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It was easy to miss the U.S.-China trade statement that the White House released Saturday, right in the midst of royal wedding mania. But it's hard to hide that China looks as if it's winning President Trump's trade skirmish — so far. The statement ...
USAID is also sending 2,000 personal-protective-equipment kits, laboratory materials for diagnostic testing and other technical support. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has already mobilized its country office in Congo, which includes ...
China offered to boost its annual purchases of U.S. products by “at least $200 billion” Friday as two days of talks aimed at averting an open breach between the two countries ended in Washington, a top White House adviser said. Larry Kudlow, director ...
It's hard to know whether to give the co-authors of “Tiger Woods” an approving review or a consoling hug. Their task was intimidating: to illuminate a subject who spent decades plying his considerable intelligence into relentless opacity and ...
THE NUCLEAR deal struck with Iran three years ago was far from perfect, but President Trump's decision to abrogate it over the opposition of our European allies and without a clear strategy for replacing it is reckless and, most likely, self-defeating ...
The lobbying campaign to save the Iran nuclear agreement was intense and took months. British Prime Minister Theresa May raised the deal with President Trump in more than a dozen phone calls. French President Emmanuel Macron pressed him on it ...
Trump has worked with border-state governors to deploy National Guard troops to the region, adding literal boots on the ground to the other military metaphors used to describe the situation: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, during a visit to El Paso ...
France has had its shot. Now it's Germany's turn. As it happens, though, Chancellor Angela Merkel's trip to Washington this week will be a much lower-key affair than Emmanuel Macron's grand state visit. Like her French counterpart, Merkel will be doing ...
Yellowstone National Park sits squarely over a giant, active volcano. This requires attention. Yellowstone has been a national park since 1872, but it was only in the 1960s that scientists realized the scale of the volcano — it's 44 miles across ...
Ever wish upon a shooting star? If not, Saturday night into Sunday morning you will have the chance to wish on your very own, as the Lyrid meteor shower graces the skies above the United States. At its peak, up to 20 meteors per hour will spark across ...
Honestly, I was going to write about Cardi B. loving political science for today. It was going to be a fun, carefree kind of Spoiler Alerts column, like my Very Important Posts about cargo shorts or Wakandan exceptionalism. Then former Russia ...
For now, however, he told USA Today he is solely focusing on the music. “To celebrate [the album], I'm gonna hitchhike across the country, among other things,” Leto told Jimmy Fallon on Monday when his five-day trip kicked off live on “The Tonight Show.
The United States is expected to impose additional sanctions against Russia by Friday, according to U.S. officials. The sanctions are economic and designed to target oligarchs with ties to President Vladimir Putin, the officials said. The final number ...
President Trump showed no sign Wednesday of backing down from an escalating trade confrontation with China, even as financial markets wobbled and American farmers and manufacturers warned that he was inviting a damaging commercial clash. Hours after ...
After the Vietnam War, the U.S. military deliberately set out to forget everything it had learned about the brutal and unpleasant business of fighting guerrillas. The generals were operating under the assumption that if they didn't prepare for that ...
Thousands of demonstrators marched through Washington on Saturday to demand an end to gun violence. And they brought signs. Some protesters drew memes and used levity to bring attention to a serious issue. Others demanded, “Give me the resources to ...
Follow Sunday's Elite Eight games from pregame to finish: Texas Tech takes on Villanova: 'We're going to have to play our best 40 minutes' · Kansas vs. Duke: A four-year star and a freshman phenom battle. ***. 2018 NCAA tournament interactive bracket ...
TORONTO — When President Trump issued his first executive order banning nationals from majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States, some Canadians reacted by vowing to boycott traveling south of the border. Within days, Canadians of all ...
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For weeks, the 23-year-old suspected bomber terrorized the city of Austin with a string of explosions that killed two and injured several others. But should the bomber, identified by authorities as Mark Anthony Conditt, be called a terrorist? In the ...
Want smart analysis of the most important news in your inbox every weekday along with other global reads, interesting ideas and opinions to know? Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. Cambridge Analytica, a London-based data firm that sold its ...
After three flat years that had hinted at a possible environmental breakthrough, carbon dioxide emissions from the use of energy rose again by 1.4 percent in 2017, according to new data released by the International Energy Agency on Wednesday. The ...
When you think of the quintessential German restaurant in the United States, you're thinking of a place like Karl Ratzsch. Ever since it was founded by German immigrants in 1904, it had a menu full of schnitzel, spaetzle and hearty Bavarian staples.
The story of America's first known Saint Patrick's Day celebration begins and ends not in an Irish-American enclave of Boston or New York but in the crumbling colonial splendor of Seville, Spain. It was there, inside the reading room at the grand ...
Earlier this month, a hashtag made its way across Twitter: “#triggeraliberalin4words.” Kambree Kawahine Koa, whose bio identifies her as a “political news contributor,” scored big with her offering, which garnered almost 10,000 likes and close to 1,000 ...
