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Min Zin and other detainees in China are expected to be on the shortlist of issues President Trump will raise with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this month.

The finding deepens U.S.-China tensions ahead of the Trump-Xi summit as officials examine possible Chinese help tracking American warships.

The kingdom said drones fired from Iraq damaged the East-West pipeline, which can carry up to 7 million barrels of oil a day.

Oil prices slipped back Friday after a string of gains, but ended the week sharply higher as traders assessed growing risks to Middle East crude exports.

The capture of an island and coastal town tightens the militants’ grip on the Bab al-Mandeb strait, a crucial alternative to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Cuts to subsidies and quotas are fueling anger and spurring walkouts by truck and taxi drivers.

High in the Himalayas, cutthroat competition is squeezing the Tibetans who scour the hills several weeks a year for a prized delicacy.

Many islanders are resigned to an American presence and are wary of China, as Japan shifts toward stronger defense.

As President Trump blows hot and cold, a summit in New Delhi presents an opportunity for two giant neighbors to smooth over their differences.

The potential deals, which could include large investments in nuclear energy, are part of last year’s U.S.-South Korea trade deal.

The country has hundreds of projects in development, but they are now threatened by growing instability in the Himalayas.

Regional security forces are bombing jungle encampments, capturing kingpins and killing couriers with Washington’s help.

The union representing over 9,000 of the automaker’s Canadian employees declared an impasse on talks toward a new labor deal.

The gathering, which starts Monday, seeks to pair companies pitching projects with some of the world’s top asset managers responsible for assets totaling over $100 trillion.

Watch WSJ staff recall how they put together 9/11 coverage from a shattered newsroom in New York City.

Fred Ehrsam, a Trump administration ally and co-founder of Coinbase, lived for months in a luxury Caracas hotel pursuing investments in Venezuela.

A businessman pardoned by President Trump backed Nigel Farage’s party with roughly $48.7 million, a sum quickly matched by a second donor.

A missive from King Charles about the couple’s royal status has been leapt on by the British media as a sign of trouble ahead.

Two senior aides to party leader Nigel Farage stepped down as police assessed allegations the party violated political-donation laws.

Businesses expect the prices they charge to rise by 3.8% over the coming 12 months, a decrease from the 3.9% expected in July.

The Bank of England should raise its key interest rate to limit the risk that inflation will stay above its target for a prolonged period, Chief Economist Huw Pill said.

He tells Kyiv to stop hitting Russian diesel, while Putin bombs civilian targets.

The president faces a tough challenge when Brazilians go to the polls on Oct. 4.

The Section 232 program is helping rebuild America’s metals industry.

The Trump administration may soon have reason to dismantle another international tribunal.

If the International Court of Justice lowers the threshold for genocide to smear Israel, it will backfire.

Harsh sentences for three Hong Kong dissidents are a summit message to Trump.

The president closed out his weekend visit to Ireland by making the announcement at the Irish Open golf tournament.

The drugmaker has targeted air-traffic control fees in a dispute with Poland and Romania.

As trade talks with the U.S. collapse, prime minister pursues a major—and risky—pivot to Europe; an Ottawa book club plays its part.

Mallorca is taking a less-is-more approach to tourism as anger swells among locals.

The deals come as capital-rich UAE looks to invest in Germany’s economy, where its leaders have been received on a visit this week.

The Chinese technology giant is accused of violating Iran sanctions and stealing competitors’ trade secrets.

Facing a three-way arms race with Russia and China, the U.S. is turning to an energy startup.

Plus, he left America to build China’s AI, and readers weigh in on how tradition is treated in Taiwan

The country’s extraordinary export surge puts it on track to at least match last year’s record $1.2 trillion surplus.

Exports have become a key pillar of support for the Chinese economy, helping to sustain growth amid tepid domestic consumption.

Developers are planning to launch marketing on the Trump Tower Tbilisi, the latest foreign project for the Trump family’s business.

Kyiv seeks to weaken its larger enemy by hitting refineries, shipping terminals and e-commerce warehouses. The costs are adding up.

Russian leader promises to pause attacks on Kyiv during Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s upcoming visit to Ukraine.

The leaders of India and Kazakhstan recently made unusually direct remarks to the Russian president about ending the war.

Pressure is mounting on airlines to re-evaluate the safety of flying to Russian airports as the drone war escalates.

The protests by health teams are the latest problem to undermine the effort to halt the spread of the virus.

Singapore has long paid its politicians especially well, but the high salaries have become increasingly sensitive in the city-state.

