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China says it doesn't interfere in the politics of other countries, but US intelligence recently found that Beijing sought to influence the 2022 midterms.

The Federal Reserve is expected to continue its pause on interest rate hikes this week, with cuts likely to come later this year.

Biden has poured resources into gun violence prevention, but the election will determine if the initiatives continue.

Embattled Chinese real-estate giant Evergrande has been ordered by a Hong Kong to liquidate following two years of debt crisis.

E. Jean Carroll wants to spend her new riches in a meaningful way after a jury awarded her $83.3 million in her defamation trial against Donald Trump.

Social media incentivizes people like Donald Trump and Alex Jones to make defamatory claims, legal experts say. It also makes the damages far greater.

An update from Donald Trump's court monitor in his New York fraud trial suggests he may have lied about the existence of a loan to avoid paying income tax.

A letter by a court-appointed monitor overseeing Donald Trump's business fraud case indicated he may have engaged in tax evasion, The Daily Beast reported.

In one simulation, a conflict between Taiwan and China ended quicker than anticipated as Taiwan couldn't meet the demands made by the US and China.

Former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican who once sat on the January 6 committee, said during a recent talk that young Americans "have their own ideas on stuff."

Chip Felkel told The New York Times that Nikki Haley was a good economic steward as governor but was "not great on cultivating relationships."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene proposed a "national divorce" between Republican and Democratic states amid the escalating standoff at the Texas border.

Former Berkeley city council member Rigel Robinson wanted more housing, but anti-development NIMBYs' harassment and threats pushed him out.

Nikki Haley isn't highly favored to win the Republican nomination against Donald Trump. A former speechwriter to Ronald Reagan says it's worth a shot.

"There's no world in which Putin can be allowed to win," UK defense secretary Grant Shapps wrote in an op-ed for Politico.

Analysts' earnings estimates for companies represented by the MSCI China Index members are down nearly 1% since the start of 2024, per Bloomberg data.

The Russian government said capital controls ordered by Putin in October are effective and should be extended. Russia's central bank disagrees.

A new Pew Research Support sheds new light on the "nones," Americans who are not religious, including who they are and what they believe.

Gen Z women are becoming more liberal, while Gen Z men are drifting to the right. Now, they don't agree on anything.

A Florida state senator introduced a bill to establish a fund that would cover some of Donald Trump's legal fees. She said she'd pull the bill on Monday.

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts," reads the quote. However, there's no evidence Churchill said it.

OpenAI suspended the account of a developer who created Dean.Bot, a ChatGPT-powered bot raising awareness for Democratic challenger Dean Phillips.

Donald Trump called Nikki Haley a racist name on Friday, par for the course for someone who turns to name-calling for his political foes.