United States President Donald Trump announced on July 12 that, starting on Aug 1, the US will impose a 30 percent tariff on goods from the European Union. Trump justified this decision by accusing the EU of setting up tariff and non-tariff barriers, which he claimed had caused the US trade deficits...
When FBI agents arrived outside William Spearman's home in the quiet suburb of Madison, Alabama, in November 2022, they were prepared for danger. Their search warrant was so important to the bureau that it was approved by the FBI director himself. When the agents breached Spearman's door with tacti...
More than 130 million people across most of the United States are on alert for widespread, dangerous heat on Sunday and into the new work week, and parts of the Southeast coast could experience the brunt of the sweltering conditions. The highest temperatures on Sunday will be focused between Savann...
Photo taken on May 23, 2025 shows European Union flags at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. XinhuaZhao Dingzhe Although both leaders described the deal as a step toward restoring "trade balance" and promoting more equitable two-way commerce, the agreement allows Washingto...
ISTANBUL AP — Wildfires that have engulfed Turkey for weeks threatened the country’s fourth-largest city on Sunday, forcing more than 3,500 people to flee their homes and leaving two people dead. Greece, Bulgaria and Montenegro are also battling blazes fed by unusually high temperatures, dry condit...
A displaced Palestinian child is seen at a shelter in the west of Gaza City on July 26, 2025. Photo by Rizek AbdeljawadXinhua GAZA, July 27 Xinhua -- Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid began entering the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning through the Kerem Shalom border crossing, according to local Pa...
White House budget official Russell Vought, one of the authors of Project 2025, indicated Sunday that President Trump's focus on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is because the president wants lower interest rates, not because it is one of the mentioned targets of an overhaul in the conservati...
Demonstrators and journalists march in a protest against hunger in Gaza City. The World Food Programme said nearly one in three people in Gaza were not eating for days at a stretch and "thousands" were "on the verge of catastrophic hunger". OMAR AL-QATTAAAFP The Gaza conflict shows no signs of en...
They said last year they were done with Donald Trump. They didn’t know what more they could say about him. But in the return to the airwaves of Comedy Central stalwart South Park — the first episode since March 2023 — the creators of the irreverent, long-running cartoon series just couldn’t resist....
The Justice Department filed suit Thursday against New York City, Mayor Eric Adams and other city officials challenging the city's sanctuary laws for undocumented immigrants. The suit was filed in the Eastern District of New York. The department argued the city's sanctuary policies amount to an "i...
Three years after the Supreme Court opened the door to state abortion bans, most U.S. adults say abortion should be legal — views that look similar to before the landmark ruling. The new findings from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll show that about two-thirds of U....
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Ghislaine Maxwell in Florida on Thursday – just one day after a Congressional committee voted to subpoena Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice to provide additional testimony surrounding his years of sex crimes. Speaking to reporters outside the federal co...
Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to four life sentences without the possibility of parole on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho students in 2022. The surviving roommates and families of the victims delivered emotional statements at the sentencing hearing, he...
Health minister calls the five-day action starting Friday "reckless and needless" Differences over pay have been cited as the reason for a five-day strike by doctors in the National Health Service, or NHS, in England, which is set to begin on Friday, medical union the British Medical Association, o...
