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Tennessee Republicans pass map splitting Memphis as Cohen vows lawsuit

House votes 64-25 to split majority-Black 9th District. Cohen says he will sue in state court on First Amendment timing grounds.

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Markets

Long bonds crack 5% then ease as Treasury holds $125bn refunding line

The 30-year US Treasury yield touched 5.03 per cent on Monday, its first break above the threshold since July, before pulling back. On Wednesday Treasury kept its $125 billion refunding plan flat and held the line on its forward guidance.

Foreign Affairs

Iran weighs US-backed truce framework as Pakistan signals deal close

Pakistani Foreign Ministry says deal is near. Iran is examining the package while Trump revives Project Freedom convoy and presses UN resolution.

World

Trump revives Project Freedom convoy as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait restore US airspace access

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said American destroyers are on station after Riyadh and Kuwait City reversed earlier restrictions blocking US sorties.

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A US Navy destroyer navigates the Strait of Hormuz with helicopters in formation above.Foreign Affairs

Three US Navy Destroyers Came Under Iranian Fire in Strait of Hormuz

Federal courthouse columns symbolising trade-court ruling on Trump tariffsUS Politics

Trade court strikes down Trump 10 per cent tariff on most imports

US Capitol building dome in Washington DC, where lawmakers signed a letter urging action on Jimmy LaiUS Politics

US Lawmakers Urge Trump to Press Xi on Jailed Hong Kong Publisher

Server racks in a modern data center with networking cables and hardwareTechnology

Anthropic Leases SpaceXAI's 300MW Memphis Data Center for AI Compute

A hand placing a ballot into a ballot box, symbolizing the UK local electionsPolitics

Labour Suffers Heavy Losses as Reform UK Surges in Local Elections

US Treasury Department building facade with columns and American flag at duskEconomy

Fed's Mary Daly Says Inflation Expectations Stable Despite Energy Surge

Beijing skyline showing traditional Chinese architecture against modern skyscrapers, the city where Trump is due to land on May 14 for talks with Xi JinpingForeign Affairs

Trump motorcade arrives in Beijing as Xi summit goes ahead through Iran war

The United States Capitol dome with American flag.Politics

Eleventh Circuit rejects Trump no-bond ICE policy as circuit split deepens

The Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville, where Republicans were due to vote Thursday on a new map carving Memphis into three congressional districtsUS Politics

Tennessee Republicans set Thursday vote on map that splits Memphis into three districts

Container ship at industrial harbor, with cranes loading goods that drive the global trade flows central to US tariff policyUS Politics

Stanford's Fingar calls Trump tariff policy a complete failure ahead of Xi summit

Industrial crude oil tankers under loaded draft on the open seaMarkets

Saudi Aramco trims June Asia crude prices by $4 a barrel as supply jitters cool

Operators in a control room monitoring multiple surveillance and data feedsDefense

Pentagon awards Scale AI a $500m contract to sift battlefield data

Blue-lit server rack in a data center, the hardware environment that Arm's new AGI CPU is designed to displace from x86 platformsTechnology

Arm beats on Q4 but stumbles on AGI CPU supply as $2bn data center orders pile up

Close-up of a U.S. gasoline pump display showing per-gallon price and 87 octane fuel gradeEconomy

Treasury hikes Series I bond rate to 4.26% as inflation jumps to 3.3%

Densely packed residential buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs along the Mediterranean coastForeign Affairs

Israel strikes Beirut for first time since Lebanon ceasefire, targets senior Hezbollah commander

Tokyo stock-market display board showing rising prices, illustrating the Nikkei's record close above 62,000 on ThursdayMarkets

Nikkei tops 62,000 as Tokyo leads Asia rally on Iran peace hopes and AI chip surge

Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, under a blue skyPolitics

UK voters head to polls in local elections that could hasten Starmer exit

Front view of the White House in Washington, DCUS Politics

Federal court order halts White House ballroom as Republicans push $1bn taxpayer top-up

Aerial view of the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street in the City of LondonMarkets

Why Thursday's UK local elections matter for global bond markets

A person holding multiple Indonesian Rupiah banknotes, the currency that fell to a record 17,445 to the dollar before Bank Indonesia tightened FX rulesMarkets

Rupiah hits record low as Bank Indonesia tightens FX rules for third time in two months

United States Capitol building in Washington where King Charles III addressed a joint meeting of CongressUS Politics

King Charles tells Congress US and UK 'stand united' as Trump-Starmer rift deepens