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us economy 8 34m ago 4 min read

UN Food Agencies Warn 274 Million Could Face Acute Hunger by End of 2027 as Washington's Aid Retreat and El Niño Collide

The UN World Food Programme says a historic El Niño peaking between November 2026 and January 2027 could push 49 million more people into acute hunger, on top of funding cuts that have already forced WFP to halve food aid in the West Bank and slash Gaza cash assistance 40%. Humanitarian funding is down nearly 60% since 2022, and the frontrunner to lead the UN's food agency says other nations now have to cover what Washington stopped paying for.

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us economy 9 1h ago 4 min read

Trump and Xi Sit Down in Washington as US Extends China Tariff Truce to January 10, Cuts Duties to 7.5%

Since Xi landed at Joint Base Andrews Wednesday evening for his first U.S. state visit in 11 years, Washington has quietly extended the tariff truce with China through January 10 and cut duties to 7.5%, according to CNN and the Epoch Times. Meanwhile a White House report flags nine Latin American nations for helping China dodge tariffs, Vietnam denies doing the same, and GOP senators are already fighting over how much red-carpet treatment Xi deserves.

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ca economy 7 2h ago 4 min read

Carney Tells NYT He Studied Risk of U.S.-Led Military Action Against Canada

In a New York Times interview published Wednesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed his government examined the 'extreme tail risk' of a U.S.-led military move against Canada, though he wouldn't say what that study involved. The disclosure lands the same week Ottawa unveiled a transport bill designed to route trade around the United States entirely, and it's a striking new data point in a relationship that's already cratered over tariffs and the failed August trade talks.

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us economy 8 3h ago 5 min read

AI Data Center Spending Overtook US Housing Investment in Q2, and the Real Bill Could Hit $10.3 Trillion by 2032

New figures show data center and computing hardware investment hit $752 billion in Q2 2026, edging past residential housing for the first time, while a Columbia University and Brookings Institution analysis pegs the full AI buildout at $10.3 trillion through 2032. Wall Street is now asking whether hyperscalers can actually generate the cash to pay for it, and whether Washington's fight over AI is really about the economy having nowhere else to turn for growth.

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us economy 8 3h ago 4 min read

Bessent Says US and China Extend Busan Trade Truce to January 10, Not the Two Years Beijing Wanted

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed the Busan trade truce with China, set to expire November 10, has been pushed to January 10 instead. China wanted two years. The extension buys time on tariffs and rare earths but leaves the bigger fight over Beijing's unmet commitments unresolved.

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ua economy 8 4h ago 4 min read

Cut Off From Food Since May, Residents of Russian-Occupied Oleshky Report Starvation and Drone Deaths

Ukrainian officials and multiple on-the-ground accounts say roughly 6,000 civilians remain trapped in Russian-occupied Oleshky, Kherson Oblast, with no food delivery since late May and residents eating garden weeds and tree bark. A husband and wife were killed by a drone on September 20 while carrying groceries home, and the Kremlin has acknowledged a critical supply situation while blaming Kyiv.

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us economy 8 5h ago 4 min read

Trump's Gaza Board Unveils $2.45 Billion Rebuild Plan, But Only $280 Million of $18 Billion Pledged Has Shown Up

Trump's Board of Peace laid out a 66-project, six-month blueprint to start rebuilding Gaza, admitting donors have pledged $18 billion but delivered just $280 million. Reconstruction hasn't started a year after the ceasefire took effect, Israel controls 60% of Gaza, and Hamas still hasn't disarmed.

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us economy 9 5h ago 3 min read

Xi Jinping Arrives in Washington for First State Visit in 11 Years as Trade and Taiwan Disputes Simmer

Xi Jinping landed in Washington Wednesday evening for his first state visit to the U.S. since 2015, with a formal state dinner and talks with Trump scheduled for Thursday, September 24. The pageantry comes two months after Trump accused Beijing of hacking or stealing 220 million American voter files, an allegation that remains unproven and uncharged, while real fights over tariffs, tech blacklists, and Taiwan grind on underneath the handshakes.

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us economy 8 6h ago 4 min read

Glencore Gets $500 Million U.S.-Backed Deal to Help Build a Critical Minerals Stockpile

The U.S. government picked Swiss commodities giant Glencore as a founding partner in VaultCo, a new critical minerals reserve backed by a $500 million commitment from the Export-Import Bank. It's part of a roughly $12 billion stockpile plan the administration says will break America's dependence on China for rare earths, running alongside a separate push to fast-track deep-sea mining permits.

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us economy 8 8h ago 4 min read

White House Denies Report of 90-Day Diesel Export Ban As Prices Hit Record $6.52 a Gallon

Diesel prices just hit their highest level ever recorded, and Politico reported the Trump administration is drafting a 90-day export ban to bring them down. The White House called that report fake news, but Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, oil executives, and President Trump himself are all reportedly not on the same page.

