North Carolina Libertarian Senate Candidate Arrested After Live-Blogging Armed Standoff With Police

Yen Jumps As Japan PM Admits Weak Currency "Problematic" President Trump reportedly expressed concern over the weakness of the yen when he met Japan’s prime minister this week as the currency came under more pressure against the dollar. The FT reports that Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama Satsuki Katayama told reporters in Tokyo that Trump and Sanae Takaichi discussed the yen in talks in New York on Tuesday. The US president “expressed his concern” while Takaichi told Trump that she saw an undervalued yen as “problematic”, Katayama said. The yen jumped around 1% against the dollar following...

Qatar Tried Secret Deal-Making With Iran To Protect World's Largest Gas Complex By the middle of March during Trump's Operation Epic Fury, Iran was flexing its retaliatory might, and the Gulf region was shocked to see the largest natural-gas production facility in the world, Qatar's North Field, badly damaged - with a key section forced offline and severely damaged. The Washington Post has just provided some new information which has come to light, writing that "There was an additional, hidden consequence. The strike also dashed secret efforts by Qatar to keep...