European Union and Mercosur bloc of South American nations sign landmark free trade agreement AP News

The federal government is suing Connecticut, Arizona and Illinois, challenging their efforts to regulate prediction market operators such as Kalshi and Polymarket. All three states have sent cease and desist…

Oil prices surged and stock markets slid after hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei was chosen to succeed his late father as Iran’s supreme leader. His appointment on Monday, and new strikes…

East Timor has been formally admitted into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the group’s first expansion since the 1990s. The integration of the region’s youngest nation, which is…