About 5,000 sailors flush with cash and looking for R&R will pour into the seaside resort.

DFO Management and Sequence near acquisition of Baldwin Group as industry undergoes wave of consolidation

Delay to crunch meeting because of lack of consensus sets back efforts to restore shipping through vital waterway

US president says the attacks and not his war in Iran are responsible for diesel hitting record highs

The surprise move came a day after the US president stirred controversy by calling for Irish reunification

Nordic region’s biggest economy faces weeks of uncertainty and tricky government negotiations

Far-right candidate seeks to stamp her authority on her party after weeks of internal tensions

On his first visit to India, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said he will not surrender to the U.S. and Israel, as New Delhi renewed its appeal for peace.

Z.ai shares tumbled after the Chinese AI company announced its second major fundraising in two months.

The institutionalization of prediction markets threatens to erode the edge of skilled traders who earn off mispricing and market inefficiencies, experts say.

The 2025 football season and 2024 presidential election pushed prediction markets into the prominence they enjoy today.

The days of the sub-$100 smartphone may be numbered, including in China.

On Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing thousands. Photos capture those marking the 25th anniversary.

Oracle founder Larry Ellison has canceled his plan to sell up to $7.5 billion worth of stock in the software company.

We're looking forward to what promises to be a consequential Federal Reserve meeting and a slew of conferences.

While I have grown tired of his endless proclamations, Dario Amodei does raise points that will impact many stocks if the spending curb proceeds.

China will take the lead to help foster artificial-intelligence collaboration and development among developing-economy countries, President Xi Jinping said.

China, Iran's biggest trading partner and a key customer of Tehran's energy exports, is willing to work with BRICS towards peace in the region, Xi said.

The ratings of these experts are backed by in-depth research of a company's financials, and thorough analysis of the factors affecting business performance.

With Social Security due to reach a funding shortfall in six years, more lawmakers are opening up to the idea of taxing high earners to help fund the program.

The U.S.-Iran war has caused oil prices to surge and added to freight stress from tariffs, but no shipping trade has boomed quite like crude oil tanker futures.

The U.S. crude oil price on Thursday topped $102 per barrel for its highest close since May.

CNBC's Jim Cramer sees parallels between today’s market and the fall of 2018, when rising rates and geopolitical tensions preceded a 20% S&P 500 sell-off.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed concerns around border dispute and the trade imbalance.

In August, consumer prices rose 3.4% over the past year while wages increased just 3.1%.

Stocks came under pressure last week as surging oil prices and bond yields stoked renewed concerns about inflation and the Fed's next move.

Warren Buffett has said he paid too much for Precision Castparts in 2016. Now its complex metal castings are in high demand.

A "capacity check" might be the most thoughtful question to ask in the morning, says Mark Travers, a psychologist who studies relationships. How to do it right.

Most battery cells currently rely on raw materials from China. GM is seeking to establish domestic supply chains both for EVs and energy storage.

The CEO and chief investment officer at Fred Alger Management survived the attack by chance. He was tasked with reconstruction after 35 staffers died.

Years after 9/11, the U.S. government is walking back some security screenings as threats and technology evolve.

AI tools can help find the right tone and language for difficult workplace conversations about performance and pay, and managers are already using them.

The DPRK has turned to third-country IT workers to pass job interviews, after which, the positions are usually taken over by North Korean operatives.

Ben Delo, co-founder of BitMEX, donated almost $50 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, matched a day later by Christopher Harborne.

Anthropic is said to be seeking to raise as much as $100 billion in the offering, which could value the AI company at about $2 trillion.

The Swiss crypto financial services firm plans to move back-office functions to lower-cost international hubs as it expands its global wealth and asset management business, according to Finews.

The Crypto Banter founder said Hyperliquid’s network effects give it a strong competitive moat, but regulatory uncertainty remains its biggest threat.

The US federally chartered crypto bank will allow institutional clients to hold, mint, redeem and stake Frgmnt’s fUSD stablecoin through its custody platform.

Bitcoin briefly rebounded past $79,000 and US stocks turned green as US CPI inflation data met expectations.

Metaplanet will cut 131.3 million potential shares and form a $1 million Hong Kong subsidiary for trading in Bitcoin, equities and credit products.

Why would anyone want to trade a healthcare stock for a memecoin like BONER? Why wouldn’t they, ask the degens on Robinhood Chain who are building a strange new corner of DeFi.

