Posts by Kim Browne
Even Fox News Doesn’t Buy Trump’s Epstein Investigation Result
Fox News pushed back Monday on the Department of Justice’s claim that Jeffrey Epstein did not keep a list of clients, citing the head of that very agency, who’d claimed she’d seen the list. During a press briefing, Fox News’s senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy questioned press secretary Karoline Leavitt about the DOJ’s memo…
Read MoreTrump Treasury Secretary Reveals Humiliating Detail About Tariff Talks
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accidentally admitted that the White House was lying about countries begging Donald Trump for trade deals. Bessent made the startling admission Sunday as he tied himself in knots trying to answer CNN host Dana Bash’s questions about the Trump administration’s long-forgotten promise of 90 trade deals during the president’s 90-day pause…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump’s Use of Secret Police Takes “Shocking” Darker Turn
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the July 7 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Editor’s note: Later in this discussion guest Simon Rosenberg makes a critical point that we want to highlight: With Trump and Republicans gaining tens of billions of dollars to expand Trump’s arrests, detentions and…
Read More‘Not perfect timing’: NTT DC Reit launches biggest S-Reit IPO in over a decade to raise US$773 million
[SINGAPORE] The manager of NTT DC Reit believes the timing is “not perfect” for an initial public offering (IPO) as the market is still not stable. But it is powering ahead with the biggest IPO of a Singapore real estate investment trust (Reit) in over a decade, as it is in it for the long…
Read MoreRichard Li’s FWD rises in HK debut, reversing earlier decline
The insurer plans to use the proceeds to reduce debt, support growth and enhance its digital capabilities Published Mon, Jul 7, 2025 · 10:50 AM — Updated Mon, Jul 7, 2025 · 03:42 PM [HONG KONG] Billionaire Richard Li’s FWD Group Holdings rose in its Hong Kong trading debut, reversing earlier declines, after an initial…
Read MoreXiaomi founder’s bold EV bet is paying off where Apple’s failed
[HONG KONG] Lei Jun, founder and chairman of Xiaomi, the only tech company to have successfully diversified into carmaking, could not resist. Speaking at a triumphant launch event in Beijing late last month for Xiaomi’s second electric vehicle (EV), a long-anticipated SUV, Lei pointedly mentioned Apple, which spent a decade and US$10 billion trying to…
Read MoreThe Bear Offers Apologies—and an Uncertain Path Forward
But there are diminishing returns elsewhere. The big Berzatto episode doesn’t earn its run time—an hour and nine minutes!—and it fails to capture the chaos magic that made “Fishes” so unique. The cameos are too fast and frequent to mean much, and, while I have no investment in the comedy vs. drama debate that perennially…
Read MoreWe Are Wittingly Fooling Ourselves About Trump’s Attack on Iran
Earlier this year, in an unexpected divergence from the long-prevailing foreign policy rhetoric of presidents from both parties, Donald Trump gave a speech in Riyadh criticizing interventionists, neoconservatives, and America’s habit of bombing Middle Eastern countries. “In the end, the so-called ‘nation-builders’ wrecked far more nations than they built,” he said, “and the interventionists were…
Read MoreSoldiers Are Taking a Stand Against Trump’s Abuses
Kim, an aircraft mechanic, joined the military in 2019, at age 18. She and her mother had struggled to survive, even living in their car at times. She didn’t think she could afford college, so she didn’t apply. Like so many young Americans in that situation, she enlisted “to get a stable paycheck, a roof…
Read MoreSGX and HKEX in interactive graphics
[SINGAPORE] Singapore’s market is weathering a listing draught, even as its rival bourse up north, the Hong Kong stock exchange is on fire – and on track to becoming the world’s best initial public offering (IPO) venue in 2025. Nearly 100 companies could raise as much as HK$220 billion (S$35.7 billion) there, PricewaterhouseCoopers has estimated.…
Read MoreEPA Punishes Employees Who Sent Zeldin “Declaration of Dissent”
On Thursday the Environmental Protection Agency placed at least 139 employees on administrative leave after they signed and publicized a “declaration of dissent” against Administrator Lee Zeldin and the greater Trump administration. “Since the Agency’s founding in 1970, EPA has accomplished this mission by leveraging science, funding, and expert staff in service to the American…
Read MoreCongress Gives ICE More Money Than It Could Have Ever Imagined
President Donald Trump’s efforts to coax wary House Republicans off the fence to support his “big, beautiful bill” have seemingly succeeded, as GOP leaders say the president’s centerpiece legislation will likely pass by Friday. Trump pulled out all the stops to achieve this outcome, including turning to what he does best, or at least most…
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