Trump said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had "Venezuela on his mind."

President Donald Trump previously renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and Lake Ontario to Lake America.

Iran attacked Jordan, Kuwait and the UAE, claiming retaliation for the latest U.S. strikes as the war in the Middle East ramps back up.

Nvidia, a chip-making giant that is now the world’s most valuable firm, will buy Hugging Face for $13bn. The platform hosts millions of mostly “open” AI models, which users can download and modify. Last year Hugging Face rejected an investment at a $7bn valuation from Nvidia to maintain its independence.

The US military carried out additional strikes Tuesday on Iran, prompting Tehran to attack Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait in defiance of a warning from President Donald Trump that Iran would be “hit much harder” if it retaliated.

U.S. Central Command said it took “limited, precise action” against Iranian “minelaying forces posing an imminent threat in the Strait of Hormuz” over the weekend.

The U.S. military hit targets in Iran on Tuesday and Tehran fired missiles and drones at various sites across the region in response as hostilities flare once again in an intermittent war that has lasted more than six months.

Confronted by an intransigent Iranian government that has refused to back down in the face of a massive military campaign, President Donald Trump appears to have settled on a dual-prong approach