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us economy 8 8h ago 3 min read

Trump Threatens EU Tariffs Over Von der Leyen's Canada 'Associate Member' Proposal

Days after Ursula von der Leyen floated making Canada the EU's first 'associate member,' a status that doesn't actually exist in EU law, Donald Trump threatened 'very heavy tariffs' on Europe if the arrangement counts as a hostile act. Mark Carney says he's not building a rival bloc, just insurance against getting squeezed by Washington and Beijing at the same time.

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us economy 7 9h ago 4 min read

Hurricane Polo Holds at Category 4 as Hurricane Odalys Forms and a Third Storm Takes Aim at Hawaii

Hurricane Polo is still swirling off Mexico's Pacific coast as a Category 4 storm, and it's no longer alone. Hurricane Odalys has spun up over open water, and a separate system is forecast to become Tropical Storm Nolo before hitting Hawaii's Big Island as a major hurricane by Saturday. None of this changes the forecast for Southern California: elevated surf and rip currents starting Friday, no landfall expected.

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de economy 6 10h ago 4 min read

Triton Partners Explores Sale or IPO of German Grid Equipment Maker Trench Group as AI Power Demand Surges

Triton Partners has hired Morgan Stanley to explore selling or taking public Trench Group, the high-voltage equipment maker it bought from Siemens Energy, at a valuation in the billions of euros. The move lands the same week President Trump is set to host Xi Jinping for a summit centered heavily on AI competition. No deal is certain, but real capital is chasing the physical grid infrastructure the AI boom actually depends on.

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in economy 7 10h ago 3 min read

Jaishankar Presses Rubio on New Russia Sanctions Law at UNGA, Rubio's Statement Skips the Topic Entirely

India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio directly that New Delhi has concerns about America's new Russia sanctions law, which threatens tariffs up to 100% on countries buying Russian oil. Rubio's public readout of the same meeting never mentioned it. The law is discretionary, not automatic, but the gap between what each side said afterward tells its own story.

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us economy 7 10h ago 5 min read

Chicago Proposes 12-Month Data Center Moratorium as GOP Senate Candidates Break From Trump's AI Push

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson introduced a formal ordinance to pause new data center construction for a year, joining at least six other U.S. cities and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in hitting the brakes. Meanwhile GOP Senate candidates in Michigan and Ohio are distancing themselves from Trump's pro-AI-buildout stance as a Fox News poll shows 70% of voters want construction paused.

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us economy 9 11h ago 4 min read

Xi's Washington Visit Opens Under a B-2 Flyover as Oil Markets Can't Agree Which Way Crude Is Moving

Xi Jinping's summit with Trump kicked off today with unprecedented military pageantry, but a Council on Foreign Relations brief says the honors mask an asymmetric relationship where Beijing believes rare-earth leverage has already tamed Washington. Meanwhile Iran's president addresses the UN today and financial outlets can't agree whether oil is spiking or retreating, a split that says more about the noise around this summit than the substance.

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us economy 8 12h ago 4 min read

Boston Fed's Collins Warns Inflation Could Stay 'Notably' Above 2% Target, Markets Split on October Hike

Since the Fed's quarter-point rate hike on September 16, Boston Fed President Susan Collins says inflation risk has gotten worse, not better. Traders are now roughly split on whether the Fed hikes again in October, and the debate over whether tighter money can even fix oil-driven inflation is heating up.

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gb economy 7 12h ago 4 min read

Thames Water Hedge Funds Sweeten Bailout Bid Days After MPs Demand UK Government Seize Control

Thames Water's creditor consortium, including Elliott Investment Management and Silver Point Capital, is drawing up a bigger debt writeoff and fresh cash injection to keep control of Britain's biggest water utility, according to Bloomberg. The move comes days after a cross-party parliamentary committee told the government to reject the creditors' offer and take the company over instead. Neither path is clean: nationalizing a company drowning in £20 billion of debt isn't free for taxpayers, and leaving hedge funds in charge means the people who let the pipes rot get to write the recovery plan.

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eu economy 8 13h ago 4 min read

EU Commissioner Calls China Trade Rebalancing 'Existential' as October Deadline Nears

EU Industry Commissioner Stéphane Séjourné says Europe is losing thousands of jobs a week to its trade imbalance with China and warns tariffs are on the table if Beijing won't budge. The EU's own trade deficit with China hit roughly €360 billion in 2025, and former WTO chief Pascal Lamy says Brussels now faces a stark choice: force Beijing to rebalance or go protectionist.

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us economy 6 13h ago 4 min read

One in Five Renters Missed a Full Rent Payment in 2025, Urban Institute Finds, With Middle-Income Households Hit Hardest

A new Urban Institute survey found 20% of working-age renters couldn't pay their full rent on time at some point in 2025, the highest share recorded. The sharpest jump wasn't among the poor, it was middle-income renters, whose rate of missed payments went from 14.3% to 21.6% in a single year. Homeowners' mortgage payments stayed rock steady the whole time.

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