De’Aaron Fox is headed to the San Antonio Spurs in a multi-team deal that’s sending Chicago’s Zach LaVine to the Sacramento Kings, a team source told The Athletic. Kevin Huerter, Zach Collins and Tre Jones will head to the Chicago Bulls as part of the deal. Jordan McLaughlin will go to the Spurs. The Kings […]
US President Donald Trump has taken the first step towards setting up a sovereign wealth fund for the United States, and suggested that it could end up buying TikTok. The president signed an executive order on Monday, to kickstart the process, saying the fund would soon be “one of the biggest”. More than 90 countries […]
Snow flurries moved over Seattle–Tacoma International Airport on Sunday part of a multiday atmospheric river slamming the West Coast from the Pacific Ocean. SEATTLE – Seattle saw its first snow of the season this weekend as rounds of winter weather pelted Washington state, part of a multiday atmospheric river event. Flurries were flying around Seattle-Tacoma […]
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 […]
After a dramatic day of telephone diplomacy, United States President Donald Trump has agreed to pause 25 percent tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada that were to come into effect on Tuesday. But the pause is only for a month, and a 10 percent tariff that Trump announced on Chinese imports, on top of […]
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 […]
Reform UK overtakes Labour for first time in national opinion poll Good morning. A good rule of thumb in political reporting is that any news story about voter intention polling is wrong. That is because news stories, by definition, are about what new and what’s different, and polls that show anything unusual (or at least […]
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has urged people on the island of Santorini to “stay calm” after an increase in seismic activity. His remarks come as schools were told to close on Monday and authorities advised against large gatherings in enclosed spaces across the island, a popular tourist destination known for its whitewashed buildings and […]
Laura Bicker China correspondent Reuters Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in 2019 If China was angry at the United States for imposing an extra 10% tariff on all Chinese goods, it did a good job of hiding it. It urged Washington to start talks after repeated warnings that there would be no winners in […]
Uganda has launched a trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus, following an outbreak in the country with three confirmed cases. The first patient, a 32-year-old male nurse, died last week. On Monday, the initial participant in the trial, who is currently in isolation, received a dose of the trial […]