Donald Trump says Democrats established ISIS
Donald Trump says Democratic "weakness" helped establish the rise of the Islamic State group.
Donald Trump says Democratic "weakness" helped establish the rise of the Islamic State group.
President Joe Biden is embarking on a three-day campaign swing aimed at shoring up his standing in the Sun Belt as part of an aggressive play to re-energize vital parts of his 2020 electoral coalition. Much of Biden’s time on this trip this week, which includes stops in Nevada, Arizona and Texas, will be geared toward courting the Latino voters who helped power his coalition in 2020 and to emphasizing his pro-union, pro-abortion rights message. Biden's first stop Tuesday is in Reno, Nevada, where he will meet with local officials and campaign volunteers in Washoe County before heading to Las Vegas to promote his administration’s housing policies.
U.S. officials stressed Tuesday that newly-approved legislation providing billions of dollars in funding for three strategically important Pacific island nations is an important sign of American commitment, which comes amid warnings China is actively trying to pry them away from Washington's sphere of influence. The renewal of funds for the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau — known collectively as the Freely Associated States — had been held up for months by broader infighting in Congress over budgetary issues, even though they enjoyed widespread bipartisan support. Leaders in the islands had warned that delays could have forced their governments to cut services, and swayed public opinion toward offers of investment from China.
The former officers pleaded guilty to more than a dozen federal charges related to the beating, sexual assaults of two Black men in Mississippi.
The settlement with the Realtors' association ended guaranteed commissions but could impose new costs on buyers already struggling to break into the market.
Companies are getting bolder in their battles to beat back proposals requiring them to disclose more about everything from environmental policies to AI.
Both parties see the coming rise of fresher faces as a welcome development for Congress' stodgy upper chamber.
The races will also test Donald Trump's hold on the GOP, and the Democratic divide over the Israel-Hamas war.
British consumer goods giant Unilever announced Tuesday that it will separate its ice cream unit, whose top-selling products include Ben & Jerry's and Magnum, as a standalone business.It added: "After separating Ice Cream and implementing the productivity programme, Unilever will have a structurally higher margin."
Images taken by miniature drones from deep inside a badly damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant show displaced control equipment and misshapen materials but leave many questions unanswered, underscoring the daunting task of decommissioning the plant. The 12 photos released by the plant's operator are the first from inside the main structural support called the pedestal in the hardest-hit No. 1 reactor’s primary containment vessel, an area directly under the reactor's core. Officials had long hoped to reach the area to examine the core and melted nuclear fuel which dripped there when the plant's cooling systems were damaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported Tuesday, with sexual exploitation to blame for three-fourths of the take from a business that deprives migrants of money they can send home, swipes jobs from legal workers, and allows the criminals behind it to dodge taxes. The International Labor Organization said the tally for 2021, the most recent year covered in the painstaking international study, marked an increase of 37%, or $64 billion, compared with its last estimate published a decade ago. Forced labor can encourage corruption, strengthen criminal networks and incentivize further exploitation, ILO said.
The yen weakened and Tokyo stocks rose Tuesday after the Bank of Japan hiked interest rates for the first time in 17 years as it shifted away from its long-running ultra-loose monetary policy.While the moves were a major change from a long-running policy, Japanese stocks rose as the BoJ's comment that conditions would remain accommodative tempered fears of more hikes.
Fed officials are expected this week to discuss a strategy for how to slow the shrinking of their massive balance sheet, another tool used to tighten financial conditions over the last two years.
Japan welcomed 2.79 million visitors in February, a record for the month and the most for any month since the COVID-19 pandemic began, boosted by travel during Lunar New Year holidays. The number of foreign visitors for business and leisure was up from 2.69 million in January, data from the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) showed on Tuesday. For all of 2019, Japan welcomed a record 31.9 million visitors before the pandemic struck.
Japan's central bank pulled the plug Tuesday on its ultra-aggressive monetary stimulus programme, hiking rates for the first time since the global financial crisis. The US Federal Reserve and other central banks yanked up rates to rein in inflation after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet forget they used to be in love in a wonderfully inventive and moving reminder of why romantic pain is an important thing to remember
The Senate was the key stumbling block in recent years when Washington confronted Big Tech. The question is whether that will change as it weighs the fate of TikTok in the US.
The Bank of Japan announced a seismic change in direction on Tuesday, hiking interest rates for the first time in 17 years."Having failed to achieve the target within a committed two-year period, the BoJ had no other choice than to pursue further stimulative measures including the negative interest rate," Momma told AFP. - Spur lending - The negative interest rate of -0.1 percent -- hiked to between zero and 0.1 percent on Tuesday -- had been in place since 2016, effectively charging banks to ke
Authorities in Tennessee are searching for a 22-year-old college student who vanished after leaving a downtown Nashville bar 10 days ago.
The entire population of Gaza is experiencing "severe levels of acute food insecurity", US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday, underscoring the urgency for increasing the delivery of humanitarian aid into the Palestinian territory."According to the most respected measure of these things, 100 percent of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Bayer said on Tuesday that it would request regulatory approval for its menopause drug after the daily pill was shown to ease hot flashes in a third late-stage trial, providing some relief for its pharmaceuticals unit that is reeling from a recent development setback. Germany's Bayer said in a statement that a third Phase III trial with its elinzanetant drug candidate provided supporting data on efficacy and long-term safety. Together with data from two earlier studies, Bayer would file requests for approval for the treatment of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms, also known as hot flashes, associated with menopause.