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The son-in-law of a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges for his role in a vast bribery conspiracy to siphon over a billion dollars from the state-owned oil company

Americans unexpectedly paused their spending in April from March as inflation continued to sting and elevated interest rates made taking on debt more burdensome

Congress has passed a bill that is designed to add more safety inspectors at aircraft factories and to give air travelers automatic refunds for canceled or long-delayed flights

The head of Brazil’s Petrobras is stepping down after a fight over dividends, sending shares of the state-controlled oil and gas giant tumbling

The Port of New Orleans’ president and chief executive officer has resigned to pursue an opportunity in the private sector

Natural gas producer CNX Resources says it plans to build a $1.5 billion facility at Pittsburgh’s airport to make hydrogen-based fuels

Organizers of Spain’s Princess of Asturias Awards have awarded the prize for the social sciences to Canadian historian and writer Michael Ignatieff

'The Big Money Show' co-host Brian Brenberg weighs in on the change in costs since January 2021 and on the release of the April CPI.

The DOL’s fiduciary rule is facing a fresh challenge in the legislature as a bicameral group of senators and house representatives seek to overturn it.

Taliban in Kabul, the next UN meeting on Afghanistan, and ways to stop terrorism originating from the Af-Pak and Eurasia regions. Senior Russian diplomat and President's special envoy on Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov and JP Singh, JS (Pak-Afghan-Iran) MEA met here to discuss Afghanistan's current situation, Taliban engagement, Daesh/ISIS threats, and narcotics trafficking, according to people familiar with the issue. While Singh visited Kabul sometime ago, Kabulov was there in April to meet the entire Taliban leadership. Kabulov, a former envoy to Kabul, is regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on Afghanistan. According to ET, the purpose of the meeting on Wednesday was to discuss the notes from these visits and come to a consensus regarding Afghanistan under Taliban.

Frank McCourt, a real estate mogul with ambitions to improve the web, on Wednesday said he plans to build a consortium to bid for short-form video platform TikTok's US business. McCourt, a former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and executive chairman of investment firm McCourt Global, is an unlikely contender for the ByteDance Ltd-owned app. TikTok's US assets were valued at $35 billion to $40 billion by Bloomberg Intelligence analysts.

82.06-meter effort, winning the silver medal, while Uttam Balasaheb Patil of Maharashtra clinched the bronze medal with a throw of 78.39 meters. Asian Games silver medalist Kishore Jena, who emerged as India's second-best javelin thrower at the tournament, didn't perform up to expectations. He was ranked fifth with a disappointing 75.49-meter throw.

Odisha facing simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls, top leaders of all major political parties are making a beeline for the state. In the fourth phase, polling for four LS and 28 assembly seats of the state was completed. The remaining 17 seats and 119 assembly seats are scheduled to vote over the next three phases. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already held five election rallies and a roadshow in Bhubaneswar. He has taken Navin Patnaik's challenge head-on during his speeches. Modi will visit the state on May 20. During the trip, he would address two public meetings in Angul and Cuttack. He will also hold a roadshow in Puri, supporting BJP candidate Sambit Patra. Before Modi's trip, Union home minister Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda will campaign in Odisha. Taking a cue from the PM's speech, Shah has been launching a direct attack on Navin Patnaik. Addressing a rally in Aska LS constituency on Wednesday, Shah accused Patnaik of pasting his own pictures on rice bags sent by the Centre and distributing it in his own name. Shah addressed this rally in Hinjili, the assembly constituency from where CM Patnaik is contesting.

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Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to hold two campaign debates in June and September, but there were no guarantees that they would happen as their camps appeared far apart on key details like the setting and ground rules for the potential face-offs. The quick agreement on the timetable to meet followed the Democrat's announcement that he will not participate in fall presidential debates sponsored by the nonpartisan commission that has organized them for more than three decades. Biden's campaign instead proposed that media outlets directly organize the debates with the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees, with the first to be held in late June and the second in September before early voting begins. Trump, in a post on his Truth Social site, said he was «Ready and Willing to Debate» Biden at the proposed times.

Cannes Film Festival began in the French capital Paris on Tuesday. It opened with the French comedy 'The Second Act' starring Lea Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel and Raphael Quenard. The best-known stars will soon begin flowing down Cannes' famous red carpet. The 10-day festival began with Greta Gerwig's jury and the presentation of an honorary Palme d'Or for Meryl Streep.

Modi's assertion that the NDA's tally is going «400-paar» (400-plus) this Lok Sabha elections, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge Wednesday said thankfully he is not talking about «600-paar» because there are only 543 parliamentary seats. Addressing a rally at Sarai Umar in the Harchandpur assembly segment here, Kharge also said he has signed all the «promises made by our party» and they will be fulfilled if the INDIA bloc forms government. «It's not like 'Modi ki guarantee' which is never fulfilled.» He launched a scathing attack on the PM, alleging his government is «cut off from the poor», and is working just for the interest of a handful of industrialists. People will bid goodbye to this dispensation and the opposition coalition will come to power after the results are announced in the first week of June, Kharge said. «Modi and the BJP have been talking about '400-paar',. fortunately they are not speaking about '600-paar' as there is a constitutional limit on the strength of Lok Sabha at 543 seats,» Kharge said.

Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone joins 'The Ingraham Angle' to dish on the economy and presidential prospects.

health update on former US President Jimmy Carter has been shared by his grandson. While speaking at the Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum on Tuesday, Jason Carter stated that Jimmy Carter “is coming to an end”. According to him, the former president was doing well under the present circumstances but the end was visible.

Slovakia's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon and taken to hospital. Reports on TA3, a Slovakian TV station, said that Fico, 59, was hit in the stomach after four shots were fired outside the House of Culture in the town of Handlova, some 150 kilometers northeast of the capital, where the leader was meeting with supporters. A suspect has been detained, it said. Police sealed off the scene.

GSK plc on Wednesday announced positive data from the phase III trial which followed participants for up to approximately 11 years following initial vaccination with Shingrix.