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Al-Maliki has been nominated as the prime ministerial candidate by the largest Shiite bloc in parliament.Published January 27, 2026January 27, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2sharePresident Donald Trump has threatened to cut U.S. aid to Iraq if former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has ties to America’s longtime enemy Iran, returns to his post.President Trump said on Tuesday that Iraq would make a “very bad choice” in al-Maliki, who was nominated days earlier by the Coordination Framework, the largest Shiite bloc in parliament, as its candidate, in his latest intervention in another country’s politics.Recommended stories list of 3…
Latest information on Spanish “Mami, please delete the chat.” “Son, it will be recorded.” “Please delete the conversation before you leave.” Recent WhatsApp messages from a Venezuelan family who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation highlight the vigilance civilians are using in everyday conversations, social media and text messages as the government expands its crackdown on dissent. Since authorities declared a state of emergency following the U.S. attack in Caracas that led to the detention of President Nicolás Maduro, there have been increasing reports that the government is searching civilians’ cellphones for political content critical of the government.…
Joe Root and captain Harry Brook hit unbeaten centuries as England defeated Sri Lanka by 53 runs in the third one-day international, their first away ODI series win in almost three years.England recovered from a slow start and after winning the toss and choosing their batsmen they slumped to 40-2 to post 357-3, with Jacob Bethell (65) and Root rebuilding their innings before Brooke’s explosive finish. Root scored an unbeaten ODI half-century of 111 in the first two ODIs, while Brook smashed 20 boundaries, including nine sixes, and posted England’s highest ODI score of 136 off just 66 deliveries. image:…
Jakub Porzycki | Null Photo | Getty ImagesApp Lovin sent a cease-and-desist letter to Capt.Watch on Monday, claiming that short sellers’ reports that the company “acts as a ‘digital laundromat’ for criminal organizations” are defamatory and baseless.”Each of your ‘reports’ contains numerous absurd and demonstrably false statements about AppLovin,” the letter said, calling the findings “conspiracy-theoretic considerations.”The letter asked Capital Watch to retract its 35-page report and subsequent statements released last week. Short sellers wrote that they had uncovered “systematic compliance risks and suspicions of serious financial crimes” within the ad tech company’s capital structure.CapitalWatch and AppLovin did not respond…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 4: Anthropic Co-Founder and CEO Dario Amodei speaks at the “How AI Will Transform Businesses in the Next 18 Months” panel at INBOUND 2025 Powered by HubSpot at the Moscone Center on September 4, 2025 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot)Chance Ye | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei has issued a new warning about how AI will disrupt the job market, saying it will be an “unusually painful” disruption.The AI chief, who co-founded Anthropic with his sister Daniela Amodei in 2021 and helped develop the AI…
The U.S. government is on the brink of a partial shutdown starting at 12:01 a.m. ET Saturday, largely due to the second recent killing of a U.S. citizen by federal agents in Minneapolis. It will be different from last year’s closure.The killing of intensive care nurse Alex Preti, 37, sparked fierce opposition from Senate Democrats to a House-passed bill that would provide funding to the Department of Homeland Security and numerous other agencies. The more than $1.2 trillion package passed the House of Representatives last week and will account for the bulk of government spending for the fiscal year ending…
Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen completed the first lap of the Barcelona shakedown before Isaac Hajar crashed his Red Bull on a rain-affected second day. F1 teams can choose to run three out of five days in closed-door testing at the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit, so Ferrari and Red Bull were the only teams to choose to take part on a rainy Tuesday. The somewhat surprising decision to include Red Bull, who had already achieved a good result on Monday, backfired, with Hajar crashing at Turn 14 in the final hours of the day, damaging his RB22’s rear wing and suspension. The…
It may sound crazy to launch an entirely new product line when your core business is reducing the value of paper by two-thirds. But Airtable founder and CEO Howie Liu suggests it’s the smartest move he can make. The company, valued by investors at $11.7 billion during the zero interest rate frenzy of 2021, is now trading at about $4 billion on the secondary market. But Airtable has raised a total of $1.4 billion, half of which is still in the bank, Liu said, even though the company is “burning cash.” The collapse in valuations affected investor returns and employee…
The five-month process to find the next Federal Reserve Chairman appears to be reaching its final days, and one candidate has emerged as the betting favorite, even though other candidates are still in the running.Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s head of fixed income, is seen by prediction markets as the favorite to replace Jerome Powell at the central bank’s top job. Kalsi gives the Wall Street veteran a 48% chance of winning, well ahead of his next closest competitor, former Gov. Kevin Warsh, with 31%.But sentiment was volatile, and after less than a week it was Warsh who held a decisive advantage.What…
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell holds a press conference after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter point in Washington, DC, on October 29, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | ReutersDespite a major change looming in the long-term direction of central banks, this week’s Federal Reserve meeting provided little suspense and likely no major action.Based on market expectations and comments from policymakers, there is virtually no chance the Fed will change its benchmark rate at the end of Wednesday’s meeting.Despite recent disagreements among Federal Open Market Committee members about the long-term trajectory of monetary policy, the short-term stance will…