Erdogan Taunts Israel & Greece After Trump Hands Turkey F-35, Sanctions Win

Caterpillar Erupts As Quarterly Sales Top $20 Billion For First Time Amid AI Data Center Boom Caterpillar shares jumped in pre-market trading after reporting a second-quarter beat, driven by strong growth in its heavy machinery, power and energy business amid the data center buildout, reshoring, and other activities reindustrializing the nation under the Trump administration. Revenue soared 24% from one year ago to $20.54 billion, exceeding the $19.01 billion Bloomberg consensus estimate. Machinery, power and energy revenue climbed 25% to $19.58 billion, while operating income surged 51% to $4.21 billion, well...

California Orders NGO Serving As "Financial Backbone" For Singham-Linked Marxism Causes To Cease Operations Foreign policy investigator Adam Kredo of The Washington Free Beacon revealed on Monday that California regulators ordered Arc of Justice, a nonprofit operated by left-wing Code Pink cofounder Medea Benjamin, to cease charitable operations after years of missing tax filings and unanswered questions about what happened to $51 million in reported assets.  The state attorney general revoked the foundation's charitable registration in January 2025, barring it from distributing assets without prior approval. A June 19 warning letter went further, directing Arc...

Cocoa Prices Rally As Jefferies Warns Of "Perfect Storm" In West Africa Cocoa futures in New York have doubled since the start of March and have now climbed back toward levels not seen since late 2025, around $6,000 a ton, as Jefferies analysts warn that a "perfect storm's a-brewing" across West Africa, the world's top cocoa-farming region. Jefferies analyst Scott Marks wrote in a note on Tuesday that new weather concerns center on Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world's top cocoa-growing regions. He said that temperatures in both countries have been about...