Savannah Guthrie Delivers Bombshell Update on Mother’s Kidnapping

DAILY BEAST'S 

“Someone needs to do the right thing. We are in agony. We are in agony. It is unbearable,” Guthrie said.

 ‘BECAUSE OF ME’

Savannah Guthrie has revealed that the first two ransom notes the family received may have been sent from the real kidnappers.

American apocalypse: The end 'feels personal and imminent'

Conor Dillon | Gabriel Borrud
Deutsche Welle
March 24, 2026 - Social psychologists in the US found that a third of people surveyed feel the world will end in their lifetimes. That's not only depressing; it also affects people's sense of agency when faced by war or climate change.

Image: Vadimrysev/Depositphotos/IMAGO

‘Another Iraq’: Nancy Mace Walks Out of Iran Briefing, Warns ‘They’ Want Boots on the Ground

Alex Griffing
Wed, March 25, 2026

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said on Wednesday she walked out of a House Armed Services briefing on Iran and then warned against the U.S. sending troops into Iran.

At Pentagon Christian service, Hegseth prays for violence ‘against those who deserve no mercy’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump speaks during the swearing-in for Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
By TIFFANY STANLEY
Updated 12:58 PM PDT, March 25, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, hosting his first monthly Christian worship service at the Pentagon since the Iran war began, prayed Wednesday to have “every round find its mark.”

Venezuela’s Maduro has been in a notorious Brooklyn jail for over 80 days. This is what life is like in there

By María Santana
10 hr ago
Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is escorted by federal agents, as he heads towards the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Manhattan for an initial appearance, at Downtown Manhattan Heliport, in New York City, on January 5, 2026. Adam Gray/Reuters

As ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro prepares for his next court hearing in the US, his son is projecting an optimistic and defiant image of how his father and First Lady Cilia Flores are coping with life behind bars. However, people with access to the notorious Brooklyn jail where he is being held paint a less rosy picture of what life there is really like.

Markets are gripped by an alarming cognitive dissonance

Finance & economics | Buttonwood

Investors all seem to think everyone else is wrong

The Economist

Mar 24, 2026 

Markets thrive on contradictions. Every buyer needs a seller – and each thinks they are making a good trade despite the likelihood that the other is at least as well-informed as they are. Investors know that markets are the best prediction engines out there, and try to beat them anyway.

Venezuela forgets about Maduro and starts down an irreversible path

The country is trying to turn the page while Venezuelans take to the streets to gauge the true openness of Delcy Rodríguez’s government

María Martín

Bogotá - MAR 23, 2026 - 09:41 CDT

Iran rejects US 15-point peace plan, state media report

Paulin Kola
Iran has rejected US President Donald Trump's 15-point plan to end the war, according to state-run Press TV.

It cited an unknown "senior political-security official" laying out five of Tehran's own conditions to bring the conflict to an end, including paying reparations for damage.

Dimon warns on AI job losses, calls for government-business incentives

Garrett Downs
Published Tue, Mar 24 2026


Key Points

• JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned that artificial intelligence could cost U.S. jobs.
• Dimon called for a fix that involves both the government and private sector.
• He said the government could offer incentives to employers that retrain or other benefits to employees harmed by AI adoption.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Tuesday warned that artificial intelligence could cost the U.S. jobs, and suggested the government could create an incentive system for businesses to help soften the blow.

Pentagon Orders 2,000 Airborne Troops to Middle East

The deployment could give President Trump more military options after a 15-point proposal, delivered via Pakistan, was sent to the Iranians, according to two officials briefed on the diplomacy.

Published March 24, 2026

Updated March 25, 2026, 2:20 a.m. ET

Amid US-Israeli attacks, people in Iran struggle to survive an ailing economy

Some people are left without an income, others are temporarily displaced, and no one knows when the internet will be back.

An Iranian woman carries goods in a bazaar in Tehran, Iran, March 24, 2026. [Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA]

By MAZIAR MOTAMEDI

Published On 25 Mar 2026

Tehran, Iran – Iranians are dealing with the fallout of the US-Israeli war on their country for the fourth week while being squeezed by a dwindling economy and the longest internet shutdown the country has ever experienced.

A Mar-a-Lago flip: Dems win Trump's hometown Florida House district

Tuesday's results add more tallies to a trend of Democrats flipping Republican-held seats in state legislatures across the country over the past 14 months.

By Gary Fineout

03/24/2026 

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Democrats sent a jolt Tuesday through reliably red Florida, flipping two legislative seats including the district containing President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

JPMorgan's Global inflation forecast 2026: The rise of regional cross-currents

While global core inflation is projected to be stable this year, regional divergences will likely come to the fore.

Inflation has remained resolutely above central bank targets, with global core CPI hovering at around 3% since 2024.

• Looking ahead, J.P. Morgan Global Research expects global core inflation to be stable at 2.8% in 2026.
• However, there will likely be disparate outcomes across regions, with inflation projected to accelerate in the U.S. and moderate in Europe.

February 17, 2026

Trump is breaking an axiom of war. Did no one warn him?

Today at 3:15 a.m. PT

Opinion by Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn is a financial columnist and author. He writes for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator in London.

The exact origin of the maxim “Don’t fight on two fronts” is lost to time. It can be variously traced back to “The Art of War,” the classic 5th-century B.C. Chinese treatise by Sun Tzu, to Napoleon Bonaparte, or to Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, the main commander of British forces during World War II.

The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it

By Steve H. Hanke and David M. Walker

March 23, 2026, 11:14 AM ET

The U.S. government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released last week to near-total media silence. The numbers: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30, 2025.

Iran war live: Tehran says Trump’s peace talk claims are ‘fake news’

Al Jazeera Live
By Stephen Quillen and Yashraj Sharma
Published On 24 Mar 2026

US President Donald Trump announced that discussions are ongoing with Iran to “determine whether a broader agreement can be reached”, saying that “this time, Iran means business; they want to settle. They want peace”. Tehran denied that talks with the US are taking place, with Iran’s parliamentary speaker saying such claims are “fake news” and being “used to manipulate financial and oil markets”.

EU, Australia seal landmark free trade deal amid global tensions

Albanese struck a long-awaited free trade deal on Tuesday, aiming to boost exports amid global trade uncertainty. The accord reflects efforts by both sides to diversify supply chains and address energy vulnerabilities linked to the Middle East conflict.

How Hunter S. Thompson Taught His Son to Be a Man, a Father, and Totally Normal

Books

An interview with Juan F. Thompson

By Matt Miller

PUBLISHED: JAN 15, 2016 

During one of Hunter S. Thompson's most infamous parties—for which he and Ken Kesey invited a group of Hells Angels to the middle of the woods to drink and take acid—a baby quietly slept in the corner of one of the cabins. Years later this same boy clutched his father's back while terrified and speeding through the Colorado mountains on a motorcycle. The kid was the brunt of his father's verbose insults ("waterhead bastard" was a favorite). He witnessed a messy, abusive divorce, and somehow, even though he was the son of a booze-guzzling, gun-obsessed, LSD-loving genius, Juan F. Thompson grew up to be a stable adult.