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Trump Agrees To Continue Talks With Iran Then Declares Ceasefire Over

President Donald Trump has agreed to keep negotiating with Iran while explicitly denying Tehran the central protection usually required for diplomacy to function: a ceasefire. Trump said Friday that Iran had asked the US to continue talks and that Washington had accepted. In the same Truth Social post, however, he said the US had informed […]

Trump Empties Election Commission After Agency Resists Voting Order

President Donald Trump has left the federal government’s bipartisan election-support agency with no commissioners, creating an institutional dead zone four months before the November midterms. The recent shake-up removed the Election Assistance Commission’s two Democratic members, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland. Its remaining Republican member, Christy McCormick, resigned. A second Republican commissioner, Donald Palmer, had […]

China Bans Helium Exports to Protect Domestic Supply

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs imposed the temporary ban on helium exports with immediate effect, invoking provisions of China’s Foreign Trade Law. Authorities did not provide an end date or disclose how much helium would be removed from international markets but they said subsequent policy adjustments would be announced separately. […]

Musk Says SpaceX “Will Be Worth More Than The Rest Of Earth”

Elon Musk wrote Thursday that SpaceX would be “worth more than the rest of Earth if we accomplish our goals,” escalating an already aggressive market debate over how much investors should pay for businesses that do not yet exist, operating in places where there are currently no customers, currencies, or securities regulators. The statement followed […]

Did CPP Investments Just Question Benchmarks Following Major Miss?

CPP Investments has published a paper explaining why conventional benchmarks can unfairly judge diversified pension portfolios less than two months after the fund trailed its own benchmark by 5.4 percentage points. The crown corporation reported a net return of 7.8% for the year ended March 31, 2026 while its benchmark portfolios returned 13.2%. The fund […]

Questcorp Completes 248 Line Kilometres of Magnetics at La Union

Questcorp Mining (CSE: QQQ) has completed expanded drone magnetic and induced polarization surveys at its La Union project in Mexico, with the results steering an active drill program. The magnetic survey added 248 line kilometres of coverage, made up of 193 line kilometres flown at 100 metre spacing and a further 55 line kilometres of […]

Altius Minerals to Pay US$168 Million to Reach Equal Ownership of Great Bay Renewables

Altius Minerals (TSX: ALS) has signed a share purchase agreement that will lift its effective interest in Great Bay Renewables to 50% from 29%, part of a three way deal that also brings partner Northampton Capital Partners to an equal 50% stake. Under the arrangement, funds managed by affiliates of Apollo will sell their membership […]

Empress Royalty Picks Up 14 Pre-Production Royalties in US$2.5M Almadex Deal

Empress Royalty (TSXV: EMPR) has agreed to acquire a portfolio of 14 pre-production net smelter return royalties from Almadex Minerals (TSXV: DEX) for total consideration of US$2.5 million. The royalties cover mineral properties spread across Canada, the United States and Mexico, giving the royalty and streaming company early-stage exposure to a mix of gold, silver, […]

China Lands an Orbital-Class Rocket Booster at Sea for the First Time

China successfully recovered a rocket booster at sea on Friday, marking the country’s first controlled landing of an orbital-class first stage and making China only the second nation, after the United States, to achieve the feat. 

Leaked Documents Show China and Russia Plotted to Destroy Starlink Satellites

A joint European investigation traces a secret 2023 forum where Chinese researchers proposed jamming, hacking, and physically destroying satellites central to Ukraine’s war effort.