US restaurant chain abandons rebrand after new logo prompts firestorm of criticism online. Cracker Barrel, the US restaurant chain known for its southern-style cuisine, has abandoned a controversial rebrand following a backlash stoked by prominent right-wing figures including Donald Trump. The Lebanon, Tennessee-based chain said on Tuesday that it would bring back its decades-old logo after its…
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 26, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will soon have a “majority” of his own nominees on the Federal Reserve board of governors who will back his desire to slash interest rates….
The six Republican justices have largely behaved as lickspittles to the leader of their political party. These are, after all, the same GOP political appointees who said that President Donald Trump is allowed to commit crimes. Last May, however, the Court did appear to draw a line in the sand and warn Trump not to…
Investors wondering what President Donald Trump’s move to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook might mean for financial markets today can look back half a century for some insight. President Richard Nixon, aiming to clinch a second term in the White House, pressured then-Fed Chair Arthur Burns to loosen monetary policy before the 1972 election….
An area of reclaimed former mudflats near Hong Kong on the city of Shenzhen’s western coast has been transformed into one of the fastest-growing innovation-focused districts in southern China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA). The 14.92 sq km special economic zone of Qianhai – or Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone – was established…
France’s Prime Minister Francois Bayrou speaks during a press conference in Paris on August 25, 2025. Dimitar Dilkoff | Afp | Getty Images France’s minority government on Tuesday faced the prospect of collapse within weeks, after opposition parties said they would not back Prime Minister Francois Bayrou in a Sept. 8 confidence vote tied to…
European stock markets opened sharply lower on Tuesday, pulled down by French equities as traders monitored the potential for a no confidence vote in the government next month. France’s CAC 40 index plummeted more than 2% in early deals after the country’s three main opposition parties said they would not back a confidence vote called by…
US President Donald Trump during a meeting with Lee Jae Myung, South Korea’s president, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday stateside warned of steeper tariffs on China if exports…
Lisa Cook, member of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve, attends a Federal Reserve Board open meeting discussing proposed revisions to the board’s supplementary leverage ratio standards at the Federal Reserve Board building in Washington, DC, on June 25, 2025. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday…
The US president’s escalation comes despite a 90-day pause on increased tariffs that has already been agreed, and as negotiations between the world’s two largest economies loom. United States President Donald Trump has said that China must give the US more magnets or “we have to charge them 200 percent tariff or something” amid a…