ARK 21Shares accounted for $164 million of Thursday’s Bitcoin ETF withdrawals, while Ether and Solana funds also recorded net outflows.

Bitstamp accounted for $10.1 billion of Robinhood’s August crypto volume, while trading on the Robinhood app fell 46% from a year earlier.

The Italian bank is reportedly seeking assistance in launching access to crypto trading, custody and tokenized investment products.

Bitcoin HODL waves data revealed an unusually muted reaction to Bitcoin’s drop below $58,000, raising questions over its status as a bear-market floor.

The bank expects Sky to pass five times as much value to token holders by 2028 as USDS adoption and borrowing capacity continue to expand.

SEBI said later phases of Demat 2.0 will introduce secondary trading and open the tokenized bonds to retail investors.

A Russian-speaking operator targeted more than 20 organizations, while a Mali consultant used Claude to build a mass-surveillance platform.

Blockstream said it would work with law enforcement, exchanges and forensic specialists to recover the Bitcoin if the hackers do not return it.

BWOW held about $688,000 in net assets as of Sept. 9. Trading is expected to end Oct. 14, with cash payouts to follow around Oct. 22.

Bankman-Fried’s lawyers challenged the exclusion of evidence about customer losses and argued that his $11 billion forfeiture was excessive.

The bill’s ethics section remained largely unchanged despite being one of the main points of contention ahead of a pivotal Senate vote.

Trezor told Cointelegraph that the phishing email was sent to 347,000 subscribers and said it is treating every address as “known to the attacker and possibly reusable for phishing.”

Shareholders of Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet are seething over equity allocations for insiders, while new figures cement Singapore’s role as the top Asian crypto hub.

The EU securities regulator flagged tokenized equities, DeFi exploits and prediction markets as areas where growing crypto ties could pose risks to the broader financial system.

The amendment would require the UK Treasury to develop a strategy covering cryptoassets, stablecoins, tokenized securities and digital financial infrastructure.

Liquid restarted block production after deploying emergency software updates, though transactions and peg operations remain suspended as recovery efforts continue.

"Given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune.

The company is closing its Copenhagen IT site while maintaining Bratislava and opening a new hub in Vietnam to reduce costs.

The combined haul equals the largest individual political donations in U.K. history, sharply scaling up crypto industry backing.

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk have agreed on an unusual position: frontier AI development may need to slow as systems become capable of helping build their own successors.

Payments and capital markets are driving growth for Ripple's $2.4 billion digital dollar as it looks to bring RLUSD to Europe under MiCA, the firm's Jack McDonald said.

Bitcoin Suisse says rising AI investment, government debt and weakening stock-bond diversification strengthen the case for adding bitcoin to traditional portfolios.

The yield-generating asset has a special place in the digital asset investor’s portfolio, argues GlobalStake’s Ryan Haczynski.

Passports, selfies and home addresses were also handed over after the digital bank treated a fraudulent request as legitimate, but no customer funds were lost.

In a post on Friday, Vlad Tenev said securities issuers should control shareholder rights, but not separate products that track their publicly traded shares.

The fallen leader of the former top exchange FTX is looking for answers from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Traders could look past an expected Fed hike and weigh what higher rates are signaling about the economy.

Maharashtra is drafting a policy to tokenize the state's assets, including the electricity transmission infrastructure.

The bitcoin treasury firm cut the potential Series 10 share pool to 188.2 million.

Sawyer will become a strategic adviser rather than take the helm of Zodia Solutions, as previously announced.

The August CPI report had taken on outsized importance after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh two weeks ago suggested the central bank may have to act if inflation doesn't soon slow.

Your day-ahead look for Sept. 11, 2026

Core CPI rose a faster-than-forecast 0.3% in August, but the yearly pace of 2.4% was in line and the slowest rate since early 2021.

Bitcoin rose 0.7% since midnight UTC to around $77,200, and 68 of the CoinDesk 100 constituents gained, though the index remains 1.4% lower over 24 hours.

Bitcoin’s golden cross may support the longer-term outlook, but history suggests much of the upside often occurs before the signal appears.

The prediction-market operator plans to seek U.S. approval for about 60 stock and ETF perps, taking one of crypto's biggest trading products into equities.

OpenAI's new image model promises sharper detail and more precise editing. We ran it against Google's Nano Banana 2 across six categories to see how it compares.

Greenberg Traurig said documents were posted to the dark web, while BakerHostetler recorded a near-doubling of law-firm incidents in 2025.

