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Canadian officials are negotiating with the European Union for closer ties with the economic bloc in response to the breakdown of trade negotiations with the United States earlier this summer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday—including potentially becoming an “associate member” of the union.
As a messenger of bad daily news, I can only say this about the problem with oil. Watch the trend, not the headline. It’s crucial to approach the situation with a clear mind rather than succumbing to panic. Many of us are feeling the pinch at the pump, and it’s natural to feel overwhelmed by soaring prices. But instead of rushing to fill up our tanks or making hasty decisions based on fleeting headlines, we should focus on understanding the underlying trends: the price of Brent crude, U.S. gasoline and diesel inventories, and whether oil and fuel can physically move through the world's major shipping and refining networks. And the larger lesson is that $100 oil is not the bill. It is a signal about the bill that may be coming.
CAIRO (AP) — An Iranian cargo vessel was struck early Sunday off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media said, and Tehran postponed a plan to brief neighboring countries on its contested efforts to manage shipping in the strait.
Few eras of Greek history compare to the ancient times that the country has become so synonymous with—the cinematic fables of Odysseus, comic-book lore of Leonidas, and philosophic creeds of Socrates are ever-present in pop culture. But anyone who’s been to Hellas in the past few years can tell you that something new is brewing here—current-day Greece is coming close to a similar precipice, one that could be nearly as definitive as the Bronze Age, as visitors arrive in droves higher than ever before. Arrivals to the nation of 10 million people were up by 38% in the first few months of 2026, the highest increase on the continent for that period by far (Italy was second, with a 21% rise). Now, more than ever, it feels like everyone is planning a seafaring escape or mountain adventure to Athens and the islands—or, if you’re in-the-know, to the serene coastal towns of the Peloponnese peninsula or the northern Aegean’s sparkling Thermaic Gulf.
Brics countries agreed on Saturday to expand trade and payments in local currencies, making another step towards de-dollarisation as the bloc seeks to counter an assertive United States.
LONDON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Crypto investor Ben Delo said on Friday he would donate a record £36 million ($48.7 million), or £1 million a month before the next national election, to Britain's populist Reform UK to help the party get ready for government.
Most Americans can expect to pay significantly more each month for health insurance next year, whether they get it through work, the Affordable Care Act or Medicare. In some cases, the premium increases may be the largest in decades and are driven by numerous economic pressures. But they won’t look the same for everyone. Some will pay more in the form of higher copays or deductibles.
DALLAS – Republicans breathed a sigh of relief that the GOP midterm convention didn’t go poorly. But many aren’t convinced it will help in November.
Elon Musk says that Bernie Sanders misunderstands his wealth because 99% of it is tied up in stock. He says he doesn't have a trillion-dollar pile of cash sitting in a vault. He is right about that. He is wrong about what it means. Because nobody is proposing to tax a pile of cash. We are talking about wealth — ownership. Musk's Tesla and SpaceX shares are not Monopoly money. They represent real ownership of real companies, real assets, and enormous economic power. If their value rises, Musk becomes richer. If he needs money, those assets can be sold or used as collateral. The fact that his fortune is measured in shares rather than dollar bills does not make him less wealthy. It tells us what billionaire wealth actually is.
Police in Jackson, Mississippi, arrested a man on Friday in connection with the killing of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned home in the area last month.
The September 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, as the saying goes, “changed everything.” After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the global American empire, created in the 1940s to combat communism, was left without a raison d’être. While foreign policymakers spent the 1990s searching for one, the best they could come up with — use the military power of the United States to stop humanitarian abuses abroad — was quixotic at best, catastrophic at worst. For a time, the empire lost its juice.
