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INFLUENTIAL AMBASSADORUS Ambassador Gor, dubbed “the India whisperer” by Michael Kugelman of the Atlantic Council think tank, arrived in New Delhi in January and has sought to reset ties. Gor is a friend of Trump’s and previously a White House adviser. In February, the two countries reached a “framework for an interim agreement” on trade to lower Trump’s tariffs on Indian goods to 18 per cent from a punishing 50 per cent, half of which had been linked to India’s prior purchases of Russian oil.But talks to finalise the deal slowed after the US Supreme Court in late February struck down Trump’s…

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This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Friday. If you’re looking for a book for the long weekend, JPMorgan has some ideas.Stock futures are higher before the bell. All three major indexes posted a winning day yesterday and are on track for a positive week.Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:1. Deals, demand and a delayThe logos of Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, Perplexity, and Bing apps are displayed on the screen of a smartphone in Reno, United States, on November 21, 2024.Jaque Silva…

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Iran were expected to fly from Turkiye to Arizona to continue World Cup 2026 preparations but will switch to Mexico.Published On 23 May 202623 May 2026Iran will base ‌their squad in the Mexican border city of Tijuana ⁠during this ⁠year’s World Cup after football’s world governing body FIFA approved a request to move their training camp from Arizona, ⁠the head of Iran’s football federation said on Saturday.“We will be based in the Tijuana camp, which is near the Pacific ⁠Ocean and on the border between Mexico and the United States,” Iran’s Football Federation President Mehdi Taj said in a video…

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Jonathan Fahey discusses DOJ’s $90 million Minnesota fraud ring bust Jonathan Fahey, former DHS deputy assistant secretary, discusses the Department of Justice’s $90 million Medicaid fraud bust in Minnesota. Fahey explains that the widespread fraud is likely just the tip of the iceberg, with more revelations expected from cooperating defendants. He questions why Democrats previously ignored these programs for political reasons. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the indictment of two Minnesota defendants charged in what officials called the “largest autism fraud bust in American history.”The U.S.…

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Canada and several allied nations are calling on Israel to halt settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank as tensions in the territory continue to escalate amid demolitions, deadly shootings and growing international scrutiny. In a joint statement released Friday alongside Australia, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom, Canada warned that Israeli settlement expansion and settler violence are undermining stability and prospects for a two-state solution.The statement specifically condemned proposed development in the controversial E1 area east of Jerusalem, saying the project would “divide the West Bank in two” and constitute “a serious breach…

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An attacker drained over $600,000 from Polymarket, attacking its UMA CTF Adapter smart contract on Polygon, with on-chain investigator ZachXBT flagging the exploit and identifying the attacker’s wallet as 0x8F98075db5d6C620e8D420A8c516E2F2059d9B91. ZachXBT issued an emergency alert first on his Telegram channel, followed by Bubblemaps warning users to pause all Polymarket activity as the platform’s losses climbed toward $600,000.ZachXBT warning, TelegramThe targeted contract, the UMA CTF Adapter, is the custom integration layer that allows Polymarket’s prediction markets to settle via UMA’s Optimistic Oracle. It is not part of UMA’s audited core protocol. Discover: The Best Crypto to Diversify Your PortfolioHow the Polymarket…

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In this photo illustration, Apps for online prediction market sites are shown on an electronic device on Feb. 25, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty ImagesStates and the federal government may be battling over who has the power to regulate prediction markets, but the companies building them are chugging along as the platforms continue to experience huge growth.The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and six states across the country are in lawsuits over who has the jurisdiction to develop regulations on event contracts. Seventeen states in total are challenging companies with prediction markets — like Kalshi, Polymarket, Coinbase and…

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NEW DELHI/DUBAI: Iran, the United States and mediator Pakistan all said on Saturday (May 23) that progress had been made in talks on ending almost three months of war.US President Donald Trump said that negotiators for the United States and Iran were “getting a lot closer” to finalising an agreement to end the war, according to an interview with CBS News.He said a final agreement would prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and would ensure that Iran’s enriched uranium would be “satisfactorily handled,” according to CBS.Iran, the United States and ​mediator Pakistan all said on Saturday that progress had…

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