WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis this week to reassert the Trump administration’s interests in the Western Hemisphere just a month after the U.S. military operation that removed then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power. With the eyes of much of the world

On his new episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver wasted no time digging into the files related to late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, which have once again ensnared former prince Andrew. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, as he is now known after being stripped of his royal titles for his connection to Epstein, was arrested last week

Exactly one day after the death of actor Eric Dane, a new show appeared on Netflix. Entitled Famous Last Words, it consisted of an interview with none other than Eric Dane himself. While at first the timing of the release might have seemed coincidental at best and exploitative at worst, the reality of the interview

Yoshua Bengio, like many participants of India’s AI impact Summit, was running late.  By 6 p.m., the New Delhi roads were too gridlocked for the deep learning pioneer, known as one of the “godfathers” of AI, to successfully make it to an event discussing the International AI Safety report he chaired. Instead, he delivered his

The White House and President Donald Trump wasted little time in reacting to Team USA’s gold medal win against its rival Canada in the men’s ice hockey final at the close of the Winter Olympics. Hitting out at its northern neighbour, the White House posted an image of an American bald eagle trampling a Canadian

The dollar declined against foreign currencies, stocks in Asia and Europe broadly sold off, and S&P 500 futures were down 0.22% before the open in New York as investors began to realize that the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s tariff decision, and President Donald Trump’s reaction to it, is going to be more complex

On the eve of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, two-thirds of Americans say the system of checks and balances that divides power between the White House, Congress and the courts is not working well, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist Poll. That’s a dramatic rise in the percentage of people who say

Published: 23 Feb. 2026, 18:07 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their talks on Sept. 4, 2025. [YONHAP]   Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday congratulated North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on his re-election as the ruling party’s general secretary and vowed to strengthen strategic cooperation with

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a press briefing at the White House, following the Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump had exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs, in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 20, 2026. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters LONDON — European stocks are expected to start the week in negative territory as global markets

US President Donald Trump (L) and China’s President Xi Jinping shake hands as they arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, located next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan on October 30, 2025. Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will seek a truce in their bruising trade war on October 30, with

Denis Maksimov’s bakery in suburban Moscow became famous overnight after he appeared on President Vladimir Putin’s annual call-in show in December. Standing in front of the bakery — called Mashenka, after his oldest daughter -– he pleaded with Putin via video to look into new tax reforms that are significantly increasing the burden on small

Donald Trump responded publicly after Team USA secured a gold medal in men’s hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Following the team’s overtime victory over Canada in Milan, the president shared a message congratulating the players and later spoke with them directly as celebrations continued. Donald Trump congratulates team USA hockey Donald Trump congratulated the

Moments of collective unity have become rare in the United States. The country is so deeply divided that even mourning no longer brings people together. This was evident in September 2025, after the assassination of ultra-conservative activist Charlie Kirk, or in January with the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, both killed

Bitcoin fell more than 5% to below $65,000 on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to raise global tariffs to 15%. The drop came as Asian equities rose in early trade, underscoring crypto’s divergence from regional stock markets amid renewed tariff uncertainty. Bitcoin has seen a sharp sell-off since October last year when

Darrel Brown’s father was attacked by robbers 10 years ago. Since then, three of his friends — fellow South African farmers — were murdered on their farms nearby.  But Brown has no intention of leaving his home country, even as the Trump administration welcomes White South Africans to the United States as refugees.  “I’m an

Despite Friday’s Supreme Court decision that ruled President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs are illegal, U.S. importers are still paying duties on goods entering the country. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has yet to update its Cargo System Management Service to remove the duties imposed by Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

The US president has injected new uncertainty into the global economy with a 15 percent tariff on all imports. US President Donald Trump has announced a 15 percent across-the-board tariff on all imports. The move comes just a day after he set tariffs at 10 percent, enraged by a Supreme Court ruling that struck down