(Headline USA) Inflation slowed in April after seven months of relentless gains, a tentative sign that price increases may be peaking while still imposing a financial strain on American households.
But the near-double-digit rate still inflicted an unprecedented amount of pain on American househoulds, with President Joe Biden offering no...
(Headline USA) China on Wednesday defended sticking to its strict “zero-COVID” approach, calling critical remarks from the head of the World Health Organization “irresponsible.”
The response from the Foreign Ministry came after WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he had been discussing with Chinese experts the need for a different...
(Headline USA) An interminable and unwinnable war in Europe? That’s what NATO leaders fear and are bracing for as Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds into its third month with little sign of a decisive military victory for either side and no resolution in sight.
The possibility of a stalemate is...
(Headline USA) More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting another tragic record in the nation's escalating overdose epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Wednesday.
The provisional 2021 total translates to roughly one U.S. overdose death every 5 minutes.
It marked a 15% increase from...
(Headline USA) In a pathetic plea to his base, President Joe Biden begged Americans on Tuesday not to abandon him in the November midterms, even though he has failed in every regard with his policies and lied about his own family's criminal history.
The speech, on the cusp of another...
(Headline USA) Top U.S. intelligence officials were questioned Tuesday about why they misjudged the durability of governments in both Afghanistan and Ukraine, and whether they need to reform how intelligence agencies assess a foreign military’s will to fight, in the fallout from the Biden administration's disastrous and deadly Afghan...
(Headline USA) A Minneapolis man is on trial on charges of lying to a federal grand jury about abusing a process for submitting absentee ballots for other voters during Minnesota's primary election in August 2020, countering claims that are no examples or even possible threads of fraud surrounding elections.
Muse...
(Headline USA) Authorities will not file criminal charges against former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson after he was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger who had turned belligerent aboard a plane at San Francisco International Airport last month, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office said...
(Headline USA) Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's appearance before a Senate committee took an unexpected and tense detour into the abortion debate Tuesday when senators questioned her about the potential impact of an abortion ban on the American economy.
“I believe that eliminating the right of women to make decisions about...
(Headline USA) Just as Americans gear up for summer road trips, the price of oil remains stubbornly high, pushing prices at the gas pump to painful heights, largely the result of President Joe Biden's failed domestic agenda.
Drivers were paying $4.37 for a gallon of regular Tuesday, on average, according...
(Headline USA) Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is being held like a “prisoner of war” in a New York federal jail, his lawyer told a judge Tuesday.
In that regard, the former president seems to have at least something in common with the J6 prisoners who are being held...
(Headline USA) Elon Musk said he will reverse Twitter’s permanent ban of former President Donald Trump if the Tesla CEO follows through with his plan to buy the social media company.
Musk, speaking virtually at a Future of the Car summit hosted by the Financial Times, said Twitter’s Trump ban was...