Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is preparing fresh sanctions for Iran, vowing that the U.S. “will not hesitate” to inflict economic punishment in response to the Islamic Republic’s unprecedented attack on Israel....
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to sue Live Nation, one of the largest ticketing and live events companies in the country, on antitrust grounds, a regulatory source familiar with the DOJ’s plans told Axios....
“I told Prime Minister Netanyahu that Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks — sending a clear message to its foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel,” Biden said.
Republican lawmakers and candidates for Congress are scrambling to create distance between themselves and an Arizona Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday upholding a near-total ban on abortion in the state.
“A group of former senior officials from Republican and Democratic administrations — co-lead by President Biden’s personal lawyer — is urging Congress to reign in a president’s ability to deploy the military inside the U.S.,” Axios reports....
The IMF, as a so-called super-senior creditor, always gets repaid — and therefore takes much less credit risk than other lenders. All the same, it now charges its largest borrowers — Argentina, Ukraine, and some 20 other countries — as much as 8.6% in their first year, declining only a little to 8.1% in year four....
GE Vernova, the energy spinoff, will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange this morning using the ticker symbol “GEV.”...