WASHINGTON -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed Donald Trump to use a 1798 law that historically has been employed only in wartime to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members as part of the Republican president’s hardline approach to immigration, but…

BOSTON – A U.S. appeals court on Monday declined to lift an order blocking the Trump administration from sending people with final deportation orders to countries not cited in earlier proceedings without first letting them make a case for humanitarian…

WASHINGTON  -Harvard University plans to borrow $750 million from Wall Street as part of contingency preparations, it said on Monday, days after President Donald Trump’s administration said it was reviewing $9 billion in federal grants and contracts in a crackdown…

OTTAWA – Canada said on Monday the most popular news account on Chinese social media platform WeChat was pushing false narratives about Prime Minister Mark Carney in a bid to influence the Canadian election campaign. “The information operation targeting Mr….

The U.S. announced a 5.06% average increase in the government’s final reimbursement rates for 2026 Medicare Advantage health plans run by private insurers, more than double the increase it proposed in January. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),…

WASHINGTON – The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said on Monday that President Donald Trump’s decision to extend a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest short video app TikTok’s U.S. assets violates the law. Senator Mark Warner also…

WASHINGTON/LUXEMBOURG -U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to further increase tariffs on China on Monday, raising the possibility of further escalation in a trade war that has already wiped trillions of dollars from global markets. Trump said he would impose an…

NEW YORK  – U.S. electric utilities are fielding massive requests for new power capacity as Big Tech scours the country for viable locations for new data centers to keep up with the compute demands of AI. A Reuters survey of…

ATHENS  – Greece’s economy can withstand the new challenges that U.S. tariffs pose, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday, as the country awaits a unified European Union stance on the matter. U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plans hammered global…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 500 law firms have signed a court brief denouncing Donald Trump’s targeting of Perkins Coie and other firms, expressing alarm over the Republican president’s intensifying crackdown on the legal profession. Law firms signed the brief…

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a challenge to New York firearms restrictions adopted shortly after the justices in 2022 struck down the Democratic state’s previous limits on carrying concealed handguns in a landmark ruling that expanded gun…

China’s Vice Commerce Minister Ling Ji told U.S. companies including Tesla and GE Healthcare that the country would always protect the rights of foreign-funded firms in China, including those from the United States. China has been, is, and will be…

European shares plunged to a 16-month low on Monday as investors grappled with the possibility of a recession after sweeping tariffs announced by United States last week. U.S. President Donald Trump showed no sign of backing away from the tariff…

LONDON  -Vanguard’s UK online investment platform experienced IT problems for several hours on Monday with clients facing delays in accessing account information, as global markets slid following U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements. Hundreds of Vanguard customers experienced problems accessing…

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will impose an additional 50% tariff on China if Beijing does not withdraw its retaliatory tariffs on the United States. “Additionally, all talks with China concerning their requested meetings with…

MOSCOW  -The Kremlin said on Monday that Russia was ready to do all it could to help resolve tensions between the United States and Iran around Tehran’s nuclear programme, as Washington demands Tehran do a nuclear deal with it or…

MEXICO CITY  – Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday that her government would like to avoid imposing reciprocal tariffs on the U.S. after President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plans, though she said it could not be ruled out. Trump…

An index of European banking <.SX7P shares fell 4.8% on Monday, falling more than 20% from recent closing high and leaving it on course to confirm it is in a bear market. The decline extended into a third day as…

BEIJING – China’s foreign ministry said on Monday the country had lodged representations with the United States over reports that a Taiwan delegation was in Washington to meet with the Trump administration. China opposes any form of official exchanges between…

AMMAN/ISTANBUL  – Turkey scoped out at least three air bases in Syria where it could deploy forces as part of a planned joint defence pact before Israel hit the sites with air strikes this week, four people familiar with the…

Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler on Monday said that some of the recent rise in goods and market-services inflation may be “anticipatory” of the effect of the Trump administration’s current policies, adding that it’s a “priority” for the Fed to…

The “Magnificent Seven” stocks sank on Monday, extending a market rout that has wiped off around $2 trillion from their combined value as investors worry about the financial fallout of U.S. President Donald Trump’s global tariff war. The latest slide…

SINGAPORE -Credit markets turned shaky in Asia on Monday, with the cost of insuring against corporate and sovereign default higher as recession fears rippled across financial markets. The five-year credit default swap spread on the Markit Itraxx Asia ex-Japan index,…

WELLINGTON – New Zealand said on Monday it would boost defence spending by NZ$9 billion ($5 billion) over the next four years and aim to nearly double spending as a proportion of GDP to 2% in the next 8 years….

JAKARTA – Indonesia wants a fair and equal relationship with the U.S., and will pursue diplomacy to address a 32% tariff rate imposed by the Trump administration, President Prabowo Subianto said on Monday.

A divided federal appeals court set aside a court order that had blocked the government downsizing team created by U.S. President Donald Trump and led by Elon Musk from seizing sensitive data from the Treasury Department, Education Department and Office…

U.S.-listed shares of crypto companies tumbled before the markets opened on Monday, mirroring a sharp drop in bitcoin as escalating tariff tensions and fears of a global trade war triggered a broad retreat from risk assets. Bitcoin fell as much…

LONDON  – A stock market rout, historic in scale, has swept across the globe wiping more than $10 trillion off major markets, as concerns about the economic damage unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs spiral. No corner of the…

SHANGHAI  -Hong Kong and Chinese stocks dived on Monday as markets around the world crumbled in the face of a widening global trade war and fears it will unleash a deep recession. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index slumped more than…

SINGAPORE – Goldman Sachs has raised the odds of a U.S. recession to 45% in the next 12 months, joining other investment banks in revising their forecast as fears of a trade war grip markets after sweeping tariffs from U.S….