The Donald Trump administration announced this Wednesday that the United States has agreed with Saudi Arabia that it can enrich its own uranium. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, there are two documents: one for the nuclear cooperation agreement – dubbed "123 agreement" – and another bilateral one on security pacts for a program that is to last "decades". The announcement was imminent after several U.S. media outlets had reported on the agreement between Riyadh and Washington.

The president of Venezuela detained in North American territory, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, will be tried for drug trafficking on June 1, 2027, in the United States. Judge Alvin Hellerstein set the date during Wednesday's hearing in the Manhattan court. Both the defense and the prosecution had previously submitted requests for the trial to begin on June 1 of next year.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has promised new attacks against civilian infrastructure if Iran continues to launch missiles at the few ships attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. "Every time the Islamic Republic fires at a vessel in the strait, be it a missile or a drone, the US will bomb and destroy a bridge or a power plant, including those located next to, or inside, Tehran," the Republican wrote on Truth Social. The leader intends to apply a kind of eye for an eye, which brings Washington even closer to an all-out war with the ayatollahs.

The fronts stemming from the Iran war are only multiplying for the US president, Donald Trump. Tuesday's meeting with his Lebanese counterpart, Joseph Aoun, was to focus on the next steps of the preliminary agreement for the withdrawal of Israeli troops in the south of the country. A conflict that Washington and Israel are trying to remove from the regional equation, even though the Iranian regime demanded an unconditional ceasefire to Lebanon in the memorandum signed in Versailles. But, even so, the Republican has had to answer not only questions about Hezbollah but also about the Houthis of Yemen.

The most improbable photograph of the World Cup and the one that, surely, Donald Trump would have wanted to avoid. Just over a week after railing against Spain and threatening to cut off trade relations with it, the American president found himself in the position of having to present the World Cup trophy to the national team. When the tycoon stepped onto the MetLife Stadium turf this Sunday, the booing was widespread. The president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, accompanied him and could do little on this occasion to heal the republican's ego.

The United States has opened a new diplomatic front this week. Donald Trump's administration has once again declared war on the International Criminal Court (ICC) with a campaign of pressure to dismantle the body that tries those responsible for war crimes, genocides, and crimes against humanity. The offensive, announced this Monday by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, adds a new episode to the White House's long history of attacks on the Hague court.

In a matter of hours, masks have become one of the most sought-after items for the World Cup final to be held on Sunday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. The smoke from the severe fires burning in Ontario (Canada) has covered New York, Washington, and a large part of the coastal cities in the north with a cloud of toxic particles. The high levels of pollution have created scenes reminiscent of cities like New Delhi, with the urban profile blurred by particles floating everywhere. On Friday morning in the federal capital, the air smelled of burning, and in many CVS – a chain of pharmacies – masks were already sold out. All of this has raised concern for the match between Spain and Argentina.US health authorities have issued health alerts due to the high concentration of toxic particles, which can be very harmful to people with heart problems or respiratory conditions. On Thursday in New York, pollution levels exceeded the 200 threshold, mainly due to the high concentration of polluting particles from fires. The city's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, called on citizens to stay outdoors as little as possible and wear KN95 masks, as surgical masks are not sufficient to filter the air. The city council has also established distribution points for these types of masks for all citizens.

One of the few certainties from Donald Trump's national address this morning is that the midterm elections will not be normal elections. Four months before the legislative elections, with his approval rating at historic lows and the war in Iran entrenched, the president has declassified a series of government documents with which he wants to demonstrate that the country's electoral system presents vulnerabilities that need to be corrected. The American president has argued that the purpose "is not to weaken confidence in elections," but to "correct" vulnerabilities in order to "restore it."

The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, announced this Wednesday that the army will conduct annual testosterone tests for soldiers over thirty years of age to ensure they have a "good biological foundation" and are "at the forefront of lethality." Those members of the armed forces who have a supposed testosterone deficiency will be offered treatment to inject it. "If a treatment is recommended, it is entirely your choice to receive testosterone replacement therapy," he assures in the video that the leader shared on social media. The measure is part of Hegseth's crusade to return to the army the culture of "testosterone masculinity.

In less than a week and at two different points in the United States, ICE agents have shot and killed two Latin American individuals: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, on July 7 in Houston (Texas), and Joan Sebastian Guerrero, this Monday in Biddeford, Maine. In both cases, the officers mistook the victims for two other people they were looking for. Sebastian, 26, was a young Colombian with legal status in the country who was on his way to work when two officers intercepted him. The man was identified thanks to neighbors and migrant support groups – such as the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition and Presente! – since after 24 hours of the event, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) still had not identified him. In fact, in the brief statement issued, he is only referred to as an "illegal immigrant" ("illegal alien", in English).

Donald Trump stated this morning in an interview with Fox that "we will probably take the strait. And we will become the guardians of the strait." The American president, who last week declared a ceasefire over, said that in this way he will be able to "reimburse" the cost of assuming the task of becoming the guardian angel of the strait.

The ceasefire between the United States and Iran has not silenced the bombs in the Middle East. Nor has it brought economic relief to American families. The announcement of a pause in hostilities was not noticed then, nor has it been noticed now, when US President Donald Trump announced that the truce "is over." Although in recent weeks the price of a barrel of crude oil had left behind the alarming figures and was again around 70 dollars, voters' pockets had not experienced any improvement. At the moment, half of Americans say they have trouble paying for gasoline (52%) and groceries (51%), according to a poll published Tuesday by The Guardian.

The rise and fall of Graham Platner as Maine's Democratic Senate candidate has exposed the seams of the party leadership. Platner withdrew his candidacy on Friday, after a woman he had dated accused him of sexual assault, complicating Democrats' chances of regaining the Senate this November. The crisis, however, goes deeper: the revelation of the case has brought to light that the party decided to disregard other information about Platner simply because he fit the working-class archetype they want to embrace.

