US President Donald Trump made 18 trades in Coupang Inc. shares from October to May via his money managers, his financial disclosure reports filed with the US Office of Government Ethics showed Saturday — the trades in the New-York-listed South Korean e-commerce giant surfaced amid tensions between Seoul and Washington over South Korea's regulatory probes into a massive data breach involving Coupang, one of the most-followed cross-border retail-tech disputes.
President Donald Trump hailed the 'unmatched achievement and unlimited potential' of the United States in a late-night campaign-style speech on the National Mall marking the country's 250th anniversary Saturday, calling America the 'crowning achievement of human history' and vowing to take the US 'to new levels' — while renewing attacks on domestic opponents he branded 'communists' after a thunderstorm forced the address hours past schedule.
Iran marked the second day of funeral processions for late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday as masses of Iranians defied a heatwave to join public ceremonies in Tehran; the country's leadership vowed to never surrender as the six-day memorial on a grand scale aims to relay a message of resistance to the world, with vast crowds of Iranians loyal to the Islamic Republic massed for the start of public funeral ceremonies.
Fatalities from Venezuela's devastating twin earthquakes jumped to nearly 3,000 people, official updated figures showed Saturday, as international rescue teams began winding down search operations for survivors 10 days after the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude shocks; tens of thousands more are still reported missing, with the United Nations estimating as many as 50,000 are unaccounted for.
Ukraine launched a large-scale overnight drone attack on Russia's St Petersburg and the surrounding area on Friday-Saturday, hitting the city's oil terminal and port infrastructure at the Baltic port of Vysotsk; St Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said the city was subjected to a large-scale drone attack with no victims reported, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the target is key infrastructure 'that generates revenue for Russia's war'.
Iran began a dayslong funeral Saturday for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, months after an airstrike killed him at the start of the war; authorities unveiled the casket containing Khamenei's body in a glass case at the Grand Mosalla in Tehran with mourners chanting 'Our word is one! Revenge! Revenge!' as billboards across the capital bore Khamenei's image. He was 86.
A rare 1776-printed copy of the US Declaration of Independence has been found by a UK volunteer at the National Archives, one of only 11 known copies from the original Exeter print run to have survived; the copy was discovered inside papers of a captured US privateer ship — announced on the eve of America's 250th anniversary and adding a substantive UK-side chapter to the anniversary's cultural-record architecture.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce married at New York's Madison Square Garden on Friday in a ceremony officiated by comedian Adam Sandler, with several streets in Midtown Manhattan shut and hordes of fans gathered outside the arena; the star-studded celebration drew A-list celebrities and sports stars — the largest-scale celebrity wedding of the year and a culmination of the three-year Swift-Kelce relationship arc.
President Donald Trump delivered a speech at Mount Rushmore marking the 250th anniversary of the United States on Friday, in which he praised the US Army and warned that communism 'poses a mortal threat' to the country; the Mount Rushmore setting places the speech in the same location as his controversial 2020 July 3 address and ties the anti-communism framing to the administration's immigration-restriction and midterm-political architecture.
President Donald Trump defended his family's approximately $1.4 billion cryptocurrency windfall on Thursday, telling reporters there is 'nothing wrong' with the family's crypto business — the response comes one day after his annual financial disclosure revealed the extent of the family's stakes in World Liberty Financial and Trump Media & Technology, and follows administration moves loosening federal crypto oversight through the president's first months in the second term.
Lam Wing-kee, the Hong Kong bookseller detained by Chinese authorities in 2015 for selling books banned in mainland China, died aged 70 in Taiwan of lung cancer on Thursday; the Causeway Bay Books figure fled to Taiwan in 2019 after Beijing pushed the extradition bill and became one of the highest-profile Hong Kong exiles — his death removes a central figure of the Hong Kong pro-democracy diaspora's public memory.
At least 18 people were killed and 86 injured overnight in Kyiv as Russia launched what officials called its 'most massive' drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital, with fires burning across the city at dawn Thursday, strikes hitting residential buildings across multiple districts and a hotel on a central boulevard; Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko declared a day of mourning, and the death toll may rise.
