Multi-millionaire entrepreneur to Indonesia minister
Jakarta governor-elect Anis Baswedan (R) and his deputy governor-elect Sandiaga Uno (L) hold hands during a press conference in Jakarta on April 19, 2017. Adek Berry | AFP | Getty …
Government and politics
Biden’s Federal Reserve Board nominees clear key Senate committee
Fed Governor Philip Jefferson testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on his nomination to be the Federal Reserve’s next vice chair, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 21, …
DeSantis donors worried about campaign
Presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis waves to a crowd at a campaign event on June 2, 2023 in Gilbert, South Carolina. Sean Rayford | Getty Images A growing …
Biden takes victory lap as inflation cools
US President Joe Biden (CR) attends a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 12, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP …
Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine
Zelenskyy thanks Biden for cluster munitions, acknowledges decision was a ‘challenge’ A photograph taken on July 3, 2022 shows an tail section of a 300mm rocket which appear to contained …
Singapore launches corruption probe involving transport minister
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said July 12 that he has instructed the country’s transport minister S. Iswaran to go on leave after he was implicated in an anti-graft …
DOJ won’t defend Trump in Carroll rape defamation case
The Department of Justice on Tuesday dropped its argument that Donald Trump was acting within the scope of his office as president of the United States in 2019, when he …
Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine
Russia’s invasion expanded rather than reined in the NATO alliance, Stoltenberg says “[Putin] went to war because he wanted less NATO. He’s getting more NATO,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said …
Sweden’s path to NATO membership cleared after Turkey greenlights bid
NATO Summit Vilnius 2023 logo as seen on a smartphone screen. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to back Sweden’s bid to join …
Trump ally Steve Bannon ordered to pay unpaid legal bills
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon holds up a copy of the Financial Times while speaking to members of the media outside US District Court House as his trial …