• China urges U.S. to stop politicizing COVID-19 origins tracing
    2025-05-21

    A COVID-19 testing site is seen on Times Square in New York, the United States, May 17, 2022. XinhuaWang Ying The United States still owes the international community a convincing explanation for the concerns raised by various parties about the origins and handling of the pandemic on its own terr...

  • Judge Presses Trump Administration About Reported Deportations to South Sudan
    2025-05-21

    The Justice Department said one migrant was flown back to his home country of Myanmar, but declined to identify the country that a second migrant was sent to, calling it classified. A protest last week outside the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Md. The Trump administration has turned to countri...

  • Trump rolls out Golden Dome missile defense project and appoints leader
    2025-05-21

    Gen Michael Guetlein of Space Force will be in charge of defense system that could cost $540bn over 20 years Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration will move forward with developing the so-called “Golden Dome” missile defense system that he envisions will protect the United State...

  • More severe weather pummels the central US as thousands recover from deadly tornadoes
    2025-05-21

    LONDON, Ky. AP — More tornadoes plowed through the central U.S. on Monday, ripping apart buildings and knocking out power as people from Texas to Kentucky continued to clean up from days of severe weather that killed more than two dozen people and destroyed thousands of homes and buildings. At leas...

  • New Orleans jail employee arrested, accused of helping mass escape of inmates
    2025-05-21

    A maintenance worker at a New Orleans jail where 10 inmates escaped has been arrested and accused of helping facilitate the breakout, officials said Tuesday. Sterling Williams, a 33-year-old maintenance worker at the Orleans Parish Justice Center, was arrested and booked into jail Tuesday morning, ...

  • 'Need to be honest': Vance questions Biden's health as president after cancer diagnosis
    2025-05-20

    WASHINGTON − Vice President JD Vance questioned whether Joe Biden had been fit for duty in the White House following news the former president has an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Speaking to reporters on Air Force Two after meeting Pope Leo XIV in Rome, Vance said he wishes the best for Bide...

  • Minutes after departure, a deadly collision: Feds investigate Brooklyn Bridge crash
    2025-05-20

    Giulia HeywardGothamist It took just under five minutes for the Mexican Navy’s tall ship to crash into the Brooklyn Bridge after departing its Manhattan dock Saturday evening, federal investigators said Monday. Two crew members were killed and more than 20 others were injured. The National Trans...

  • Huawei launches HarmonyOS-powered PC rivaling Microsoft, Apple
    2025-05-20

    A view of Huawei MateBook Pro equipped with the HarmonyOS on May 19, 2025. [PhotoXinhua] Huawei Technologies Co officially unveiled its personal computers powered by its self-developed operating system on Monday in Chengdu, Sichuan province, aiming to break the dominance of Microsoft's Windows an...

  • DOJ says it has charged N.J. congresswoman with assaulting law enforcement at ICE facility
    2025-05-20

    The interim U.S. attorney in New Jersey said Rep. LaMonica McIver is accused of “assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement.” Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., holds a news conference at Delaney Hall ICE detention prison in Newark, N.J., on May 9. The Justice Department said it filed ...

  • Fishy or fabulous? Starmer hopes EU reset deal will transform UK fortunes
    2025-05-20

    Brexit campaigners symbolically dump fish into the River Thames next to the Houses of Parliament in 2018 during a previous row over UK-EU fishing rights. Toby MelvilleReuters Britain has agreed the most significant reset of ties with the European Union since Brexit. A new deal, signed on Monday, ...

  • ‘Dilbert’ cartoon creator says he has same prostate cancer as Joe Biden
    2025-05-20

    'I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has,' Scott Adams said Monday during an episode of his YouTube show, Marcio Jose SanchezAPFIle AP - The creator of the Dilbert comic strip, which was cancelled by most newspapers two years ago over the creator’s racist comments, said Monday that he has been ...

  • Trump’s Middle East trip produced little for Palestinians
    2025-05-19

    Loved ones and relatives of Palestinians who lost their lives in Israeli attacks on northern Gaza mourn for their deceased ones at Indonesia Hospital in Gaza City on Friday. It was reported that more than 100 Palestinians lost their lives in the attack.Khames Alrefi Anadolu via Getty Images Pres...

  • Republican bill cuts Medicaid for unemployed, undocumented children, Planned Parenthood
    2025-05-19

    WASHINGTON – House Republicans are proposing sweeping changes to the federal Medicaid program that would kick millions of beneficiaries off the health insurance program, which covers more than 71 million low-income Americans. The bill would introduce a raft of new rules and regulatory requirements f...

  • Trump warns Walmart: Don’t raise prices due to my tariffs but do eat the costs from those taxes
    2025-05-19

    A Walmart store is shown, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, in Englewood, Colo. AP PhotoDavid Zalubowski WASHINGTON AP — President Donald Trump on Saturday ripped into Walmart, saying on social media that the retail giant should eat the additional costs created by his tariffs. As Trump has jacked up import...

  • Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer
    2025-05-19

    Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, according to a statement from his office released Sunday afternoon. "Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with pr...

  • Mexican Navy Ship Crashes Into Brooklyn Bridge, Killing 2 Crew Members
    2025-05-19

    There were 277 people on board when the ship drifted directly into the underside of the bridge on Saturday night, the authorities said. At least 22 were injured, half of them critically. Two crew members of a Mexican Navy sailing ship died on Saturday night when the ship drifted directly into the u...