Author: Leslie Stewart

The Panama Canal has been fighting extreme weather for the past few years. The El Niño phenomenon and severe drought led to a water level crisis. Now, President Trump’s trade war is threatening the gateway to world trade. A critical passage for the transport of marine cargo containers bound to the US East Coast, the Panama Canal faces a potential business slump as a result of Trump’s Chinese tariffs and a rapid decline in manufactured goods ordered by US shippers.40% of all US container traffic passes through the Panama Canal every year, and as a whole, travels $270 billion in…

The trucking logistics giant from Monterrey, Mexico, was named Javier Selgus, and didn’t have to direct a crypto-cash rig towards Trump Tower on New York’s golden avenue, but he might have one too.Selgas, CEO of Freight Technologies Inc., a cross-border trucking concern, said his company recently purchased $20 million worth of Trump Memecoin.How do you know this? Selgus said so himself, both in his public news release and in related filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which required the international company to sell bonds to invest in Trump’s family coins. The CEO said the $20 million purchase would be…

According to the US Geological Survey, a magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck West Texas on Saturday night, shaking areas near the New Mexico-Texas border as part of a swarm of earthquakes.Temblor struck at 7:47pm, about 35 miles south of White City, New Mexico, at 7:47pm, the USGS said. The area is roughly halfway between the Midlands and the Texas city of El Paso.The earthquake occurred near four miles on the surface of the Earth, the investigation said. With the area’s sparse population, few residents have been affected, the USGS said. He said ground failure and landslides are unlikely, as is liquefaction,…

MIAMI GARDNS, Fla. — McLaren driver Randnoris won the Formula 1 Sprint Race Saturday in Miami after a rainy contest produced a crash and Marshall finished under a “safety car” as debris was collected on track.Norris started in third and jumped to second in the first corner before overtaking fellow McLaren driver Oscar Piastri in a frenzy series of pit stops during the final stretch of the race.”A lovely job. A well done boy,” the modest Norris said on Team Radio.It was a encouraging victory for Norris after struggling with his recent race and losing the championship, leading to Piastri,…

The two commercial flights approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport were ordered to do a “go-around” Thursday for an Army helicopter three months after an airborne crash that killed 67 people, officials said.US Transport Secretary Sean Duffy said he would ask the Pentagon for an answer on a Black Hawk helicopter flight that forced a landing plane on Delta and Republic Airlines planes.”Not accepted. The restrictions on helicopters around DCA are transparent,” Duffy wrote in X, referring to the airport with the Federal Aviation Agency’s location identifier.No one was injured in the incident that occurred around 2:30pm.US Army spokesman Colonel Victoria…

can’t believe it.That was the first word when I saw President Donald Trump’s announcement last week. He will hold a dinner of 220 top holders of $Trump Meme Coin, which has completed a private reception for $25 investors and a White House tour. Trump’s efforts to leave the presidency were nothing new, and his first term was defined primarily by corruption and self-dealing. My organization, Washington’s Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, tracked 3,700 conflicts of interest in his four years. All of these disputes stem from Trump’s failure to meaningfully sell his business holdings.I don’t know if I’ve ever seen…

The Trump administration has designated a coalition of Haitian gangs that have involved the Caribbean with massive violence as a terrorist organization, White House officials confirmed to NBC News.The Viv Ansanm Coalition and Gran Grif Gang will be labelled as foreign terrorist organizations and global terrorists specifically designated by the State Department. This designation was first reported by the Miami Herald. The Ministry of Finance also applied the designation to the Glanglyph gang. In October, the gang was responsible for the massacre of at least 115 people in the country town of Pontsondo.Earlier this year, Secretary of State Marco Rubio…

Job growth in April was stronger than expected despite concerns about President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs being affected by US trading partners.Non-farm payroll increased seasonally to 177,000, a seasonally adjusted 177,000, a 177,000-plus-down 185,000 in March, a Dow Jones estimate of 133,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.However, the unemployment rate remains at 4.2% as expected, indicating a relatively stable labor market. A survey of households used to calculate unemployment rates showed even stronger benefits, with an increase of 436,000 people reporting to hold employment that month.The broader unemployment meter, including workers and unemployed workers who work part-time for…

On April 19, 2025, shoppers will buy fresh vegetables, fruits and herbs at the outdoor agricultural market.Michael Nguyen/Nurphoto via Getty ImagesEurozone inflation had not changed at 2.2% in April, causing expectations for lower movements, which were shown on Friday, with flash data from the statistical agency Eurostat.Economists voted by Reuters expected reading to arrive at 2.1% in April, compared to 2.2% in March, as inflation is eased towards the European Central Bank’s 2% target.Core inflation, which excludes more volatile foods, energy, alcohol and tobacco prices, accelerated to 2.7% from 2.4% in March. The closely watched service inflation print was also…

WASHINGTON – U.S. Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Thursday that he was “not random” in an attack by Republican President Donald Trump and his allies on judges, and that it was “designed to threaten the judiciary.”Secretary John Roberts urged federal judges to fire each in March, rebuking Trump for building naked tensions between the state’s enforcement and the judiciary as a fundamental claim by Trump, who has a judicial obstacle.”The attacks are not random. They seem to be designed to threaten us serving in this important capacity,” Jackson told a judges meeting in Puerto Rico.A federal judge said…