US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing federal agencies to reduce certain mortgage costs, including through the automatic cancellation of mortgage insurance for eligible future borrowers and a permanent
The recent summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and former US President Donald Trump in South Korea has been hailed as a historic breakthrough in bilateral relations, with Beijing seeing it as
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the most advanced artificial intelligence chips produced by Nvidia will be kept out of China and reserved solely for American companies. In a taped interview aired
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The United States is undertaking a massive military buildup in the Caribbean, focused on reactivating the long-abandoned Roosevelt Roads naval base in Puerto Rico and upgrading regional airports, according to a Reuters
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In a dramatic escalation of rhetoric over violence in Nigeria, former US President Donald Trump has threatened military action against the West African nation, citing the persecution of Christians by Islamist militants.
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The brevity of the US President Donald Trump’s meeting last Thursday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Gimhae International Airport in the port city of Busan, South Korea, which lasted just 100
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The United States government is in the grips of one of its longest-running funding gaps in history. The ongoing government shutdown has already stretched beyond 30 days and now, the food security
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I was born and grew up in New York City. I rode the subway to school way, way downtown. School buses were for sissies. I was a typical New York City tough
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When excavators tore down the East Wing of the White House in late October, the move shocked both the public and professional builders. Within days, the 123-year-old structure was gone—making way for
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. reported a record cash reserve of $381.7 billion in the third quarter, underscoring the legendary investor’s increasingly cautious stance even as his sprawling empire delivered a surge
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Tulsi Gabbard, a former US intelligence official and prominent political figure, asserted on Saturday that the United States’ historic strategy of regime change is over under President Donald Trump. Speaking at the
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Asia-Pacific leaders concluded the annual APEC summit in South Korea on Saturday with a joint declaration emphasizing the need for resilient and mutually beneficial trade, amid mounting fractures in the global trading
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Editor’s Note: The following article is based on excerpts adapted from an interview with Professor Jiang Xueqin conducted by Cyrus Janssen. “I see geopolitics as a game among different players,” Professor Jiang
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The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether leaders of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation misused donations totaling tens of millions of dollars during the racial justice protests of 2020, according
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The U.S. government has asked a judge to deport a father of two to Afghanistan, where he fears the Taliban would likely kill him, despite the fact that he has not been
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Washington has revoked the U.S. visa of Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel laureate, effectively barring him from entering the country, the author announced at a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday.
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