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U.S. Catholic leaders criticize Trump for ‘disparaging words’ about the Pope as Vatican clash risks alienating Catholic voters

The growing list of prominent religious voices rebuking President Donald Trump comes with political stakes.

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Trump’s war in the Middle East may end up a global boon for renewables, as think tank calls return-to-coal narrative ‘meaningless’

Countries have few incentives to permanently pivot back to coal, even during the worst energy disruption in history.

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Starbucks wants you to ask ChatGPT about what coffee to get, right as America boils over with AI backlash vibes

AI-powered recommendations promise to simplify shopping and coffee runs, but data suggests humans are just messier than that.

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Home sales just fell 3.6%—and the spring buying season may not save them

Affordability fears, high mortgage rates, and a war in the Middle East are rewriting the rules of the housing market’s most important season.

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Trump’s agricultural tariffs hit all 50 states—driving up food prices, crushing exports, and leaving farmers with nowhere to turn

What happens when tariffs hit American agriculture? All 50 states found out.

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MIT created duplicate AI workers to tackle thousands of different tasks. The verdict? Most of the time AI is still just ‘minimally sufficient’

AI is improving fast, but it has a long way to go before it can outperform humans in demanding tasks.

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Jamie Dimon says the U.S. was right to go to war with Iran: ‘Why the western world put up with all these proxy wars for 45 years is kind of beyond me’

America’s top banker says the war’s ultimate potential upside would cancel out the current volatility, and he’s speaking for a big constituency.

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After renewable power’s record-smashing 2025, the Iran war could accelerate the shift as countries seek ‘structurally more resilient’ energy, UN says

From Asia to Europe, people are rushing to electrify wherever they can.

02.04.2026 6

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The Iran war is effectively a ‘tax’ on US households that could accelerate the economy’s widening K shape, Moody’s says

Americans could be on the hook for an extra $8 billion in gas prices, and some families will feel it more than others.

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Disney CEO’s no good, very bad week: Josh D’Amaro is dealing with 3 major headaches in his first week

Three setbacks in seven days, even if most of them are out of his hands, have already complicated the new CEO’s vision of Disney.

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Gen Z’s credit scores are cratering — and Trump’s student loan crackdown is the biggest reason why

Trump's rollback of student loan protections has pushed millions of young Americans into delinquency. The national credit score is the worst since...

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Soaring fertilizer prices could pressure a U.S. agricultural industry that supports 50 million jobs and over $10 trillion in output

The war in Iran’s ripple effects could run deep through America’s agriculture economy.

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Billionaire Larry Fink says you’re wrong to think that AI stealing your job is the big problem—it’s really about what it’s doing for his class

AI-driven benefits are still contained to a small portion of Americans, a bad sign for the growing wealth gap.

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Goldman Sachs says small businesses are embracing AI, but fewer than 1 in 5 are good at actually integrating it

Getting smaller firms behind AI is easy. It’s also just the first step.

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Trump officials say gas prices will return to normal in ‘a few more weeks,’ but his own Energy Department says it will be 2027

Government projections don’t see gas prices falling below $3 per gallon until the end of next year.

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The world’s EVs were already replacing 70% of Iran’s oil exports. The war just made that matter

As the war in Iran sends gas prices surging, the world's growing electric vehicle fleet is providing a buffer. In America, it may finally be enough to...

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‘100% completely unsustainable as a society.’ Billionaire advisor calls out widening inequality that leaves America’s poorest 80% ‘falling behind’

Most indicators for the U.S. economy were relatively good last year, but not many Americans feel that way.

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Peter Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to Rome — and Italian politicians are calling his ideas ‘scandalous’

The Palantir co-founder's private lecture series has arrived in Rome, where both the Catholic Church and Italian lawmakers are pushing back on his...

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The energy crisis isn’t recessionary yet, but there’s a scenario where oil prices could bring the US economy to a ‘standstill,’ Oxford Economics says

Higher-for-longer oil prices would lead to economic spillover effects that are much harder to control.

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Getting Americans outside added 5 million jobs and $1.3 trillion to the economy in 2024, before staffing and budget cuts came for national parks

It could be an ‘existential’ threat to the small businesses that rely on them.

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The war in Iran has caused the biggest oil supply disruption in history, energy watchdog says, and a swift end to the conflict might not change that

The war’s global energy consequences could ripple far beyond its eventual end-date.

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The Iran war is reviving remote work across the world — from Denmark to Vietnam

As the conflict blocks global fuel trade, governments are bringing back work-from-home policies to save energy.

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It’s thanks to Social Security wealth inequality isn’t even worse, Wharton economist says. Trump’s policies will push it to insolvency in 6 years

Social Security’s insolvency would damage a $40 trillion buffer against a wider wealth gap.

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Peter Thiel dumped Nvidia and invested $45 million into Microsoft and Apple—sending a strong signal about who will win the AI race

Peter Thiel quietly dumped all his Nvidia shares and bought Apple and Microsoft—a repositioning that signals doubt about AI's most celebrated...

10.03.2026 10

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Saudi Aramco CEO issues stark warning: Iran war could bring ‘catastrophic’ shock to global oil

The world’s biggest oil exporter says reopening Middle East energy routes is critical as Trump claims the conflict may soon end.

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The 2026 World Cup will bring a uniquely American sports tradition to the beautiful game: Mid-match ad breaks

Stopping for hydration breaks, going from halves to quarters, and showing more ads will make this World Cup more familiar to U.S. audiences.