Since the Taj Mahal was completed in the mid-1600s, the world's most famous monument to undying love has had to put up with an awful lot of meddling mortals. In the 18th century, its bejeweled tomb was plundered, and by the 19th century, its formal ...
Hong Seok-Hyun is the owner of JoongAng Holdings, South Korea's largest media group. He served as President Moon Jae-in's special envoy to the U.S. in 2017 and was the South Korean ambassador to the U.S. in 2005. SEOUL — South Korea's late president ...
State-by-state data on teacher salaries is released by different agencies/organizations, and none of it is exactly the same, though the numbers are usually very close to each other. That is why you may see one story saying that, for example, Oklahoma ...
President Trump has finally done it. After nearly a year of threatening to upend global trade, he has announced sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum. What this means is steel made in another country and shipped to the United States will be subject to ...
In 2010, diplomat Richard Holbrooke wrote a secret memo to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding the war in Afghanistan. The title was “How Does This Thing End?: In Search of a Policy.” Holbrooke died later that year, Clinton was gone by 2013 ...
The Karolyis' oppressive style created a toxic environment in which a predator like Nassar was able to thrive, according to witness statements in Nassar's criminal case and a lawsuit against USA Gymnastics, the Karolyis and others. Girls were afraid to ...
Have you recently spotted people toting trash bags while jogging? Or their hands filled with old plastic bottles? You might soon. Sweden's latest fitness craze — plogging — is making its way to U.S. shores. The term is a mash-up of jogging and the ...
This post has been updated with Trump's new announcement on bump stocks. A new poll shows more Americans support stricter gun laws than at any point in the last 10 years, President Trump just told the Justice Department to draft regulations for so ...
A pair of activist groups have taken a tactic straight from the Oscar front-runner “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” The movie centers on a grieving mother, angry that the man who raped and killed her daughter still hasn't been found and ...
USA!” Nobody had ever heard such a thing before, but the Langfords' testimony seemed eminently trustworthy. Apparently, the people supporting this “USA” had forgotten about the other matches ongoing as they chanted. [In Olympic curling, men and women ...
A s lawmakers in Washington tried to hammer out an immigration deal Wednesday, Nikolas Cruz was, as police say he admitted Thursday, shooting his former classmates at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. It was the 30th mass shooting ...
BERLIN — When the discussion turns to the rising costs of living in many global cities, one factor rarely goes unmentioned: public transportation fees. New Yorkers spend only about $116.50 per month on average, compared with as much as $200 in London ...
This article has been updated. It's not really the case, as you may have seen reported elsewhere, that there have been 18 school shootings in the United States this year. That data point comes from a gun-control-advocacy organization called Everytown ...
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Sunday that the U.S. manufactured doping allegations against his country, leading to a ban from the Olympics, because the Americans “can't beat us fairly.” There is no official Russian contingent at the ...
Perhaps, next time, two hooks would be a good idea. Yura Min was on thin ice during the team figure skating short dance when, skating with partner Alexander Gamelin for South Korea, Min experienced a nightmare. “Five seconds into the routine, my hook ...
A rose is both a symbol of love and a commodity, and American buyers want them to be simultaneously stunning and produced en masse. Colombia found a way to meet these demands. Walmart alone is purchasing 24 million Colombian roses to sell for Valentine ...
North Korea's squad of parka-wearing cheerleaders has grabbed early headlines at the PyeongChang Olympics as part of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's charm offensive. North and South Korean athletes marched under a unification flag during the Opening ...
President Trump ended the second government shutdown of his tenure early Friday morning, signing a sweeping spending bill hours after Congress backed the bipartisan budget deal that stands to add hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending on ...
His aides repeatedly told reporters before and during his visit that Pence did not come to PyeongChang simply to bask in the cozy glow of the Olympic spirit and cheer on Team USA. They said the vice president flew for nearly 20 hours to fortify ...
Organizers are distributing blankets, Visa's credit card readers are freezing, and Team USA members are flipping on their battery-powered jackets in what might turn out to be the coldest Winter Olympics in history. (The Sochi Games, in contrast, were ...
Want to travel the world and make an impact? Hostelling International USA (HI USA) wants to help. The nonprofit organization, which runs more than 50 hostels in the United States, is awarding more than 100 Explore the World Travel Scholarships of $2 ...
The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 1,175 points Monday in an exceptionally volatile day for financial markets around the world, stirring concerns about the durability of the long-running stock gains. In the biggest global sell-off since 2016 ...
The Trump administration on Friday slapped new sanctions on individuals and businesses suspected of links to Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group the White House is hoping to isolate in its bid to curtail Iran's influence across the Middle East. The ...
Katherine Ebert was 15 years old in 2013 when she first visited Larry Nassar, then an acclaimed sports physician, at Michigan State University for an injured knee. His office had signed photos of Olympians all over the walls. He'd treated those ...
After it was announced that Omarosa Manigault would star on the upcoming season of “Celebrity Big Brother,” punchlines began flying about the former White House staffer's ability to bounce from one reality show to the next. But with those jokes out of ...
