President Trump plans to tap an economist from the conservative Heritage Foundation to oversee the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He fired the previous leader after a disappointing jobs report.
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Alaska was once a full-fledged Russian colony. Now it’s hosting a U.S.-Russia summit
Russia lost a war in Crimea in the 1850s. To pay off war debts, Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. Now presidents Trump and Putin will meet Friday in Alaska to discuss another war involving Crimea.
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U.S. and China extend tariff truce deadline for another 3 months
President Trump’s executive order extends a reprieve from the threat of rising tariffs between the world’s two largest economies.
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A Palestinian activist was killed by the violence he sought to stop
Awdah Al Hathaleen was shot during a clash with an Israeli settler. His West Bank village hoped No Other Land, the Oscar-winning film about settler violence that he worked on, might help protect them.
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Trump’s Washington, D.C. takeover targets a host of groups, many of them vulnerable
Some residents are skeptical President Trump’s use of tough police tactics will work to solve complex social ills.
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Say bye-bye to the beeps and boops of AOL’s dial-up internet service
AOL debuted the service in 1991. Dial-up has largely been replaced by broadband internet.
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In Alabama, a dredging project in Mobile Bay brings together unlikely allies
Dredging waterways for navigation is a centuries-old practice, but this project is controversial because the mud being dug out of the channel is put into other parts of Mobile Bay.
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Buying a pop album on vinyl? You might be paying for a fraction of the music
Fans who pre-ordered the new albums by Lil Wayne and The Weekend on vinyl got a rude awakening: More than half the songs that appeared on the streaming version were missing on the LP.
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Israeli airstrike kills a prominent Al Jazeera journalist and colleagues in Gaza
Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif and five of his colleagues at the network were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting Gaza’s most recognized television journalist.
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What’s at stake as Trump prepares to meet Putin in Alaska?
Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was unlikely to be included in talks he described as a “feel out meeting” to better understand Russia’s demands for ending its war in Ukraine.
