President Trump complained Wednesday that it's "extremely hard" to make a deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as the U.S. and China exchange complaints over trade and contemplate a call between the powerful leaders.
You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France‘s most recent national election and in Germany’s. In Canada’s election last month. And maybe in Poland and South […]
Britain and the United States will soon meet to seek progress on a trade agreement that the two nations negotiated last month. While the general 10% U.S. tariff on most other U.K. goods remains in place, the agreement aimed to reduce duties on British-made steel, aluminum, and cars. One tariff, however, was left untouched: Scotch. […]
In 2020, Azerbaijan launched a surprise attack on the Armenian-governed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, after a devastating blockade, it completed its conquest, ethnically cleansing 120,000 Armenian residents and then dynamiting the regional parliament lest the real democracy it represented spread into Azerbaijan. When Yuri Kim, the acting assistant secretary of state, told the U.S. […]
Greta Thunberg, the 22-year-old who gained fame as the world’s favorite mentally unstable climate advocate, has joined 11 activists in a mission to break “Israel’s siege” of Gaza. On Sunday afternoon in Sicily, Thunberg, adorned in a keffiyeh, boarded Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s sailing boat Madleen and departed for Gaza in a bid to raise “international […]
Nearly 11 million people would lose health insurance under the House Republican tax bill, mostly due to cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. CBO's latest report estimates that 10.9 million people would be uninsured over the next decade if the spending package, which includes much...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday said that President Trump is “not delighted” with Elon Musk’s shift to oppose the megabill of the president’s tax cut and spending priorities, saying that the billionaire tech mogul had reversed positions by trashing the legislation. “He’s not delighted that Elon did a 180 on that,” Johnson said Wednesday....
A Texas woman has died after contracting a rare infection from a brain-eating amoeba while using tap water to clear out her sinuses at an RV campground, according to a recent report.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is warning that the House-passed budget reconciliation bill will cause energy prices to increase by 10 percent because it will “kill” clean energy programs around the country, increasing the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels. “Donald Trump and Republicans seem ready to kill clean energy in its tracks and raise...