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As the standoff between the U.S. and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz continues, Pakistani and Iranian officials claim a new round of peace talks could be held in Pakistan by the end of the week.

WASHINGTON — The European Union’s top economic adviser is warning the world that stagflation, a slowing of economic growth combined with rising inflation, may be on the horizon due to the ongoing hostilities between the United States and Iran.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg could soon have an AI clone of himself to interact with and provide feedback to employees, according to a report from the Financial Times.

A new city ordinance in Democrat-controlled Boston, Massachusetts, may cost food delivery companies hundreds of dollars.

Over 1,000 Hollywood insiders, from writers to actors to directors, have signed an open letter opposing Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. 

The United States needs a policy of “high-value migration,” not a continuation of the post-1990 easy-migration policies that create endless fights over migrant crimes, economic damage, and business-backed amnesties, according to White House aide Stephen Miller.

The Iranian regime on Monday denied charging a “toll” to Indian ships for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, following President Donald Trump’s threat to prevent any ship that paid ransom to Iran from using the strait.

President Donald Trump’s blockade of Iran could be poised to deliver a staggering blow to the Iranian economy, including the cash flows needed by the regime to pay the host of soldiers and thugs it requires to stay in power.

OpenAI is backing an Illinois state bill that would protect AI companies from legal responsibility when their technology contributes to severe societal harms, including mass deaths or catastrophic financial losses.

The liberal Irish government will face a vote of no-confidence amid the spiralling fuel crisis and the widespread farmer-trucker protests.

Protesters demanding the Irish government slash punishing taxes on farmers are successfully starving the country of fuel.

The state of Tennessee is taking action where Congress has failed by voting to put a tax on U.S. dollars wired by migrants to other countries.

This week, the war almost escalated into the destruction of an ancient civilization; but instead it turned into an argument about toll collection. Progress and peace!

Donald Trump Jr. told his Triggered podcast audience on Thursday that “everyone should read” Wynton Hall’s instant bestseller, CODE RED, to “understand what’s actually going on” with AI.

Google’s “AI Overview” search results are producing tens of millions of inaccurate answers each hour, according to new research that raises concerns about the reliability of AI-powered information retrieval.

Lara Trump said on her podcast The Right View with Lara Trump that people need to go out and buy Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI, written by Breitbart News social media director Wynton Hall, as it lays out that the future of AI will be the “fight of our generation.”

President Donald Trump’s youngest son Barron Trump is preparing to join the energy drink market with SOLLOS Yerba Mate Inc.

The government of Ecuador announced Thursday that it is raising tariffs on Colombian imports from 50 to 100 percent on May 1.

More than a dozen House Republicans have now thrown their support behind Rep. Maria Salazar’s (R-FL) “Dignity Act,” which would give amnesty to most of the nation’s 11 to 22 million illegal aliens while expanding legal immigration levels by funneling more foreign workers into American jobs.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell called Wall Street executives to an emergency meeting at Treasury headquarters in Washington this week to address cybersecurity vulnerabilities posed by Anthropic’s latest “Mythos” AI model.

In each month this year, the number of consumer goods categories declining in price has grown.

Consumer sentiment plunged in early April to the lowest level in the survey’s seven-decade history, as the Iran conflict weighed heavily on Republican household views of the economy.

Nicaragua’s communist Daniel Ortega regime is concealing from its official statistics the nearly 30 percent Gross Domestic Product (GPD) contribution that remittances add to the nation’s ailing economy, the newspaper Confidencial reported.

Officials from Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Police (PNB) on Thursday blocked a peaceful protest that attempted to march towards the Miraflores presidential palace to demand higher wages and pensions from the Venezuelan socialist regime.

Higher gasoline prices pushed up the consumer price index in March but price pressures were muted outside of energy.

The UK has surrendered ability to ensure its own security, leaving it at the mercy of global events, and the PM raging about energy costs. 

Venezuela’s National Assembly on Thursday passed a new mining law, opening its doors to private entrepreneurship as the nation’s socialist regime seeks to attract U.S. and other foreign investment after decades of socialist restrictions.

A new study shows that Gen Z has defied the doomsayers to become some of the most active cinema goers by attending more films per year than predecessor generations.

President Donald Trump warned Iran on Thursday against charging fees on tanker ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

Rep. Maria Salazar’s migration bill is a high-stakes attack by business groups on the income and political participation of the GOP’s populist-minded voters.

A careful reading of the latest data shows an economy where the inflation problem is largely behind us.

Over the last several weeks, the Trump administration has aggressively brought pro-consumer populism back to antitrust policy.

A recent Gallup survey reveals that young adults in the United States are increasingly negative about AI technology, even as more than half use it regularly.

Entertainment giant Disney is set to lay off up to 1,000 employees in the coming months as Hollywood and the media continues to contract in the face of a changing media landscape.

The spending data indicate strong consumer demand, undermining suggestions that consumers have been exhausted by persistent inflation or are retreating due to concerns about slowing job growth.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) says he needs higher taxes on prosperous whites to fund his “Black and Brown” political machine of immigrants and minorities.