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Venezuela’s opposition leader doesn’t respond to reporter questions about whether she gave her Nobel to Trump

All told, Machado spent about two and a half hours at the White House but left without answering questions.

By Regina Garcia Cano, Megan Janetsky, Will Weissert and The Associated PressJanuary 15, 2026
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Gavin Newsom literally started his career with funding from a billionaire, but he was also raised by a single mother with 3 jobs
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 15, 2026
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Gavin Newsom’s anti-Zohran moment: the California billionaire tax that splits the Democratic Party down the middle
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 15, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump
Trump’s ‘Department of War’ rebrand could cost $125 million to replace all the stationery and signs, the CBO says
By Eleanor PringleJanuary 15, 2026
EU
A trade deal 25 years in the making between Europe and South America is nearly over the finish line
By Isabel Debre and The Associated PressJanuary 15, 2026
Latest Stories
RetailChubbies cofounder Kyle Hency is back—his new startup Good Day just raised $7 million in seed funding
By Allie GarfinkleJanuary 15, 2026
Personal FinanceBest personal loans for excellent credit 2026: Low APRs and strong borrowing power
By Joseph HostetlerJanuary 15, 2026
Health5 Best Home Saunas of 2026: Approved by Testers and Experts
By Christina SnyderJanuary 15, 2026
Big TechOracle struggles to attract workers to Nashville ‘world HQ’—even with a 2-million-square-foot office and Larry Ellison’s favorite restaurant
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezJanuary 15, 2026
The JPMorgan Chase and Co. global headquarters building, center, at 270 Park Avenue in New York, US, on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025.
Real Estate‘They’re going to have to think and act a lot more like hotels’: The new rules of office space now that the ‘genie is out of the bottle on hybrid’
By Jake AngeloJanuary 15, 2026
Personal FinanceHow to avoid a personal loan origination fee 
By Joseph HostetlerJanuary 15, 2026
InnovationCustomers lament Tesla’s move toward monthly fees for self-driving cars: ‘You will own nothing and be happy’
By Tristan BoveJanuary 15, 2026
AIWorried about AI taking your job? New Anthropic research shows it’s not that simple
By Sharon GoldmanJanuary 15, 2026
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EnergyCongress’ solution for rare earths crisis: a brand-new $2.5 billion federal agency
By Didi Tang, Josh Funk and The Associated PressJanuary 15, 2026
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PoliticsTrump to finally meet with Venezuela’s Nobel-winning opposition leader Maria Corina Machado
By Regina Garcia Cano, Megan Janetsky and The Associated PressJanuary 15, 2026
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LawRenee Good and George Floyd: 2 Minneapolis killings, 2 grieving families, one law firm
By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated PressJanuary 15, 2026
AsiaTrump’s immigrant visa crackdown targets Southeast Asia’s Cambodia and Thailand, a decision experts find ‘puzzling’
By Angelica AngJanuary 15, 2026
Photo: President Donald Trump during a bill signing event with dairy farmers in the Oval Office on Wednesday January 14, 2026.
