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How Yemen's Houthis went from a small mountain militia to a big regional threat Reuters

President Donald Trump sees the art of geopolitics as a matter of money and leverage. As a result, he’s relied on fellow businesspeople to do the work of diplomats in Gaza, Ukraine and the Persian Gulf — and they have failed. As Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini once put it, the revolution that founded th

Canadian prime minister defends his bid to become EU’s first ‘associate member’ after threats from Donald Trump

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Bank7 agrees to acquire Century Financial Services for ~$137M

This article is adapted from Worth the Risk: The Seven Myths That Keep Us From Taking the Chances We Need to Take by Allison Schrager, to be published by Yale University Press. Copyright © 2026 by Allison Schrager. Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved.

“It doesn’t feel like a really robust market environment,” says Savita Subramanian, head of US equity and quantitative strategy at BofA Securities. She explains why she expects a pullback in equity markets, despite raising her year-end target for the S&P 500 to 7,400. (Source: Bloomberg)

EXCLUSIVE: China presses Iran to help rein in Houthis after Saudi appeal, sources say Reuters

UN mission finds grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran, and Tehran crimes against humanity Reuters