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Trump promised to fill America’s oil reserves ‘right to the top.’ A year later, oil has exceeded $100 and they’re still less than 60% full

Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, the strategic oil reserve has only grown 5%.

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Iran conflict could ‘bring down the economies of the world,’ warns one of the Middle East’s biggest energy exporters

One of the most important names in the global natural gas trade says the war will leave a ‘chain reaction’ rippling through the world.

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Subscription burnout has made Gen Z fall in love with all things physical. ‘Amazon’s not going to come into your house and take your DVD’

Young Americans have enough of the digital world, and going analog to make sense of it all.

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The Iran conflict will be the ‘straw that breaks the camel’s back’ of the U.S. economy if it goes on much longer, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman warns

The Iran conflict alone could cost the US $200 billion. Add it to everything else happening, and the U.S. economy is teetering on a ledge.

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Fed survey reveals Trump’s tariff gut punch to the backbone of the U.S. economy: small business

Small businesses employ almost 40% of working Americans and drive the vast majority of hiring. Their hiring budget was chewed up by a new tax last...

05.03.2026 8

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Despite a $200 billion price tag, Trump admits the Iran war could just swap one bad leader for another

Trump’s costly campaign in Iran has come under fire for lacking a clear endgame.

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Top economist Mohamed El-Erian warns of stagflation gripping the entire world economy the longer the Iran war goes on

War in the Middle East could bring on one of the worst-case scenarios in macroeconomics.

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The war in Iran could lead to a ‘guaranteed global recession’ because of one chokepoint that is crucial to the world economy, analyst says

How a waterway barely 30 miles wide could plunge the world into recession.

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Before AI gains materialize, governments will have to deal with a ‘policy trade-off,’ Moody’s says: How to handle the massive spending and debt risk

Countries might have to pick between taking on more short-term risk or missing out on future AI-driven growth.

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More people are moving out of the U.S. than moving in for the first time since the Great Depression—a bad omen for the $38.8 trillion national debt

How Trump’s immigration crackdown could erase ‘the most potent fiscal engine this country has ever seen.’

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Medicare spending set to nearly double in 10 years and Medicaid and ACA spending up a third, CBO says, just as Trump’s tax cut shortens its lifespan

Health spending is eating up a growing share of the government’s shrinking budget.

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Trump brags that America is ‘winning so much.’ Without tariffs, “we could have seen more of the good news,” says IMF director says

The best time to chip away at the national debt and balance the budget is now, when the economy is strong, says the IMF. Trump's trade tariffs are...

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America’s $901 billion trade deficit is like ‘chronically high cholesterol,’ top economist says, and Trump’s 150-day tariffs are the wrong medicine

Trump’s trade policy risks confusing one problem for a much bigger crisis, according to Harvard professor Gita Gopinath.

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Top economist says stock market has gotten ‘increasingly disconnected from the economy’

So much speculation in financial markets does not bode well for an “already vulnerable economy,” Mark Zandi warns.

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‘Maya MacGuineas should be ashamed’: Scott Bessent launches war of words with the nonpartisan think tank that agrees with Trump on tariffs

For her part, MacGuineas said Bessent’s diatribe was “a bit of an odd response.”

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Drug use is on the rise as U.S. spend on the War on Drugs tops $1 trillion and cartel leaders drive violent eruptions in Mexico

The death of El Mencho decapitates one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels, but there’s a whole lot more sustaining the drug industry nowadays.

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‘We are in a dismal fiscal situation, and it just got worse’: Budget watchdog sounds the alarm even louder after Supreme Court erases Trump’s tariffs

Many shoppers and companies might cheer the drawdown of Trump’s tariffs, but the truth is America really needed that money.

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The ‘alternative scenario’ of an even bigger national debt disaster is in play after the Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs illegal

Federal debt was set to reach 120% of GDP by 2036, the CBO projected, but that assumed the tariffs would stay in place.

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America faces a ‘debt crisis’ a lot like the 1980s when a ‘private pact’ brokered by Ronald Reagan did the trick

A bipartisan commission saved Social Security in the 1980s. How would that approach fare today?

19.02.2026 9

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Big Tech execs playing ‘Russian roulette’ in the AI arms race could risk human extinction, warns top researcher

Allowing companies free rein on AI is bringing on a new level of existential risk, Stuart Russell argues.

18.02.2026 10

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Investor Dan Ives says the tech selloff that has been spooking markets is actually a ‘generational opportunity’ to get in on the action

Investors are drawing their battle lines as AI sorts tech companies into winners and losers.

17.02.2026 20

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The tech billionaires aren’t just all grabbing trophy Florida mansions—they have competing half-billion-dollar megayachts jostling for dock space

$500,000 annual docking fees and private marinas are all part of the package for Florida’s wealthy sea-goers.

12.02.2026 10

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Trump’s immigration curbs will help take 2.4 million people out of the workforce, but he’s betting AI can pick up the slack

Can AI make up lost productivity from crashing fertility rates and shrinking immigration flows? Trump will certainly hope so.

12.02.2026 10

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‘The fiscal trajectory is not sustainable’: CBO warns about the highest debt in U.S. history as Trump adds $1.4 trillion to 10-year deficit

The national debt is set to surpass the historic high of 106% of GDP (which it reached in 1946) by 2030, according to the CBO.

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