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In a groundbreaking development this week, President Trump announced that his White House has now secured over $10 trillion in investments from foreign nations and companies, just four months into his second term. On Friday, May 16, the White House posted a video highlighting the jaw-dropping total in investments that the US has secured from modern Arab nations, compounded by enormous investments other foreign nations and companies have guaranteed. “We now have, I think substantially over $10 trillion of investment. And now, when I add the $1.4 trillion, we easily break that number. We really appreciate your confidence, and your…

Bernadette Peters on the opening night of “Old Friends” at the Samuel J. Friedman TheatreGetty Images The run of Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, the posthumous musical love letter to Stephen Sondheim, has been extended on Broadway until Sunday, June 29th, 2025. The show offers musical theatre enthusiasts living near or visiting New York City the rare opportunity to experience the humor, joy and pathos of more than three dozen songs from Sondheim’s most cherished musicals in one of Broadway’s most intimate theaters. The program includes tunes from such Sondheim classics as Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Company, Follies, and…

Four rounds of talks with a team of American diplomats have done nothing to soften Iran’s position on ending its illicit nuclear weapons development, Iranian officials insisted on Thursday. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who has led the delegation to Oman-mediated talks with Washington for the past month, eliminated the possibility on Thursday that Iran will stop enriching uranium, a core demand of the administration of President Donald Trump for any agreement to lift sanctions on the world’s premier state sponsor of terrorism. Tehran insists that it has a “right” to generate highly-enriched uranium as part of its “peaceful” nuclear program,…

President Donald Trump criticized the Supreme Court for ruling that the Trump administration must provide suspected Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members with adequate notice before being deported under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act (AEA). In a post on Truth Social, Trump criticized the 7-2 decision by the Supreme Court, noting that it would “let more criminals pour” into the United States. Trump added that the decision would “allow these people to commit many crimes before they even see the inside of a Courthouse” during this “long, protracted, and expensive legal process.” “The Supreme Court has ruled that the…

Zelensky and Vance in Rome. Vice President JD Vance hadn’t publicly met Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky since the blowout in the Oval Office, when the Kiev regime leader decided to set himself on fire in front of the press, and nearly lost the US backing for good. Since then, may geopolitical moves have been taken by all the players involved: the US, Russia, Ukraine, EU four (France, UK, Germany and Poland). While it’s proving to be every bit as difficult as expected, the peace negotiations have begun, and by now we can fairly say that the process has unstoppable momentum.…

How to solve today’s Wordle.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Looking for Saturday’s Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: ForbesToday’s ‘Wordle’ #1428 Hints, Clues And Answer For Saturday, May 17thBy Erik Kain It’s a lovely Sunday . . . in Scotland! I’ve gone on holiday, though that doesn’t mean I won’t be working. Wordle isn’t going anywhere and neither am I. Well, I mean I’ve gone to Scotland but I’m still doing my daily Wordle and posting these guides. I’m nothing if not committed. But I do have exploring to do and lots of it, so let’s…

President of Argentina Javier Milei will meet with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican in June before traveling to Israel, Argentine outlets reported on Friday. Milei originally intended to travel to Rome this weekend to participate in the Inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV’s Petrine Ministry on Sunday, May 18, at Saint Peter’s Square. The Argentine president cancelled his trip on Thursday, citing scheduling conflicts. Argentina will instead be represented by Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein and Human Capital Minister Sandra Petovello. The Argentine outlet Infobae reported that the trip would have complicated Milei’s timely return to Argentina on Sunday ahead…

Newly released audio from Axios reveals that former President Joe Biden struggled with his memory during an interview with then-special counsel Robert Hur. The audio recording reveals that Biden had difficulty remembering when his late son, Beau Biden, died and when now-President Donald Trump was elected during his first term in office, among other things, Axios reported. “So, during this time when you were living at Chain Bridge Road and there were documents relating to the Penn Biden Center or the Biden Institute, or the Cancer Moonshot, or your book, where did you keep papers that related to those things…

Ankara’s “greatest desire” is to see Moscow and Kiev reach a “definitive result” in peace talks, the president has said Türkiye is ready to continue mediating between Russia and Ukraine to help end the conflict, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, hailing the recent talks in Istanbul.Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Erdogan described the recent round of Russia-Ukraine talks – the first direct engagement between the two sides since 2022 – as critical to settling the conflict.“Bringing the delegations of the two countries together in Istanbul is extremely important for the end of the war that started on February 24,…

“I want to be a voice for conservative values. I want to be a voice for the policies and liberties enshrined in the Constitution of the United States,” he continued. “I want to be a champion of the conservative cause, and that’s where I’ll stay focused, and we’ll let the future take care of itself.” Having once been a possible successor to Trump, Pence betrayed the conservative movement on January 6th, 2021 when he refused to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election, despite the widespread evidence of fraud that tilted the race in favor of Joe Biden. Pence…