Sen. Marco Rubio One-on-One in Face the Nation on Puerto Rico Crisis
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June 29 (UPI) — Group of Seven nations agreed to exempt U.S. companies from a 15% minimum corporate tax rate, the countries said in a joint statement. The nonbinding deal was announced Saturday but still requires approval from the 38-member Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development that established the 2021 agreement on taxing companies. G-7…
Iran’s clerical Assembly of Experts tapped Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country’s new supreme leader amid ongoing conflict, even as the war sent global oil prices soaring past $100 a barrel. FAST FACTS Iran named Ayotollah Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of the country’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the…
The United States has extended restrictions on exports of high-performance AI processors to some Middle Eastern countries. It concerns chips from Nvidia and AMD. A filing by Nvidia, Reuters writes, would indicate that the U.S. government has imposed new export restrictions on the chip and AI giant’s high-performance AI processors in writing. These include the Nvidia A100 and…
The states include California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York. The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing $10 billion in federal funds in five Democrat-run states over allegations of fraudulent child-care programming, an HHS official confirmed to ABC News. The HHS official confirmed that the five states are California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and…
Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that the four children had been located and were in good health. Hours later, he clarified that the youngsters’ location remains unknown. Andrea Blanco reports Seventeen days after a small aircraft crashed in the Colombian Amazon rainforest, the country is holding its breath over confusing reports that four children have…
Sudan’s conflict, now into its third year, has wrought unprecedented devastation on the country and threatens even more instability in a critical region connecting the African and Arab worlds. While the country’s strategic value is vastly underestimated in popular and geopolitical discourse—press coverage frequently dismisses it as a “forgotten conflict”—Sudan rightly occupies the minds of…