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United States Gross External Debt: Top 10 Countries holding the most US debt in 2025

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    A country's gross external debt is the liabilities that are owed to nonresidents by residents. The debtors can be governments, corporations or citizens. External debt may be denominated in domestic or foreign currency. It includes amounts owed to private commercial banks, foreign governments, or international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. The current U.S. debt is approximately $36.2 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury. For the average American, that number is so large it’s hard to even comprehend. But that’s not the only perspective worth noting. When compared with the total net worth held by the American public, the debt becomes much more rational. Total U.S. household net worth is currently over $160 trillion. Per the U.S. Treasury, here are the top 10 countries holding U.S. debt in 2025. Japan                   ...

Trump's net wealth and his properties in May 2025 with pics

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  It is known that Trump is the richest US president of all time (after previous presidents’ wealth is adjusted for inflation), and the only billionaire to live in the White House. His net worth has gone up since he was elected president for the second time during the 2024 US elections. Forbes has assessed his wealth, currently estimating it at $5.5 billion as of early May 2025 although Trump himself claims a much higher net worth but the claim couldn’t be verified. Donald Trump's primary business has been real estate ventures, including hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He also made money from Trump-branded products including neckties, steaks, and urine tests. Money received through political fundraisers is used to pay for guest stays at properties owned by The Trump Organization and to pay his and his allies' lawyers. No one can deny that Trump was born into a wealthy family and inherited about $40 million from his late father, real estate developer Fred Trump. In 1971...

Understanding the History of Nuclear Weapons: Insights into the Nine Countries that possess them

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    Nine countries have roughly 12,100 nuclear warheads, with over 9,500 in active military stockpiles, according to the Federation of Atomic Scientists' 2024 State of the World’s Nuclear Forces. - At first, you have to know that Russia has the most confirmed nuclear weapons, with over 5,500 nuclear warheads. The United States follows behind with 5,044 nuclear weapons. - A single nuclear warhead could kill hundreds of thousands of people, with lasting and devastating humanitarian and environmental consequences. - At the dawn of the nuclear age, the United States hoped to maintain a monopoly on its new weapon, but the secrets and the technology for building the atomic bomb soon spread. The United States conducted its first nuclear test explosion in July 1945 and dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945. Read more:  3 reasons why America used the atomic bombs on Japan Just four years later, the Soviet Union conducted its ...

How Virginia Giuffre and Jeffrey Epstein first met with pics

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  Virginia Giuffre was born on August 9, 1983 – April 25, 2025) was an American-Australian alleged victim of child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and a campaigner who offered support to victims of sex trafficking. Virginia Giuffre was born Virginia Louise Roberts in Sacramento, California, on August 9, 1983, to parents Sky and Lynn Roberts. The family relocated to Loxahatchee in Palm Beach County, Florida, when she was four years old. Giuffre has a younger brother, Sky.  It was reported that she had come from a "troubled home" and, from the age of seven, was molested by a close family friend. "I was just so mentally scarred already at such a young age, and I ran away from that", she said on Panorama in 2019. Virginia aged seven wit her father In mid-2000, Giuffre met Ghislaine Maxwell when working as a spa attendant at Donald Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club while reading a book about massage therapy. Maxwell approached Giuffre, noted the book that she was readi...

Pope Francis's memoirs: The Pope reveals two assassination attempts on his life

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    Pope Francis was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until his death. He was the first pope from the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order), the first from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III. Hope is a memoir by Pope Francis, the supreme prelate of the Catholic Church. It was first published by Random House on 14 January 2025, with the publisher describing it as the first memoir ever published by a sitting pope. The book is based on notes from interviews that Francis conducted with the Italian journalist Carlo Musso over six years. According to his memoir, two attempted attacks on Pope Francis, including one by a suicide bomber, were foiled during his landmark trip to Iraq in 2021.  The Pope says "almost everyone advised me against" the visit but he felt he "had to do it". The pope had to visit the ruins of four...

Angela Merkel's memoirs: The secret tip the Pope gave Merkel for handling Trump

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    Angela Merkel was born on 17 July 1954, is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office. She previously served as Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 2000 to 2018. During her chancellorship, Merkel was frequently referred to as the de facto leader of the European Union (EU) and the most powerful woman in the world. Following her retirement, Merkel has written a memoir called Freedom, with her longtime assistant and adviser, Beate Baumann. Angela Merkel spoke out about her experiences with world leaders during her time in office. According to Angela Merkel herself, Pope Francis gave her an important tip in 2017. As German Chancellor, she met the Pope shortly before the G20 summit in Hamburg, according to the CDU politician in her autobiography. According to Merkel's account, the meeting of the 20 most important industrialized an...

5 reasons behind Trump's Hostility toward China

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    At first, you have to know that the relationship between China and the United States of America is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. Despite these tensions, the two nations have significant economic ties and are deeply interconnected, while also engaging in strategic competition on the global stage. - Trump believes that China had initiated an unprecedented effort to influence American public opinion, the 2018 elections, and the environment leading into the 2020 presidential elections because China wanted a different American President. He said, “There can be no doubt: China is meddling in America’s democracy.” - Over the past 20 years, China’s GDP has grown nine-fold; it’s become the second-largest economy in the world. Much of this success was driven by American investment in China. And the Chinese Communist Party has also used an arsenal of policies inconsistent with free and fair trade, including tariffs, quotas, currency manipulation, forced ...