OpenAI has proposed giving the US government a 5% equity stake in the company during early Trump administration talks, the Financial Times reported — with CEO Sam Altman arguing that giving the public a financial interest would be the best way to share AI's economic benefits amid Washington's mounting scrutiny of AI model oversight and public backlash against the sector.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are set to celebrate their wedding with a party at New York's Madison Square Garden this weekend, per the BBC's timeline of their relationship from friendship-bracelet exchanges to wedding rings; PBS NewsHour reported an official told the Associated Press the couple is 'really having a wedding this weekend' at the arena — a marquee celebrity-cultural event landing at one of America's most iconic sports and entertainment venues.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to renew the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement — the North American trade pact he championed as his signature first-term deal — opting instead to keep it alive on a short leash of annual reviews rather than committing to another 16-year term, per the Guardian; USTR Jamieson Greer said the administration seeks changes to the agreement that has streamlined supply chains across North America.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday federal prosecutors and law enforcement will focus on combating so-called 'birth tourism' — tourists, temporary visitors and undocumented immigrants traveling to the US to give birth — a day after the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship; the target category accounts for less than 1% of US babies born yearly, the Guardian noted.
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Republicans will hold their first-ever national midterm convention — an unusual event aimed at boosting turnout in November races that will decide whether the GOP retains control of Congress — with the event scheduled for Dallas in September and framed by Trump as 'a rally like none other'.
President Donald Trump's federal financial disclosure released Tuesday shows he took in nearly $1.2 billion from crypto businesses last year and holds more than $50 million in self-custodied Bitcoin in cold storage — with the crypto revenue eclipsing much of the property portfolio built over decades and with more than $500 million tied to the World Liberty Financial venture co-founded with his sons.
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump's bid to restrict birthright citizenship by a 6-3 vote in a decision on the final day of its term, maintaining the constitutional guarantee that people born on US soil are citizens; the ruling is a major setback to one of Trump's signature anti-immigration initiatives and lands the same term as the Humphrey's Executor reversal expanded his removal power over independent-agency heads.
Police in Monaco and France searched for a suspected bomber Tuesday after a parcel-bomb explosion wounded three people in the wealthy principality Monday evening, with two sources telling France 24 the attack targeted a Ukrainian-born oligarch; Monaco's head of government said the device contained bolts and pellets while prosecutor Stephane Thibault said the suspect is believed to have fled on foot to France.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority published its final crypto rulebook Tuesday — covering capital, stress-testing and market-abuse standards for crypto firms while easing some stablecoin rules — with the mandatory regime coming into force in late 2027; the framework represents the most comprehensive UK crypto regulation to date and is explicitly framed as positioning the UK as a 'global hub' for the sector.
Iran on Monday denied President Donald Trump's claim that Tehran requested a Doha meeting Tuesday, with foreign-ministry framing saying there are no plans for talks in coming days; the White House still sent envoy Steve Witkoff and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner to Qatar for what Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called 'high-level meetings', leaving the implementation track in a contested whether-meeting-happens posture amid the Bahrain-Kuwait strike escalation.
Four women and two men — all employees of a youth welfare facility — were shot dead inside the building in Stade, northern Germany on Monday afternoon, with five dying at the scene and the sixth in hospital; police arrested two people including the suspected shooter and described the shooting as concerning a custody dispute, per Deutsche Welle, with the death toll potentially set to rise.
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged Monday that Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil and fuel infrastructure are 'obviously creating problems' but denied the resulting shortages were 'critical', per the BBC; the rare Kremlin admission marks the first time Putin has publicly confirmed material impact from Kyiv's months-long campaign against Russian refineries and fuel storage facilities.
The US Supreme Court on Monday vastly expanded Trump's presidential removal power by overturning the 1935 Humphrey's Executor precedent that restricted firings of independent-agency heads — allowing the president to fire SEC, CFTC and similar regulators at will for almost any reason; the court simultaneously barred Trump from firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, preserving central bank independence as a carve-out, sending that fight back to lower courts.
Thousands of foreigners are fleeing South Africa ahead of a June 30 deadline set by anti-immigration groups demanding all undocumented immigrants leave or the groups will 'shut the country down', per France 24; the weeks-long buildup has been marred by xenophobic violence including attacks on foreign-owned businesses and immigrants killed during protests, with senior South African police on high alert ahead of the deadline.
The World Health Organization said Sunday more than 1,300 excess deaths have been recorded in Europe since the record-breaking heatwave began around June 21, with Germany logging a new all-time temperature record of 41.7°C; France earlier reported around 1,000 more deaths than expected since Wednesday, while WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned Europe is 'not prepared for high temperatures'.
