RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — “Carmen,” the Portuguese and English-language biopic of iconic Hollywood’s Golden Age Brazilian star Carmen Miranda, will shoot in the second half of 2027 in Brazil and the U.S. Esmir Filho will helm the feature, a major production for local standards, with a 61 million reais ($20 million) budget, one of
One of the biggest questions looming over the oil market is when the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve will reach its effective minimum level, but industry executives have offered a wide range of answers, underscoring the uncertainty hanging over prices. The Trump administration agreed to release SPR reserves in March as part of a coordinated effort
The U.S. Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a U.S.-run military air base in England used to strike Iran following an investigation into a planned terror attack at the RAF Fairford base. The bombers were redeployed to their home bases in the United States, according to a Pentagon official who was not authorized to discuss
The recent jump in Treasury yields has highlighted how vulnerable the U.S. debt outlook is to the bond market, which Scope Ratings flagged in a new report. On Friday, the Europe-based credit ratings agency maintained the U.S. sovereign score at AA-, three notches below the top rating and two steps below AA+ grades from rivals
In December, State Department senior official Jeremy Lewin welcomed Rwanda Foreign Minister Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe for the signing of a multi-year Memorandum of Understanding on global health cooperation. U.S. Office of Foreign Assistance hide caption toggle caption i U.S. Office of Foreign Assistance The Trump administration says that October 1 marks the dawn of a
Halluminate, a nine-person San Francisco startup building AI training environments for financial work, has raised $30 million in a Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5 million. Halluminate benchmarks AI models on financial tasks to find where they fall short and builds simulated training environments aimed at those gaps. Founded in
