Impasse on healthcare aid deepens as thousands of federal workers lose jobs The "Closed to all tours" signage is displayed near the rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington on Monday amid federal government shutdown. ANNA ROSE LAYDEN VIA GETTY IMAGES WASHINGTON — The Speaker of the US House of Re...
Bank of America was sued Wednesday over its alleged financial ties with Jeffrey Epstein, with the lawsuit claiming the financial giant facilitated and also benefited from his alleged sex trafficking venture. The lawsuit, filed in federal court on behalf of a Jane Doe, alleges Epstein committed his ...
Hamas said Wednesday it has handed over all the Israeli hostage remains in Gaza that it has been able to recover, and that extensive efforts and special equipment are required to find the remaining bodies. The Red Cross said it received two more coffins containing the remains of deceased hostages, ...
All eyes on Gyeongju with pulse on the Asia-Pacific.
In Xi'an's Xingjiao Temple, there is a pagoda of monk Yuance, a disciple of Xuanzang, the real-life inspiration for Tang Monk in Journey to the West.
"If you cannot win China, you cannot win the world," said Lei Kaiting, General Manager of Corporate Affairs for Beiersdorf China, regarding Shanghai as the hub of the cosmetics industry in the Yangtze River Delta region.
WASHINGTON AP — The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century, a change that would boost Republican electoral prospects, particularly across the South. During 2 12 hours ...
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he authorized the CIA to operate inside Venezuela to clamp down on illegal flows of migrants and drugs from the South American nation, but stopped short of saying they would have authority to remove President Nicolas Maduro. The remarks are Trump’s most expansi...
Maskot | Maskot | Getty Images AI is quickly transforming the way companies and CEOs are approaching their businesses and the strategies that take them forward. Amid that rapid transformation, Adtalem Global EducationCEO Steve Beard said there is a “threshold question” that he keeps coming back t...
Gilbert Houngbo, International Labour Organization ILO Director-General [PhotoAgencies] The United Nations' global organization for the promotion of labor rights has warned that it faces a funding crisis and could be forced to shed around 8 percent of its workforce unless member states pay their ...
SYDNEY -- Incumbent President David Adeang has been re-elected as president of Nauru for a second term following Saturday's national elections. The government of Nauru said in a post on social media that Adeang was elected unopposed as president during the inaugural sitting of the Micronesian natio...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says that a sharp slowdown in hiring poses a growing risk to the U.S. economy WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON AP — A sharp slowdown in hiring poses a growing risk to the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday, a sign that the Fed will likely cut ...
An elite military unit says it has seized power in Madagascar from President Andry Rajoelina following weeks of youth-led protests in the Indian Ocean island. Standing outside the presidential palace on Tuesday, CAPSAT chief Col Michael Randrianirina said the military would form a government and ho...
Bulldozers deployed by the Gaza Municipality drive past displaced people, on their way to clear building rubble from main roads in Gaza City on Tuesday, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian fighters in Gaza. AFPGetty Images Israel and Hamas took steps toward ending the two-year war tha...
BEIJING, Oct. 14 Xinhua -- China's Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday announced the decision to take countermeasures against five U.S.-linked subsidiaries of Hanwha Ocean, a leading shipbuilding enterprise from the Republic of Korea. These countermeasures, which took effect on Tuesday, were adopted to...