US Rep. Julia Letlow — endorsed by Donald Trump — won the GOP Senate runoff in Louisiana Saturday, defeating state Treasurer John Fleming and putting Trump on the path to oust incumbent Bill Cassidy, who voted to convict Trump after the 2021 impeachment and most recently joined three other Republicans in the Senate war powers rebuke on Iran; Letlow now advances to the November general election.
President Donald Trump warned the US may 'militarily complete the job' if Iran does not stop strikes, after US aircraft targeted Iranian missile and drone storage facilities and coastal sites; Iran launched drone and missile attacks Sunday on Bahrain and Kuwait in response, threatening a 'complete halt' to talks to end the war if Washington continues attacks — sharply escalating the Versailles-deal stress within the 60-day window.
The confirmed death toll from Venezuela's twin earthquakes climbed to 1,430 on Saturday — rising by more than 500 in a single day — with parliamentary president Jorge Rodríguez Gómez announcing the figure, per the Associated Press; Venezuela's government said families had reported at least 68,900 missing while the UN's migration agency estimated nearly seven million people affected and in need of shelter, water and essential aid.
Vice President JD Vance told HBO's Bill Maher Friday that the US wins 'either way' in Iran talks — citing Iran's destroyed nuclear program and diminished position — and separately warned on X that 'violence will be met with violence' after US forces struck Iran in retaliation for the Strait of Hormuz drone attack on a Singapore-flagged cargo ship; the dual-track messaging defends both the deal and the kinetic posture.
A small plane appeared to crash into CITIC Tower — Beijing's tallest building — on Friday, with witnesses reporting plane debris at the skyscraper's base, AFP journalists seeing a hole in the building's upper floors, and video footage showing fire trucks blasting water at small flames on an outcropping; the rare aviation incident at a major Chinese landmark is under investigation.
The death toll from Venezuela's most powerful earthquake in more than a century nearly doubled Thursday to 920, with authorities warning the final number will be far higher and tens of thousands still reported missing; foreign search and rescue teams have arrived as Interim President Delcy Rodríguez vowed to fight to save 'as many people as possible' amid growing frustration over the official response and limited resources.
President Donald Trump threatened Friday to impose 100% tariffs on European countries that implement digital services taxes on US tech firms, saying he would cancel existing trade agreements if necessary; the EU defended its digital tax approach and said it stood ready to act if Trump takes measures, setting up a tariff fight just months after the European Parliament approved a tariff-lowering US trade deal.
Senators John Curtis and Adam Schiff led a bipartisan call for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to investigate Polymarket over alleged deceptive marketing on Friday, citing the Wall Street Journal probe that found $1.9 million in 1,100+ creator videos depicting fake winning bets; the senators expressed concern about the CFTC's enforcement ability after the 'troubling' report.
President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Iran for a drone strike that damaged the upper deck of a Singapore-flagged cargo ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz, calling it a 'foolish violation' of the US-Iran ceasefire agreement; the US shot down three other drones aimed at the same ship, Trump said, with the BBC noting a large-scale evacuation operation was paused after the attack.
Strategy CEO Michael Saylor took to X Friday to defend the company's long-term Bitcoin-focused strategy after MSTR common shares and its STRC preferred shares hit new 52-week lows, with STRC trading 25% below par; Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said Saylor 'has hurt' the crypto market, telling outlets that 'financial engineering does not drive long-term value' — escalating the public dispute over the digital-credit-treasury model.
Former national security adviser John Bolton — the hawkish first-term Trump official who emerged as a vocal post-tenure critic of the president — pleaded guilty Friday in the classified documents case against him, facing up to five years in prison and agreeing to pay a $2.25 million fine, prosecutors said; the plea closes one of the highest-profile prosecutions of a former senior Trump-administration official.
New York City's Rent Guidelines Board voted Friday to freeze rents on roughly one million rent-regulated apartments, fulfilling a signature campaign promise from Mayor Zohran Mamdani; the BBC framed the decision as a 'victory for Mamdani' welcomed by tenants but feared by landlords as a measure likely to worsen housing conditions over the longer term.
Asian stock markets slid Friday as tech shares slumped, with trading on South Korea's KOSPI index halted for the third time this week to prevent panic selling — the BBC reported; Coinbase and Circle have posted steeper losses than Oracle, Netflix and Salesforce, highlighting the widening gap between crypto equities and the broader market in a deepening tech-segment selloff.
