Nation and World
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South Korea’s military fires warning shots after North Korean soldiers cross the border
Apr 08, 2025 7:02 am - South Korea's military fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed the rivals' tense border on Tuesday, South Korean officials said, the first known border intrusion by North Korea in nearly a year.
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As China and the US spar, countries brainstorm over how to cope with the trade war
Apr 08, 2025 6:59 am - U.S. President Donald Trump and China sparred over tariff hikes and other retaliatory moves on Tuesday, as governments elsewhere were brainstorming strategies to cope with the trade war between the global economic giants.
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Asia markets rebound despite tariffs threat on China
Apr 08, 2025 6:31 am - Markets across the Asia-Pacific region rebounded when they opened Tuesday, even as President Donald Trump threatened to hit China with additional tariffs that would escal...
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Supreme Court allows use of wartime law to deport alleged gang members
Apr 08, 2025 6:30 am - The Supreme Court on Monday removed a temporary block on the Trump administration’s use of a controversial wartime authority to deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gan...
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Can one of Africa’s largest refugee camps evolve into a city?
Apr 08, 2025 6:28 am - Windswept and remote, set in the cattle-rustling lands of Kenya’s northwest, Kakuma was never meant to be permanently settled. It became one of Africa’s most famous refug...
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Trump says the US will hold direct talks with Iran as he insists Tehran can't get nuclear weaponsApr 07, 2025 2:41 pm - President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. is holding direct talks with Iran about its nuclear program.
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First Black Republican woman in Congress honored in Utah after her death from brain cancer
Apr 07, 2025 1:37 pm - Family and friends of former U.S. Rep. Mia Love gathered Monday in Salt Lake City to honor the life and legacy of the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress after she died of brain cancer last month at age 49.
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A few countries offer to drop all tariffs on U.S. in response to Trump
Apr 07, 2025 1:10 pm - Amid the global market chaos sparked by the Trump administration’s announcement of tariffs on the vast majority of trading partners, a handful of countries have responded by proposing an immediate, drastic concession: giving in to President Donald Trump’s trade war demands by dropping tariffs on U.S. goods.
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‘Little suns in the classroom’: Ukrainian city mourns children killed by Russian missile
Apr 07, 2025 1:06 pm - Anger and outrage gripped the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday as it held funerals for some of the 20 people, including nine children, killed by a Russian missile that tore through apartment buildings and blasted a playground.
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Swollen rivers are flooding towns in the US South after a prolonged deluge of rain
Apr 07, 2025 12:05 pm - Days of unrelenting downpours swelled rivers to near record levels across Kentucky on Monday, submerging neighborhoods and threatening a famed bourbon distillery in the state capital.