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A bipartisan US Senate resolution is sounding the alarm: the dollar's share of global reserves has slid from 71% in 1999 to under 57% by late 2025, while China has quietly wired up 1,700 banks to a…
Both chambers of the US Congress are now moving to ban lawmakers and staff from trading on prediction markets like Kalshi and…
For the second time in 2025, a US court has blocked President Trump's tariff agenda — this time ruling that the White House…
More than 107 bipartisan members of the US Congress have urged President Donald Trump to raise the case of jailed Hong Kong…
US lawmakers are pushing the most expansive crackdown yet on foreign adversary land ownership — broadening CFIUS powers, creating…
In a closed-door White House meeting, Brazil's Lula handed Trump a copy of the 2010 Brazil-Turkey-Iran nuclear deal — for the…
Russia has declared a 72-hour ceasefire in its war with Ukraine timed to Victory Day — the politically charged commemoration of…
The IOC has ended three years of restrictions on Belarusian athletes — a sweeping policy reversal that clears their path to LA…
Bangladesh's sole measles testing lab could go dark after 11 May as WHO-supplied kits run dry — and with over 300 lives already…
