Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that Russia has been ramping up its weapons production to levels that make it seem that the Kremlin has no intention of stopping in Ukraine and is, in fact, girding for a wider war against Europe.
Major companies in the U.S. could lose big business if the Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds after boom years during the Gaza genocide, according to a report.
The Israeli government last week approved a controversial bill that would impose the death penalty for those whose acts helped cause the death of an Israeli if the crime committed was carried out with the “objective of harming the state of Israel or the rebirth of the Jewish people.”
The Houthis indicated last week that they will end their military campaign in the Red Sea that was in defense of the Palestinians during the two-year genocide committed by Israel in Gaza.
This year’s olive harvest in the West Bank has been an even more violent one than most for Palestinians, and matters got so bad that even Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president, condemned the violence.
The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that have profoundly affected the business community this year.
As AI continues to take over human jobs, IBM announced a restructuring to focus on software development, cloud services and AI, which could result in 2,700 to 5,000 layoffs.
U.S. President Donald Trump has taken Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City personally, despite assuring his supporters that “pollsters” identified the reasons for the smackdown was that “TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND THE SHUTDOWN.”
The main takeaway from last week’s election that saw Democrats win in gubernatorial races across New Jersey and Virginia, and a closely watched mayoral race in New York, was that voters had one thing on their mind: affordability, but President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and his rejection of DEI hires seemed to also appear on the ballot.
Office Properties Income Trust (OPI), which owns about 17 million square feet of office space across 29 states and the District of Columbia, is suing its bondholders to recover around $135 million they received as a discount.