• Taylor Swift joins Kelce brothers on "New Heights" podcast as she reveals upcoming album art
    2025-08-14

    Taylor Swift appeared on the popular "New Heights" podcast alongside her boyfriend and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and opened up about their relationship, buying back the master recordings of her first six albums, Easter eggs and her upcoming album, "The Life of a Showgirl." Swift app...

  • Threat over after Alaska's capital sees record glacier-related flooding as river tops 16.6 feet
    2025-08-14

    Waters have receded, ending the flood threat after Alaska's capital city faced record floodwaters Wednesday stemming from a basin dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier, which released an "outburst flood" that threatened parts of Juneau. "I think we were all very grateful to see the Hesko barriers work,"...

  • Data wonks warn of lasting damage as Trump weighs shake-up of government statistics collection
    2025-08-13

    Statisticians are worried Trump’s actions targeting statistics agencies could permanently undermine trust in federal data. President Donald Trump discusses economic data with Stephen Moore L, Senior Visiting Fellow in Economics at The Heritage Foundation, in the Oval Office on August 7, 2025 in W...

  • Israel targets and kills Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif in Gaza as journalist toll grows
    2025-08-13

    JERUSALEM AP — Israel’s military targeted and killed an Al Jazeera correspondent and others with an airstrike late Sunday in Gaza, after press advocates said an Israeli “smear campaign” stepped up when Anas al-Sharif cried on air over starvation in the territory. Both Israel and hospital officials ...

  • 'What's Happening!!' star Danielle Spencer dies at 60
    2025-08-13

    Danielle Spencer, a former child actor best known for her role as Dee in the 1970s sitcom "What's Happening!!", has died, a publicist for her family confirmed to ABC News. Spencer died Aug. 11, due to gastric cancer and cardiac arrest. She was 60, according to Sandra Jones, a family friend who is s...

  • Kyiv secures backing from EU and NATO
    2025-08-13

    European leaders rally behind Ukraine ahead of Russia-US summit in Alaska Ukrainian soldiers fire at Russian strike drones in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, on Sunday. EVGENIY MALOLETKAAP WASHINGTONBRUSSELS — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky won diplomatic backing from Europe and the NATO...

  • Trump sidesteps Senate and judiciary with some U.S. attorney picks
    2025-08-13

    Federal judges in several states have rejected President Trump's controversial picks for top prosecutor posts in a rare standoff between the courts and the White House, but those acting U.S. attorneys will nonetheless remain in place because of actions taken by the president and the Justice Departme...

  • Trump's BLS nominee E.J. Antoni suggests suspending monthly jobs report
    2025-08-13

    President Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics is suggesting that the agency suspend its monthly jobs report, an economic staple that is relied upon by the Federal Reserve and U.S. businesses to gauge the health of the economy. In an interview on Fox News Digital on Monday ahead o...

  • Asia's security its own business, no external party should interfere
    2025-08-13

    JIN DINGCHINA DAILY In 2012, two American scholars published "A Tale of Two Asias" in Foreign Policy magazine, arguing that Asia was caught in a structural dilemma: growing economic integration on one side, and rising security tensions on the other. They argued that while Asian countries were bec...

  • Taylor Swift will appear on Travis and Jason Kelce's 'New Heights' podcast
    2025-08-12

    Are you ready for it? Taylor Swift is joining the New Heights podcast with Travis Kelce. On Monday night, New Heights shared a video of Kelce and Swift on Instagram teasing the upcoming episode. Watch here. Swift appears, telling boyfriend Travis Kelce, who is wearing a blue hoodie, "It's such a n...

  • Trump says his administration looking at reclassifying marijuana
    2025-08-12

    President Donald Trump on Monday confirmed he and his administration are considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. Trump told reporters that it was early in the process but that he hoped to make a decision on the matter within the coming weeks. "We're looking at reclassificatio...

  • Trump signs order extending US, China tariff pause by another 90 days
    2025-08-12

    The US Capitol stands behind a US flag on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, June 29, 2025. [PhotoAgencies] US President Donald Trump signed an executive order extending a tariff truce with China by another 90 days, a White House official said on Monday, hours before trade truce between Washingt...

  • CDC staff dreads going back to work after fatal shooting
    2025-08-12

    A bullet hole is visible in the door of a CVS pharmacy on Aug. 9, 2025, near where police say a man was shooting at the HQ of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. | Jeff AmyAP Employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now fear going to work after a gunman s...

  • Trump picks E.J. Antoni as new Bureau of Labor Statistics head after firing old commissioner amid weak jobs report
    2025-08-12

    Washington — President Trump announced E.J. Antoni as his nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Monday, after he fired the former commissioner earlier this month, blaming her for a weaker-than-expected jobs report. Antoni is a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, a...

  • Trump deploys National Guard to D.C., takes control of local police in crime crackdown
    2025-08-12

    Washington — President Trump said Monday that he is deploying members of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and that the federal government has taken control of the D.C. police as part of a push to crack down on crime in the nation's capital, despite data showing crime has declined in the city ...