The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) employed a Danish consultancy that lobbied for the very chemical companies that could be impacted by the agency’s effort to ban perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—better known as “forever chemicals.”
U.S. President Donald Trump spent the days leading up to his long social media post on how Ukraine could defeat Russia meeting with Keith Kellogg, his special ambassador for Ukraine, and Mike Waltz, his ambassador to the UN, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
U.S. President Donald Trump, the so-called peace candidate, came out Tuesday strongly behind Ukraine’s war effort and prospects against Russia and posted that Kyiv could very well win back all of its territory, wondering aloud if Moscow’s military is a “paper tiger.
At the end of this year’s second quarter, worldwide debt had climbed to $337.7 trillion as the world’s economy weakened, central banks reduced interest rates, and the U.S. dollar’s value continued to slump, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) reported.
U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House last week that he will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank—appearing for the first time since his reelection that he may have stood up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Brendan Carr, the head of the Federal Communications Commission, has immersed himself in the middle of the culture wars when he came out strongly against Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about the Charlie Kirk assassination.
U.S. President Donald Trump—who was visibly upset over a broken escalator and teleprompter—addressed the UN General Assembly last week and asked: “What is the purpose of the United Nations?”
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz last week said he is in favor of the EU essentially stealing $164 billion in frozen Russian assets to help fund Ukraine’s war and argued in an op-ed for the Financial Times that there needs to be a “new impetus to change Russia’s calculations.”
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s national security council, issued a warning to Kyiv and the U.S. on, Wednesday just as U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his war rhetoric against Moscow and Pete Hegseth, the Fox News clown playing the role of secretary of defense, called for an urgent meeting with generals.
The near-constant attack by Ukrainian drones on Russia’s energy infrastructure has resulted in a decline of more than 1.1 million barrels a day in refining capacity, or 17 percent, and if the trend continues, the rate could fall to its 2020 low.