between President Trump and Pope Leo is still going full force now we started the week with Trump posting this AI generated image of himself as a Jesus-like figure which incited outrage and accusations of blasphemy from Christians he deleted the photo and the next day added that he believed the image showed him as a a doctor. And after all of this, we're learning that Trump is participating in a marathon reading of the entire Bible. He will read a passage from the Old Testament book of 2 Chronicles.So, you ...

Diplomacy on one hand, threats on the other. Donald Trump once again raising the specte of military action in Cuba on the heels of a historic meeting between U .S. and Cuban officials.MS now has confirmed that a senior State Department delegation met with Cuban government officials on Cuban soil last week, according to a State Department official. This marks the first time a U .S. government aircraft landed in Cuba since President Obama visited in 2016.It also comes as USA Today reports that the Pentagon is ...

Shipping in the Strait of Hormuz was at a near standstill early Sunday after Iran reversed its decision to reopen the waterway and fired on vessels attempting to pass, warning it would block transits as long as the US blockade of Iranian ports remained. Bloomberg News White House Correspondent Courtney Subramanian, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Defense Research Analyst Colonel Wayne Sanders and The Associated Press' International Correspondent Philip Crowther join David Gura and Christina Ruffini on Bloombe ...

There are some signs tonight that President Trump might not have quite CONTROL OVER CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS THAT HE USED TO, AND MORE AND MORE OF THOSE REPUBLICANS SEEM WILLING TO BUCK HIM THAN EVER. AT LEAST WHEN IT COMES TO SURVEILLANCE. THOSE DOUBTS RE-EMERGED THIS WEEK WHEN THE PRESIDENT It failed to whip House Republicans to pass an 18-month renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.In the end, 20 Republican lawmakers voted against it, and Congress ended up extending the law for j ...

-An hour east of Phoenix, Arizona. Might be a little too big. -We kind of reconditioned and repurposed a lot of old mining equipment.-More than a mile beneath the desert surface. -You get more comfortable once you're standing on the ground and you'll forget that you're so far below the ground. -The mining giant Rio Tinto thinks it's found one of the largest undeveloped copper deposits in the world.We had a chance to tour the facility back in late March. The Resolution Copper Mine sits on an ore deposit that ...

And I think over the last 5 years really from from let's say COVID um to now here we are at the beginning of 2026, I think the world's waking up. You know, I think the average person um is finally starting to understand kind of how money works, what money is, and I think Bitcoin is honestly the reason for that um combined with the deterioration of the US dollar and regular paper money. I like to call it toilet paper um because that's really all it is.It's not really it doesn't really have any value. Um the ...

Would you like to run for office. I wouldn't like to, but I feel [laughter] like it it could be needed at some point. Jeff was actually the first one that mentioned it like six years ago or so.He was like you're going to like be the president and like you should run for president. And I was like hahaha. And then it like slowly became less of a joke.Other people started saying it to me and then I just hang out with Trump. I go on stage and do a speech off the top and the first thing he says to me on stage wh ...

Well, ladies and gentlemen, the Iran situation just escalated in a big way. And of course, how typical over the weekend when volume in the market is flat, that's typically when we start to see major moves like this. Now, how is this going to impact the market this upcoming week.Well, we have to watch and see what really happens with stocks initially, but oil is always the key. And I've been saying that since this war started to really kind of break out. Now, the main issue here is that everyone was expectin ...

This is NBC Nightly News with Jose Diaz Bolard. >> Good evening. We begin tonight with a stunning reversal that could derail the push to end the war with Iran.Today, Iran declared the Straight of Hormuz closed. Just a day after, saying it was completely open. Iran's Revolutionary Guard blaming the US for its ongoing naval blockade.We also saw chaos in the strait today. Iranian forces allegedly shooting at this Indian oil tanker. Speaking to reporters at the White House today, President Trump appeared optimi ...

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