The authorities in South Korea were expecting tens of thousands of protesters to descend on central Seoul on Friday as the nation’s Constitutional Court decides the fate of President Yoon Suk Yeol. At least 14,000 police had been deployed to the area around the court, closing subway stations and locking down an area near a … Read more
Almost all the employees of the Wilson Center, a prominent nonpartisan foreign policy think tank in Washington, were placed on leave on Thursday and blocked from their work email accounts as Elon Musk’s task force quickly shut down most of the center. About 130 employees received orders telling them not to return to the office … Read more
Two main architects of protests that gridlocked Canada’s capital for weeks were found guilty on Thursday in one of the last legal cases stemming from the demonstrations that convulsed the country and disrupted billions of dollars in trade with the United States. A judge convicted the protest’s top organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, in … Read more
U.S. stocks nose-dived after Trump’s tariffs rollout Wall Street tumbled to its worst day since the pandemic yesterday in response to President Trump’s major round of tariffs on U.S. imports, as countries reeling from the blow weighed countermeasures. Stocks in Asia and Europe also fell. Some European leaders vowed to retaliate after Trump slapped a … Read more
Dozens of people were killed on Thursday in an Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, according to local health authorities. The deadly strike took place as Israel was ramping up its offensive in the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas to release more hostages being held in its captivity. The Israeli military said that … Read more
President Trump announced what could be one of the most dramatic economic policy changes in decades on Wednesday, when he substituted America’s longstanding system of taxing imports with a new tariff system of his own devising. The president said the tariffs would reverse decades of unfair treatment by the rest of the world and result … Read more
new video loaded: Garbage Strike Leaves Rotting Trash Piling Up in Major British City transcript Back transcript Garbage Strike Leaves Rotting Trash Piling Up in Major British City A pay strike by garbage collectors in Birmingham, Britain’s second-largest city, has left 17,000 tons of rotting trash on its streets, raising public health concerns. “The worst … Read more
The sweeping tariffs that President Trump announced on Wednesday could hobble the use of giant batteries that energy companies are increasingly installing to help them tap more wind and solar power and make the broader electric grid more reliable. Over the past five years, grid batteries have become one of the biggest growth industries in … Read more
Miller Gardner, the 14-year-old son of the longtime Yankees player Brett Gardner, died of carbon monoxide poisoning while on vacation with his family last month, the Costa Rican authorities said on Thursday. A toxicology report after his death found high levels of carboxyhemoglobin, an indicator of carbon monoxide in the blood, according to a statement … Read more
These countries are some of the most vulnerable to Washington’s sweeping new tariffs. Their economies are deeply reliant on selling goods to the United States, and many of them were hit with especially steep taxes. Many of the worst-hit countries are close American allies and partners. In Southeast Asia, countries like Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia … Read more