U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he prepares to depart Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport en route to Beijing on April 25, 2024. Mark Schiefelbein | Afp | Getty Images The United States and China will hold their first high-level discussions on artificial intelligence in the “coming weeks,” U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken…
The drones circled above the caves and crevices scattered along mountain trails in northern Utah, relaying real-time video to a search team on the ground looking for a missing hiker. Nineteen minutes later, they had their coordinates and brought the rescue exercise – a drill – closer to completion. “In an environment like this, it…
US President Donald Trump is providing an update on the so-called Operation Warp Speed program, the joint Department of Defense and HHS initiative that has reached agreements with several drug manufacturers to accelerate the search for effective treatments for the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID). -19) Pandemic, in an address in the Rose Garden at the…
A campaign watchdog group filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, accusing Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign and its affiliated political committees of concealing payments of $7.2 million in legal fees by distributing them through an independent shell company paid, which violates campaign finance laws. At the center of the Campaign…
Donald Trump sits with members of his legal team in a Manhattan criminal courtroom to continue his hush money trial on April 25, 2024 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Via Reuters Lawyers for Donald Trump began cross-examining former National Enquirer David Pecker on Thursday afternoon, the first witness to testify in Trump’s hush…
A factory in Moses Lake, Washington, that closed in 2019 will soon resume shipping a key component used in most solar panels that has been made almost exclusively in China for years. Reviving the factory, owned by REC Silicon, could help achieve a long-standing goal of many American lawmakers and energy executives: restoring a full…
The antidiabetic drug “Ozempic” (semaglutide) from the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. Joel Saget | AFP | Getty Images The US Senate has launched an investigation into the high price Novo NordiskPopular weight loss and diabetes medications, Ozempic and Wegovy, are available in the United States. The investigation into the Danish drugmaker was announced by…
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken cheered on the sidelines of a basketball game in Shanghai on Wednesday night and chatted with students on the New York University Shanghai campus on Thursday and met with American business owners. This all underscores the nature of the economic, educational and cultural relationships that the United States explicitly…
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) attends a press conference at Columbia University in response to demonstrators protesting in support of Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in New York City , USA, April 24, 2024. David Dee Delgado | Reuters House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., struggled to…
Israel welcomed a U.S. aid package signed by President Biden on Wednesday that provides about $15 billion in military aid to Israel, increasing American support for its closest Middle East ally despite tensions in their relations over the continuation of the war in Gaza increased by Israel. “Our alliance is ironclad,” Israel Katz, the country’s…
