President Trump speaks to the press from the Oval Office on Monday. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has issued a temporary restraining order against a Trump administration effort to freeze funding for federal grants and other programs. Monday’s order by […]
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at President Trump’s inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20. Trump has tasked Musk with leading a team focused on cutting costs in the government. Chip Somodevilla/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk has launched a campaign from inside the federal government to […]
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has appealed for calm as hundreds of rolling earthquakes have left the residents of Santorini island, and its neighbours in the Aegean Sea, rattled. Records from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) showed the quakes were continuing to occur a few minutes apart as of 7am on Tuesday (05:00 GMT), with […]
A woman walks by the Chinese and U.S. national flags on display outside a souvenir shop in Beijing on Jan. 31, 2025. Andy Wong/AP hide caption toggle caption Andy Wong/AP BEIJING — China is not taking the Trump administration’s tariffs sitting down. On Tuesday, shortly after the 10% tariffs took effect just past midnight on […]
Venezuelan community leaders speak to the media as they protest against the suspension of Temporary Protected Status in Doral, Florida, on Monday. The Trump administration is terminating an immigration program that currently protects hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. from deportation. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chandan Khanna/AFP […]
The study comes amid an outbreak of the Sudan Ebola virus, which has already killed a nurse and infected others. Uganda has kicked off a clinical trial of a vaccine against Ebola that killed one person in the outbreak declared last week. Health workers and other people exposed to the strain are being targeted in […]
Este artículo forma parte de nuestra sección especial sobre la Cumbre DealBook, en la que participaron líderes empresariales y políticos de todo el mundo. Puede que Serena Williams se haya retirado en 2022 de una carrera récord en el tenis profesional que la catapultó a la fama mundial, pero su vida posterior al torneo la […]
Reuters Marco Rubio met El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele at his residence at Lake Coatepeque El Salvador has offered to take in “dangerous criminals” held in American jails – including those with US citizenship, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says. After meeting President Nayib Bukele on a visit to the Central American country, Rubio […]
At the end of January, the keepers of the Doomsday Clock announced that the world was 89 seconds to midnight, a metaphor for our proximity to extinction. That’s one second closer than we were for the past two years, and the nearest the clock has ever inched to global destruction by way of human-made risks, […]
The Senate confirmed Chris Wright to lead the U.S. Department of Energy on Monday, putting the former oil executive in a key position to help shape President Trump’s energy policies. Mr. Wright, the founder and chief executive of Liberty Energy, a fracking firm, was confirmed by a vote of 59 to 38, with support from […]