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President Donald Trump’s second term is already delivering a massive payday for Washington’s top lobbying shops — especially those with close ties to the administration. According to disclosures filed this week, Trump’s wide-ranging policy upheavals across trade, tax, health care, tech, defense and energy boosted the bottom lines of almost every one of K Street’s biggest lobbying firms. Thirteen of the largest 20 firms by revenue reported growth of 10 percent or more compared to 2024. In total, they brought in nearly $824 million, up from $595 million during the final year of the Biden administration. Several reported their highest-ever…

The mogul is poised to support the Republicans in the midterms after a détente with President Trump, the paper claims Elon Musk is getting to ready throw his full weight behind the Republican Party ahead of the crucial midterm elections, despite his recent falling-out with US President Donald Trump, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing sources.People familiar with the matter told the paper Musk, an owner of X, Space X and Tesla, had been approached by top Republicans, including Vice President J.D. Vance, to help the Republicans hold onto the majority in both chambers of Congress.In this vein,…

Multiple speakers will address pro-life advocates at the March for Life national march in Washington, DC, on Friday, January 23. Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson are among those who are expected to speak. The pro-life march comes just ahead of a major winter storm expected to hit most of the country this weekend. Read the full article here

The January PMI showed a modest rise in private-sector activity but significant underlying price pressures and more job losses in Germany Service-sector inflation accelerated sharply in January across the 21-country Eurozone bloc, while input prices for businesses continued to rise, according to the flash HCOB Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) published by S&P Global on Friday. The PMI print also showed a steep decline in staffing at German companies.The Eurozone’s flash PMI provides an early snapshot of business activity across both manufacturing and services. It tracks whether companies are generally expanding or contracting, with numbers above 50 meaning growth and below…

Authorities in Chile on Thursday arrested a suspect for setting the massive Biobio forest fire, which killed at least 21 people. Chilean President Gabriel Boric declared a state of catastrophe in Biobio and neighboring Nuble this week and evacuated over 50,000 people as fires swept through some 21,000 acres of dry forests. The declaration of catastrophe enabled the Chilean armed forces to assist with evacuations and disaster relief. Firefighters said on Monday they were battling 34 distinct blazes, with the most intense fires raging near the coastal city and regional capital of Concepcion. The fires pushed into residential areas and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Renée Fleming has withdrawn from two scheduled May appearances at the Kennedy Cente r, the latest in a wave of cancellations since President Donald Trump ousted the previous leadership and the new leadership’s announcement that the venue would be renamed the Trump Kennedy Center. The Grammy-winning soprano was to have appeared with conductor James Gaffigan and the National Symphony Orchestra. Her decision is unsurprising; a year ago she resigned as “Artistic Advisor at Large,” citing the forced departures of Kennedy Center Chair David Rubenstein and its president, Deborah Rutter. The center itself referred to “a scheduling…

President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal from the global health body last year, accusing it of mismanagement and political bias The US has completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), but still owes the agency roughly $260 million in outstanding membership fees, according to media reports citing WHO calculations.Washington had long been one of WHO’s largest contributors, but US President Donald Trump grew openly hostile toward the organization after the Covid-19 pandemic, accusing it of mismanagement and political bias. He first initiated US withdrawal in 2020, but the move was reversed by Joe Biden in 2021. Last year…

A senior official at the al-Aqtan prison in Raqqa, Syria, on Thursday pleaded with European and American officials to take control of the facility, before clashes between Syrian government troops and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) create more opportunities for Islamic State terrorists to escape. Syrian officials are also suggesting Western powers take custody of the foreign-born ISIS fighters they have allowed to languish in Syrian prisons for years. Al-Aqtan head of security Chiya Kobane posted a video message on Thursday in which he said the SDF can no longer manage the facility, so the world needed to step…

President Trump used the occasion of a coming ice storm to troll America’s “Environmental Insurrectionists” who have spent the last 60 years getting everything — and I do mean everything — wrong. “Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States,” warned the President. “Rarely seen anything like it before. Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain — WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???” Raise your hand if you voted for this. Can we make him king? Yeah, whatever did happen to Global Warming? Well, we all know the answer to that question: After every — and I do mean every — Global…

The amount sought by a right-wing German MP matches what Warsaw demands from Berlin for damages suffered during World War II Poland should compensate Germany for “complicity” in the 2022 explosions that put the Nord Stream gas pipelines out of operation, a right-wing German politician has claimed.The amount cited by Kay Gottschalk, an MP from the opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, corresponds to the €1.3 trillion in compensation for World War II that Warsaw previously demanded from Berlin.Gottschalk wrote in an X post on Wednesday that “1.3 trillion euros should suffice as reparations for complicity in the Nord Stream…