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With just five years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the urgency for bold and tangible solutions is undeniable. The $1.5...
The South China Sea has long been a bubbling geopolitical hot spot. Recently, a series of moves by the various nations claiming a stake in the waters...
After years of mounting scrutiny over TikTok’s data practices, in 2024 the Chinese video platform was threatened with a forced sale in the U.S. or...
In their rush to retain Donald Trump's support for NATO, the alliance's European members have promised to more than double the amount of wealth they...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likes to remind his country and the world that in the disorienting first days after Hamas' Oct 7, 2023,...
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has sent a clear signal to the Trump administration: the Japan–U.S. relationship is in a dire state. After...
Many of the protesters who flooded the streets of Los Angeles to oppose President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown wore masks or other face...
The war between Israel and Iran has raised concerns that Iran could retaliate by trying to close the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil...
For nearly a half-century the United States has squabbled with Iran's Islamic Republic but the conflict has largely been left in the shadows, with...
For centuries, people in other countries saw the United States as place of welcome and opportunity. Now, President Donald Trump’s drive for mass...
The renewed U.S.-China trade truce struck in London left a key area of export restrictions tied to national security untouched, an unresolved conflict...
A schism has opened among President Donald Trump's most devout MAGA supporters and national security conservatives over the Israel-Iran conflict, as...
A spate of school killings in western Europe has raised pressure on authorities to tackle a problem long seen as a largely U.S. phenomenon, increasing...
California Democratic Gov Gavin Newsom is calling President Donald Trump's military intervention at protests over federal immigration policy in Los...
The Pentagon's deployment of about 700 Marines to Los Angeles to join the National Guard's response to immigration protests follows weeks of...
In one of his first acts of his second term as president, Donald Trump pardoned hundreds of people who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, to...
Artificial Intelligence began as a quest to simulate the human brain. Is it now in the process of transforming the human brain’s role in daily life?...
At a time when China is believed to spend about $8 billion annually sending its ideas and culture around the world, President Donald Trump has...
In Japan, the media once shaped how the nation saw itself — through the nightly news, the front page of the morning paper or trusted commentators on...
Elon Musk arrived in the nation's capital with the chain saw-wielding swagger of a tech titan who had never met a problem he couldn’t solve with...
South Korea's young women are expected to lead a broad political backlash against the main conservative party at presidential elections on June 3,...
French President Emmanuel Macron is leaning towards recognizing a Palestinian state, but diplomats and experts say such a move may prove a premature...
Top officials at the European Union's executive commission says they're pushing hard for a trade deal with the Trump administration to avoid a 50%...
The number of white nationalist, hate and anti-government groups around the U.S. dropped slightly in 2024, not because of any shrinking influence but...
Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are moldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming...
Open a book of maps and look for the “Indo-Pacific” region – it likely won’t be there. Yet the Indo-Pacific is now central to how many...
U.S. President Donald Trump turned down the lights in the Oval Office on Wednesday and made South African President Cyril Ramaphosa the target of his...
Britain's pursuit of trade deals with the European Union and United States, while courting China, has made it a test case for navigating U.S....
For generations, official American documents have been meticulously preserved and protected — from the era of quills and parchment to boxes of paper...
The Hommachi United Law Firm in Tokyo explains on their website that if you were in a vehicle-on-vehicle accident in Japan and both cars were moving,...
What, exactly, the Republican Party stands for in terms of economic policy in the second Trump administration is a question reaching an inflection...
The conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir offers a potentially rich intelligence harvest for China in its own rivalry with India as it...
The more President Donald Trump talks about his efforts to reach deals with America's trading partners, the more confusing the tariff picture gets....
Whether you’re using AI to write cover letters, grade papers or draft ad campaigns, you might want to think twice about telling others. That simple...
IShowSpeed, a 20-year-old American YouTuber and internet star, recently livestreamed hourslong tours of Chinese cities including Beijing and...
The textile mills that once served as the backbone of Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, have long been shuttered, and officials believed federal money...
The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. But millions of people still face daily...
The Trump administration has recently revoked the visas of more than 1,300 foreign college students – detaining some – and launched immigration...
From cancer cures to climate change, President Donald Trump's administration has upended the American research landscape, threatening the United...
When Tsuneo Watanabe died in December 2024 at the age of 98, it wasn’t just the passing of a powerful media executive — it marked the end of...
As the Trump administration attempts to choke off exports of strategically important computer chips to China, experts say the effort might well...
The death of Pope Francis silences arguably the most powerful moral voice on the world stage critical of Donald Trump, with the pontiff taking the...
While pornography has been present throughout human history in various forms, such as ancient erotic art to more modernized motion pictures, research...
In Antalya, Turkey, in the early hours of March 27, Pikachu was spotted fleeing the police, making a getaway as fast as his short yellow legs could...
Washington's decision not to coordinate with European nations about its negotiations with Iran on Saturday will reduce its leverage and make U.S. and...
Many American universities, widely seen globally as beacons of academic integrity and free speech, are giving in to demands from the Trump...
Republican President Donald Trump and his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden may not agree on much, but there is one issue on which they have been...
In unleashing global tariffs, President Donald Trump has vowed to remake the world to benefit U.S. workers. One beneficiary could be the country he...
U.S. President Donald Trump has exploited American nationalism as effectively as anyone in living memory. What sets him apart is his use...
President Donald Trump said on March 30 he was not joking about seeking a third term but did not explain how he would get around the U.S....