The State Department denounced Nauru's decision to cut off ties with Taiwan on Monday, siding the pacific island diplomatically with China. With the shift, just 11 countries and Vatican City recognize the independence of Taiwan, as China continues a push to ice its rival out of international diplomacy. China claims the island as its own...
The Belgian prime minister warned that democracy will be put to the test in the United States and in Europe during the elections this coming year. Just hours after former President Trump won the Iowa caucuses by a wide margin Monday, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, whose country took the presidency of the European...
Nearly 7 in 10 Americans support the Supreme Court’s June 2023 decision to end the use of race in college admissions, but views on the ruling vary by race, a new survey found. A recent poll by Gallup found that 68 percent of Americans think the affirmative action decision in higher education is “mostly a...
The White House’s new rules on artificial intelligence, unless clarified, could degrade the quality of government operations as basic — and uncontroversial — as delivering the mail.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tried to rally support for his country Tuesday at the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos, Switzerland. “Anyone thinks this is only about us, this is only about Ukraine, they are fundamentally mistaken,” Zelensky said in a speech, according to The Associated Press. “Possible directions and even timeline of a new...
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) is dropping out of the 2024 Republican presidential primary, underscoring the challenges anti-Trump candidates have faced in the field. Hutchinson announced his decision Tuesday after a sixth-place finish in Monday's Iowa caucuses. “I congratulate Donald J. Trump for his win last night in Iowa and to the other candidates...
Flights in the Washington, D.C., area have been snarled by the biggest snowfall on the city in two years, which has also closed schools and government offices in the capital region. The majority of the cancellations Monday were at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), which had 225 flights canceled and 477 flights delayed, according...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it will investigate an incident at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport where a plane taxiing for takeoff clipped another plane Sunday evening. No injuries were reported, the FAA said in an emailed statement. The FAA said the left wing tip of Flight 11 from All Nippon Airways, a Japanese airline,...