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Before Maduro ouster, Nobel Prize winner said Venezuela has a $1.7 trillion opportunity to privatize over 500 companies and undo socialist ‘disaster’ | Fortune
Months before the U.S. military arrested Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, opposition leader María Corina Machado called for what she described as the most ambitious economic transformation in the nation’s history—a sweeping privatization aimed at reversing his policies and what she...
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Deploying U.S. troops in Venezuela could become a ‘force protection nightmare’ amid potential insurgency threat, retired colonel warns | Fortune
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While the military pulled off a stunning feat by extracting dictator Nicolas Maduro without any loss of American lives and only taking minimal damage to aircraft, maintaining order in Venezuela is a different story.When pressed on the potential role...
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Countries must move beyond seeing AI as a race, where one side must beat the other | Fortune
On Dec. 9th, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would allow Nvidia’s H200 processors to be exported to China, subject to a 25% fee on all sales. The move has sent ripples through the American establishment, with...
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More than 150 U.S. military aircraft were used in the operation to capture Venezuela’s Maduro, including stealth fighters and bombers | Fortune
In a Saturday morning interview on “Fox & Friends Weekend,” Trump laid out the details of the overnight strike, after which he said Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were flown by helicopter to a U.S. warship. Later Saturday,...
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What happens next in Venezuela? The regime’s foundation remains in place even after U.S. capture of Maduro, analyst says | Fortune
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President Donald Trump is due to speak later on Saturday, but U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Maduro, who is currently on a Navy ship en route to the U.S., will face narco-terrorism charges after an indictment in New...
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Nicolas Maduro rose from bus driver to president before presiding over Venezuela’s economic collapse | Fortune
Nicolás Maduro, who rose from unionized bus driver to Venezuelan president and oversaw his country’s democratic undoing and economic collapse, was captured Saturday during an attack by U.S. forces on his capital.U.S. President Donald Trump, in an early morning social...
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Meet Sweden, the unicorn factory chasing America in the AI race | Fortune
Reading the media these days, you would be forgiven for thinking the technology, journalism, and investment communities were inadvertently wishing an AI ‘bubble’ into existence. Whether a bubble exists or not remains debatable, but the conversation itself has taken...
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CEO of $90 billion Waste Management hauled trash and went to 1 a.m. safety briefings — ‘It’s not always just dollars and cents’ |...
For a night owl like Waste Management CEO Jim Fish, waking up for 1 a.m. safety briefings could make for a brutally long day. But Fish did it because his late father-in-law, a union pipefitter, told him if he...
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Bridgewater, D.E. Shaw among top hedge fund gainers of 2025 | Fortune
Bridgewater Associates’ flagship money pool posted record gains, while D.E. Shaw & Co.’s strategies soared as much as 28% to rank among the biggest hedge fund winners of 2025 when tariff-fueled market uncertainty presented a fertile hunting ground for...
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Cash machines in this former communist country issue euros for the first time after becoming the 21st member of the currency union | Fortune
Bulgarians began withdrawing euros for the first time on Thursday after the former communist nation joined the euro currency union as its 21st member.Cash machines in the capital, Sofia, dispensed brand new euro banknotes, replacing the lev, which will still...
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Drug ring’s “monkey” technique used young swimmers to stash cocaine on ships at sea, Spanish police say
Spanish police on Thursday said they had busted a network that saw smugglers swim on...