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After making a close pass at the Moon and venturing further into space than any previous habitable spacecraft, NASA's Orion capsule is due to splash down Sunday in the final test of a high-stakes mission called Artemis.As it hurtles into Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 25,000 miles (40,000 ...
World
The US government is sending its first high-level delegation to China since a pledge made last month by Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden to repair frayed relations.Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink will join National Security Counc...
Oil giants have "greenwashed" their public image while locking in fossil fuel production for years to come, potentially foiling moves to prevent climate change, said a US House committee memo released Friday.The document follows an investigation on allegations that the fossil fuel industry...
A US judge dismissed Tuesday a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his alleged role in the 2018 murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.Washington federal judge John Bates accepted a US government's stance that Prince Mohammed, who was designated prime ...
Business & Commerce
The external debt of developing economies has more than doubled from a decade ago to $9 trillion in 2021, the World Bank said Tuesday, warning the debt crisis facing these countries has intensified. The pandemic has forced many countries to take on more borrowing, and World Bank President David...
A drop in exports helped widen the US trade gap in October, government figures showed Tuesday, with decreases seen in shipments of industrial supplies and consumer goods. The overall trade deficit rose $4 billion to $78.2 billion in October, Commerce Department data showed, slightly more than e...
President Joe Biden will make a decision on whether he seeks a second term in 2024 "shortly" after the new year, his chief of staff, Ron Klain, said Monday.Speaking at The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council Summit, Klain said Biden had been consulting with his family. At 80 he is alread...
Entertainment & Glomour
Kirstie Alley, the two-time Emmy-winning actor who starred in the hit television sitcom "Cheers", died Monday after a battle with cancer, her family said. She was 71."We are sad to inform you that our incredible, fierce and loving mother has passed away after a battle with cancer, onl...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Sunday to oppose Israeli settlements or annexation in the West Bank, but promised to judge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's incoming government by actions and not personalities.Netanyahu is expected within days to return to power after sealing a coal...
US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron emerged from White House talks Thursday pledging to close ranks in helping Ukraine and pressuring Russia's Vladimir Putin to make peace.Following lengthy Oval Office talks they also signaled they'd calmed the waters on a burgeoning ...
The United States (US) on Thursday announced it was designating South Asian Al-Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban leaders as terrorists, vowing action as alarms grow over Afghanistan.The targeted jihadists including four leaders of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), a regional branch of the jihadi...
The world must drastically increase financing for nature-based solutions to meet key climate, biodiversity, and land degradation goals, a United Nations report said Thursday.The report comes as delegates from nearly 200 countries prepare to meet in Montreal next week to hammer out a new global biodi...
The US Treasury Department said on Wednesday it complied with a court order to make former president Donald Trump's tax returns, which he has long fought to keep under wraps, available to a congressional committee.The 76-year-old Trump, who recently announced he will seek the presidency again in...
French President Emmanuel Macron was set to meet President Joe Biden on Wednesday, at the start of a state visit highlighting the countries' strategic ties but also fears of a transatlantic trade war.Macron and his wife Brigitte arrived late Tuesday for a two-day stay in Washington, before finis...
World,Front Page
Certain provisions in US President Joe Biden's landmark climate action plan, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), have provoked strong responses from the European Union, which fears it could hurt its industry.With the IRA set to be one of the main topics discussed during French President Emmanuel ...
US President Joe Biden is monitoring unrest in China by protesters demanding an end to Covid lockdowns and greater political freedoms, the White House said Monday, as rallies popped up in solidarity around the United States.The comments came after hundreds of people took to the streets in China'...
NASA's Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit Friday, officials said, as the much-delayed Moon mission proceeded successfully.A little over a week after the spacecraft blasted off from Florida bound for the Moon, flight controllers "successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a d...
For the first time in history, a sitting president turned 80 years old in the White House on Sunday but did not celebrate in any public way.It wasn't until mid-afternoon that First Lady Jill Biden posted an affectionate message, with two photos of the couple dancing in tuxedos and gala attire.&q...
On the third day after lifting off from Florida bound for the Moon, the Orion spacecraft is "exceeding performance expectations," NASA officials said on Friday.The spacecraft is to take astronauts to the Moon in the coming years -- the first to set foot on its surface since the l...
Never before has a sitting US president faced 80 candles on a birthday cake -- and the milestone that Joe Biden reaches on Sunday has undeniable ramifications as he ponders running again in 2024.The White House so far has not revealed any celebration plans, focusing instead on preparations for the w...
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