Foreign media report that in an election handing Democrats an overwhelming victory, voter rejection of President Donald Trump was among the strongest rebukes of a U.S. president in decades. The result undermines Republican hopes that Trump had reshaped U.S. politics and assembled a new working-class/minority coalition. The defeat exposed cracks in the MAGA movement that underpinned his influence since 2016. Trump's response could shape the GOP's political fortunes over the next two years and inf

Venezuela is negotiating with U.S. trader Mercuria Energy Group and private mining investor Heeney Capital on a second aluminum export to the United States, sources said; the shipment is expected before year-end and could be similar in size and terms to the roughly 15,000 tonnes that arrived in New Orleans at end-September. Both firms are also separately in talks with the Venezuelan government to operate state smelter Venalum. The trade resumption is part of efforts to rebuild commercial ties since the U.S. detained former Venezuelan president Maduro in January; Venezuela’s new foreign minister Oliver Blanco met U.S. Secretary of State Rubio and Treasury Secretary Bessent in Washington on Monday. Aluminum is designated a U.S. critical mineral, and the move signals deeper U.S. corporate involvement in Venezuelan mining and metals while highlighting tension in Trump-era metal trade policy: expanding imports from Venezuela alongside high tariffs to protect domestic producers.

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