• 14 states file a lawsuit arguing Elon Musk's authority at DOGE is unconstitutional
    2025-02-14

    The lawsuit is one of several accusing President Donald Trump of skirting the Constitution and Musk of operating with unchecked power.The lawsuit is one of several accusing President Donald Trump of skirting the Constitution and Musk of operating with unchecked power. A group of 14 states sued Elon...

  • Trump administration begins mass layoffs across multiple federal agencies: Sources
    2025-02-14

    A day after the Trump administration ended its deferred resignation offer to the nation's two million federal government employees, the administration on Thursday began mass layoffs across multiple federal agencies in a move that is expected to impact thousands of employees, sources familiar with th...

  • TikTok returns to Apple, Google app stores
    2025-02-14

    Beata Zawrzel | Nurphoto | Getty Images TikTok returned to the Apple and Google app stores Thursday evening. The Chinese-owned social media app had been removed from the the two stores on Jan. 18, moments after TikTok’s leadership temporarily halted service in the U.S. in response to a national ...

  • U.S. and India to double bilateral trade in five years, Prime Minister Modi says, as Trump tariffs loom
    2025-02-14

    U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 13, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters New Delhi and Washington will work to more than double bilateral trade to $500 billion by 2030, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Mod...

  • Both sides must honor terms of ceasefire and uphold all relevant UN resolutions: China Daily editorial
    2025-02-13

    A Palestinian woman stands in front of the ruins of houses near the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip, on Feb 9, 2025. [PhotoXinhua] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Hamas on Tuesday that Israel would end the ceasefire and resume "intense fighting" if the Palestinian arm...

  • White House says it’s the judges — not Trump — causing a ‘constitutional crisis’
    2025-02-13

    On Wednesday, the White House had a new response to that. It’s not the president who is causing the problem, said press secretary Karoline Leavitt, it’s the judges who are blocking some of his agenda by saying it’s illegal.

  • Putin, Trump talk over phone, plan to meet in person
    2025-02-13

    The Kremlin and White House announced separately on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump had held a phone conversation, with Trump later saying the leaders could meet in Saudi Arabia.

  • Remarks over Taiwan question spark concerns: Statement by US, Japan slammed for interfering in China's internal affairs
    2025-02-13

    Experts urged Japan to adhere to the one-China principle if it genuinely seeks to maintain the status quo in the Taiwan Strait, rather than interfering in China's internal affairs.

  • Apple Maps and Google Maps change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America
    2025-02-13

    On Tuesday, Apple Maps officially changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, the change comes in the footsteps of Google Maps' change on Monday.

  • China slams U.S. vessels' passage through Taiwan Straits
    2025-02-13

    A Chinese military spokesperson condemned the United States for sending a warship and an oceanographic survey ship through the Taiwan Straits recently, saying its acts sent wrong signals and increased security risks.

  • The real and present danger to the world
    2025-02-12

    This photo taken on Jan 19, 2023 shows the US Capitol building in Washington, DC, the United States. [PhotoXinhua] In an op-ed "The Real Threat to American Prosperity", published by the UK newspaper Financial Times on Saturday, Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu analyzed the influence of the ...

  • Associated Press barred from Oval Office for not using ‘Gulf of America’
    2025-02-12

    Agency says its reporter wasn’t allowed into event in effort to ‘punish’ style guide on upholding use of Gulf of Mexico Elon Musk and Donald Trump at the Oval Office in the White House in Washington, on Tuesday. Photograph: Alex BrandonAP The Associated Press said it was barred from sending a re...

  • Appeals court denies Trump's request to lift order blocking freeze of billions in federal funding
    2025-02-12

    The Trump administration and its opponents have gone back and forth in court. A federal appeals court denied the Trump administration's request to lift a lower court's order that blocked the president from unilaterally freezing billions in funding in loans, grants and financial assistance. Three w...

  • Around 60 parties sign statement on AI at Paris summit
    2025-02-12

    PARIS -- Around 60 countries, including China, on Tuesday signed a Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People and the Planet, at the end of the Artificial Intelligence AI Action Summit in Paris. In the statement, the signatories agreed that the Summit has laid out an ...

  • Yoon raises objection at 7th hearing
    2025-02-12

    South Korean leader opposes the use of prosecution's reports as evidence in trial South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol left talks with his lawyer Bae Bo-yoon as he attends the seventh hearing of his impeachment trial in Seoul on Tuesday. [PhotoYONHAP] South Korea's impeached President...