Coming Up This Week Presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is expected to announce her running mate today or tomorrow.The U.S. Central Bank and Bank of Japan will make interest rate decisions o …

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Russia After months of complex negotiations, Russia released sixteen prisoners - including wrongfully detained WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan - in a swap that also …

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Iran Iranian officials warned that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has ordered a direct attack on Israel in retribution for Israel's assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran …

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Venezuela Venezuela's opposition combined two of my favorite things - geopolitics and math - to support its claim that Edmundo González trounced Pres. Maduro in Sunday's election - despite official r …

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Commodity Prices Aluminum: $2,289/tonAntimony (ingot min. 99.65% fob China): $23,100/tonCobalt: $26,625/tonCopper: $9,111/tonGold: $2,374/tozLead: $2,068/tonNatural Gas (Nymex): $1.94/MMbtuWTI Crude …

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Mexico U.S. agents arrested two senior leaders of the Sinaloa cartel - co-founder Ismael Zambada García and the son of the other co-founder (El Chapo), Joaquín Guzmán López - on drug trafficking char …

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