Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Commerce secretary, seems to have an uncanny ability to focus his political objectives on projects that stand to benefit his sons, who have taken over at his investment company, Cantor Fitzgerald.
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BEZOS’S WASHINGTON POST: BILLIONAIRES ARE SPENDING MORE THAN EVER ON ELECTIONS
The Trump administration has shown that if you don’t have the money, you don’t get invited into The Club, and The Washington Post ran an extensive article last week documenting how the country’s richest are pumping more money than ever into elections and wielding more influence than ever.
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TRUMP CALLS FOR DEMOCRATS TO FACE DEATH PENALTY FOR TELLING SERVICEMEMBERS THAT THEY ARE REQUIRED TO DISOBEY ILLEGAL ORDERS
U.S. President Donald Trump has employed the military to take over city streets and to bomb alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, which prompted Democrats to film a video message to service members that it is their obligation to reject illegal orders from their chain of command.
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WWIII: UKRAINE SAYS IT LAUNCHED U.S. ATACMS INTO RUSSIA FOR THE FIRST TIME
Ukraine acknowledged last week that it fired U.S.-provided ATACMS into Russia on Tuesday for the first time since the Trump administration lifted the ban, which was seen as a significant escalation because these systems require targeting and intelligence guidance to fire.
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LIGHTS, CAMERAS, CORRUPTION
When Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau announced the arrests stemming from its investigation into an alleged $100 million embezzlement scheme, it delivered the news in a way usually reserved for Hollywood action movies, with explosions and suspenseful titles that reportedly captivated the country.
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ECUADOREANS REJECT PLAN TO ALLOW U.S. MILITARY BASES IN COUNTRY IN SWEEPING DEFEAT FOR DADDY’S BOY NOBOA
Ecuadorians last week went to the polls to defeat proposals that would have allowed the U.S. to build military bases inside the country, rewrite the country’s constitution, and cut public funds for political parties—which was seen as an effort by President Daniel Noboa to consolidate power.
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THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS IS BURNED OUT
“Life felt more doable a year and a half ago,” college communications officer Holly Frew said in a Wall Street Journal interview last week.
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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ISRAEL’S COMMITTED WAR CRIMES IN THE WEST BANK AGAINST PALESTINIANS
Israel committed war crimes during its execution of Operation Iron Wall, which led to the illegal displacement of at least 32,000 Palestinians who had been living in refugee camps and the demolition of 850 homes inside the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams refugee camps in the northern West Bank governorates, according to a report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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EUROPE’S ECONOMY BECOMING OBSOLETE, LAGARDE WARNS
Europe’s model of economic prosperity “is geared towards a world that is gradually disappearing,” Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), said in a 21 November keynote speech to the European Banking Congress.
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TENSIONS INCREASE BETWEEN BEIJING AND TOKYO AFTER SUGGESTION THAT JAPAN COULD COME TO TAIWAN’S AID IF ATTACKED
t didn’t take Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to anger Beijing.