Categoria: FINANÇAS

A second person who took part in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University has been arrested by U.S. immigration agents after overstaying a student visa, federal officials said on Friday, the latest turn in the crisis engulfing the Ivy League institution. The person, identified by the authorities as Leqaa Kordia, is Palestinian and from the West […]

Lawyers for Sean Combs argued at a court hearing on Friday that a leaked security video showing Mr. Combs assaulting his former girlfriend was “deceptive,” and said they would request that it not be allowed as evidence at his upcoming trial on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. That video, recorded at a Los […]

Fast-moving wildfires were spreading Friday afternoon over portions of the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma, prompting evacuations, causing several car crashes amid sandstorm conditions and leaving thousands without power. Preliminary reports showed that at least three people had died in crashes in the greater Amarillo region, according to officials there. The wildfires were being fueled by […]

Tariff threats. Growing uncertainty about the economy. And a push for much lower oil prices. For all of their bravado about U.S. energy dominance and enthusiasm for deregulation, American energy executives are beginning to worry about President Trump’s agenda. Their concerns crept into conversations in hotel meeting rooms and over private meals this week in […]

Syria’s new government has adopted a temporary constitution that concentrates much power in the hands of the interim president and retains Islamic law as the foundation of the legal system. The interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, signed the constitutional declaration on Thursday following the dissolution in January of the previous constitution under the authoritarian president, Bashar […]

High school students in Oklahoma would be asked to identify “discrepancies” in the 2020 election as part of U.S. history classes, according to new social studies standards recently approved by the Oklahoma Board of Education. The proposed standards seem to echo President Trump’s false claims about his 2020 defeat. They ask students to examine factors […]

“A multiday severe weather episode,” the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center called a powerful cross-country storm system in their key message this week. Bringing with it a threat of damaging wind gusts from 60 to 100 miles per hour, hail the size of baseballs, tornadoes and strong thunderstorms, the system is expected to unleash […]

By the fall of 2020, many of the seniors at Oakland Technical High School had become nocturnal. Already confined to their homes for half a year and desperate for fun, they stayed up all night. They were making TikToks, watching porn, playing Fortnite. In the monotony of the pandemic lockdown, “time didn’t matter, I suppose,” […]

Policy uncertainty and tariff whiplash are making consumers less confident about the economic outlook and more worried about inflation, new data from the University of Michigan showed on Friday, the latest evidence that Americans are bracing for pain in President Trump’s second term. A new survey released on Friday showed consumer sentiment plummeting 11 percent […]

Mark Carney, who has never held elected office but has a long résumé in economic policymaking and investing, was sworn in Friday morning as Canada’s 24th prime minister. He will have no time to ease into his role. Canada is experiencing a period of severe instability as its relationship with its closest ally, the United […]