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Ed Martin, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, speaks at a press conference on May 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Craig Hudson | Washington Post | Getty ImagesJustice Department attorney Ed Martin has been removed from a controversial effort aimed at investigating and prosecuting President Donald Trump’s political opponents, multiple media outlets reported on Monday.Martin, a participant in the Stop the Steal election conspiracy movement who held several Justice Department positions during President Trump’s second term, will now primarily work as a pardon attorney for the United States, MS NOW reported, citing three people familiar with the matter.Sources…

US Democrats rejoice over victory in Texas Senate special election They argue this reflects growing dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump’s policies. US midterm elections.Some commentators have described the Democrats’ upset victory in Texas as a “political earthquake,” but President Trump has dismissed the race as a “local” one.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listIn Saturday’s election, Democrat Taylor Lehmet, a union leader, defeated Trump-backed conservative activist Lee Wambsgans, winning 57% of the vote in a November 2024 district that the US president won by 17 points.This vote will not have any immediate impact. Republicans, who have long dominated Texas…

Crystal Palace have completed a club-record £48m deal with Wolves striker Jorgen Strand Larsen.Palace paid the striker a flat fee of £43m, plus £5m in potential add-ons. Strand Larsen left Wolves, the club at the bottom of the Premier League, after 18 months. He scored 14 goals in the Premier League last season when Wolves remained in the Premier League under manager Vitor Pereira, but has only scored one this season. Palace broke their transfer record twice in this period when they signed Brennan Johnson from Tottenham Hotspur. Use Chrome Browser for a more accessible video player Check out Jorgen…

Cloud data company Snowflake signed a $200 million multi-year AI contract with OpenAI on Monday, the latest sign that enterprise AI competition continues to heat up. The deal gives Snowflake’s 12,600 customers access to OpenAI models from all three major cloud providers. Snowflake employees also have access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise. The companies are also partnering to build new AI agents and other AI products. Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said in a press release: “By bringing OpenAI models to enterprise data, Snowflake enables organizations to build and deploy AI on top of their most valuable assets using a secure, governed…

After a bumpy but successful January, stock market bulls have little to complain about, but a lot to worry about. The S&P 500’s 1.4% rise in the same month amounted to an 18% annualized gain, which would represent a fourth consecutive year of superior returns (even if things even remotely worked out in such a linear fashion). The index has never fallen more than 3% from its all-time high, and the median large-cap stock has more than doubled the S&P’s gain. The Citi U.S. Economic Surprise Index, which measures how much macro data is contrary to expectations, is nearing a…

Waymo has been a real source of investor excitement over its new valuation report. This reaffirms Jim Cramer’s view that Alphabet stock remains a buy, and more. Launched in 2009 as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, once Alphabet’s moonshot, Waymo is now hurtling toward the moon. The robotaxi business is currently closing on a $16 billion funding round at a valuation of nearly $110 billion, Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported on Saturday. The financing, which could close as early as this month, is said to include participation from new investors including Sequoia Capital, DST Global, and Dragoneer Investment Group.…

President Trump imposed a 25% punitive tariff on India on purchases of Russian crude oil, in addition to a 25% “reciprocal” tariff.US President Donald Trump has agreed to reduce US tariffs on Indian goods from 50% to 18% in exchange for India to lower trade barriers, stop buying Russian oil and instead buy oil from the US and possibly Venezuela.”Out of friendship and respect for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we have agreed to a trade agreement between the United States and India, effective immediately, as requested by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Under this agreement, the United States will reduce our…

Efforts to prevent Russia from using the Starlink internet system to guide drones for attacks on Ukraine have yielded “real results,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said on Sunday. Fedorov said Ukraine has taken initial steps to counter Russian drones in cooperation with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which owns Starlink. He said the next step is “to put in place a system that will allow only authorized terminals to operate on Ukrainian territory.” Fedorov continued: “In the coming days, we will share instructions for Ukrainian users to register Starlink devices for verification. Unverified devices will be disabled.” He added that the…

Diplomacy is often more about symbolism than content. In the case of China, that may be especially true.In this sense, what was significant about British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s visit to China at the end of January was that it actually happened. There has been a lot of tension between the two countries in recent years. These include accusations of Chinese espionage against two British nationals, delays in approving a new Chinese embassy in London, and the trial of democracy activist Jimmy Lai.The fact that Mr Starmer visited Beijing – the first British Prime Minister in eight years – showed…

Housing affordability challenges are weighing not only on prospective buyers, but also on a growing proportion of existing homeowners, new data shows.Late-stage mortgage delinquencies (delinquencies that are more than 90 days past due) rose 18.6% in December from a year earlier, according to a new study from credit scoring firm VantageScore. Ricardo Vandebo, chief strategy officer and chief economist at VantageScore, said the percentage of mortgages in default is still small at about 0.2%, up from just under 0.17% in December 2024, but the increase is occurring faster than delinquencies for other types of consumer credit, such as auto loans,…