White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt showcases U.S. President Donald Trump's letter to the Japanese prime minister during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States, on July 7, 2025. Leavitt said Monday afternoon that U.S. President Donald Trump plans to iss...
Research conducted by Chinese scientists on mobile phone usage among university students contributed to a World Health Organization report released recently, which identified loneliness as a pressing global health threat. Yu Bin, an associate professor at Tianjin University's Institute of Applied P...
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. -- Elon Musk said he’s carrying out his threat to form a new political party after his fissure with President Donald Trump, announcing the America Party in response to the president’s sweeping tax cuts law. Musk, once an ever-present ally to Trump as he headed up the slashing agen...
A local Mexican government official was shot dead while attending an amateur basketball game after a gunman burst into a sports hall on Saturday, officials said. Families and children were gathered at the sports center in the violent state of Guanajuato, where Ignacio Alejandro Roaro, a city counci...
Handout picture released by the Brazilian Presidency showing Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva delivering a speech during the 10th Annual Meeting of the New Development Bank, within the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 4, 2025. [PhotoAgencies] The BRICS Summit offers a plat...
VIENNA, July 5 Xinhua -- OPEC and its allies, collectively known as OPEC+, announced the decision on Saturday to increase oil output by 548,000 barrels per day bpd in August, a faster move compared with July. In July, the OPEC+ countries saw an oil output increase of 411,000 bpd amid a plan to grad...
HOUSTON, July 6 Xinhua -- Eleven children remained missing on Sunday, three days after a major flash flood killed at least 59 people in central Texas, the second largest U.S. state, authorities said. Rescue teams are still searching for the children and one counselor missing from Camp Mystic in Ker...
The Marine Corps is sending about 200 service members to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Florida, in the Trump administration's latest use of the military to boost its immigration operations. U.S. Northern Command announced the move Thursday, saying the 200 Marines — from the Marine W...
UNITED NATIONS, July 3 Xinhua -- The killing of civilians trying to get food and in displacement sites in Gaza shocks UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, a UN spokesman said Thursday. "The secretary-general is appalled by the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza," said spokesman Stephane Dujarr...
US President Donald Trump's budget mega-bill is set to become law after it passed a final vote in the House of Representatives. The president is now poised to sign the bill into law during a ceremony on Friday. Its advancement has not been easy. The legislation has stoked disputes among lawmakers ...
Photo taken on July 3, 2025 shows the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., the United States. The U.S. House of Representatives passed President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill with a vote of 218 to 214 on Thursday. XinhuaHu Yousong NEW YORK, July 3 Xinhua -- The U.S. House of Represe...
Tourists cool off in front of a fan near the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, June 27, 2025. [PhotoXinhua] A group of middle-school students first waved at me and then stopped me late on Monday afternoon while I was taking a walk in the Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels. They were working on a school p...
Siemens: 'We have resumed sales and support to Chinese customers' Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture. [PhotoAgencies] Three key chip companies said on Thursday that the US had lifted export restrictions on chip design software for China and...
A lawsuit was filed against President Donald Trump's administration claiming masked agents have been targeting "individuals with brown skin" in Southern California, arresting them without probable cause and keeping them in "dungeon-like" conditions in efforts to deport them. The claim, filed in the...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Microsoft Build AI Day in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Adek Berry | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft said Wednesday that it will lay off about 9,000 employees. The move will affect less than 4% of its global workforce across different teams, geographies...