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The stock market bounce last week showed once again just how dependent Wall Street has become on the whims of the White House. Case in point: The S & P 500 sank more than 2% this past Monday as President Donald Trump was attacking Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and providing scant details on tariff talks. Then on Tuesday , things started to turn around. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said there “will be a de-escalation” in the trade war with China. It was the first day of what turned out to be a three-session rally for the S & P…

Pakistan’s military said on Sunday that it had killed 54 militants trying to infiltrate the country from Afghanistan, highlighting the challenges its forces face on multiple fronts as tensions with India also rise rapidly.The operation against the fighters from Afghanistan took place on Friday and Saturday nights in North Waziristan, a remote district along Pakistan’s northwestern border, its military said.Pakistani troops detected the movement of the large group of militants and killed all of them, the military said, adding that it had seized a cache of weapons and explosives.The 54 deaths reported were an usually high number in Pakistan’s battle…

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said Sunday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has “created chaos” at the Pentagon amid staffing shakeups and recent reporting surrounding information about airstrikes in Yemen shared in Signal group chats. “The fact is, Pete Hegseth was not qualified to take the job as Secretary of Defense, and he has shown that time and again,” Shaheen said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”Hegseth, a 44-year-old Army veteran and former Fox News host, faced scrutiny during the confirmation process early this year, becoming among President Trump’s most embattled picks for top posts in his administration. The Senate ultimately approved his…

Alexis Herman, a Democratic Party insider who grew up under segregation in Alabama and went on to become the first Black secretary of labor, a position in which she helped settle a crippling strike by United Parcel Service workers, died on Friday in Washington. She was 77.Her death, after a brief illness, was announced by her family. The announcement did not say where in Washington she died.President Bill Clinton was familiar with Ms. Herman when he nominated her as labor secretary in his second term. She had been the chief executive of the 1992 Democratic National Convention; deputy director of…

Alexander Zverev has scraped past Spanish star Alejandro Davidovich Fokina after requiring tiebreakers in the final two sets of their match to progress into the last-16 at the Madrid Open.The German favourite looked at one point as if he might suffer the same fate as defending men’s champion Andrey Rublev, who lost in three sets to Kazakh Alexander Bublik.Zverev struggled early but recovered to fend off a gritty performance by Davidovich Fokina in their third-round clash and prevail 2-6 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-0).Zverev, seeking his third Madrid Open title, has won seven matches in a row and is coming off…

Repeated threats by US to seize Greenland loom over Nielsen’s first visit to Denmark since taking office.Greenland’s prime minister and his Danish counterpart have presented a united front, criticising United States President Donald Trump’s administration for a lack of respect in its designs to seize the Arctic island, a self-governed Danish territory. “We will never, ever be a piece of property that can be bought by anyone, and that’s the message I think is most important to understand,” Jens-Frederik Nielsen told reporters on Sunday at a joint news conference in Copenhagen alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. Trump’s repeated threats…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that the Trump administration will decide this week whether to continue pursuing a negotiated settlement in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or to turn its attention to other matters.This week will be “very important,” Mr. Rubio said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We have to make a determination about whether this is an endeavor that we want to continue to be involved in or if it’s time to sort of focus on some other issues that are equally if not more important in some cases.”“But we want to see it happen,” he added. “There…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Since they were kids, every prospect who was drafted this weekend into the NFL has dreamed of that very moment – hearing their name called by a professional football team. While fans are ecstatic to get new talent on their teams, some of those are expected to make an immediate impact in 2025. The raw emotion for the players, as well as their loved ones, is what makes the NFL Draft truly a special time in sports. All seven rounds of the draft came to an end on Saturday, and there were tons of…

Elizabeth Smart was 14 years old when she was kidnapped at knifepoint from her Salt Lake City home. For nine months, she survived on hope.”[The key to my survival] was truly the belief that my family would love me no matter what and that my family would want me back, no matter what,” the 37-year-old told Fox News Digital. “Maybe nobody else, but my family would. That was worth doing whatever it took to survive.”Today, Smart is a married mother of three, but her story is far from over. She is a child safety activist who regularly speaks on behalf…

Any faint hopes Sam Kerr may have harboured about making her return to Chelsea’s ranks in the biggest match in women’s soccer have been dashed after they were hammered mercilessly 4-1 by Barcelona for the second time in a week in the Champions League semi-final.The holders were in a completely different league to the English champions as they dominated the second leg at Stamford Bridge on Sunday just as they had back home in Spain seven days earlier, the final aggregate margin of 8-2 not flattering brilliant Barca.Matildas captain Kerr was still not ready to return to action after more…