Beijing pivots toward consumption-led growth as export reliance faces mounting global headwinds. While Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on Sunday, take note that Chinese markets are closed all this week: Summary: Xi pivots toward domestic demand, calling consumption and investment the “main driver” of growth. China bracing for global uncertainty, despite a record trade surplus

As Trumpism forces both major US parties to wonder what they stand for, experts weigh in on November election prospects. The Republican Party currently controls the White House and both houses of Congress in the United States. But will that change in November? Among Republican voters, US President Donald Trump is still wildly popular, despite

BEIJING: Xi Jinping called for making domestic demand the “main driver” of economic growth, according to remarks by the Chinese president released Sunday from a key policy meeting late last year. China should “coordinate efforts to boost consumption and expand investment, and fully leverage the advantages of China’s super-large-scale market,” Xi said in comments published

New renderings released this week provide the most detailed vision yet of Donald Trump’s proposed $400m White House ballroom addition. The renderings, submitted by the project’s architects and released on Friday by the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), depict a vast sprawling structure, expected to be around 90,000sq ft, from multiple angles. In the images,

Throughout Bad Bunny’s mesmerizing performance during the Super Bowl, the word “America” kept expanding, like an accordion, stretching out to embrace people of all nationalities. “Together we are all America,” his football read, and he obviously meant it, in the largest, most hemispheric sense. Near the end, after shouting “God bless America” (his only words

When Howard Lutnick had a problem in 2018, he turned to his next-door neighbor for help: Jeffrey Epstein. Lutnick emailed Epstein’s assistant in May 2018 about a proposed expansion to the Frick Collection, a museum one block south of Lutnick’s and Epstein’s adjacent townhouses on East 71st Street in Manhattan. “Are you aware as to

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has officially shut down after Congress failed to agree on a deal before the end of Friday and funding lapsed at midnight. Democrats are working on a counterproposal as negotiations over federal immigration enforcement continue, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said. They have demanded increased oversight and restrictions on

The video made me feel sick. It’s a specific kind of sickness, too, one that disturbs every part of your body, alerting every nerve ending and synapse to signal discomfort and danger. Women will be familiar with this feeling; it’s one we deal with far too frequently in modern-day society. And sometimes we get a

Birthday wishes go out to Brandon Boyd, Natalie Morales and all the other celebrities with birthdays today. Check out our slideshow below to see photos of famous people turning a year older on February 15th and learn an interesting fact about each of them. Top celebrity birthdays on February 15, 2026 Jane Seymour attends the

At first glance, the December meeting of a little-known government panel looked like ordinary bureaucratic business. But then, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s advisory board opened its proceedings in an unusual way: with a Christian prayer. The benediction was delivered by a White House official. “Thank you for your son, Jesus, who died for our

Without mentioning Trump by name, Obama says a majority of Americans ‘find this behavior deeply troubling’. Listen to this article | 4 mins info Speaking publicly for the first time after United States President Donald Trump’s social media account depicted him and his wife Michelle as monkeys, former President Barack Obama has deplored the degradation of the

Among the verdant gardens of Havana’s diplomatic quarter, Siboney, ambassadors from countries traditionally allied to the United States are expressing increasing frustration with Washington’s attempt to unseat Cuba’s government, while simultaneously drawing up plans to draw down their missions. Cuba is in crisis. Already reeling from a four-year economic slump, worsened by hyper-inflation and the

After 16 years of uninterrupted power, Viktor Orbán is facing his biggest electoral challenge. For years Hungary’s prime minister has spun weak policy performance as success. The rise of a rival, Péter Magyar, and the opposition Tisza party has exposed the limits of that strategy. The economy is stagnating, despite repeated promises of a long-awaited

The competition in the space race between U. S. billionaires, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, is intensifying. SpaceX, led by Musk, is planning to establish a lunar base called “Moonbase Alpha” and is looking to launch a device on the moon’s surface. This base is aimed at supporting Musk’s vision of an AI-computing network consisting

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denounced Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “slave to war” in a speech to the Munich Security Conference Saturday, adding that Russia’s attacks had damaged every power plant in the country. Zelenskyy was speaking days before the fourth anniversary of Moscow’s invasion. Russia and Ukraine will hold US-brokered talks next week,

Donald Trump is firing back against Bill Maher, seemingly after he shared some critics of the president on Friday’s episode of Real Time. Trump took to Truth Social Saturday to claim that he wasted time having dinner with the television host at the end of March 2025. He specifically referenced a moment during Maher’s most

Two golfers in Washington, D.C., sued the federal government on Friday to try to prevent the Trump administration from overhauling a more than 100-year-old public golf course, accusing the administration of violating environmental laws and polluting a park that is on the National Register of Historic Places. The suit is the latest in a series of legal