President-elect Donald Trump will name hedge fund mogul Scott Bessent as the next treasury secretary, four sources tell The Post, ending a rough-and-tumble race that saw fierce jockeying among power players across Wall Street. Bessent “got the thumbs up” late Thursday during a meeting with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort…
WASHINGTON — The federal government spent up to $267 million of your money to study and counteract so-called “misinformation” since President Biden took office in January 2021 — as President-elect Donald Trump vows to bar official use of the term. The funds doled out to universities, nonprofits and private companies…
Former United States Congress member Matt Gaetz has confirmed he will not resume his seat in the House of Representatives, amid scrutiny over sex-trafficking allegations. Gaetz had been President-elect Donald Trump’s first pick for the role of attorney general in his incoming administration. But speaking on Friday to the conservative…
Legislators greenlight reforms giving more authority to Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, accused of stifling dissent. Legislators in Nicaragua have approved a constitutional amendment that will strengthen the power of longtime President Daniel Ortega, who has been accused of cracking down on critics and political challengers. The reforms, which 79-year-old…
United States President-elect Donald Trump has picked another loyalist to be the next attorney general after his first choice, firebrand former Congressman Matt Gaetz, withdrew from contention after days of controversy. Trump announced on Thursday that he was nominating Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, to be the country’s…
For Gómez-Suárez, if Colombia’s conflict is regional, then the solution should be too. He draws a contrast between his approach to the Comuneros and the way the Colombian government previously negotiated peace with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), once the largest rebel group in the country. In 2016,…
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Police accuse Jair Bolsonaro and several former officials of involvement in plot following 2022 election defeat. Brazil’s federal police have formally accused former President Jair Bolsonaro and several of his former ministers of being involved in an attempted coup after the far-right leader lost an election in…
Washington, DC – The United States Senate has rejected a bill that aimed to block a US weapons sale to Israel amid the country’s war on Gaza, an outcome that rights advocates say does not take away from a growing push to condition aid to Washington’s top ally. A resolution…
At least 150 people have been killed in Port-au-Prince over the past week, the United Nations says, as the Haitian capital reels from a surge in gang violence. In a statement on Wednesday, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said more than half of the deaths…
Presidents of China and Brazil hail ‘new phase’ in relations between two countries, which are major trading partners. Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have inked dozens of trade and development deals, as the pair held talks in Brazil’s capital aimed at deepening…
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