TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted to assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday. The case has revealed decades of cozy ties between Japan’s governing party and a controversial South Korean church. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, earlier admitted to killing Abe in July 2022 as the former prime […]
President Donald Trump singled out Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during his Davos speech, deriding him as “ungrateful” in his own speech. In a free-wheeling speech on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump touted his accomplishments during his first year back in office and reiterated his grievances with the NATO alliance. […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed Denmark as “irrelevant” on Wednesday after its pension operator threatened to pull its investments from the United States. As the European Union continues to search for a response to President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland and the resulting tariffs, Denmark’s pension operator, AkademikerPension, announced on Tuesday that it would […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is holding a press conference with House GOP leadership on Wednesday at 10 a.m. The briefing comes as Congress pushes to pass all 12 appropriations bills before the partial government shutdown deadline next Friday. The House will have to pass four more spending bills before sending them to the Senate […]
Independent journalist Nick Shirley, who sparked a national firestorm with his findings on Minnesota‘s “billion-dollar-fraud,” will testify at 10 a.m. on Wednesday before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance. The hearing is titled, “When Public Funds Are Abused: Addressing Fraud and the Theft of Taxpayer Dollars.” MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL KEITH ELLISON […]
President Donald Trump ruled out the prospect of using military force over Greenland as he made his pitch to the world as to why the United States “needs” the Danish territory. Trump’s escalating rhetoric regarding Greenland has rattled the world, particularly after he ordered the unprecedented capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. But during […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted President Donald Trump‘s invitation to join his Board of Peace that will oversee the start of the second phase in postwar Gaza. Netanyahu was previously critical of the Trump-led board because the United States did not coordinate with Israel on establishing the international body, which his office said […]
President Donald Trump will address a gathering of world leaders in a speech on Wednesday morning at the World Economic Forum’s annual summit in Davos, Switzerland. Trump is expected to meet with a number of elites during his time at the latest Davos summit. He is facing pushback from European leaders over his administration’s desire […]
Democrats are holding a press conference in support of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook ahead of Supreme Court arguments around her firing. The press conference is slated to begin at 9 a.m. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is expected to be in attendance. Powell has been more open to criticism of President Donald Trump after he […]
One of the finalists to be President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve has supported raising the corporate tax rate and said the United States needs higher immigration, putting him at odds with some of the administration’s policy positions. Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s chief fixed income strategist, has emerged as one of the leading […]
