ECONOMY
- Three states just set new lows for unemployment — that could be good for Trump in 2020
- US consumer sentiment surges to highest level in 15 years
- Trump administration will delay auto tariffs for up to six months
- China accuses the US of 'bullying behavior'
- US recession risk rises as US-China trade tensions heat up: Reuters poll
YOUR MONEY
- Your money: Cosigning a student loan? Be prepared to pay
- Philly refiner defers retirement fund payments to employees: letter
- Investors shun equities, pile into bonds in past week: BAML
- U.S.-based equity funds post $12.27 billion outflows amid U.S.-China trade tensions
- Soros Fund Management increases stake in Tesla convertible bonds: filings
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Australia's two major political parties are locked in a tight contest with more than one-third of votes counted in the national election on Saturday, running counter to pre-election opinion polls that had predicted a change in government.
Australia's conservative coalition government looks like it would be returned to office in Saturday's election, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said, though it was unclear if it would hold an outright majority.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday he did not believe a war would break out in the region as Tehran did not want a conflict and no country had the "illusion it could confront Iran", the state news agency IRNA reported.
The U.S. embassy in Jakarta has issued a security alert ahead of election results due on Wednesday, as Indonesian authorities have arrested nearly 30 suspected militants, including some who police say are able to detonate bombs using Wi-Fi networks.
Austria's vice chancellor and longtime far-right leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, said on Saturday he was stepping down over video footage that threatened to bring down the right-wing coalition government.
Norbert Hofer, proposed to replace scandal-tainted Heinz-Christian Strache as leader of Austria's Freedom Party, is the country's transport minister who nearly became western Europe's first far-right president in 2016.
A federal court of appeals ruled The Trump administration’s revocation of DACA in 2017 was illegal, overturning a lower court’s ruling.
18.05.2019 AG Barr details his hunt for the truth on what really went on with the Russia probe: Listen to the f
It's the question that has dominated politics for more than two years -- just what "exactly what happened" with counterintelligence activities conducted during the 2016 election and the Russia probe.
18.05.2019 Buttigieg backs far-left idea of erasing Thomas Jefferson's name: 'It's the right thing to do'
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Friday that things named after President Thomas Jefferson should be renamed because that’s the “right thing to do.”
In a workshop in a bombed-out factory in Mosul, Najlaa Abdelrahman joins scores of other women on a production line as they sew garments and try to knit their lives back together.
The British government's Brexit Withdrawal Agreement Bill needs to include another public vote when it is presented to lawmakers again next month, the opposition Labour Party's Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer said on Saturday.
The U.S. State Department has cleared $314 million in possible sales of air defense missiles to South Korea, the Pentagon said on Friday, as tensions re-emerge on the Korean peninsula.
Austria's conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is now ruling out continuing to work with Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the far-right Freedom Party, a coalition source said on Saturday.
Iran's supreme court has upheld the death sentence of an Iranian man for killing an American woman seven years ago to steal her car, the state-run daily Iran reported on Saturday.
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued an advisory to U.S. commercial airliners flying over the waters of the Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to exercise caution as tensions between Washington and Tehran continue to simmer.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz will meet with Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache at 1100 local time to discuss his future, news agency APA said citing sources.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel left city hall for the last time Friday afternoon, ending his eight-year, often turbulent mayoral career.
18.05.2019 U.S. citizen shot dead in Nicaraguan prison was a Navy veteran, critic of President Ortega
Eddy Montes, a protestor shot dead in a Nicaragua prison this week, was a naturalized U.S. citizen who served in the Navy, but ultimately returned to the Central American country where he fought for a change in government, his family said.
Syrian air defenses in the Hmeimim air base thwarted projectiles and drones fired by militant groups, Syrian state TV said on Saturday.
WORLD
- Australia staring at election cliff-hanger as poll predictions fall flat
- ABC TV: most likely election result is return of Australia government
- There will be no war as we don't want war, and no one can confront Iran: Zarif
- U.S. embassy issues Indonesia security alert ahead of election results
- Austrian vice chancellor quits over video as coalition teeters
