Year: 2025

The Senate failed Wednesday to pass a resolution rejecting President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariff agenda, as several Republicans signaled beforehand they favored halting the relatively new levies, and Vice President JD Vance was called in to break an ensuing procedural tie. The disapproval resolution failed 49-49, with three Republicans joining all Democrats present in attempting to throw a wrench ...

President Donald Trump revealed Tuesday evening what he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed during their viral meeting at the Vatican when both were in attendance for the late Pope Francis’ funeral.  ‘I was telling him that it’s a very good thing if we can produce a deal, that you sign it, because Russia is much bigger and much stronger,’ ...

President Donald Trump said public entitlements, such as Social Security and Medicaid, will not be touched in the GOP’s contentious new budget bill currently working its way through Congress, during a town hall Tuesday night hosted by NewsNation. Earlier this month, the Republican-led House of Representatives approved $2 trillion in spending cuts. Those cuts did not include any slashes to ...

(TheNewswire) Brossard, Quebec TheNewswire – April 30, 2025 Charbone Hydrogen Corporation (TSXV: CH; OTCQB: CHHYF; FSE: K47) (the ‘Company’ or ‘CHARBONE’), North America’s sole publicly traded pure-play company specialized in green hydrogen production and distribution, today announces its financial and operating results for the year ending December 31, 2024, highlighted by a 15% year-over-year revenue increase and critical progress toward ...

Empire Metals (LON:EEE, OTCQB:EPMLF) is an exploration and resource development company focused on Australia, gaining global recognition for its discovery and swift advancement of what is believed to be the world’s largest titanium deposit. The company’s primary focus is the Pitfield project in Western Australia — a premier mining jurisdiction. With over 1,000 square kilometres of land and a titanium-rich ...

US President Donald Trump has publicly assailed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in recent weeks, calling him “a major loser,” and declaring that his ‘termination cannot come fast enough.’ Yet behind the fiery rhetoric lies a more complex question: Can the president fire the head of the Fed? Trump-Powell feud heats up Trump’s frustration with Powell isn’t new. Since appointing ...

A chaotic global economic environment pushed gold to the forefront during the first quarter of 2025. The yellow metal set multiple new all-time highs during the period, and the World Gold Council’s (WGC) latest report on gold demand shows its average Q1 price came in at US$2,860 per ounce. This action came as investors sought safe-haven assets on the back of ...

Lahontan Gold Corp. (TSXV: LG) (OTCQB: LGCXF) (the ‘Company’ or ‘Lahontan’) is pleased to announce that, further to its press releases of April 8, 2025, and April 22, 2025, the Company successfully completed its non-brokered private placement financing through the issuance of 42,705,700 units (each, a ‘Unit’) in the capital of the Company at a price of $0.05 per Unit ...

Alkane Resources (ASX:ALK,OTC Pink:ALKEF) and Mandalay Resources (TSX:MND,OTCQB:MNDJF) have announced a merger of equals to form a new gold and antimony producer. In a joint release on Monday (April 28), the companies said former Mandalay shareholders and existing Alkane shareholders will respectively own approximately 55 percent and 45 percent of the combined entity. The new company will focus on Australia-based ...

Westport Fuel Systems Inc. (‘Westport’ or the ‘Company’) (TSX:WPRT Nasdaq:WPRT), has entered into lock-up agreements with certain of its shareholders, executives and board members representing an aggregate of approximately 2.0 million shares, or 11.4% of the currently issued and outstanding shares, to vote in favour of the special resolution approving the sale of Westport Fuel Systems Italia S.r.l. (the ‘ Lock-Up ...