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BREAKING: Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says OpenAI model hacked into government agency Services Australia
🇺🇸 Only 54% of Americans now drink alcohol, a record-low since 1939, and down from 67% in 2022, according to Gallup study.
BREAKING: The Pentagon is considering withdrawing 25,000 troops and planes, ships and other assets from Europe, according to NBC News report.
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s investment firm WndrCo backs deal valuing fitness racing company HYROX at $700 million and returning control to its co-founders.
BREAKING: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company won't go public this year 'given everything happening with safety' of artificial intelligence.
China's trade surplus has widened to a massive $119 billion in August, an increase of 17% compared with the same period last year.
Shipments to the United States increased by 34% compared with a year prior.
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🇺🇸 Interest payments on the US national debt reached $763 billion in the first ten months of fiscal year 2026, an 18% increase compared with the last year.
Defense spending for the same period was $728 billion.
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BREAKING: South Korea's defense minister says that North Korea possesses between 80 to 120 nuclear warheads
BREAKING: Trump threatens the 'MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY' against Iran.
BREAKING: US government debt hits $40 trillion
The price of rice has now gone up 50% so far in 2026.
BREAKING: Gold price up by over 4%, trading at $4520.
BREAKING: Ukraine’s parliament reappoints Andrii Sybiha as foreign minister.
BREAKING: Iran has weighed attacking US military targets in Europe if Trump escalates the war, according to Financial Times report.
BREAKING: Trump says he has paused 50% tariffs against Canada that were scheduled to start tomorrow after a deal was reached
BREAKING: 🇫🇷 France set to expel two Iranian diplomats
Netanyahu calls the International Criminal Court a 'kangaroo court that cloaks its abuse of power in the language of international law'.
BREAKING: UAE suspends all trade, financial and commercial activity with Iran
BREAKING: Germany's 10-year bond yield rises to highest since 2011
Crude oil price
1st of January: $57.3
Now: $84.8
