• US scraps tariffs on some foods over inflation woes
    2025-11-17

    WASHINGTON — The US administration has rolled back tariffs on more than 200 food products, including such staples as coffee, beef, bananas and orange juice, in the face of growing angst among US consumers about the high cost of groceries. The new exemptions mark a sharp reversal for US President Do...

  • U.S. to designate Venezuela's Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization as USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier arrives in Caribbean
    2025-11-17

    The U.S. is set to designate Cartel de los Soles — a group that the Trump administration has claimed is headed by Venezuela's president — as a foreign terrorist organization, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday night, hours after the most advanced aircraft carrier in the nation crossed i...

  • When the employed are pushed into homelessness
    2025-11-17

    In Atlanta, journalist Brian Goldstone introduces us to the intersection of Memorial Drive and Candler Road – the threshold of two neighborhoods. On one side: a liberal arts college and cafés. "And you cross over, and it's dialysis centers, it's liquor stores, it's payday lenders," he said. "Other a...

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene doubles down on Epstein files amid fallout with Trump
    2025-11-17

    Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a press conference alongside alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein at the US Capitol in September Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is reiterating her calls for the release of all Epstein files, after US President Donald Trump called her a "traitor" and...

  • Flight reductions and delays could last another week, officials say
    2025-11-14

    Airline disruptions continued across the U.S. on Thursday morning, with over 1,000 flights canceled, according to tracker FlightAware, as officials warned it may take days for airports to get back up to speed despite President Donald Trump signing a bill to end the government shutdown on Wednesday. ...

  • Oklahoma death row inmate granted clemency on the morning of his scheduled execution
    2025-11-14

    A death row inmate in Oklahoma was preparing for his scheduled execution Thursday when Gov. Kevin Sitt spared his life. The governor announced his decision to commute Tremane Wood's sentence from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Wood, 46, is the sixth condemned person to r...

  • 2 killed, 18 injured in S. Korea market truck sidewalk crash
    2025-11-14

    SEOUL -- Two people were killed and 18 others were injured Thursday after a truck crashed into the sidewalk at a market in South Korea, according to Yonhap news agency. The truck, driven by a man in his 60s, plowed into the sidewalk at the market in Bucheon, west of the capital Seoul, at about 10:5...

  • Trump signs bill to end record shutdown
    2025-11-14

    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 ...

  • Thailand-Cambodia border tensions escalate
    2025-11-14

    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...

  • Trump faces prospect of congressional vote on releasing Epstein files
    2025-11-14

    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 ...

  • US public opinion sees positive shift on China
    2025-11-13

    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 to hold at 6% amid 'rapid decline in controller callouts': DOT
    2025-11-13

    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...

  • Search ongoing for woman visiting California who was last seen at beach bonfire
    2025-11-13

    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...

  • Japanese students obtain firsthand insight in China
    2025-11-13

    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...

  • UPS plane crash victims include a man and his 3-year-old granddaughter
    2025-11-13

    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...