Wall Street had a stellar first full trading week of 2026, shaking off a barrage of uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump ‘s social media posts and the surprise military operation in Venezuela. The S & P 500 turned in a record high close Friday, following weaker-than-expected December job growth. The government reported that nonfarm

President Donald Trump laid into Republican Senator Susan Collins in an expletive-laden phone call after she voted against one of his top priorities. The president reportedly made a “profanity-laced” call to the vulnerable Republican senator on Thursday, sources told The Hill. Collins was one of five GOP senators to join Democrats in advancing a resolution

The Islamic Republic’s Iranian flag has been scrubbed from Elon Musk’s social media platform X. The move comes as deadly protests demanding regime change in Tehran raged into a 14th day Saturday. Now, the old Iranian national flag featuring a lion and a sun — which was the official flag of the country up until

Laura KuenssbergSunday with Laura Kuenssberg BBC “Keir can’t be the last gasp of the dying world order,” warns a minister. The prime minister finds himself in charge when the globe is being bent into a new shape by his big pal in the White House. While a lot has gone wrong at home, Downing Street’s

After years of public criticism directed at Europe, US President Donald Trump put together a National Security Strategy (NSS) that reflected his twisted perceptions. Still, it is one thing to hear his stage rhetoric and another to see his worldview codified in official doctrine. Its core claim: Europe will be “unrecognisable in 20 years” due

There aren’t many moments in Donald Trump’s political career that could be called highlights. But one occurred during the 2016 Republican primary debate in South Carolina, when Trump addressed the prickly issue of the Iraq War. It had been a “big, fat mistake,” he charged. And the politicians who started it? “They lied.” The audience

Here’s one reason Donald Trump seems perennially in a bad mood: he has probably figured out that the America he fantasizes about is out of his reach. However many immigrants he manages to deport or prevent from entering the country, the white paradise he is promising his Maga base, free of Somalis, Mexican “rapists” and

The leaders of South Korea and China wrapped up a summit this week with both underlining support for one of Beijing’s diplomatic priorities but making no tangible progress on North Korea, Seoul’s main concern. During the trip, Lee declared 2026 as the year for the “full restoration of South Korea-China relations” and Xi vowed to

In fashion currently, trouser shape firmly sit in two camps – skin-tight, as with the revival of skinny jeans, or ultra oversized and baggy. But, perhaps, there is a third way. Enter – once again – the flare. The trouser shape, first popularised in the 70s and flirted with briefly five years ago, is back

The $645 million megayacht commissioned by Bill Gates is getting attention for all the wrong reasons, and TikTokers used it to make pointed observations about environmental responsibility. Lacoche Yacht (@lacocheyacht) shared a video on the platform that zooms in on the massive vessel off the French Riviera. “There is Bill Gates’ $645M megayacht and there

The attack on Venezuela and the seizure of its president was a shocking enough start to 2026, but it was only the next day, when the smoke had dispersed and Donald Trump was flying from Florida to Washington DC in triumph, that it became clear the world had entered a new era. The US president

HONG KONG — With the surprise capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump declared U.S. authority over the entire Western Hemisphere — and warned China that it’s not welcome in America’s backyard. Trump administration officials have cited the need to counter China’s growing influence in the region as a justification for the attack

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) – Elon Musk’s $20 billion investment into a new AI data center in Southaven is no slouch. What factors helped this happen? The data center is being called MACROHARDRR, and its goal is to aid other operations in the Memphis metropolitan area. A big incentive for this move is a tax exemption

High-profile celebrities lending their cache and creative juices to a comic book is exciting on many levels in terms of injecting new life, ideas, and perspectives into a long-standing industry. It also sparks excitement in terms of their fan base having a direct line into the world of comics (especially those who haven’t been exposed

At the White House on Friday, Donald Trump endorsed his vice-president’s baseless claim that Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, was part of a shadowy “leftwing network” trying “to incite violence” against federal agents. Asked by a Fox News correspondent to expand on JD Vance’s comments about

Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is calling for a one-year cap limiting credit card interest rates to 10%. Trump blamed the Biden administration for allowing rates to rise as high as 20–30%, adding that Americans were being “ripped off” by credit card companies. “Please be informed that

O’Leary Ventures Chairman Kevin O’Leary joins ‘Varney & Co.’ to weigh in on the White House considering paying Greenland residents, what U.S. control of Venezuela’s oil means for Canada and job creation under the Trump administration.  President Trump on Friday said major U.S. oil companies will invest $100 billion to rebuild Venezuela’s energy sector after

These billionaires are at odds with one another on two stocks near and dear to Gates and Buffett. Peter Thiel is one of the most successful entrepreneurs and tech investors in the world. Thiel was a co-founder of PayPal and used the money from its sale to eBay to start a hedge fund. He acquired