WASHINGTON — United States President Donald Trump signed a bill on Wednesday to end a record 43-day shutdown that paralyzed Washington and left hundreds of thousands of workers unpaid while Republicans and Democrats played a high-stakes blame game. The Republican-led House of Representatives voted ...
An ASEAN Observer Team visits on Thursday an area where a civilian was killed a day before along the Cambodia-Thailand border in Banteay Meanchey Province. AGENCE KAMPUCHEA PRESSAFP An ASEAN Observer Team on Thursday observed the situation on the ground near the latest border skirmish between Tha...
Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday. Photograph: Jacquelyn MartinAP Donald Trump is facing the prospect of a politically damaging congressional vote on releasing the Jeffery Epstein files after attempts to press two female members of Congress to withdraw their backing ...
Majority of respondents favor engagement, oppose tariffs and military conflict: Survey The 2025 Chicago Council Survey found that politicians of the United States' embrace of disengaging from and limiting China is no longer in step with the majority of the US public. The survey was conducted by Cr...
Flight reductions at 40 airports will no longer increase on Thursday or Friday. The Federal Aviation Administration froze flight reductions that were initially set to increase on Thursday, as the number of canceled flights in the United States has steadily decreased this week. The FAA issued an em...
Danielle Staley was last seen on Rio Del Mar State Beach the night of Nov. 6. Authorities said they are searching for an at-risk woman who was last seen at a bonfire on a California beach. Danielle Staley, 35, of Utah, went missing while visiting the California Central Coast with a friend, accordi...
Chinese and Japanese students showcase their jointly written calligraphy at an exchange event in Tokyo on Tuesday. LI ZIYUEXINHUA Japanese students who joined an exchange program to China said at an event in Tokyo on Tuesday that they gained a better understanding of how China balances modernizat...
The full list of victims in the UPS plane crash has been released, just over a week after the Hawaii-bound cargo plane crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, just moments after takeoff. The plane appeared to be on fire as it sped down the runway, and may have lost an engine while taking off. It struck tw...
Washington — Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday released emails exchanged between Jeffrey Epstein and others about President Trump. Among the documents is a 2011 message from Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell, his longtime associate, that said Mr. Trump "spent hours at my house" wit...
People visit the AfricaCom exhibition during the Africa Tech Festival 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa, Nov 11, 2025. [PhotoXinhua] CAPE TOWN - The Africa Tech Festival kicked off on Tuesday in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa, gathering innovators, policymakers, and investors to...
LONDON -- Catherine Connolly was sworn in as Ireland's 10th president at Dublin Castle on Tuesday. During the ceremony around noon, Connolly repeated the Declaration of Office after the country's Chief Justice Donal O'Donnell, then signed the Declaration and accepted the seal of office, officially ...
US manufacturing jobs contracted for the eighth straight month in October, driven by lower demand and companies pulling back on production, figures showed. The sector — which is responsible for approximately 10.1 percent of GDP as of 2024 — is an important barometer of the health of the economy and...
ISLAMABAD -- At least 12 people were killed and 27 others injured on Tuesday afternoon in a suicide blast outside the district courts in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi told lolcal media. Naqvi said at the explosion site that a suicide bomber exploded his explosive-lade...
A cashier scans groceries, including produce, which is covered by the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP, at a grocery store in Baltimore on Monday. Stephanie ScarbroughAP The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended an order blocking full SNAP payments, amid signals that the governmen...
House Speaker Mike Johnson R-La. delivers remarks to reporters on Monday on Capitol Hill. Tom BrennerGetty Images On the 41st day of a record-long government shutdown, the U.S. Senate voted 60 to 40 to approve a continuing resolution to reopen the government. The measure would fund much of the g...