Dan Bongino in Hollywood, Florida on Nov. 17, 2022.Jason Koerner | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump said in a post on social media Sunday that Dan Bongino, a conservative talk show host, will be deputy director of the FBI.Bongino will join Kash Patel, who was recently confirmed by the Senate as director of the FBI. Trump said Bongino was named to the role by Patel. The position does not require Senate confirmation.”Great news for Law Enforcement and American Justice!” Trump posted on his social media network, Truth Social, calling Bongino “a man of incredible love and passion for our Country.”Bongino was previously a New York City police offer, and a member of the U.S. Secret Service. He most recently…
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A Kenyan police officer was fatally injured in Haiti on Sunday in an operation that was part of the international effort to help combat gang violence and restore order to the Caribbean nation, officials said.It appears to be the first death of a Kenyan officer working as part of the Multinational Security Support Mission, the international contingent that has been deployed in the Caribbean nation since June. The force is mostly made of Kenyan officers.The officer was injured during an operation in the Artibonite region, north of the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Sunday, the Multinational Security Support Mission said in a…
People love to talk about the straw that broke the camel’s back. I think an anvil broke the bull market’s back last week. A straw would never have done it because, until last week, I didn’t see a lot on the back of a bull that would cause a straw to do the job. But it seems like an anvil, a metalworking tool, could break anything, and that’s what it feels like is happening. Consider that until last week, we pretty much were excited about how bond yields had been going down even as inflation hadn’t crested. But by the…
19 February 2025, Berlin: Visitors walk in front of the German flag in the dome of the Bundestag. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images The transatlantic relationship between Europe and the U.S. has been one of the world’s longest alliances, and yet it has never been more closely watched than the past month. Over the weekend, exit polls showed Germany’s conservative CDU-CSU party secured the largest share of votes in the German federal election, with the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) party in second place.The AfD, which counts Tesla CEO Elon Musk among its supporters, secured about 20% of the…
Tensions between the world’s two largest economies have escalated over the last several years.Florence Lo | ReutersBEIJING — China is trying yet again to boost foreign investment, amid geopolitical tensions and businesses’ calls for more concrete actions.On Feb. 19, authorities published a “2025 action plan for stabilizing foreign investment” to make it easier for foreign capital to invest in domestic telecommunication and biotechnology industries, according to a CNBC translation of the Chinese.The document called for clearer standards in government procurement — a major issue for foreign businesses in China — and for the development of a plan to gradually allow foreign…
Germans voted for a change of leadership on Sunday, with historically reliable exit polls from a parliamentary election showing centrist conservatives in the lead and the far right in second. The results amounted to a rebuke of the nation’s left-leaning government for its handling of the economy and immigration.That almost certainly means the country’s next chancellor will be Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democrats. But he will need at least one or two coalition partners to govern.“We have won it,” Mr. Merz told supporters in Berlin on Sunday evening, promising to swiftly form a majority to govern the…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on Feb. 19, 2025.Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesStock market futures moved higher on Sunday evening as Wall Street looked to bounce back from a slide late last week.Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 125 points, or 0.3%. S&P 500 futures added more than 0.3%, while Nasdaq 100 futures were up 0.4%.The move follows the stock market’s fall on Thursday and Friday to end the week in the red. The Dow finished down 2.51% for its worst weekly performance since October. The S&P 500…
Merz appeared poised to be Germany’s next leaderThe conservative Christian Democrats appeared to be on the cusp of victory in Germany’s parliamentary elections yesterday, exit polls show. The country’s next chancellor will almost certainly be Friedrich Merz, a businessman who has promised to crack down on migrants, and slash taxes and business regulations in a bid to kick-start economic growth.Early exit polls indicated that the hard-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, was in second place with 19.5 percent of the vote, a result that was lower than predicted. With a voter participation of 83.5 percent, the election appears to…
Junkboat of Hong Kong at NightNikada | E+ | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets opened lower after Wall Street logged its worst session of the year last Friday on lackluster U.S. economic data that pointed to a slowing economy and sticky inflation.Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 extended losses to a sixth straight session, opening 0.81% lower.In South Korea, the Kospi started the day 0.71% lower, while the small-cap Kosdaq was down 0.1.21%.Futures for Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index last traded at 23,397, pointing to a weaker open compared to the HSI’s Friday close of 23,477.92 — it’s highest since February 2022.Japanese markets are closed for a public…
WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Multiple U.S. agencies have told employees not to respond immediately to a demand by President Donald Trump’s adviser Elon Musk to list their accomplishments in the past week or be fired, as a chaotic campaign to cull the federal workforce pushes forward.Trump administration-appointed officials at the FBI and State Department sent their staff emails telling them not to respond outside their chains of command – a possible sign of tension between members of the Republican administration and the world’s richest person in his campaign to slash the 2.3 million-strong federal civilian workforce.”The FBI, through the office of the director, is in charge of…
