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I love Mumbai, but there are days when the city tests me. When I’m walking in sweltering heat amid a cacophony of horns, dodging dog poop on the pavement, coughing up dust churned up by zigzagging rickshaws. So I took a break with my family this month near the beach in Goa, and booked a … Read more
JERUSALEM — U.S. Vice President JD Vance criticized Thursday Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation, saying it amounted to an “insult.” Vance’s scathing remark came as his visit wrapped up Thursday and after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would now be traveling to Israel. Vance’s words and the intense diplomacy indicate … Read more
In the late night hours of Oct. 11, the remnant of Typhoon Halong slammed Alaska’s southwest coast, bringing hurricane-force winds and record flooding to numerous Alaska Native villages on the coast. Evacuees and rescuers describe massive destruction: utility poles snapped in half, boardwalks — the roads and sidewalks in many tundra villages — uprooted, houses … Read more
Icelanders may be the last group of people on Earth to experience the pesky bite of a mosquito. This week, Iceland recorded the presence of the insects within its borders for the first time in the Nordic nation’s history. The discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed Monday by the Natural Science Institute of … Read more
It’s Day 23 of the federal government shutdown, and Republicans and Democrats appear no closer to an agreement to end it. Without a fix, many federal employees will not be getting paid tomorrow, the first full paycheck they’ll miss as a result of the shutdown. The Senate on Thursday failed to advance a pair of … Read more
Jared Kushner is back. The president’s son-in-law — and former chief adviser — had said he wasn’t planning to join the administration for a second time. He successfully returned to the private sector and was raking in millions in foreign investments from ties nurtured during his first stint at the White House. But then President … Read more
All that’s left of the East Wing of the White House is a pile of rubble. A White House official not authorized to speak on the record tells NPR the demolition phase of President Trump’s project to build a 90,000 square foot ballroom, is ahead of schedule. Although Trump initially said the project wouldn’t “interfere … Read more
Crews are demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make way for the construction of President Trump’s $300 million, 90,000 square-foot ballroom, despite outcry from historical preservation groups and a lack of federal approval. The Trump administration dismissed widespread criticism as “manufactured outrage” in a fact sheet released Tuesday, which outlines the various … Read more
The Senate has failed to advance a pair of competing measures to pay at least some federal employees during the government shutdown, a day before more than a million workers are set to miss a paycheck. One of the failed bills was a Republican-backed measure to allow employees who are deemed essential to receive a … Read more
WASHINGTON — President Trump announced he would end “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of a television ad sponsored by one of its provinces that used the words of former President Ronald Reagan to criticize U.S. tariffs — prompting the province’s leader to later pull the ad. The post on Trump’s social media site Thursday … Read more