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Maduro met Chinese envoy hours before US capture from Caracas as Beijing slams operation

Maduro met Chinese envoy hours before US capture from Caracas as Beijing slams operation

Just hours before his capture by the U.S., Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro met with a Chinese envoy, highlighting the great power competition between Washington and Beijing in the Western Hemisphere. Maduro received Qiu Xiaoqi, the Chinese government’s special representative for Latin American affairs, at the Miraflores Presidential Palace on Friday — reaffirming Caracas’ strategic ties…

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How Italy’s PM Meloni sparked an economic turnaround

How Italy’s PM Meloni sparked an economic turnaround

Circle Squared Alternative Investments’ Jeff Sica discusses the ‘historic’ meeting between Trump and PM Giorgia Meloni at Mar-a-Lago and Apple’s stock performance. When Italy’s Giorgia Meloni took the job of prime minister in 2022, the country wasn’t in good shape. But since then, the economy has bounced back in ways that few outsiders would have…

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Minnesota faces funding deadline after Trump administration freezes child care payments

Minnesota faces funding deadline after Trump administration freezes child care payments

Minnesota officials have until next week to turn over information on child care providers and parents receiving federal funds or risk losing federal child care funding, according to a notice sent to providers. Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) told child care providers in an email Friday that information about funding recipients has…

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Bill Ackman slams California wealth tax as ‘expropriation’ of private property

Bill Ackman slams California wealth tax as ‘expropriation’ of private property

The Agency founder and CEO Mauricio Umansky joins Varney & Co. to warn that California’s rent control and wealth taxes are driving out builders, investors and middle-class families. Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has blasted California’s proposed wealth tax as a potential government seizure of private property, arguing such taxes have failed everywhere they…

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Berkshire Hathaway shares drop as Warren Buffett era ends after 60 years as CEO with Greg Abel taking over

Berkshire Hathaway shares drop as Warren Buffett era ends after 60 years as CEO with Greg Abel taking over

FOX Business host Charles Payne reflects on the legacy of Warren Buffett on his last day as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway on ‘Making Money.’ Berkshire Hathaway shares fell on Friday, a day after CEO Warren Buffett left following a 60-year run. The 95-year-old officially stepped down Thursday, and successor Greg Abel, who started at Berkshire…

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