(Bloomberg) — South Africa’s rand and bonds weakened after parliament delayed the presentation of the annual budget, an unprecedented decision that highlighted increasing strains in the nation’s coalition government. Most Read from Bloomberg “There has not been agreement in terms of parties in the executive to actually find one another in proposals of the budget,” […]
Topline Coalitions of Democratic state attorneys general and nonprofits announced lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s administration Tuesday over its guidance temporarily pausing nearly all federal assistance, the first in what’s expected to be a series of lawsuits taking aim at the guidance as legal experts argue it’s unlawful. President Donald Trump speaks during a news […]
The Gulf of Mexico as seen on Google Maps. Source: Google Maps Google said Monday it will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” in Google Maps after the Trump administration updates its “official government sources.” The company also said it will start using the name “Mount McKinley” for the […]
This is an on-site version of the White House Watch newsletter. You can read the previous edition here. Sign up for free here to get it on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Email us at whitehousewatch@ft.com Good morning and welcome to White House Watch. Steff will be back in the saddle on Tuesday. For now, let’s dive into: Donald Trump […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new measure on Friday that could protect your Robux from scammers and hackers. The proposed rule would interpret terms in the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, or EFTA, which has traditionally been used to protect consumers from unauthorized debit transactions, to include some virtual currencies supplied by gaming and […]
The second is whether we’re continuing to deal more and more people into the transformation. We’ve got over 100,000 farmers and ranchers that are now taking on climate-smart agricultural practices. Will that climate action, that distributed climate action, continue to expand? The last thing is how good are we at building the stuff we need […]
The Biden administration’s solicitor general, Elizabeth B. Prelogar, argued that Congress had every right to enact a ban, saying that the Chinese government could spy on Americans, in addition to their contacts, through TikTok. “It’s about trying to close off a vulnerability that a foreign nation’s adversary could exploit,” she said. Outside the courtroom, dozens […]
Nature, Published online: 07 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00018-1 Researchers: concentrate on bread-and-butter issues to get political buy-in
Syria’s main international airport in Damascus will reopen next week, the new government said on Saturday, as it tries to re-establish a sense of normalcy after the uprising that toppled President Bashar al-Assad. The announcement came amid tensions along the border between Syria and Lebanon, where four Lebanese solders were wounded in clashes on Friday […]
Syria’s new leaders are set to meet the French and German foreign ministers in the capital, Damascus, on Friday in one of the highest-level Western diplomatic visits since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad last month. Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s top diplomat, and Jean-Noël Barrot, the French foreign minister, arrived in Damascus for the first such […]
