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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, listens to Edwin F. Lopez, the attaché for DHS Homeland Security Investigations, second from left, next to the Venezuelan government airplane that Rubio announced is being seized by the U.S. during a news conference at La Isabela International Airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Feb. 6, 2025.

‘Are you crazy?’ ‘A little…’ Inside one obsessed U.S. Agent’s $50 million secret plot to capture Nicolás Maduro by turning his pilot against him

Armed with a $50 million bounty and a rogue plan, a Homeland Security agent tried to flip Maduro’s personal pilot into delivering Venezuela’s president straight into U.S. custody.

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‘Are you crazy?’ ‘A little…’ Inside one obsessed U.S. Agent’s $50 million secret plot to capture Nicolás Maduro by turning his pilot against him

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UK treasury chief says ‘harsh global headwinds’ from wars and tariffs are harming the country’s economic outlook

South Korea’s trade deal with Trump could sink its currency and trigger a financial crisis

Business braces for furloughs, lost data, and policy paralysis as government shutdown looms

Meet Lisa Monaco, the 57-year-old Microsoft executive Trump wants fired

Goldman Sachs says this ‘Goldilocks’ stock market could be in for a shock before the end of the year

The Pentagon suddenly ordered all its top brass from around the world to a meeting. Trump wasn’t part of the initial plan but will now attend

NYC mayor Adams quits reelection race without endorsing any remaining candidates, but warns ‘extremism is growing in our politics’

Trump to meet with top congressional leaders Monday ahead of government shutdown deadline at midnight on Wednesday

Trump asks Supreme Court to back his limits on birthright citizenship and upend how the 14th Amendment’s been interpreted for 125 years

U.S. revokes visa for Colombia’s president after he went to a protest and urged American soldiers to disobey Trump

Ken Griffin has a warning for Trump and the GOP: ‘I would not underestimate how grating a 3% inflation rate could be’ on Americans

Trump says he’ll send troops to Portland, Oregon, in latest deployment to US cities

Trump escalates retribution campaign with demand that Microsoft fire former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco

Nexstar and Sinclair are bringing back Kimmel, but many viewers may have found alternatives while he was blacked out

Musk, Thiel, and Bannon appear in newly released Epstein records, years after sex-offender plea

Trump’s tariffs are bringing in serious revenue—and it’d be even higher if not for tariff dodgers costing the government $40 billion a year, Goldman Sachs says

Ken Griffin says CEOs lining up to beg Trump for tariff exemptions is ‘nauseating’—and that the White House showing ‘favor’ undermines the American story

Trump’s overnight demand for 100% tariffs on pharmaceuticals will be ‘a meaningful commercial hit for U.S. consumers,’ top analyst says

With rural America starting to see huge financial losses from tariff policies, Trump offers vague aid package to farmers in the heartland

Telehealth for Medicare patients is on the chopping block as Congress narrows in on an extension deadline. ‘The uncertainty creates a lack of trust,’ healthcare CEO says

Behind the fall and resurrection of Jimmy Kimmel is a $6.2 billion merger and the pro-Republican companies that serve rural, conservative audiences

‘The frustration is overwhelming’: Soybean farmers feel betrayed as Argentina blows a hole in rural America’s $47 billion soybean bonanza

Scott Bessent tells NYC to ‘drop dead’ while he arranges a $20B swap line for Argentina’s chain-saw-wielding, dog-cloning president

Amazon to pay $2.5 billion, one of the largest FTC settlements in history, to mitigate claims it tricked millions of people into signing up for Prime

Meet Lindsey Halligan, the 36-year-old former Miss Colorado hopeful who only worked 3 federal cases before Trump promoted her to U.S. attorney

Bill Clinton warns Trump’s aid cuts could fuel 6 million new HIV cases—and is unveiling a $40 drug plan to fill the gap

Bessent halts Argentina crisis as U.S. lifeline upends short bets

Over 26 million watched Jimmy Kimmel’s return and the vast majority were on YouTube, where Sinclair and Nexstar couldn’t block them

Bessent says New York can ‘drop dead’ if it elects Mamdani and ever needs a bailout

Stephen Miran, who Trump nominated to undermine Fed independence, once wrote a scathing critique of how the Fed wasn’t independent enough

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