Tag: politics
Davos 2025: Trade, tariffs, AI and UN chief Guterres dominate World Economic Forum agenda
DAVOS, Switzlerand -- A speech by the U.N. chief, economic growth potential in places like China and Russia, the challenges of artificial intelligence,...
Trump targets Alaska's oil and other resources as environmentalists gear up for a fight
JUNEAU, Alaska -- President Donald Trump's expansive executive order aimed at boosting oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in Alaska is being...
Trump administration directs all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on leave
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump 's administration moved Tuesday to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity...
Panama, familiar with US intervention, bristles at Trump's comments on canal
PANAMA CITY -- President Donald Trump’s insistence Monday that he wants the Panama Canal back under U.S. control fed nationalist sentiment and worry...
South Korea to shrink biomass energy subsidies after criticism over link to deforestation
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The South Korean government will reduce subsidies for biomass energy after rising domestic and international criticism of its link to...
Trump's executive order gives TikTok a reprieve. What happens next?
President Donald Trump has directed his Justice Department to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban until early April, but a host of questions...