On 14 January, the price of gold, silver, copper, and tin set new records as commodities investors and industrial users were shaken by the prospect of a hot war between the U.S. and Iran, uncertainties over Donald Trump’s plans for taking over Greenland, and fears for the U.S. Federal Reserve’s independence.
Many spectacular visuals of the early 2000s Lord Of The Rings movie trilogy were only made possible via digital character and other computer-generated effects developed specifically for that ambitious undertaking.
Gen Z protests have spread to Serbia as thousands of students took to the streets to voice their anger toward President Aleksandar Vucic, whom they see as a curse on the country due to rampant corruption.
President Donald Trump sat down with Reuters last week to discuss the direction of the administration and how he plans to achieve his top foreign policy goals, while trying to maintain public support in the U.S.
The big news in the U.S. today was the inflation report. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.3 percent in December.
What’s missing from the headlines as of late? ANY talk of recession… its just gone.
On 12 January, the U.S. dollar ended a five-day streak of gains in its value on news that Donald Trump’s justice department has opened a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Call it a backlash against the DeHuman downsides of AI, the encroachments of ever-more granular surveillance and data scraping, or a desire to simply have tech that just works without unneeded complication.
The Iranian government blamed outside agitators tied to the U.S. and Israel for the violence that has broken out during the country’s anti-government protests and told local news outlets that Tehran has “experienced firsthand how the urban terrorist criminals committed ISIS-like violence.”
President Donald Trump gave an interview to The New York Times last week shortly after the U.S. invasion to kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and was asked if there are any “limits on his global powers,” and he responded: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”