Posts by Amelia Frost
Trump Takes Aim At Swift After Super Bowl Boos
US President Donald Trump salutes the crowd from the field at the New Orleans Superdome at Sunday’s Super Bowl AFP Donald Trump mocked pop star Taylor Swift after the singer was booed Sunday at the Super Bowl during the Kansas City Chiefs defeat to the Philadelphia Eagles. Trump — who became the first sitting US…
Read MoreTrump Tariffs Hit $3 Trillion Crypto Market Anew, Bitcoin Plunges Below $95,000
KEY POINTS $BTC plunged below $95,000 at one point Sunday night, dropping sharply from a $102,000 high last week $ADA was the hardest-hit overnight, bleeding nearly 5%, followed by $XRP, which was down 3.7% in the day Europe is the world’s second-largest crypto economy and accounts for a significant chunk in global crypto transaction volumes…
Read MoreWhat DeepSeek’s Success Says About China’s Ability to Nurture Talent
To many Chinese, DeepSeek’s success is a victory for China’s education system, proof that it equals that of the United States or has even surpassed it. The core team of developers and scientists behind DeepSeek, the Chinese start-up that has jolted the A.I. world, all attended university in China, according to the company’s founder. That’s…
Read MoreTrump Will Impose Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum on Monday
President Trump on Sunday said that he would impose a 25 percent tariff on all foreign steel and aluminum imports into the United States as of Monday and would soon announce reciprocal tariffs on America’s trading partners. Speaking from Air Force One en route to the Super Bowl, the president said his metal tariffs would…
Read MoreAsian Markets Mixed As Traders Weigh Trump’s Latest Tariff Salvo
Equities were mixed in Asia on Monday after Donald Trump ramped up his trade war by announcing huge tariffs on steel and aluminium imports and warned every country would face “reciprocal” levies. Another week got off to an uncertain start following losses on Wall Street that came in reaction to data showing US consumers increasingly…
Read MoreGovernment Chiefs And Tech Leaders Gather In Paris For AI Summit
Political and tech industry leaders were set to descend on Paris Monday for a two-day summit on artificial intelligence, hoping to find common ground on a technology with the potential to upset global business and society. Co-hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the gathering’s stated aims include “mapping” AI…
Read MoreBerlin Film Festival To Try To Keep Politics At Bay
The Berlin Film Festival, which begins this week, is set for a challenge faced by the entire Western arts industry: how to stop politics from taking over the conversation. The first major European film festival of the year saw its 2024 edition overshadowed by a row about Israel’s bombardment of Gaza that left a mark…
Read MoreUS Army Takes Ukraine Drone Warfare Notes In Bavaria
Deep in a Bavarian forest, a black reconnaissance drone buzzes overhead, piloted by US soldiers hoping to put lessons learnt from the war in Ukraine into practice. Cheaper and more plentiful than in the past, drones are changing the face of modern warfare, particularly in Ukraine. Both Moscow and Kyiv use them for armed attacks…
Read MoreTrump to impose metal tariffs on Monday, followed by broader levies.
More than 40 lawsuits filed in recent days by state attorneys general, unions and nonprofits seek to erect a bulwark in the federal courts against President Trump’s blitzkrieg of executive actions that have upended much of the federal government and challenged the Constitution’s system of checks and balances. Unlike the opening of Mr. Trump’s first…
Read More36 Hours After Russell Vought Took Over Consumer Bureau, He Shut Its Operations
The day before Linda Wetzel closed on her retirement home in Southport, N.C., in 2012 — a cozy place where she could open the windows at night and catch an ocean breeze — the bank making the loan surprised her with a fee she hadn’t expected. Ms. Wetzel scoured her mortgage paperwork and couldn’t find…
Read MoreElon Musk Demands Judge Who Blocked DOGE From Accessing Treasury Payment Systems Be ‘Impeached Now!’
Elon Musk responded to the SEC’s lawsuit in an X post. Latin Times Elon Musk demanded the impeachment of a federal judge after a ruling blocked his spending task force, DOGE, from accessing Treasury payment systems. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer issued the decision on Saturday, ruling that only designated Treasury officials should access sensitive…
Read MoreGermany’s Scholz, Merz Clash Over Far-right AfD In Election Debate
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday accused election rival Friedrich Merz of having broken his word by accepting support from the far-right AfD to push an anti-immigration motion through parliament. In their first and only one-on-one live TV debate ahead of the February 23 vote, centre-left Scholz — who is hoping for a late comeback…
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