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President Donald Trump’s 15-year friendship with Jeffrey Epstein ended over a real estate deal, not the late sex offender’s abuse of young girls, according to biographer Michael Wolff. The White House’s official line is that the two men had a falling out in the early 2000s after Trump kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping has invited South Korean President Lee Jae Myung to a state visit in Beijing, signalling China’s desire to reinforce relations with South Korea amid regional turbulence. South Korea’s national security adviser, Wi Sung-lac, told reporters on Friday that Lee will meet Xi in Beijing on Monday before travelling to Shanghai to

Venezuela is open to negotiating an agreement with the US to combat drug trafficking, the country’s president Nicolás Maduro has said, but he declined to comment on a reported CIA-led strike on a Venezuelan docking area that Donald Trump claimed was used by cartels. Maduro, in the pre-recorded interview with Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet, reiterated

The Trump administration is aiming to move a planned 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom through the federal government’s review process at a rapid clip, with final approvals as soon as early March — potentially clearing the way for construction to start a month later. President Trump has sought to move quickly on the ballroom project, which

Trump said he vetoed a clean drinking water project because people are leaving Colorado “in droves.” It appears he’s relying on a single moving company’s statistics. DENVER — President Donald Trump now says he nixed a clean drinking water project in Colorado because of his belief that people are leaving the state “in droves,” which

On December 16, Chinese President Xi Jinping, on receiving a work report from Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, said the city should proactively align with the country’s 15th five-year plan and better integrate into, and serve, the national development agenda. In recent days, discussion of the coming plan across the Hong Kong government

President Donald Trump rang in 2026 dancing in unison with a Teenage Mutant Turtle as Vanilla Ice rapped live on stage. The surreal scene at Mar-a-Lago was captured by Donald Trump Jr., who shared a clip on Instagram of the president, 79, switching from talking to an unnamed woman to dancing to a live performance

Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Billionaire Jeff Bezos is taking the idea of bringing work home to a new level. The Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) founder has completed the five-year renovation of his Beverly Hills, California, estate, and the centerpiece isn’t the three pickleball

Elon Musk said his brain implant company Neuralink will begin “high-volume production” of its brain-computer interface devices and transition to an entirely automated surgical procedure in 2026, according to a post he shared on social media platform X on Wednesday. The implant is designed to help people with conditions such as spinal cord injuries by

The complaint targets a policy that would nix coverage under federal health insurance for gender-affirming healthcare. Published On 1 Jan 20261 Jan 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share A group of federal government employees in the United States has filed a class action complaint against President Donald Trump’s administration over a

In a statement posted yesterday ahead of New Year’s celebrations in China, President Xi Jinping remarked on the nation’s technological advancement and execution of its latest five-year plan, while calling the reunification of Taiwan “unstoppable.” While the statement in itself is hardly new, there are mounting tensions in the area that may raise the level

President Trump is battling with White House staff over how much work he actually has to do. The 79-year-old president, who has repeatedly dozed through public appearances in his second term, has begged White House staff to give him “fewer, more important meetings” during his average workday. Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he

President Donald Trump pushed back on critics who have questioned the state of his health, telling The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Thursday that he denies falling asleep in meetings and takes a higher dose of aspirin than recommended by his doctors. “They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and

Elon Musk responded on social media to a chart highlighting the distribution of income taxes in the United States. The graphic, shared by a user on X, detailed federal income tax payments for 2021. According to the breakdown, the wealthiest 5% of Americans shouldered the bulk of the tax burden, while the bottom 50% contributed

The 1.84-acre property is on Indian Creek, a private, man-made island in Miami-Dade County that’s known as the “Billionaire Bunker.” The island is home to properties owned by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, Tom Brady, Carl Icahn, and Jeff Bezos. Bezos owns three properties totaling $237 million on the exclusive island — two of the

Megyn Kelly ended 2025 with a bang by name-dropping the “meanest” and most “unpleasant” A-listers she’s met. Jane Fonda was the first to “come to mind” when the journalist, 55, was asked about her least favorite celebs in a Daily Mail interview Wednesday. Kelly slammed the actress, 88, for being “offended” by questions over her

Will 2026 become the year when Chinese President Xi Jinping decides that the long-promised “reunification” of Taiwan can no longer wait?Driving the newsChina’s latest round of live-fire military drills in the air and seas around Taiwan landed with unusually sharp timing: just as the calendar flipped another year closer to 2027, a date that looms

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman are engaged in a courtroom clash of the titans over the origins of OpenAI, now one of the most important artificial intelligence companies in the world. In San Francisco federal court, they are suing each other in a dizzying series of claims and counterclaims. In Altman’s corner, there’s an arsenal