Nick Ravenshade, LL.B., covers geopolitics, financial markets, and international security through primary documents, official filings, and open-source intelligence. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of NENC Media Group and WarCommons.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump delivered the longest State of the Union address on record Tuesday evening, speaking for one hour and 48 minutes before a joint session of Congress to proclaim that the United States had entered a "golden age," even as fresh polling data showed his approval
WASHINGTON — A senior Trump administration official has told reporters that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek trained its forthcoming artificial intelligence model on Nvidia's most advanced commercially available processor, the Blackwell chip, despite comprehensive US export controls that explicitly bar those semiconductors from shipment to China. The disclosure, which surfaced
WASHINGTON — As the Trump administration signals it may launch a second military campaign against Iran's nuclear infrastructure, a widening contradiction sits at the center of its public case: for eight consecutive months, President Donald Trump declared that those capabilities had been thoroughly and permanently destroyed. The June 2025
NEW YORK — Bitcoin extended a punishing multi-day retreat on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, tumbling more than 5% to breach the $63,000 threshold as traders confronted a simultaneous escalation of U.S. trade policy and growing fears of military confrontation in the Middle East. The world's largest cryptocurrency
HONG KONG — Asia-Pacific equity markets closed a fractured trading session on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, with semiconductor-driven gains in South Korea and Taiwan pulling sharply against weakness in Hong Kong and a broader technology sector gripped by artificial-intelligence disruption fears, as fresh tariff warnings from U.S. President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON — The United States ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, ignited a sweeping diplomatic backlash across the Arab world on Friday after telling conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that it would be "fine" if Israel were to claim and control much of the Middle East, a position he rooted in
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's military carried out a new round of strikes along its border with Afghanistan before dawn on Sunday, targeting what the government described as seven militant camps belonging to the Pakistani Taliban and an affiliate of the Islamic State group, the latest in a succession of cross-border
WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran edged closer to a potential military confrontation this week as the Pentagon assembled its largest concentration of combat power in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, while a second round of nuclear negotiations in Geneva produced only a provisional agreement on
NEW YORK — The Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust waiting period governing Paramount Skydance Corporation's $108.4 billion hostile all-cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery expired at 11:59 p.m. Eastern on February 19, 2026, the company disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday, removing a statutory barrier
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court of the United States delivered a landmark ruling on Friday striking down the sweeping import tariffs President Donald Trump imposed on nearly every major trading partner, holding in a 6-3 decision that the emergency statute he invoked granted no such authority, dealing the White House its
NEW YORK — U.S. equity markets closed sharply lower on Thursday as two converging forces unsettled investor confidence: a major alternative-asset manager disclosed a sweeping $1.4 billion loan sale coupled with a fundamental restructuring of retail investor access to one of its private credit funds, while President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON — Senior national security officials have informed President Donald Trump that the United States military is ready to strike Iran as early as this weekend, though Trump has yet to authorize any action, according to multiple officials familiar with the discussions. The conversations, described as fluid and ongoing, reflect a
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