Pope Leo arrived in Spain on Saturday for a week-long visit, his first to an EU country outside Italy, where he will inaugurate a new tower in Barcelona’s famed Sagrada Familia basilica and meet migrants who braved dangerous Atlantic waters to reach Europe. The first American head of the Catholic Church is expected to draw … Read more
A cordial exchange between Russian President Vladimir Putin and American architect Rodney Cook Jr. at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum highlighted cultural ties amid broader US-Russia tensions. Speaking during a session moderated by Geeta Mohan, Cook said St. Petersburg’s famed ballrooms, cathedrals and palaces had long influenced his architectural work, including the planned White … Read more
A senior American architect involved in the design of a planned ballroom at the White House praised St. Petersburg’s architecture and cultural heritage during a public exchange with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), saying the Russian city’s ballrooms had influenced his work. Rodney Cook Jr., commissioner of the … Read more
<!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> President Donald Trump speaks durning a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. File. | Photo Credit: AP Iran still has “21, 22%” of its missiles left, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday (June 5, 2026), in a week in which Tehran fired dozens of them toward regional … Read more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the White House are in ongoing talks about a possible government stake in the artificial intelligence company, CNBC confirmed on Friday. The discussions have been in progress for more than a year, as Altman first shared the idea with the Trump administration in 2025, according to a source familiar with … Read more
Job growth unexpectedly surged in May as the U.S. labor market continued a solid year of expansion, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls jumped a seasonally adjusted 172,000 for the period, down slightly from the upwardly revised 179,000 in April and far above the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 80,000. The unemployment … Read more
Wander Women Collective | Photodisc | Getty Images Starting on July 4, Trump Accounts will offer parents a new option to save and invest for their children’s future. It joins the ranks of other types of investment accounts you can already open on behalf of a minor. Rather than consider a Trump Account, also known as a … Read more
A labourer works on a construction site near the Amazon India headquarters in Bengaluru on December 29, 2025. Idrees Mohammed | Afp | Getty Images In a quarter partially affected by the economic disruptions from the Middle East conflict, India’s economy grew at 7.8% year-on-year in the three months to the end of March, a … Read more
OpenAI has confirmed it will comply with Donald Trump’s executive order that asks AI companies to allow the federal government to assess their models’ capabilities before they are released. George Osborne, the company’s head of countries, told CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal that the startup would sign up to the voluntary order. “It’s quite right that democratic … Read more
Signage at the Broadcom Inc. headquarters in San Jose, California, June 2, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images European stocks followed global peers lower on Friday as investors monitor a global sell-off in chipmaking tech names. Shortly after the opening bell, the pan-European Stoxx 600 index opened down 0.2%. London’s FTSE 100 … Read more