billion less—than the same month a year earlier, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday. The drop came as customs receipts soared to a record $23 billion, nearly quadrupling from a year ago, driven

Goldman Sachs, GS, wants students to stop using ChatGPT in job interviews with the bank

Goldman Sachs’ campus recruitment team for its private investing academy in the EMEA region recently sent out a reminder email to student applicants outlining expectations for upcoming interviews, according to a report from eFinancialCareers. The bank uses the video interview platform HireVue to conduct initial candidate assessments and follows a

Yellen expects Trump's tariffs will hike inflation to 3% year over year

Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Thursday that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are likely to push prices higher and reduce average household income, even as overall U.S. inflation has recently shown signs of slowing. “I would expect inflation, on a year-over-year basis of this year, to shoot up

Donald Trump says ‘nobody knows what I’m going to do’ when asked if US plans to strike Iran

Iran and Israel traded accusations on Wednesday at the UN’s shipping agency, blaming one another for threatening commercial maritime traffic in the Gulf and Red Sea as their military conflict deepened. During a session of the International Maritime Organization’s security committee, Iran’s delegation said Israel had recently

US May housing starts: -9.8% to 1.256 million

A widening gap is emerging between what home sellers hope to get and what buyers are actually willing to pay. According to Redfin, in March the median asking price was 9% higher than the median sale price — a sign that seller expectations are becoming increasingly out of sync with market

Trump on Fed Chair Powell: "We have a stupid person, frankly, at the Fed"

Former President Donald Trump lashed out at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday morning, calling him “not a smart person” just hours before the central bank was expected to keep interest rates unchanged. Speaking from the South Lawn of the White House, where he was unveiling new flagpoles amid

The Federal Reserve has not cut rates, keeping interest rates the same

Federal Reserve officials anticipate inflation will climb in the months ahead, yet they continue to project two interest rate cuts by year-end — the same forecast they made in March. On Wednesday, the Fed left its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a fourth consecutive meeting and noted that the economy is

Iran has prepared missiles and other military equipment for strikes on US bases if the US joins the war

ChatGPT said: Tehran is preparing to target U.S. military installations across the Middle East if Washington joins Israel’s military campaign against Iran, according to a report from the New York Times citing informed sources. The Islamic Republic has reportedly readied a stockpile of missiles and other military hardware,

"The US is likely to join the war against Iran tonight," per Israeli media Channel 12

The U.S. military is positioning itself to possibly join Israel’s offensive against Iran, as President Trump considers taking direct action aimed at permanently dismantling Tehran’s nuclear program. On Tuesday, Trump urged civilians in Tehran to evacuate and hinted that he was contemplating military action against Iran — less

Russia says Israel's attacks on Iran are illegal

Russia warned Tuesday that Israel’s strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran are pushing the world toward the brink of a nuclear disaster. In a statement addressing the rapidly intensifying conflict between Iran and Israel, the Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the ongoing Israeli attacks as illegal under international law. Moscow

Iranian State TV has said: "Tonight, a great surprise will occur, one that the world will remember for centuries"

U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed claims that he left the G7 summit in Canada early to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, instead describing the suggestion as baseless and criticizing French President Emmanuel Macron as “publicity seeking.” In a social media post, Trump asserted that Macron had “no

Senator Bernie Sanders has submitted legislation to prevent Trump from going to war against Iran

Democratic senator introduced new legislation on Monday aimed at preventing U.S. President Donald Trump from taking military action against Iran without explicit authorization from Congress, amid mounting concerns that escalating hostilities between Israel and Iran could spiral into a wider war. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, who has long