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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. You have to see it to believe it. And thanks to his appearance on US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau’s wildly popular YouTube channel, 12 million golf fans around the world have seen Donald Trump’s golf swing in action.

India will likely retain the fastest-growing G20 economy tag, with the bigger G20 emerging economy China seen growing 4.7%. Overall, the G20 economies will expand 2.8% in 2024, slower than 3% in 2023, according to the Global Macro Outlook 2025-26 report released Friday. The relocation of supply chains, investment from multinational companies and Chinese domestic manufacturers seeking to diversify production are creating opportunities for India, Mexico and many Southeast Asian nations, per the report.

The president of a Kentucky plant that exploded earlier this week says the company is accountable and will pay damages to neighbors affected by the blast

Leaders of Pacific Rim countries including the U.S. and China have gathered in Peru for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, the first major global summit since U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory

Mexico's president has lashed out at Moody’s ratings service after it downgraded the Mexican government’s debt outlook to “negative.”

Bobby Kennedy Jr as the incoming secretary of health. Even Trumpites are secretly scratching their J D Vance-style beards trying to make sense of bringing in an anti-Covid vaccine advocate as America's health honcho, while Trump himself had praised the vaccine during his first presidency as 'one of the greatest achievements of mankind'. So, is this counterintuitive hire the secret sauce to Trump's corpo-political genius? Kennedy's resume certainly screams, 'Ambulances are for cowards!' And yet… So, is there any method in this madcapness? Hiring the 'worst' candidate, Trump may reckon, will bring expectations down so low that even ho-hum policy action will come across as fab. Unburdened by 'traditional wisdom', Trump's outliers — including incoming director of national intelligence Tulsi 'Putin is swell' Gabbard — may innovate in ways that may seem ludicrous but could lead to, well, if not revolutionary breakthroughs, then at least keeping the polarisation pot boiling.

Commonwealth of Nations. According to Marie Claire, in spite of many individuals believing that she genuinely deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for her diplomatic efforts, it was eventually revealed that she declined such nominations. Marie Claire reported that a senior courtier indicated that Buckingham Palace was approached multiple times by Commonwealth leaders for guidance on nominating her, but eventually they were politely told that the Queen did not wish to be considered for the honor. Also Read: Will Jan 6 Capitol rioters be pardoned under Donald Trump’s Presidency?

Donald Trump to the White House could have significant implications for over 1,500 individuals charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots. On the campaign trail, Trump frequently referred to those convicted as «political prisoners» and promised to pardon them if reelected. Now, with his victory, questions loom about whether these promises signal a shift in accountability for the events of that day.

Donald Trump privately held «more nuanced» positions on Ukraine, days after he spoke with the president-elect of the United States by phone. Trump's reelection in last week's US presidential vote has raised concerns he could withdraw Washington's significant support for Ukraine once back in the White House. On the campaign trail, the Republican claimed he could end the fighting within hours and that he would talk directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Eva Longoria, an actress, acknowledged that she and her family left the dystopian United States for a better life in Mexico and Spain, escaping the homelessness and exorbitant taxes of California, as quoted in a report by The New York Post. Longoria shared that this is where she spent her entire adult life. However, things were shifting even before the pandemic. It had a different vibe. The COVID-19 pandemic then pushed it over the edge. Whether it's the taxes or the homelessness, she doesn't want to criticise California; it just feels like this phase of her life is over. The 49-year-old Desperate Housewives star countered that Donald Trump's victory was another reason to leave, even though the homelessness and taxes occurred in California during the Democratic administration.

The system-on-chip or SoC multinational with its Snapdragon X Plus and X Elite and Oryon cores compute platform is touted to outperform AMD or Intel central processing units (CPU), based on critical benchmarks. “Qualcomm has been able to bring more heterogeneous compute capability and mobile-centric features from edge AI to elite gaming to 5G easily with lower battery consumption to the PC ecosystem. This allowed it to be the first chip vendor to power Microsoft CoPilot+PCs ahead of incumbents – AMD and Intel, which is a significant feat,” Neil Shah, Vice President, Counterpoint Research told ETTelecom.

Donald Trump one by a huge margin in the US Presidential elections against Kamala Harris and ever since then salacious pictures of Melania Trump, the upcoming First Lady of US began circulating on social media, which is being insinuated as letting Donald Trump know who 'is in charge of the world'. Bits of these images are blurred but it is reportedly becoming clear that it is none other than former First Lady Melania Trump, a claim that is being spread on social media platforms including YouTube, Reddit, Threads, TikTok as well as Facebook.

BJP president JP Nadda on Friday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi does not understand the «ABC of the Constitution» and flaunts a copy of it at political gatherings while not knowing that Dr B R Ambedkar did not subscribe to job reservations on religious lines. The Union minister said the Congress wants to give quotas meant for SCs, STs and OBCs to minorities in Karnataka and Telangana, where the party is in power. «Gandhi does not know that the Constitution does not allow reservations on religious lines. He does not understand the ABC of the Constitution. He sells materials of hatred in his 'mohabbat ki dukan' (shop of love)',» Nadda remarked, hitting out at the Raebareli Lok Sabha MP.

Olaf Scholz discussed the war in UkrPutinaine by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in the first such conversation in two years, the German government said. Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said Scholz condemned «Russia's war of aggression» against Ukraine during the call, and called on Putin to end it by withdrawing troops that invaded the country in February 2022. Scholz also urged Russia to be willing to negotiate with Ukraine toward achieving a just and lasting peace, and expressed Germany's unwavering determination to support Ukraine in its fight, Hebestreit said in a statement.

Cypriot authorities are in talks with major energy companies from Persian Gulf states over potential natural gas reserves off the Mediterranean country's southern coastline, President Nikos Christodoulides told an energy conference Friday

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SEOUL : Kim Jong Un oversaw a fiery exhibition of North Korea’s latest suicide drones, highlighting the military capabilities that could be honed by his country’s recent troop deployment to the Russian front lines with Ukraine where such aerial attacks are commonplace. Kim, clad in a black leather jacket, rose from a beige-colored suede chair to watch the drones soar into the skies, Pyongyang’s state media reported Friday.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A Federal Reserve official said the central bank could eventually need to slow down the pace at which it is lowering rates and said it was too soon to say whether that should happen at the central bank’s meeting next month. Another rate cut in December is “certainly on the table, but it’s not a done deal," said Boston Fed President Susan Collins in an interview Thursday.

Chair Jerome Powell says the Federal Reserve will likely cut its key interest rate slowly and deliberately in the coming months, in part because inflation has shown signs of persistence and the Fed’s officials want to see where it heads next

Roger Penske has added the most prestigious street race in North America to his portfolio with the purchase of the Grand Prix of Long Beach

Veteran NBC host and news anchor Craig Melvin has been tapped to replace Hoda Kotb as co-host of the 7 a_m_ to 9 a_m_ hours of “Today.”

Powell, asked at an event in Dallas whether he would consider being the first Fed chair in more than seven decades to remain on the Fed board after no longer serving as its leader, said only that he is committed to serving out his term as chair. «I'll certainly serve to the end… of my chair term,» Powell said. «And that's really all I've decided, and all I'm thinking about.»