Politics

The leaders of the group, called “Normandy Four,” including the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Germany, and France, are meeting in Paris later on Monday over the ongoing conflict in Ukraine’s Donbass region between the government and pro-Russia militants. What Is About To Happen...

Democratic Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren on Sunday disclosed that she made about $1.9 million in compensation from various legal cases between 1985 and 2008. What Happened Warren’s campaign team had released a list of the legal work she undertook as a law professor, earlier in May....

President Donald Trump warned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sunday that he could lose “everything” after the country said it had conducted a “very important” test. What Happened Responding to North Korea's latest “successful test of great significance,”...

Mohammed Bin Salman, the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, expressed his condolences over the Pensacola shooting in a phone call with President Donald Trump on Sunday, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Twitter. The crown prince, better known as MBS,...

Finland’s Social Democratic party has named Sanna Marin, the current transportation minister, as the new PM, which would make Sanna the country’s youngest prime minister ever, according to Reuters. What Happened Finland’s Social Democratic party on Sunday voted to select...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has relaxed laws requiring restaurants to have gender-segregated entrances, Reuters reported on Sunday. What Happened The restaurants were previously required to have two separate entrances for men coming in alone and for families, including women, according to...

Democratic presidential candidates, including Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, have proposed a new tax on financial transactions. While candidates argue these new taxes could help pay for ambitious healthcare programs that could benefit the middle class, critics say they would...

As members of Congress considers how to fund surface transportation projects over the next several years, they must consider the ways that e-commerce is transforming supply chain logistics, leaders and witnesses told a U.S. House panel on Dec. 5. "Without appropriate planning for last-mile...

A new survey by Resilience360 confirms the trade war's far-reaching effects on global supply chains, and more importantly, highlights a "wait-and-see" approach among shippers. If the trade war were a baseball game, it would still be the very early innings for supply chain overhauls — which makes...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has asked President Trump to release funding to combat the state’s ongoing homelessness problem, according to Reuters. What Happened Gavin asked President Trump to stop holding up the federal housing vouchers that, if released, would help 50,000 homeless...

The World Bank’s board has agreed to grant China a low-interest annual loan of between $1 and $1.5 billion through June 2025, according to CNBC. What Happened The World Bank said on Thursday that its board members have “expressed broad support” to aid China with up to $1.5...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit ended in London on Wednesday, with the leaders of the allied countries taking plentiful jibes at each other throughout the summit. The U.S. President Donald Trump, of course, led the pack. “Very, Very Nasty” Macron Ahead of the summit, Trump...

The democratic impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump is just based on some confusion over semantics, or so is the president’s latest argument. What Mr. President Tweeted Again “When I said, in my phone call to the President of Ukraine, ‘I would like you to do US a...

The U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking to remove legal protections for internet firms with regards to protecting their online content as part of the revised USMCA deal with Canada and Mexico, according to The Wall Street Journal. What Happened House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has pushed to drop...

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has appointed Kelly Loeffler, the CEO of Atlanta-based Bakkt LLC, as the one to replace Johnny Isakson as the state’s Senator, the Washington Post reported late Wednesday. What Happened Isakson is stepping down from the position at the end of the year due...