Politics
Australia PM calls general election for May 3 amid cost of living crisis, tariff worries
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on March 28, 2025. Mike Bowers | Afp | Getty Images Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday called a national election for May 3 as the country grapples with high cost of living and rising U.S. tariffs. That kicked off […]
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Asian auto stocks extend declines as Trump tariffs on car imports dent sentiment
Vehicles awaiting shipment are parked at a port on March 27, 2025 in Yokohama, Japan. U.S. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images Asian auto stocks fell for a second straight day as investors fretted over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on cars and certain automobile parts not made in the country. Japanese automakers Toyota and Honda […]
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SEC votes to stop defending climate disclosure rules
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S. on March 5, 2025. Leslie Josephs | CNBC Wall Street’s top regulator said on Thursday it had voted to cease legal efforts to defend regulations that require companies to disclose climate-related emissions, risks and spending, and had been hotly contested by industrial lobby groups. […]
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King Charles released from hospital after experiencing side effects from cancer treatment
Britain’s King Charles leaves the London Clinic after receiving treatment for an enlarged prostate, in London, Britain January 29, 2024. Toby Melville | Reuters King Charles III experienced unspecified side effects of his cancer treatment and spent some time in the hospital on Thursday, Buckingham Palace said. “Following scheduled and ongoing medical treatment for cancer […]
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Man charged in Molotov cocktail attack on Teslas in Las Vegas
Investigators look over the scene at a Tesla Collision Center after an individual used incendiary devices to set several vehicles on fire on March 18, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller | Getty Images A Las Vegas man has been arrested on charges related to the Molotov cocktail arson attack on Tesla vehicles in […]
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Trump’s new auto tariffs will likely drive up car prices by thousands of dollars
Chevrolet Silverado trucks at a Chevrolet dealership in Vallejo, California, US, on Monday, March 3, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s steep new tariffs on imported cars will likely jack up prices for U.S. buyers of both foreign and locally made vehicles, according to Wall Street analysts. Trump on Wednesday said […]
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Trump withdraws nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik for U.N. ambassador
US Representative Elise Stefanik, Republican from New York, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on her nomination to be Ambassador to the United Nations, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 21, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Thursday withdrew his nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik as U.S. […]
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Zelenskiy says Russia hit Ukraine’s power infrastructure, US should react
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacts as he delivers a press conference at the headquarters of French national public television broadcaster “France Televisions” in Paris, on March 27, 2025. Julien De Rosa | Afp | Getty Images President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday Russian artillery had damaged Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in the front-line city of Kherson, […]
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Why GM stock is getting hit the hardest by Trump auto tariffs
The GM logo is seen on a water tank of the General Motors assembly plant in Ramos Arizpe, in Coahuila state, Mexico, on Feb. 11, 2021. Daniel Becerril | Reuters As auto stocks reacted to the latest tariff announcement out of Washington, D.C., on Thursday, General Motors took the brunt of the hit. Shares of […]
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U.S. health department plans to slash 10,000 jobs as RFK Jr. upends agencies
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, March 24, 2025. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to slash 10,000 full-time employees across different departments, as […]
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