$760 million in oil futures changed hands in a single minute, 20 minutes before Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz. Regulators are now investigating the fifth such spike ahead of a Trump announcement.
Billions in tariff collections just became illegal retroactively. Starting Monday, businesses can line up to get their money back — and every trade negotiation built on those tariffs just lost its foundation.
A federal judge found probable cause that the Trump administration committed a crime by defying his order on deportation flights. A higher court just told him to stop investigating.
Facebook approved the group. Apple approved the app. Then the DOJ called, and both vanished. A federal judge says the government violated the First Amendment.
Next week, Japan's cabinet will vote to let defense firms sell destroyers and missiles to the world. The cause isn't Beijing — it's doubt in Washington.
Four polling institutes now rank the far-right AfD as Germany's strongest party. Chancellor Merz's personal approval has fallen to his lowest ever. Coalition satisfaction: 27 percent.
Two proposals failed after midnight. Congress bought itself 10 days to argue about a surveillance law that lets US agencies read the world's communications without a warrant.
The UK's security vetting service said no. The Foreign Office said yes anyway. Keir Starmer's defense is that nobody told him — and members of his own party want him gone.
The House rejected an Iran war powers resolution by a single vote. The Senate did the same a day earlier. Both chambers just surrendered the Constitution's most consequential check on executive power.
Children as young as 12 can now receive life sentences for gang membership — even as accomplices. The law passed with 58 of 60 votes. Four years of emergency rule show no sign of ending.
Magyar walked into state TV this week, called it a "factory of lies," and promised to suspend its signal. On Sunday, voters gave him 138 of 199 parliamentary seats to do exactly that.
Not a pardon, not a commutation — the Justice Department is asking a federal court to retroactively nullify seditious conspiracy verdicts won by its own prosecutors. The DC Circuit will decide whether to go along.
Kevin Warsh wants to run the world's most powerful central bank. His 69-page disclosure reveals at least $131 million in assets — heavy on crypto and AI ventures — in sectors whose valuations would swing on every rate decision he makes.
Five opposition defections, three by-election wins, zero legislative roadblocks. Mark Carney's majority means Canada's economic pivot away from the US can now move at whatever speed he chooses.
Two House members resigned within minutes of each other Monday — the result of a bipartisan expulsion plan designed so neither party would lose its edge. The speed was unprecedented; the political motives, less surprising.
Péter Magyar won a landslide promising to bring Hungary back to Europe. Two days later, he was courting Beijing. Both goals will be hard to pursue at once.
A federal judge ruled President Trump failed to show the Wall Street Journal acted with 'actual malice' in reporting on a lewd letter to Jeffrey Epstein. He has two weeks to try again — without the evidence he didn't have the first time.
The Brexit campaign's loudest promise was parliamentary sovereignty. A decade later, Keir Starmer is preparing legislation that would adopt EU rules through secondary legislation — the same mechanism Brexiteers once decried as democratic theft.
With 77 percent turnout and a projected two-thirds supermajority, Péter Magyar's Tisza party has ended Viktor Orbán's 16-year grip on power. The consequences for Europe's Russia policy — and a frozen €90 billion loan to Ukraine — are immediate.
After 16 years of rewiring courts, media, and electoral maps, Orbán trails in every major independent poll. Whether the system he built can still save him is the democratic question of the weekend.
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