InvestingTrump’s chips ‘proclamation’ causes retail investors to dump the Magnificent Seven stocks  
By Jim EdwardsJanuary 15, 2026
CryptoLandmark crypto bill on knife’s edge as Coinbase CEO pulls support ahead of key Senate vote
By Leo SchwartzJanuary 14, 2026
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PoliticsDenmark and Greenland agree to form working group over the future of the territory
By Emma Burrows, Claudia Ciobanu, Ben Finley and The Associated PressJanuary 14, 2026
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PoliticsRural America is getting a bailout, but not from Trump—billionaires are riding to the rescue
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 14, 2026
greenland
EuropeAmericans have been quietly plundering Greenland for over 100 years, since a Navy officer chipped fragments off the Cape York iron meteorite
By Paul Bierman and The ConversationJanuary 14, 2026
Gates
PoliticsOne year after Bill Gates surprised with the choice to close his foundation by 2045, he’s cutting staff jobs
By Stephanie Beasley and The Associated PressJanuary 14, 2026
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LawTrump is sorry for deporting college student who flew home to surprise her family for Thanksgiving, but is still deporting her
By Michael Casey and The Associated PressJanuary 14, 2026
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Personal FinancePeter Thiel makes his biggest donation in years to help defeat California’s billionaire wealth tax
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 14, 2026
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EconomyCalifornia’s wealth tax doesn’t fix the real problem: Cash-poor billionaires who borrow money, tax-free, to live on
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 14, 2026
PAGE BRIN
Economy‘Sickening and greedy’: California millionaire slams Larry Page and Sergey Brin for cutting ties with the state to avoid wealth tax
By Jacqueline MunisJanuary 14, 2026
Trump
PoliticsCourts keep telling Trump that he can’t cut funding for ‘sanctuary cities,’ but now he’s going to try to cut states off, too
By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated PressJanuary 14, 2026
Hochul
PoliticsMamdani-Hochul alliance exposes affordability rift in New York state: ‘Republicans have kids, too, you can stand’
By Anthony Izaguirre and The Associated PressJanuary 14, 2026
Greenland
PoliticsTrump demands NATO help with U.S. acquiring Greenland: ‘Anything less than that is unacceptable’
By Emma Burrows and The Associated PressJanuary 14, 2026
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Politics‘You are really playing with fire with this one’: California billionaires tax ignites, pitting labor unions and voters against tech execs
By MIchael R. Blood, Michael Liedtke and The Associated PressJanuary 14, 2026
ICE
PoliticsTop DOJ official doesn’t see any basis to open criminal civil rights investigation into Nicole Good’s death
By Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker and The Associated PressJanuary 14, 2026
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PoliticsClintons refuse to comply with congressional subpoena to testify in Epstein probe: ‘We will forcefully defend ourselves’
By Stephen Groves and The Associated PressJanuary 14, 2026
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Politics‘Jamie Dimon probably wants higher rates. Maybe he makes more money that way’: Trump continues Fed attacks in Detroit visit
By The Associated PressJanuary 14, 2026
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EconomyTrump insists ‘the Trump economic boom has officially begun’ because of ‘historic use of tariffs’
By Will Weissert, Corey Williams, Nick Lichtenberg and The Associated PressJanuary 14, 2026
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EconomyChina invites Canada to closer relationship as PM Carney arrives for state visit
By Ken Moritsugu and The Associated PressJanuary 14, 2026
Photo: President Donald Trump.
EconomyThe longer the Supreme Court delays its tariff decision, the better it is for President Trump
By Jim EdwardsJanuary 14, 2026
AsiaThe Philippines, ASEAN’s new chair, starts 2026 on a ‘weaker footing’ after trade tensions and a $2 billion corruption scandal
By Angelica AngJanuary 14, 2026
BankingWhy the $38 trillion national debt doomed Fed independence regardless of the Trump/Powell drama, top economist says
By Eva RoytburgJanuary 13, 2026
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PoliticsScott Adams, Dilbert creator who went from cubicle wars to culture wars, posts open letter to time with his death at 68
By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 13, 2026
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BankingWhy the DOJ’s subpoena of Jerome Powell backfired so quickly, emboldening Republicans to stand up to Trump
By Christopher Rugaber, Josh Boak and The Associated PressJanuary 13, 2026
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CommentaryIs Powell’s Fed head independence dead? Trump outfoxes himself this time
By Jeffrey SonnenfeldJanuary 13, 2026
Photo: President Trump.
EconomyWall Street expects Trump’s Fed plot to ‘backfire’ spectacularly—perhaps even shutting the door more firmly on rate cuts
By Eleanor PringleJanuary 13, 2026
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By Nick LichtenbergJanuary 14, 2026
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By Paul Bierman and The ConversationJanuary 14, 2026
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Despite a $45 million net worth, Big Bang Theory star still works tough, 16-hour days—he repeats one mantra when overwhelmedAn image of a popular article
By Orianna Rosa RoyleJanuary 15, 2026
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