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Sweden’s parliament will vote on Tuesday, 3 November 2026, on whether Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist should become the country’s next prime minister — even though she has said…
Ukraine struck an oil refinery deep inside Russia early on Friday, 30 October 2026, ending a two-week pause in its campaign against Russian oil infrastructure and defying weeks of heavy…
Sir Patrick Stewart, the Yorkshire-born Shakespearean actor who became one of the most recognisable faces in the world as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Professor Charles Xavier in…
Wall Street delivered a brutal verdict on the artificial intelligence boom on Thursday, 29 October 2026, and no company felt it harder than Google’s parent. Alphabet shares fell more than…
The United States Senate has now voted 13 times on the same question — whether to advance a short-term bill funding the federal government through 21 November — and 13…
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has opened an investigation into whether the three largest pharmacy benefit managers in the United States punished independent pharmacies for supporting legislation…
When the first tanker from the new Venezuela arrangement docked in Texas this week, President Donald Trump gave it a simple name: a gift. One million barrels of Venezuelan crude,…
Vice President JD Vance warned on Thursday, 30 October 2026, that the government shutdown could become a disaster for American air travel if it drags into the holiday season, speaking…
A federal judge in Washington heard arguments on Friday, 30 October 2026, over whether President Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot triumphal arch can move toward construction next week, or whether every…
President Donald Trump urged Senate Republicans on Thursday night to use the so-called nuclear option to abolish the filibuster and reopen the federal government without Democratic votes, a demand that…