The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a new report last week that found approximately 62 percent of the total caloric intake of children in the U.S. comes from ultra-processed foods, raising new concerns about the long-term impact of these diets.
After failing to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during his last term in office, the Trump administration announced last week that it doubled its reward for the arrest or conviction of the strongman in Caracas to $50 million, claiming that he is a major drug trafficker.
Israel has killed at least 61,430 Palestinians and wounded 153,213 in its genocide campaign inside Gaza. More than 11,000 are missing.
Blackstone, the world’s richest private equity firm, is negotiating with several potential private lenders to secure about $3 billion in loans to buy Enverus Inc., a data and software service for the energy industry, people familiar told Bloomberg.
U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview on Monday that he had a “good” telephone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and appeared to—once again—offer his support for the IDF to ramp up its killing sprees inside Gaza.
Cryptocurrencies are banned in mainland China, but Hong Kong has passed a law that will allow any business with a license to issue stablecoins backed by a fiat currency of its choice.
On 7 August, new U.S. tariffs took effect on goods arriving in the U.S. from more than 90 countries. U.S. businesses and consumers now pay an average tariff rate of about 18 percent, economists have calculated, the highest rate in 90 years and eightfold more than the 2.3 percent when Donald Trump took office.
German factories received 1 percent fewer orders in June than in May, the government’s DeStatis statistics agency reported. That followed May’s 0.8-percent decline.
The increase in China’s exports to Europe from 2015 through 2022 has erased 240,000 jobs in the Eurozone, the European Central Bank said, and warned that more jobs are at risk now that Chinese goods that would have been sent to the U.S. before the tariff war are now destined for Europe.
In advanced economies, corporate investment has largely failed to recover from the Great Recession and the COVID War, hobbling global economic growth, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has warned.