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Trump signs order to cut NPR, PBS public funding

NPR and PBS are only partly funded by the US taxpayer and rely heavily on private donations.

1 hour ago
Americas

Ukraine, US sign minerals deal, tying Trump to Kyiv

The United States and Ukraine on Wednesday signed a minerals deal after a two-month delay, in what President Donald Trump's administration called a new form of US commitment to Kyiv after the end of military aid. ...

1 day ago
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BRICS shows internal rifts as ministers fall short of joint statement

In the statement, Brazil said the group's foreign ministers expressed "serious concern at the prospect of a fragmented global economy and the weakening of multilateralism" at their gathering in Rio de Janeiro.  ...

1 day ago

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Trudeau to resign as prime minister after nine years, blames party infighting

A subdued Trudeau, among the most prominent progressive leaders in the world, told a press conference that he would stay on both as prime minister and Liberal leader until the party chooses a new chief within months.

3 months ago
Americas

Trudeau resignation imminent: media reports

National newspapers The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star reported that sources inside Trudeau's Liberal party expect him to step down ahead of its national caucus on Wednesday.

3 months ago
Americas

What options does PM Trudeau face in Canada's leadership crisis?

Trudeau has been under increasing pressure to quit since Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned over a policy clash.

3 months ago
Americas

Biden calls on Americans not to forget Jan 6 attack

Donald Trump was federally indicted for his efforts to overturn the United States presidential election in 2020, which he lost, but the case moved slowly and was nowhere near resolution by the time he won the 2024 election in November.

3 months ago
Americas

Trump complains that US flags will be half-staff on his inauguration day

President Joe Biden ordered flags lowered to half-staff for 30 days from the day of Carter's death on Dec. 29, as is custom when a US president dies.

3 months ago
Americas

Google pays Canada media Can$100 million to use content

Canada passed the Online News Act in 2023, joining Australia and a few countries in Europe in establishing policies to force tech platforms to compensate struggling news publishers.

3 months ago
Americas

Cartoonist quits Washington Post over rejected sketch mocking Bezos, Trump

Ann Telnaes posted on Substack late Friday that this was the first time she "had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at."

3 months ago
Americas

Trump's Republicans reelect Mike Johnson US House Speaker despite dissent

Following the vote, Johnson vowed to extend Trump's 2017 tax cuts, which are due to expire this year and roll back regulations.

3 months ago
Americas

New Orleans attack suspect was US-born army veteran

In a video posted on YouTube four years ago, Jabbar -- speaking with a southern US accent -- boasted of his skills as a "fierce negotiator" as he advertised his property management services to potential clients.

4 months ago
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Driver flying ISIS flag rams into New Orleans crowd, killing 15

The suspect, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen from Texas who once served in Afghanistan, was killed in a shootout with police after ramming the crowd.

4 months ago
Americas

Former US president Jimmy Carter dies aged 100

Carter had been in hospice care since mid-February 2023 at his home in Plains, Georgia -- the same small town where he was born and once ran a peanut farm before becoming governor of the Peach State and running for the White House.

4 months ago
Americas

Trump asks US Supreme Court to pause law threatening TikTok ban

Trump was fiercely opposed to TikTok during his 2017-21 first term, and tried in vain to ban the video app on national security grounds, but now reversed course.

4 months ago
Americas

Dead body found in wheel well after United flight lands in Hawaii

The body was discovered in the one of the compartments that houses the airplane's landing gear when United Flight 202 from Chicago O'Hare International Airport landed at Kahului Airport on Tuesday afternoon, according to the airline's website. No further details about the deceased person were provided.

4 months ago
Americas

Santa Claus global flight to deliver presents underway

The tradition started in 1955 when an advertisement in a Colorado Springs newspaper invited children to call in to speak to Santa, but it inadvertently gave the phone number for the Continental Air Defense Command, NORAD's predecessor.

