Twitter Inc., now rebranded as X, was fined $350,000 for defying a judge’s deadline to comply with a Justice Department search warrant for records related to Donald Trump’s social media account, according to a court opinion unsealed on Wednesday.
A blast at a fireworks company outside of Moscow injured at least 56 people at the site of a plant controlled by the Rostec industrial and defense holding known for making optical-electronic equipment used by the military.
Abortion-rights supporters are working to put reproductive rights directly to voters in 2024, part of an effort to boost turnout and buoy Democratic candidates after a string of state-level victories on the issue.
A bipartisan group of four US senators wants the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department to investigate whether nonprofit hospitals are abusing their tax-exempt status.
Argentina’s best chance of making a comeback from the brink and taming spiraling inflation is the economy minister who’s overseen it all, says longtime investor Hans Humes.
The US and Saudi Arabia continue to work on a framework aimed at Saudi recognition of Israel in exchange for US security guarantees for Riyadh — though the Biden administration signaled Wednesday there’s still a long way to go.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government is moving toward allowing Brazil’s state-run oil company to survey an ecologically sensitive offshore region, a decision that threatens to overshadow a major environmental summit and feed a festering dispute in his administration.
The cost for New York City to shelter and care for tens of thousands of migrants arriving in the city is spiraling and could exceed $12 billion by July 2025, according to Mayor Eric Adams.
Germany will lift a levy on polluting fossil fuels used in housing and transportation to €40 ($44) per ton in 2024 and to €50 in 2025, a political compromise that pushes some of the additional costs of decarbonizing further into the future.
Donald Trump has long railed falsely that mail-in voting, ballot drop boxes and other voter conveniences were used to rig the 2020 election against him. Now his allies are embracing those very same tactics to boost his 2024 run.
