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US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks to the media during a press conference at the Federal Reserve, in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025.
Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA
On Wednesday, the Bank of Canada cut interest rates, but the US Federal Reserve did not. After three cuts in a row, the Fed’s decision to hold rates steady between 4.2% and 4.5% was expected as unemployment has dropped and stabilized. Still, it will irritate Donald Trump, who’s been clamoring for another cut.
Commissioner Justice Marie-Josee Hogue speaks to reporters after the release of the final report of the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Jan. 28, 2025.
REUTERS/Patrick Doyle
The good news is there are no “traitors” in Canada’s parliament. The bad news? Foreign interference is still a problem and a big one.
Canada's New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh takes part in a press conference before Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on Dec. 16, 2024.
REUTERS/Blair Gable
When Justin Trudeau announced in January that he’d resign in March, launching a leadership race to replace him as Liberal Party leader and prime minister, a spring election seemed certain. Now, maybe not.
Jess Frampton
The scale at which Donald Trump’s agenda and musings have reshaped politics in Canada is, as the president himself might put it, huge. The US president has turned the Canadian political landscape into a circus, affecting everything from the Liberal leadership race and the campaigns for the soon-expected federal election to the just-launched Ontario election and the trajectory of public policy.
It’s not a reality TV show, but it sure feels like one. On Tuesday, the US government kickstarted a plan to trim the public service by offering a “deferred resignation program” to approximately two million civilian full-time federal employees. What is the offer? Is it legal? What will happen next? GZERO explains ...
Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, speaks to the media in December 2024.
REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Syria’s de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa was on Wednesday declared president by a group of top military commanders.
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“The interesting thing about Donald Trump,” said Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, “is that this is not his first time as president of the United States.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies on Jan. 29, 2025, at his Senate hearing on his nomination to be the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
A civilian enterprise in Kharkiv, Ukraine, after being struck by a Russian drone, on January 28, 2025.
Yevhen Titov/NurPhoto
Trump has more leverage over Ukraine than he does over Russia, but an end the war remains elusive.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen attends a brief press conference with the German Chancellor in Berlin, Germany, January 28, 2025.
Ritzau Scanpix/Mads Claus Rasmussen/via REUTERS
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksenadmitted on Tuesday that she was “happy” with a new poll revealing that 85% of Greenlanders opposed becoming part of the United States.
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