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TOPSHOT – Fighters fire towards Syrian Army troops in the Rashidin district on the outskirts of Aleppo on Nov. 29, 2024. Bakr Alkasem | Afp | Getty Images The more than 50-year Assad dynastic dictatorship was on the cusp of collapse on Sunday, as rebel forces seized the capital of Damascus in a lightning offensive

  Igor Golovnov | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson led Centene, another big health insurer, to switch to a virtual investor day next week instead of a planned in-person event in New York. Thompson’s slaying also has spurred some major health companies, including UnitedHealthcare’s parent company,

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – NOVEMBER 07: South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol attends a press conference on state affairs at the presidential office on Nov. 7, 2024. Pool | Getty Images News | Getty Images Beleaguered South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday survived an impeachment motion triggered by his short-lived failed attempt to impose

A federal appeals court on Friday cited national security concerns as it upheld a law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell the popular social media app TikTok next month or face an effective ban in the United States. The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., rejected TikTok’s

Donald Trump is considering killing the plan to for the Postal Service to move to an electric vehicle fleet, which would cost South Carolina 1,000 jobs. Reuters reported: Donald Trump’s transition team is considering canceling the United States Postal Service’s contracts to electrify its delivery fleet, as part of a broader suite of executive orders

WASHINGTON — Entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have an ambitious agenda to cut federal spending with the help of their outside advisory council, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). But on their first joint visit to Congress on Thursday, the pair also likely saw some of the limits of outside influence on the workings

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced that she will be running to be the next Democrat to treat James Comer like a human pinata on the House Oversight Committee. Here is Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s letter to her colleagues announcing her run: NEW: Rep. @AOC announces she’ll seek top Democratic post on

Chief executives and other high-level corporate officers are seeking additional security protection after the brazen slaying of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive officer in New York, according to a top risk management firm. “We had CEOs and other executive level and board members reaching out to us all throughout yesterday and today to increase their own executive

Book title: “Delay Deny Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It” by Jay M. Feinman Source: Amazon Inc. Shell casings from the brazen slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan had the words “deny,” “defend” and “depose” written on them, NBC News reported Thursday, citing law

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket, in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., November 19, 2024. Brandon Bell | Via Reuters President-elect Donald Trump asked the Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday to effectively end the criminal case related to his effort to overturn

Current House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) dropped out of the election to keep his post, so Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) will become the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. Here is Rep. Nadler’s letter to his colleagues: News: Rep. JERRY NADLER will be stepping down from race to be the top

Peter Navarro, former Director of the U.S. Office of Trade & Manufacturing, gestures as he speaks on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 17, 2024.  Mike Segar | Reuters President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Peter Navarro will serve as “Senior Counselor for Trade

President-elect Donald Trump‘s transition team said Tuesday that it reached an agreement with the Department of Justice that sets the stage for the department to conduct background checks and start the security clearance process for Trump administration nominees and appointees. The agreement comes amid controversy over some of Trump’s picks for top positions in the

Senate Democrats have created a new leadership position and placed Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) in charge of strategic messaging. Sen. Booker said at a press availability introducing the new Senate Democratic leadership team: It’s been incredible. The last four years to work with him and to be included in

Members of the military make their way through the crowd in front of the National Assembly, after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, in Seoul, South Korea, December 4, 2024.  Kim Hong-ji | Reuters The South Korean National Assembly voted to overturn President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law decree Wednesday morning in Seoul.

Governor Newsom speaks as he signed into law the most significant bipartisan legislation to crack down on property crime at a Home Depot store in San Jose, California, United States on August 16, 2024.  Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu | Getty Images Gov. Gavin Newsom’s special legislative session to safeguard California from potential “federal overreach” by

Ballot papers are counted at the Dublin RDS centre, in Dublin, on December 1, 2024, on the second day of counting ballots in the Irish General Election.  Ben Stansall | Afp | Getty Images Ireland’s election looks set to have secured victory for the incumbent center-right parties which have dominated the country’s politics for nearly

Lebanon’s foreign minister on Thursday defended Hezbollah’s presence in the region, but said his country had “no say in the decision to go to war” with Israel. Speaking to CNBC’s Dan Murphy, Abdallah Bou Habib vowed to uphold a U.S.-France brokered cease-fire that is already showing signs of strain, and said he will seek foreign

Polling station in Ireland.  Kinga Krzeminska | Moment | Getty Images Ireland goes to the polls on Nov. 29, with center-right parties Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael once again expected to form the nucleus of the country’s next government. The historical rivals have shared power over the last five years alongside the Green Party, and

A permanent ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah is scheduled to begin Wednesday, following a yearlong conflict between the Jewish state and Iranian-backed groups. President Joe Biden announced the deal, which was brokered by France and the U.S. “Under the deal reached today, effective at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow, local time, the fighting across the Lebanese-Israeli