A staffing shortage in Southern California’s airspace triggered a ground stop affecting Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) flights on Sunday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said. The restriction applies to flights departing from airspace managed by the Los Angeles and Oakland air traffic control centers that are scheduled to arrive at LAX, according to...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that U.S. soybean exports to China were addressed during a meeting between the two sides in Malaysia. “I think we have addressed the farmers’ concerns,” Bessent told Martha Raddatz on ABC News’s "This Week," of the meeting with Li Chenggang, China's top trade negotiator, and Chinese Vice Premier He...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said he thinks President Trump is trying to transition the country into “something much closer to a totalitarian state.” In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the outspoken Trump critic expressed concern that the ongoing government shutdown allows Trump to exercise more “king-like powers” and make decisions that should...
More than two years after the mpox outbreak in the U.S. was declared over, a new crop of cases in California has infectious disease experts on edge. The mpox outbreak that spread through men who have sex with men was declared over at the start of 2023, though low-level transmission has persisted since then. A...
Trump's $250 million White House ballroom sparks political debate as construction replaces historic East Wing with massive event space for world leaders.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Sunday that he has reached a "very substantial framework" with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng on a deal aimed at easing trade tensions between the world's two largest economies.
Washington again finds itself in a government shutdown crisis. Obamacare, by contrast, is in a permanent state of crisis. This time, lawmakers can trade brinkmanship for genuine progress by fixing the broken economics of the Affordable Care Act. The ACA undeniably reduced the number of uninsured Americans. Roughly half of that gain came from Medicaid […]
While Congress remains shut down, the people have been left to fend for themselves, which is really nothing new; it’s been some time since the U.S. government actually solved issues Americans care about. Though the stock market continues to soar, many other economic signs continue to point towards a recession, and an increasing number of people […]
China’s embargo on exports of key rare earth minerals poses a serious threat to the U.S. economy, defense capabilities, and technological edge. We rely on imports for strategic defense minerals, and China has cornered the market, controlling around 70% of rare earth mining and over 90% of processing and magnet production, which are indispensable for […]
Honduras may appear as a small country in the Western Hemisphere, but the election on Nov. 30 carries outsize strategic weight. At stake is whether Honduras becomes a robust U.S. partner in hemispheric security and trade or drifts into strategic failure via external leverage and weak governance. The main candidate associated with continuity of the […]
