Senate plans hearing with Trump’s surgeon general pick Casey Means next week: Sources

The influential Senate HELP Committee is planning a hearing next Thursday with Casey Means, President Donald Trump’s latest pick for surgeon general, considered “America’s Top Doc,” Means is pregnant and is expected to attend virtually, the sources added. She will meet later Tuesday with the staff of Republican HELP Committee members to discuss the timing … Read more

North Carolina Republicans pass redrawn House map that could pick them up a seat

Trump says the redrawn maps could help elect another “MAGA Republican.” The North Carolina House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass a new congressional map into law, two days after the state Senate approved it, giving the Republican Party the chance to net a new seat in the 2026 midterms. Republican legislators said they … Read more

Trump wants DOJ to pay him $230 million for previous investigations: Sources

Trump is seeking a settlement for two Justice Department probes that he faced. President Donald Trump is pressing for his Justice Department to pay roughly $230 million as a settlement for investigations he faced during the Biden administration and his first term in office, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News Tuesday. The … Read more

Gathering right-wing storm in Tokyo shadows Seoul’s APEC moment

Takaichi-led Japan will be less inclined to confront historical issues, putting a potential brake on improving relations with S Korea The upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit was intended to showcase South Korea’s claim to leadership on a range of issues from free trade, digital and artificial intelligence, and democracy. Instead, the Lee Jae Myung … Read more

Netherlands mocked as ‘pirate’ after taking over China’s Nexperia

Chinese commentators outdo themselves blasting the US-coordinated move in which the firm’s CEO has been suspended Chinese state media and pundits have called the Dutch government a “pirate” and even threatened it with a ban on rare earths, following its seizure of control of the Chinese-owned semiconductor maker Nexperia in late September. On September 29, … Read more

GIC vs NIO: a wake-up call on Chinese company reporting

Singapore wealth fund suing Chinese EV maker for faulty disclosure, raising wider concerns about China’s corporate accounting It was a blow to an industry whose rise had seemed inexorable. On October 16, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC, announced that it would sue China’s NIO, an electric vehicle (EV) maker, over allegedly fraudulent accounting practices. That … Read more