4 months ago
Americas

Musk, president? Trump says 'not happening'

"He's not gonna be president, that I can tell you," Trump told a Republican conference in Phoenix, Arizona. 

4 months ago
Americas

Trump says it could be worth keeping TikTok in US for a little while

Trump's comments before a crowd of conservative supporters in Phoenix, Arizona, were one of the strongest signals yet that he opposes a potential exit of TikTok from the US market.

4 months ago
Americas

Fade out: Biden disappears into background

Despite still occupying the world's most powerful pulpit, Biden has remained virtually absent from the public debate about his noisy successor whom he often used to brand as a threat to democracy.

4 months ago
Americas

Canada PM Trudeau looks set to lose power after key ally vows to topple him

New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh, who has been helping keep Trudeau in office, said he would present a formal motion of no-confidence after the House of Commons elected chamber returns from a winter break on Jan. 27.

4 months ago
Americas

Early signs suggest Trump 2.0 will be bringing the chaos back

"We're going to see more chaos in Trump's second term than his first," said Todd Belt, political science professor at George Washington University. "I think what has happened this week is a good indication of what is to come."

4 months ago
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US vows to support Indonesia’s human capacity drive

The US ambassador has said that Washington and American businesses are looking to expanding cooperation in various sectors with Indonesia, including human resource development, even as the world braces for a second Trump administration.

4 months ago
Americas

US officials say most Northeast drone sightings are actually manned aircraft

An FBI official told reporters during an impromptu briefing that the agency was working with 50 local, state and federal partners to look into increased reports. The official said less than 100 of the over 5,000 reported sightings had turned out to merit further investigation, and all of the large fixed-wing reported sightings so far involved manned aircraft.

4 months ago
Americas

Biden administration inks renewed science cooperation deal with China

For 45 years, the landmark US-China Science and Technology Agreement (STA) has yielded cooperation across a range of scientific fields, creating a framework for agency exchanges and giving the US access to Chinese data useful in areas such as monitoring earthquakes, weather and influenza.

4 months ago
Americas

Trump taps election denier to head global media operation VOA

VOA has reach around the world, with programming in a slew of African, Asian and European languages, including Somali, Dari and French.

4 months ago
Americas

Luigi Mangione was charged with murder - then donations started pouring in

Mangione has been charged with murder for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a father of two, in a brazen shooting on Dec. 4 outside a Manhattan hotel before an industry conference.

4 months ago
Americas

Biden pushes new Russia, Iran, Korea, China effort before Trump term

In exchange for Iran's help with the Russian war effort in Ukraine, Moscow is giving its ally fighter aircraft, missile defense and space technology, Biden concluded in a national security memorandum issued on Tuesday.

4 months ago
Americas

Trump's unorthodox cabinet picks test party loyalty

The Republican tycoon's incoming cabinet officials are worth an estimated $11 billion, and with Trump himself and outside advisors like world's richest man Elon Musk included, that figure rises to a mind-boggling $340 billion.

4 months ago
Americas

Lula 'stable' after emergency surgery

Lula was taken late Monday to Brazil's top medical facility, Hospital Sirio-Libanes in Sao Paulo, after experiencing headaches that medics found were related to a fall he suffered in October.

4 months ago
Americas

Murder, memes and snark: A killing lays bare US health care frustrations

Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot in Manhattan on Wednesday, setting off a citywide manhunt.

4 months ago
Americas

Meta seeks nuclear power developers for reactors to start in early 2030s

The company wants to add 1 to 4 gigawatts of new US nuclear generation capacity starting in the early 2030s, it said in a release. A typical US nuclear plant has a capacity of about 1 gigawatt. 

4 months ago
Americas

Trump names in-law Massad Boulos as Middle East advisor

Boulos was a key emissary for the Trump campaign, helping to mobilize Arab American and Muslim voters, many of whom were angry over President Joe Biden's steadfast support for Israel in the Gaza war even as the civilian death toll rose into the tens of thousands.

4 months ago

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