• Tariff-troubled US fears not-so-happy holidays
    2025-11-10

    Rising prices of goods, produce dim prospects for Thanksgiving, Christmas Cranes unload shipping containers from the CMA CGM Laperouse container ship at the Port of Los Angeles in California, United States, on Aug 15. Higher US tariffs have started to filter through to consumers in categories su...

  • Bessent says no formal White House health care proposal as shutdown drags on
    2025-11-10

    He hedged when asked about the president's push to end the filibuster. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that there is no formal proposal from the White House to defund the Affordable Care Act and instead send money directly to Americans, despite a social media post from President Donald...

  • BBC boss and head of news quit after criticism of Trump documentary edit
    2025-11-10

    LONDON, Nov 10 Reuters - The BBC's boss and its head of news quit on Sunday following accusations of bias at the British broadcaster, including in the way it edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. The publicly funded BBC had been under mounting pressure after an internal report by a former...

  • Senate advances deal to reopen government after centrist Democrats strike major deal to end shutdown
    2025-11-10

    The dome of the US Capitol is reflected in a window as people visit the Washington Monument on November 2. Kent NishimuraReuters A critical bloc of eight Senate Democratic centrists on Sunday helped advance a funding deal to reopen the government in exchange for a future vote on extending enhance...

  • Death toll rises to 13 after UPS plane crashed at Louisville airport: Officials
    2025-11-07

    The nine missing are believed to have been near the crash site, officials said. The death toll has risen to 13 after a UPS plane departing Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky crashed in a ball of flames earlier this week, officials said Thursday. The victim had been transport...

  • Elon Musk awarded nearly $1 trillion pay package by Tesla shareholders
    2025-11-07

    Musk would become the best-compensated CEO ever. Tesla shareholders awarded CEO Elon Musk a pay package on Thursday that could grant the tech entrepreneur nearly $1 trillion in compensation over the next decade. The pay package would make Musk the best-compensated CEO ever recorded. According to a...

  • Former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi announces retirement
    2025-11-07

    WASHINGTON -- Former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that she will not seek re-election next year and will retire from Congress at the end of her current term. Pelosi, 85, has represented California in Congress since 1987. She served as minority leader of the House of Representativ...

  • ICE's detainee population reaches 66,000, a new record high, statistics show
    2025-11-07

    The number of detainees in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody increased to 66,000 this week, setting a new record high as President Trump intensifies his crackdown on illegal immigration, according to internal Department of Homeland Security data obtained by CBS News. Never before has...

  • Judge orders Trump administration to fully fund Snap food benefits
    2025-11-07

    A US judge has ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Snap, also known as food stamps, and accused the administration of withholding the food aid "for political reasons". Judge John McConnell said in his order on Thursday that without ...

  • UN, aid partners beef up support for displaced people in Sudan's North Darfur
    2025-11-07

    A displaced woman and some children sit under a tent built from logs and cloth in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, Aug 8, 2025. [The UN World Food ProgrammeHandout via Xinhua] UNITED NATIONS - Relief organizations in Sudan's North Darfur are increasing support for the growing number of people displac...

  • Former top Israeli military legal officer arrested after admitting to leaking video of alleged detainee abuse
    2025-11-06

    The former top legal officer in Israel's military has been arrested after admitting that she authorized the leak of a video that appears to show Israeli soldiers attacking a Palestinian detainee in a detention facility last year. Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi served as Military Advocate Gene...

  • Password to Louvre’s video surveillance system was 'Louvre', according to employee
    2025-11-06

    At the time of the brazen heist of $102 million in jewels from the Louvre last month, the password to the world-famous museum's video surveillance system was simply "Louvre," according to a museum employee with knowledge of the system. The revelation comes as the museum's security measures have com...

  • Youth wave lifts Mamdani to NY's top job
    2025-11-06

    Millennial lawmaker pledges to tax the rich and ease burden on working people Supporters cheer for the election win of Democrat Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York on Wednesday. ZHANG ZHENGHAOXINHUA Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani was elected the youngest mayor of New York in more than a cen...

  • Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves 114 dead in Philippines
    2025-11-06

    MANILA -- Typhoon Kalmaegi left the Philippines before dawn Thursday with 114 deaths and at least 127 missing mainly in the central Philippines, the Office of Civil Defense OCD said. OCD Deputy Administrator Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro told local media that Kalmaegi killed at least 114, "with actu...

  • Transportation secretary announces 10% reduction in U.S. air traffic due to government shutdown
    2025-11-06

    Federal officials announced that the U.S. will reduce air traffic by 10% across 40 "high-volume" markets starting on Friday, citing staffing shortages related to the ongoing government shutdown. "We have decided that a 10% reduction in scheduled capacity would be appropriate to continue to take the...