A rapidly changing interest rates market has changed the near-term outlook on the Bitcoin chart. Here’s why.

The company is seeking clarity on antitrust rules as researchers call for restraint and experts warn that competition encourages companies to overlook risks.

Fresh operating data shows crypto trading bouncing back, but the company's fastest-growing business these days isn't traditional trading at all.

BWOW will stop trading October 14, with cash payments to remaining shareholders expected October 22.

Inflation held at 3.4% and core cooled annually, but a hot monthly core reading kept Fed hike odds near 62% while crypto markets rallied broadly.

With 598.5 BTC still outstanding, the company says it will go to law enforcement should the funds not be returned.

Crypto majors are shaky ahead of this morning’s CPI print, but onchain is heating up for another big potential weekend.

ESMA also asks why Kalshi and Polymarket block some EU countries but not others, and notes VPNs get around the blocks.

A councilor said 90% of crypto kiosk transactions in the city are tied to fraud, calling the machines a conduit for crime.

SBF’s lawyers say he was barred from arguing customers lost nothing, and call the $11 billion forfeiture an "crushing fine."

The draft adds registration requirements for controlled trading protocols and leaves its ethics provisions largely unchanged.

OpenDesign put 13 AI models through the same design tasks. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash landed a point and a half behind GPT-6 Astra and roughly 70 times cheaper.

The ECDSA.Fail challenge cut a resource benchmark for one component of a potential quantum attack by 86%.

Head of Product Ryan Kass says the return to Coinbase Wallet reflects a broader trading strategy, with the self-custody app serving as a testing ground for new assets and experiences.

Bitcoin couldn't escape today's inflation-driven selloff, but a bearish pattern on its chart is about to flip for the first time since November.

The Bank for International Settlements says routine patching schedules are increasingly inadequate and cites guidance urging banks to accept planned downtime for urgent fixes.

Kun Chen built chatbot versions of four AI CEOs on SpaceXAI's new Grok Bot templates, locked them in one chat, and told them to debate the AI race until they agreed on something.

The company now says attacks during security tests exposed model behavior failures, after initially emphasizing errors in its testing infrastructure.

Brian Armstrong argues the bottom is in, a year into the downturn, with the next halving roughly 18 months out.

The meme coin plunged on its debut, as recent alt leaders and many onchain darlings slipped in a nasty day for crypto.

Deutsche Börse's April stake implied a $13.3 billion valuation. Five months on, Nasdaq is paying at $21 billion.

Buterin wants EIP-8288 in I-star, the upgrade after Hegota, and adopting it would make RISC-V Ethereum's canonical instruction set.

The hardware wallet maker said a fake security alert claimed a hardware flaw could expose users’ recovery phrases.

The Fields medalist points to a real race between OpenAI and Anthropic as proof: AI can now flatten a hard problem the moment someone starts working on it.

Crypto advocates and community bankers are targeting lawmakers in their home states as the Senate prepares for a September 15 procedural vote.

The company's first fall keynote under new leadership paired a Gemini-powered Siri overhaul with Apple's first 2-nanometer chip, plus a $1,999 foldable iPhone that won't ship until October.

Blockchain sleuths at Elliptic traced the money, Treasury sanctioned the marketplace, and Xinbi—which ran $24 billion through a Telegram scam bazaar—called the freeze unfair.

The company has built its first chips and begun testing prototypes as it seeks to manufacture quantum computers in larger quantities.

But can the $LSK token survive the current hard waters of the Lisk Chain shutdown?

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XPR’s sharp sell-off eased after producers patched the exploit and secured most of the affected funds.

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Bitcoin continues to hold strong despite rising Treasury yields, creating a potential setup for crypto to outperform gold again.

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Will Trump and Lummis push the CLARITY Act across the finish line, or is it too late now?

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Grayscale’s proposed LTCN conversion could reshape how investors access and trade Litecoin through regulated markets.

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Bitcoin is holding $75k despite rising rate-hike odds. An $85 million whale purchase could signal a potential bear trap.

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Humanity gains by 11% as long positions dominate Open Interest, putting the 50-day EMA and $0.169 swing high within the bulls' radar.

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In this attack was Revolut’s security defeated entirely or just manipulated?

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Negative market sentiment could weigh on WLFI, but rising bullish volume shows traders remain keen to buy.

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Institutional accumulation and persistent exchange outflows support Bitcoin as BTC defends its crucial order block.

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Solana defended key support as persistent selling competed with exchange outflows and nearby upside liquidity.

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