A few minutes after the United States was eliminated in Seattle, the Belgian players played the Village People's Y.M.C.A. in the locker room and began to imitate Donald Trump's dance. The footballers mocked the American president after he had boasted about personally calling his good friend Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, to lift the suspension on striker Folarin Balogun. The striker played, it was no use, and the United States was eliminated amid criticism and ridicule from most football fans worldwide.

Donald Trump has fulfilled the promise to attack Tehran again after the ceasefire ended. The United States Army Central Command (Centcom) announced this afternoon a new wave of "additional" bombings to "reduce its capacity to threaten navigation through the strait." Iranian state media have also reported new explosions in Sirik and Bandar Abbas, where the US already attacked yesterday.

Neither Donald Trump nor FIFA president Gianni Infantino find the amnesty for American forward Folarin Balogun scandalous, following pressure from the US president on the World Cup organization. The Republican was the first to admit it this Monday morning to the press as a logical situation –"That wasn't a foul. So yes, I asked FIFA to review it"– and shortly after, Infantino came out to justify the decision and assured that he speaks "regularly" with the leader. The FIFA chief and the US president have unleashed the latest controversy amidst a competition already marked by the shadow of the current US administration.

Donald Trump celebrated the 250th anniversary of the United States under a light drizzle from the Washington monument with a markedly patriotic speech. Amidst the quagmire of the war in Iran, the rising cost of living, and the isolation of traditional allies, the American president wanted to emphasize the "exceptional" character of the country. "No people have done more good, shown more courage, made more progress, corrected more injustices, or achieved more greatness than you, the American people," he argued, assuring that the country is "a nation of winners."

Under the shadow of the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, Donald Trump recalled the "exceptionalism" of the United States as a project touched by "God". "Americans did not bow before a king or a government, but knelt only before almighty God," stated the US president at the foot of Mount Rushmore on the eve of July 4, when the country turns 250 years old.

The answers we seek in history often speak more about the present than the past. Amidst the summer heatwave of 1776, a group of men gathered in Philadelphia decided to separate from the British Empire. Delegates like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson signed one of the most ambitious documents of the era, which would serve as a beacon for other upcoming revolutions. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," states the preamble to the United States Declaration of Independence. The official date is July 4th, although the 56 delegates took almost a month to formalize the signing of the text.

The presidency has become Donald Trump's most profitable asset, as reflected in his latest financial disclosure. During the first year of his second term, the Republican earned over 1.4 billion dollars thanks to cryptocurrency businesses. In total, Trump has raked in over 2.2 billion dollars since taking office on January 20, 2025. The sum far exceeds the at least 622 million dollars his companies generated during 2024. Currently, the Republican's fortune is estimated at 6.5 billion dollars. Before stepping back into the Oval Office and winning the 2024 election, the figure was more modest: Forbes estimated it at around 2.3 billion dollars.One of the catalysts for the wealth that Trump has accumulated this past year is the World Liberty Financial platform, founded in 2024 by his three sons and the son of special envoy Steve Witkoff, Zach Witkoff. In early January 2025, before the inauguration, an Emirati fund linked to the royal family of Abu Dhabi bought 49% of the business's shares. Shortly after, Trump decided to dedicate his return's first presidential trip to the Gulf petrostates, instead of following the tradition of visiting one of the neighboring countries, Canada or Mexico. Also, shortly after the entry of Emirati capital, the White House reached an agreement with Abu Dhabi to export artificial intelligence-powered chips to them, despite reservations from some national security officials.But this Wednesday, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly again denied the existence of a conflict of interest following the publication of her boss's financial disclosure. “All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people, and anyone calling themselves a “reporter” who pushes otherwise is recycling the same tired, false narrative that Democrats and mainstream media have been pushing for a decade,” she assured. GENIUS Act

World Liberty's plans, however, are even more ambitious: the company launched a dollar-pegged stablecoin last March, dubbed USD1, and has the backing of the U.S. Treasury. Although the president always excuses himself by saying he knows nothing about family businesses and that his children manage everything, very conveniently last year he signed the GENIUS Act. This is a law that creates the first legal framework for stablecoins like the USD1 launched by World Liberty. The rule establishes a series of protections for buyers of stablecoins to foster trust and use among consumers. A few months before signing the law, the Department of Justice dismantled the unit dedicated to investigating crypto-scams and crypto-crimes. The man who at the time scorned the cryptocurrency business as a scam, now signs regulations to promote its use while fattening a good part of his fortune thanks to this world. World Liberty Financial does not solely hold the title of the golden goose. The memecoin that the president launched shortly before his inauguration, $TRUMP, has resulted in the president pocketing 635 million dollars during 2025. No one overlooks the exclusive dinner that the president organized when he launched the coin, where the condition for attending was to be one of the main 220 buyers. The opportunity to dine behind closed doors with a President of the United States translated into a collection of 148 million dollars. Cryptocurrencies have transformed the president's fortune in a very short time. While during his first term, a large part of his fortune (then estimated between 2.3 million and 2.5 million dollars) was based on real estate, golf courses, and the classic businesses of the Trump clan. These sources of income continue to generate profits for the president and his family, but not at the same pace as cryptocurrencies.The release of the financial disclosure comes shortly after the Republican managed to get his own administration would reach an out-of-court settlement to grant him tax immunity for himself, his family, and the Trump Organization. In a statement signed by the current acting attorney general and former president's lawyer, Todd Blanche, the U.S. Tax Agency agreed that it was "forever prohibited" examine or prosecute "any" tax claim against Trump, his children and the Trump Organization.

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