The GEO Group, a private prison company, cut a check for $1.4 million to MAGA Inc, the Super PAC with close ties to President Donald Trump, just days after being awarded a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that could be worth $165 million a year, according to The New York Times.
President Donald Trump says he does not play any role in personal stock trading since taking office, but his money managers have been active and made more than 1,000 trades in June, the Financial Times reported, citing a newly released government disclosure.
Anti-Corruption Data Collective (ACDC), a nonprofit research group, released an analysis last week that said more than 150 “wallets” on Polymarket, the prediction website, may have placed bets with inside information on the U.S. military’s next move, according to Reuters.
Iran claims to have blacklisted 45 tankers that have violated its rules for passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
A newly released poll found that 63 percent of American voters believe that President Donald Trump and his family have used the White House to inappropriately profit from positions in cryptocurrency since he took office in January 2025.
China’s top tech stock index has returned 29 percent this year through 18 August, more than twice the NASDAQ’s 12.4 percent.
In this year’s first quarter, Europeans’ gross savings ratio – the amount of disposable income not spent on goods and services – was 14.3 percent, rising above the average of 12.5 percent during the five years before the COVID War, the European Union’s statistics office reported.
Trade negotiations between the U.S. and Canada ended abruptly on 21 August, with both sides saying the other had sprung last-minute changes that were unacceptable.
France announced on Saturday that it will provide Ukraine with missile interceptors after an increase in ballistic missile attacks by Russia in response to Kyiv’s decision to escalate and use drones to attack Moscow’s energy infrastructure.
America’s economic decline continues to spread from Main Street to major corporations.