Trump Says He Will Lift Sanctions on Turkey and ‘Certainly Consider’ F-35 Sale

North Korea Rips Fresh Western Criticism Of Expanding Moscow Relationship North Korea fired back on Saturday and lashed out at the Washington-Seoul alliance, tearing into a fresh South Korea-EU joint statement that condemned Pyongyang's deepening military alliance with Russia. North Korea has increasingly over the past acknowledge a significant number of troops sacrificed in support of Russia and in the context of the brutal and grinding Ukraine war. The Western-aligned statement, inked Wednesday during South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's high-profile trip to Brussels, took direct aim at the "illegal military cooperation"...

ADP Employment Report Signals Biggest Job Additions In 15 Months In April With non-farm payrolls looming, we get another glimpse at the labor market today from the ADP Employment Report which shows the US economy added 109k jobs in April (a slight disappointment relative to +120k exp). That is the tenth straight month of job additions and strongest monthly addition since January 2025... Source: Bloomberg Under the hood, Goods-producing jobs rose 15,000 while Service-providing jobs rose 94,000. "Small and large employers are hiring, but we're seeing softness in the middle," said Dr. Nela Richardson Chief Economist,...

In celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we remember names like Jefferson and Washington. Unfortunately, the man probably most responsible for push this nation to independence, Thomas Paine, is mostly forgotten.