A number of former Federal Reserve chairs, Treasury secretaries, and prominent economists have spoken out in support of Fed Chair Jerome Powell and expressed alarm over the Justice Department’s threat of criminal prosecution of the central bank. https://t.co/rfghzI3eLE

China’s stock rally cooled Tuesday after record turnover and surging margin loans suggested the market may be getting overheated. https://t.co/KUXZTVfuCE

A senior Google employee has claimed she was made redundant after reporting a manager who told clients stories about his swinger lifestyle and showed a nude photo of his wife. https://t.co/ZvSMvJY3Sh

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is preventing non-paying users from generating or editing images after a global backlash erupted over sexualized deepfakes of people, but the change has not satisfied authorities in Europe. https://t.co/wmv5i0P2K3

More than a dozen sanctioned oil tankers have departed Venezuela in what appears to be an effort to evade the U.S. blockade. https://t.co/48oGnvoT7O

Mexico’s two most powerful criminal organizations—the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel—control vast territories and have been locked in violent competition that killed more than 30,000 people last year. https://t.co/2vFRsJYW6L

Sciences Po Saint-Germain University in Paris is unique for offering an espionage course that attracts both typical students in their early 20s and French government spies attending on day release. https://t.co/rV5Y9MGjkR

Federal immigration agents shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a hospital in Portland. https://t.co/JcvnwTsK08

EU member states have given the green light to the signing of the Mercosur agreement, paving the way for a vast trade bloc encompassing more than 700 million people across Europe and Latin America. https://t.co/1EIqYPktl5

The Permian Basin is the largest contributor to US oil production, accounting for nearly half of total output in both 2024 and 2025. https://t.co/omJlprtwxk

One person has died and 300 properties have been destroyed in bushfires that have torn across southeast Australia. https://t.co/zf1utrk0GQ

At the Monday Circle, First Vice President and Head of Equity Research of First Metro Securities, Mark A. Angeles, framed the Philippine equity market as a crossroads to be understood, not a problem to be solved. https://t.co/XW3Cma0rq0

The @PhStockExchange (PSE) index cooled slightly on Tuesday, slipping 11.20 points, or 0.17 percent, to close at 6,408.76. #PSE #PhilippineStockMarket https://t.co/GA9p90P6xI

The composition of US debt holders has shifted significantly over the past decade, with ownership moving away from foreign governments and toward profit-driven private investors. https://t.co/5srcSbxZqg

A rare copy of the 1938 comic that introduced Superman to the world has sold to an anonymous collector for $15 million (£11.2 million). https://t.co/nczUPqmK58

Oklo Inc. and Vistra Corp. shares rallied, leading peers higher, after Meta Platforms Inc. agreed to purchase nuclear power from the companies to run artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. https://t.co/R6ILtLKEnR

The Senate has advanced a resolution that would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further military action against Venezuela. https://t.co/JPlqcSwtSL

Japan is set to record its first primary balance surplus in 28 years in fiscal 2026. https://t.co/5eyqLJgJxx

The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has ordered a halt to the sale of five batches of Nestlé’s infant and follow-on formulas as a precaution while checking for the presence of cereulide toxin. https://t.co/VAovHJ4yf2

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that American forces would begin ground operations in Mexico targeting drug cartels following months of naval strikes in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean. https://t.co/hjgGyIZkeb