Author: The Gazette
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Democrats flip ‘America First’ script on Republicans over Argentina bailout
Democrats are using a $20 billion lifeline to Argentina to claim Republicans care more about bailing out foreign governments than helping Americans at home. The messaging, a riff on President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy agenda, intensified ahead of a White House visit by Argentinian President Javier Milei on Tuesday, where Trump said the United…
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Supreme Court could kickstart another round of redistricting with Louisiana race-based districting case
The Supreme Court will hear a second round of oral arguments on Wednesday in a Louisiana redistricting case over race-based congressional districting laws, which could lead to as many as 10 southern states redrawing their maps. With Louisiana v. Callais, the high court is evaluating whether Louisiana’s creation of “a second majority-minority congressional district violates…
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Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 strikes near coast of central Chile, GFZ says
(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck near the coast of central Chile on Wednesday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 44 km (27 miles), GFZ said. (Reporting by Dheeraj Kumar in Bengaluru; Editing by Alison Williams)
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BlackRock, Nvidia-backed group strikes $40 billion AI data center deal
By Arsheeya Bajwa and Aditya Soni (Reuters) -An investor group including BlackRock, Microsoft and Nvidia is buying one of the world’s biggest data center operators with nearly 80 facilities in a deal worth $40 billion to secure coveted computing capacity for artificial intelligence. The purchase of U.S.-based Aligned Data Centers from Australian Macquarie Asset Management…
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Israel claims a returned body by Hamas was not an Israeli hostage
Israel announced that one of the four bodies received from Hamas on Tuesday, which the Palestinian militant organization claimed was a hostage taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, was not the remains of an Israeli hostage. Israel’s military ran forensic tests on the remains and determined on Wednesday morning that ones of the bodies…
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‘Made in Argentina’ factories shutter, creating more challenges for Milei
By Nicolás Misculin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -For decades, Lumilagro rode to prosperity on the popularity of its signature steel or glass thermoses Argentines use to carry hot water to make mate, the locally ubiquitous herbal tea. But now, faced with cheaper imports, rising production costs, and declining sales, the over 80-year-old family business has been…
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What to know as possible charges loom for ex-Trump adviser John Bolton
Federal prosecutors could soon bring criminal charges against former national security adviser John Bolton, marking a dramatic escalation in a yearslong investigation into one of President Donald Trump’s most outspoken Republican critics. Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser until 2019, had his Maryland home and Washington, D.C. office searched by law enforcement in…
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Nvidia CEO Huang welcomes return of employee held in Gaza for two years
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang welcomed Avinatan Or from “two unimaginable years in Hamas captivity” in Gaza, saying a number of the chip giant’s families had suffered losses during the war. An electrical engineer at Nvidia in Israel, 32-year-old Or was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023…
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Wall St advances after strong bank earnings, chip stocks’ rally
By Sukriti Gupta and Twesha Dikshit (Reuters) -Wall Street’s major indexes rose Wednesday, supported by solid results from Morgan Stanley and Bank of America that capped big‑bank earnings, while semiconductor shares climbed on renewed enthusiasm over artificial intelligence. Morgan Stanley’s shares hit a record high and were last up 5.5%, while Bank of America rose…
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Kremlin rejects Trump’s assertion that BRICS targets the dollar
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Wednesday that the BRICS group of nations has never targeted third countries or their currencies, rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump’s assertion that the bloc was designed to undermine the dollar. Trump on Tuesday described BRICS as “an attack on the dollar” and spoke of his threat to impose tariffs…