Among the verdant gardens of Havana’s diplomatic quarter, Siboney, ambassadors from countries traditionally allied to the United States are expressing increasing frustration with Washington’s attempt to unseat Cuba’s government, while simultaneously drawing up plans to draw down their missions. Cuba is in crisis. Already reeling from a four-year economic slump, worsened by hyper-inflation and the

After 16 years of uninterrupted power, Viktor Orbán is facing his biggest electoral challenge. For years Hungary’s prime minister has spun weak policy performance as success. The rise of a rival, Péter Magyar, and the opposition Tisza party has exposed the limits of that strategy. The economy is stagnating, despite repeated promises of a long-awaited

The competition in the space race between U. S. billionaires, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, is intensifying. SpaceX, led by Musk, is planning to establish a lunar base called “Moonbase Alpha” and is looking to launch a device on the moon’s surface. This base is aimed at supporting Musk’s vision of an AI-computing network consisting

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denounced Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “slave to war” in a speech to the Munich Security Conference Saturday, adding that Russia’s attacks had damaged every power plant in the country. Zelenskyy was speaking days before the fourth anniversary of Moscow’s invasion. Russia and Ukraine will hold US-brokered talks next week,

Donald Trump is firing back against Bill Maher, seemingly after he shared some critics of the president on Friday’s episode of Real Time. Trump took to Truth Social Saturday to claim that he wasted time having dinner with the television host at the end of March 2025. He specifically referenced a moment during Maher’s most

Two golfers in Washington, D.C., sued the federal government on Friday to try to prevent the Trump administration from overhauling a more than 100-year-old public golf course, accusing the administration of violating environmental laws and polluting a park that is on the National Register of Historic Places. The suit is the latest in a series of legal

Roses are red, violets are blue, Valentine’s Day is sweet—and these celebrities think so, too! Love is certainly in the air this Feb. 14, with some of the biggest stars ringing in the special holiday in the most romantic—and occasionally cheeky—fashion. For instance, years after revealing they separated in 2016, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith

Over the past couple of months, we have been sharing with you lists of celebrities who were born in Massachusetts. As we continue our research, we have been discovering more and more celebrities who were born in the Bay State. Many of the celebrities on the list were born in beautiful Berkshire County as well.

Published on 14/02/2026 – 19:40 GMT+1 On Saturday, Pedro Sánchez stepped onto the stage of the Munich Security Conference for the first time as Prime Minister of Spain. He did so with a speech that clashed head-on with the current trend among world powers. His message was direct: nuclear rearmament will not protect anyone from

Elon Musk’s social media platform X is set to soon let users trade stocks and cryptocurrencies directly from their timelines as the company pushes deeper into financial services. The upcoming features, described by the company’s head of product, Nikita Bier, will include “Smart Cashtags.” These will allow users to interact with ticker symbols in posts

Since Donald Trump’s first term, Stephen Miller has risen into an architect and enforcer of some of the president’s most controversial policies. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to discuss the senior aide’s rise, and how he’s become one of the most powerful figures in the Trump administration. Miller “has always believed that

Potential rollback of US steel tariffs by President Trump is back in focus, creating fresh questions for producers such as Nucor. At the same time, Warren Buffett has taken a substantial stake in Nucor, signaling his interest in NYSE:NUE during a period of possible policy change. Nucor shares last closed at $183.23, with a value

Five European countries accused Russia of poisoning opposition politician Alexei Navalny on Saturday on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. “The U.K., Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands are confident that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin,” the countries said in a joint statement following “analyses of samples” from his body. The

Lack of internet access is a major problem in many regions of the world today. Starlink was initially developed by the American tech billionaire Elon Musk to solve this problem. It was designed as a way of quickly getting the internet into regions all over the world where this was either impossible to do by conventional

I’m Michelle Cottle. I cover politics. I’m – Do it again. Shouldn’t have had that margarita last night. No, I did have any margaritas last night, I swear. Just had a margarita this morning. It’s the one this morning. This week I am coming to you from beautiful Austin, Texas, where I am wallowing in

Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a reassuring message to America’s allies on Saturday, striking a less aggressive but still firm tone about the administration’s intent to reshape the trans-Atlantic alliance and push its priorities after more than a year of President Donald Trump’s often-hostile rhetoric toward traditional allies. Reminding his audience at the annual

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has described America as “a child of Europe” and made an emotional but highly conditional offer of a new partnership, insisting the two continents belong together. In a much-anticipated speech at the annual Munich Security Conference, he said the US was intent on building a new world order,