Economy
Vance Continues to Criticize Democrats’ Attitude During State of the Union
By The New York Times ・ Feb 27, 2026
Two days after President Trump’s State of the Union address, Vice President JD Vance visited a compe...
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Regime Change in Cuba Appeals to Trump but Carries Risks
By The New York Times ・ Feb 27, 2026
With a U.S. chokehold pushing Cuba’s economy toward potential collapse, President Trump is hoping to...
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Read the laughable legal memo behind the claim that Trump can declare a national voting emergency
By Democracy Docket ・ Feb 26, 2026
Peter Ticktin, the Florida-based lawyer leading an effort to have President Donald Trump issue an ex...
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U.S. Mortgage Rates Fall Below 6% for First Time in Years
By The New York Times ・ Feb 26, 2026
Mortgage rates have fallen below 6 percent for the first time in more than three years, offering a g...
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Italy calls for suspension of carbon price in major attack on EU climate policy
By politico.eu ・ Feb 26, 2026
ROME — The Italian government wants the European Union to hit pause on its flagship climate law, the...
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investors await more economic data
By CNBC ・ Feb 26, 2026
U.S. Treasury yields fell on Thursday as investors awaited a wholesale inflation reading and weighed...
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Nvidia and other tech stocks lead Wall Street higher
By AP News ・ Feb 25, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose Wednesday and erased their losses for the week so far, as Nvidia an...
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Live Updates: Cuban Border Guard Kills 4 on US-Registered Boat
By The New York Times ・ Feb 25, 2026
“As a result of the confrontation, at the time of this report, four foreign attackers were killed an...
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Cuban border agents fire upon Florida-tagged speedboat, killing four
By Al Jazeera ・ Feb 25, 2026
Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior has announced that its border patrol forces engaged in a shootout wi...
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Ex-presidential candidate Andrew Yang warns that millions of white-collar workers will lose their jobs within 18 months
By Fortune ・ Feb 25, 2026
“I believe that millions of white-collar workers are going to lose their jobs in the next 12 to 18 m...
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6 Takeaways From Trump’s State of the Union
By The New York Times ・ Feb 25, 2026
President Trump delivered the longest State of the Union address in American history on Tuesday nigh...
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Rubio in Caribbean as US focuses on Western Hemisphere
By AP News ・ Feb 25, 2026
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts and Nevis (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has flown into the Caribbean c...
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How Putin stays strong in Russia, four years into war in Ukraine
By Al Jazeera ・ Feb 25, 2026
Moscow, Russia — What was meant to be a swift military operation to topple the Ukrainian government...
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Private Credit Fears Deepen With UBS Warning of 15% Defaults
By SWI swissinfo.ch ・ Feb 25, 2026
(Bloomberg) — A few weeks ago, analysts at UBS Group AG laid out a worst-case scenario for defaults...
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Trump Puts On a Show, Casting Democrats as the Villains
By The New York Times ・ Feb 25, 2026
It was spectacle as survival strategy. In his State of the Union address, President Trump didn’t bot...
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Lenten Retreat: Bishop Varden reflects on 'becoming free'
By Vatican News ・ Feb 25, 2026
By Bishop Erik Varden, OCSO* The notion of ‘freedom’ has become contentious in public discourse. Fre...
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These 3 charts highlight the affordability issues Americans worry about most
By CBS News ・ Feb 24, 2026
President Trump gave his 2026 State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, during which he address...
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Hmm: Spirit Airlines Expects To Emerge From Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Soon
By One Mile at a Time ・ Feb 24, 2026
It’s an incredibly challenging time for ultra low cost carriers in the United States, and in particu...
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Trump, Bruised and Unpopular, Turns to State of the Union for a Reset
By The New York Times ・ Feb 24, 2026
President Trump will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday at a pivotal moment in his pr...
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CBS announces plan for delayed Late Show with Stephen Colbert broadcast but only for some fans
By lastnighton.com ・ Feb 24, 2026
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is about to go live… at least for fans lucky enough to live on th...
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Dario Amodei expresses discomfort with the ‘overnight’ and accidental concentration of power in AI
By Fortune ・ Feb 24, 2026
Today, a new kind of concentration is emerging in the AI era, and even some of its architects—includ...
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‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets
By The Guardian ・ Feb 24, 2026
1. AI agents remove all ‘friction’ in the economy The scenario begins with AI agents undergoing a “j...
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Rhode Island lifts travel ban
By WJAR ・ Feb 24, 2026
Gov. Dan McKee officially lifted the travel ban in Rhode Island at noon Tuesday. But he asked people...
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Fed's Goolsbee calls for a hold on cuts as current rate of inflation is 'not good enough'
By CNBC ・ Feb 24, 2026
Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Tuesday that interest rate cuts aren't approp...
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Jeffrey Epstein; State of the Union; El Mencho : NPR
By NPR ・ Feb 24, 2026
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Trump's tumbling economic numbers and a frustrated Zelenskyy: Morning Rundown
By NBC News ・ Feb 24, 2026
In today’s newsletter: Trump heads into the State of the Union with voters distrustful on the econom...
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Tim Cook Warned by CIA That China Could Move on Taiwan by 2027
By MacRumors ・ Feb 24, 2026
Apple CEO Tim Cook was among a handful of top tech executives who attended a classified CIA briefing...
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The Home Depot Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2025 Results; Increases Quarterly Dividend by 1.3%;Provides Fiscal 2026 Guidance
By The Home Depot ・ Feb 24, 2026
ATLANTA, Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Home Depot®, the world's largest home improvement retaile...
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This is the state of the economy (ahead of the State of the Union)
By CNN ・ Feb 24, 2026
The state of the union’s economy is surprisingly strong. On paper, anyway. Jobs, wage growth, consum...
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Russia thought it'd take days to seize Ukraine. 4 years later war rages on : NPR
By NPR ・ Feb 24, 2026
KYIV, Ukraine, and MOSCOW — When the Kremlin launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the a...
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