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Orders for core business equipment posted their largest monthly increase since the summer of 2020, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday, driven by surging demand for computers and electronic products as companies continue to pour money into artificial intelligence. The value of orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft — the closely watched proxy for business spending on equipment — jumped 3.3 percent in March, far exceeding the 0.5 percent gain economists had forecast. February’s figure was revised sharply higher, to a 1.6 percent advance from the initially reported 0.6 percent, meaning businesses have now ramped up capital spending in back-to-back…

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) said President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement is turning the United States of America into a “banana republic.” Pritzker said, “I’m so proud of the people of Illinois who really wrote the playbook. They’re the ones who went out and bought whistles and people in neighborhoods all across the state, because it wasn’t just Chicago. They attacked all across the state. People came out of their homes when they saw these unmarked vehicles, these masked men jumping out of cars, attacking people. He added, “They didn’t even know if they were U.S. citizens…

Bahrain, ruled by a Sunni dynasty, has long been wary of Iranian support for its Shiite majority Bahrain has revoked the citizenship of 69 people for “expressing sympathy” with Iranian retaliatory strikes on the Gulf state, the Interior Ministry has announced. The monarchy, ruled by a Sunni dynasty, has for years been wary of potential Iranian influence on the Shiite majority.In a statement on Monday, the ministry said the revocation applied to those who “glorified Iran’s sinful, hostile acts” as well as their families by dependency. It described all 69 people as being of “non-Bahraini origin,” adding that the authorities…

International Man: Iran is already turning the Strait of Hormuz into a geopolitical toll booth—restricting traffic, charging transit fees, and shutting out the US and its allies. If this continues, what happens to oil, trade, and the global economy, and is there anything the US military can do about it? Doug Casey: I did a bit of research. Definitions are important; poorly defined words can only confuse issues. A “strait” is a narrow, naturally occurring body of water that joins two larger ones. They’re traditionally considered international waters. Hormuz is the best known at the moment. The Strait of Malacca between Indonesia…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” host Jen Psaki claimed that “what I hear over and over again is Democrats saying, please tone it down, please tone down the rhetoric, that’s not what we stand for. And we have seen, frankly, from the other side, from Trump and others, elevated rhetoric.” And that’s why she’s frustrated when Democrats get criticized for their rhetoric. Psaki said, “It’s so infuriating, I think, probably to a lot of people watching, when an act of political violence happens or attempted political violence, and, all of a sudden, the Democrats are blamed all…

We’ll find out Wednesday if Speaker Mike Johnson can cross off something—anything—from his long to-do list this week. The House meets Wednesday morning to vote on a procedural step to advance three legislative priorities: government spy powers that expire Thursday, the farm bill, and a budget resolution for immigration enforcement funding. But after a weekslong standoff over how to proceed on reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the sweeping agricultural policy bill and the budget framework, House Republican leadership doesn’t appear to have the votes to advance anything. And some House and Senate Republicans want President Donald…

The British monarch commented on Donald Trump’s decision to demolish the historic East Wing to construct a grand ballroom King Charles III has cracked a joke about US President Donald Trump’s controversial White House ballroom project, comparing it to the burning of the iconic building by British troops in 1814. He also issued what was widely seen as a subtle rebuke of Trump’s criticism of NATO amid friction in US-UK ties.In October 2025, the Trump administration demolished the historic White House East Wing to build what the president said would be a privately funded grand ballroom.The project met regulatory pushback,…

U.S. President Donald Trump was presented the ship’s bell from Second World War Anglo-Australian submarine HMS Trump by King Charles III at the White House banquet, where the President hailed the shared “audacity” of the Anglo-Saxon people that drove the British to conquer the seas and the Americans to conquer the moon. The key set-piece event of the state visit to the United States by King Charles III and the Queen Consort Camilla, the state dinner at the White House saw the King and his host, President Donald Trump speak of the unique bond between the British and American peoples,…

Scandal surrounding political appointment of disgraced Labour Grandee to U.S. ambassador post that threatens to bring down Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer sees more top insiders testify to Parliamentary committee. Censorious anti-Breitbart figure who was until recently the “most powerful man in politics you’ve probably never heard of” at the top of the British government, Morgan McSweeney, has attempted to put clear blue water between himself and the man long said to be his mentor and sponsor in British left-wing politics, Peter Mandelson, in a committee appearance in Parliament on Tuesday. Insisting the widely-held belief that Mandelson is his particular friend…

Republican Mitch McConnell has blasted Donald Trump, claiming he has continued Joe Biden’s strategy of failing to meet Kiev’s needs The US must expand its support for Ukraine if it wants to preserve its status as a global superpower, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has claimed.The veteran lawmaker and former Senate majority leader criticized military officials in the administration of President Donald Trump for carrying out his policy of shifting the burden of Ukraine assistance onto European NATO allies in an op-ed published by the Washington Post on Tuesday.Americans “can’t learn from a war… if they can’t properly observe it,” McConnell…