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A Pennsylvania Lyft driver on Friday kicked out a woman who entered his car and started making racist remarks, a video that went viral on social media shows.
A Pennsylvania Lyft driver on Friday kicked out a woman who entered his car and started making racist remarks, a video that went viral on social media shows.
The Trump administration has adjusted federal websites, with some agencies removing pages devoted to diversity, Spanish language, and reproductive rights.
An explosive new wildfire erupted north of Los Angeles on Wednesday, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes and setting nerves jangling in an area still reeling from two deadly blazes.Evacuations were ordered for 31,000 people around the lake, which sits 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of Los Angeles, and close to the city of Santa Clarita.
In a memo, the White House said the decades-old order had undermined "our national unity."
US tech titans Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are taking a prominent place in the new Trump era, but another player from another era -- Oracle boss Larry Ellison -- is making a surprise return.Today, he ranks among the world's wealthiest individuals, with a fortune of $230 billion, trailing only Musk and Bezos but ahead of Zuckerberg.
Solar overtook coal in the European Union's electricity production in 2024, with the share of renewables rising to almost half the bloc's power sector, according to a report released Thursday."Solar remained the EU's fastest-growing power source in 2024, rising above coal for the first time.
A Long Island farm will reportedly euthanize more than 100,000 ducks after a bird flu outbreak transpired at the eastern New York facility.
South Korea's anti-corruption agency that is leading a criminal investigation into impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived declaration of martial law said on Thursday it will transfer the case to the prosecutors' office for an indictment. The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO), which does not have authority to prosecute the president, would request that prosecutors indict Yoon over allegations he was the ringleader of an insurrection, for abuse of his authority and obstructing others from exercising their rights, it said in a statement. Yoon has been incarcerated since last week as the investigators examined his attempt to impose martial law on Dec. 3, a move that shocked the nation and beyond even though it was overturned within hours by parliament.
Federal health officials have been instructed to temporarily stop any “external communications” to the public, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation.
A high-profile gay couple married in Thailand on Thursday as the kingdom's same-sex marriage law went into effect, an AFP journalist saw, among the first of hundreds expected to do so.Rows of officials were at tables helping the couples fill out marriage forms, an administrative step before they could collect their certificates, with hundreds expected to do so over the course of the day.
Refugees who were slated to travel to the United States after a years-long and often cumbersome process have had their flights canceled, according to a State Department memo to resettlement partners obtained by CNN.
President Donald Trump wants to boost US oil production, pledging to bring costs down as he returned to office this week -- but analysts warn his efforts could be hampered by the industry itself.While the United States is the world's leading crude oil producer, the US president wants to boost oil and gas production to lower costs, fill strategic reserves and "export American energy all over the world."
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio returned home Wednesday to Miami two days after he was released from a federal prison when President Donald Trump granted clemency to him and more than 1,500 of the Jan. 6 rioters.
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday deployment of an extra 1,500 US troops to the Mexican border, as he stepped up a crackdown against illegal immigration and diversity programs in a whirlwind start to his second term.- Migrants and diversity fight - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that an executive order signed Monday would dispatch 1,500 more troops to the border.
Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers used his seventh State of the State speech Wednesday to urge the Republican-controlled Legislature to enact a wide range of proposals they have rejected in the past, including numerous gun control measures just a month after there was a school shooting not far from the state Capitol. Evers, without mentioning President Donald Trump by name, said “there is a lot of angst about what may happen in the days, months, and years ahead.”
Who will “save” TikTok? YouTuber MrBeast, X owner Elon Musk and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison have been floated as potential buyers of the app in the past week.
Thousands of Southern California residents were under evacuation orders Wednesday as fire crews battled the out-of-control Hughes Fire near the town of Castaic, a suburb in the foothills and mountains of northern Los Angeles County.
Bills on abortion and immigration provided a glimpse into how Democrats will approach the second Donald Trump presidency.
What the mistakes in Trump's first executive orders reveals about his second administration
More than half of the American businesses in China, the highest level in five years, say they are concerned about a further deterioration in the bilateral relationship between the world's two largest economies, a survey published on Thursday shows. The annual survey by the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in China showed 51% of respondents were concerned about a future deterioration in the U.S.-China relationship. It was released just days after U.S. President Donald Trump took office for a second term with the threat of increasing trade tariffs on Chinese imports.
South Korea's economic growth slowed in the last quarter of 2024, data from the central bank showed Thursday, as the country struggled with the fallout from impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol's brief declaration of martial law.In an earlier forecast for 2025 economic growth, the Bank of Korea cited the December 3 martial law declaration and December 29 Jeju Air plane crash that killed 179 as having "significantly dampened economic sentiment."