President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he would likely delay his planned state visit to Beijing by “a month or so” to focus on the war with Iran underscores the fragility of the U.S.-Chinese truce that has held since October. Expectations of a U.S.-Chinese thaw had resurfaced in recent months as both sides worked toward a

In an aerial view, oil storage tanks are seen at the Big Spring Refinery on March 19, 2026 in Big Spring, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Oil prices seesawed in volatile trading Monday as investors weighed the prospect of further escalation after President Donald Trump’s ultimatum demanding Tehran reopen the Strait of Hormuz or

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders believe President Donald Trump has done more harm than good on the issue of immigration and border security in his second term so far, according to a new AAPI Data/AP-NORC poll. About 6 in 10 AAPI adults say Trump has hurt immigration and border

Local News “We have not heard anything official from TSA leadership that ICE would be coming to any airport in New England.” A traveler shows her identification to a TSA officer at a security checkpoint at Boston Logan International Airport in Boston on May 7, 2025. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe) While Logan Airport has

President Donald Trump is expected to land in Memphis on Monday to discuss the Memphis Safe Task Force. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — President Donald Trump will touch down in Memphis on Monday to highlight the efforts of the Memphis Safe Task Force.  White House officials confirmed that the president would be visiting the city last week to

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media, flanked by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as he departs the White House for Florida, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 20, 2026. Nathan Howard | Reuters Hello, this is Dylan Butts writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC’s Daily Open. The Middle

Wall Street is bracing for a Monday deadline that President Donald Trump set for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz while the global economy reels from an energy crisis that shows little signs of abating. Futures tied to the Dow Jones industrial average fell 78 points, or 0.17%. S&P 500 futures were down 0.25%, and Nasdaq futures lost

Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong returns through Seoul Gimpo Business Aviation Center in Seoul, South Korea, 13 March 2026, after wrapping up a business trip to Europe. Lee arrived at the center following his overseas visit. Photo by YONHAP /EPA March 22 (Asia Today) — Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong is expected to meet

Elon Musk said his Terafab project — a grand plan to eventually manufacture his own chips for robotics, artificial intelligence and space data centers — will be built in Austin and jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX. Musk, the chief executive officer of both companies, said he will start off with an “advanced technology fab”

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy was supposed to start the year with a bang, fueled by an unusually large jump in tax refunds from President Donald Trump’s tax cut legislation. Yet spiking gas prices are on track to eat up those refunds, leaving most Americans with little extra to spend. “Next spring is projected

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB getty images Founder: Oprah Winfrey Plugging books since: 1996 Story arc: The Queen of All Media tells her legions what to read, spawns “the Oprah Effect,” and inspires a fleet of copycat clubs. Inaugural pick: Jacquelyn Mitchard’s The Deep End of the Ocean Recent recommendations: Megha Majumdar’s A Guardian and a Thief,

Bill Gates has changed the world in a variety of ways. The iconic tech pioneer has developed a worldwide ecosystem of astonishing creations and programs that have catapulted him into billionaire status. All while developing new tech that will play a vital role in our future. But on one specific aspect, he admits that even

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal immigration agents newly ordered to U.S. airports by President Donald Trump to help relieve security line congestion may guard exit lanes or check passenger IDs as a budget impasse has air travelers frustrated over hourslong waits and screeners angry about missed paychecks. Trump made clear on Sunday, a day after saying

The reviews are in for Saturday Night Live UK, hosted by Tina Fey with musical guest Wet Leg in its debut this weekend. The sketches on the first-ever international spinoff of Lorne Michaels’ hit NBC show — impressively executed by a relatively unknown cast and watched on Sky by over 220,000 people — were wide-ranging and

When Donald Trump and Robert F Kennedy Jr stood up at the press conference in September to tout leucovorin, a vitamin B derivative, as a treatment for autism, some neurodevelopmental doctors were shocked – and they braced themselves. There was little evidence to suggest the folinic acid helps with autism, yet there was an immediate

Tehran has threatened to escalate strikes on energy infrastructure and target critical water desalination facilities, should President Donald Trump make good on a promise to “obliterate” the country’s power plants if it does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump on Saturday evening gave Tehran a 48-hour deadline to reopen the critical trade route, through

Donald Trump is stuck between “a rock and a hard place” after three weeks of war in Iran and “sending a message of weakness” to the world, Leon Panetta, a former US defence secretary and Central Intelligence Agency director, has told the Guardian. Panetta, who served in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations, recalled