Don The Dealmaker: Trump Crowned in South Korea as Ink Dries on a $350B Pact

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President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung sealed the details of their long-negotiated trade pact Wednesday, a moment years in the making and rich in symbolism. “We made our deal, pretty much finalized it,” Trump said over dinner with Lee and other regional leaders on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific forum. The allies had first unveiled the framework in late July: South Korea would avoid punishing U.S. tariffs by pledging $350 billion in American investments in exchange for lower tariff rates. But progress had faltered — until this day. “Prospects were not bright even last night, and

The Socialist in the Room: Democrats Face Their New York City Problem

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According to The Washington Post, many Democrats are uneasy about what the words “Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani” could mean for the party’s future. Mamdani, who holds a double-digit lead over Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, is favored to win the race—and that prospect is rattling nerves inside Democratic circles. “It’s one thing for Republicans to use absurd attacks calling Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi socialists to scare voters,” said Fernand Amandi, a longtime Democratic strategist in Florida. “It’s another thing to use an actual socialist to scare voters about the Democrats being the party of socialists, and that’s

From Panic to Pragmatism: Bill Gates Urges a Strategic Pivot on Climate Change Approach

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Bill Gates is urging the world to take a breath, to look up from the charts and alarms, and rethink its approach to climate change. He argues that an overly catastrophic narrative is pulling resources away from the solutions that could do the most for human welfare. In a memo released Tuesday—on his 70th birthday—the Microsoft co-founder challenged what he called a “doomsday view of climate change,” saying it has led policymakers to “focus too much on near-term emissions goals” at the expense of deeper, more lasting interventions. The memo comes just two weeks before global leaders gather in Belém,

A Post, a Threat, and the Knock at the Door: DOJ Arrests TikTok User for Pam Bondi Threat

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It began, as so many dark things do now, on social media. Minnesota man Tyler Maxon Avalos offered $45,000 to anyone who killed Attorney General Pam Bondi. The words were chilling, almost absurd in their brazenness. The Department of Justice moved quickly. A fellow TikTok user had seen the post and reported it to the FBI on October 9. By the time agents traced the account, they had a screenshot in hand — a snapshot of malice. “The threatening post has a photograph of United States Attorney General (‘AG’) Pam Bondi, with a sniper-scope red dot on AG Bond’s forehead.

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