President Trump signed an executive order delaying the enforcement of the TikTok ban for 75 days and proposed that the U.S. should “own 50%” of the platform.
Firing by Israeli troops killed two people and wounded 17 on Monday in the second day of deadly protests in southern Lebanon, health officials said, as residents displaced by the 14-month war between Israel and Hezbollah attempted to return to villages where Israeli troops remain. The shooting came a day after 24 people were killed and more than 130 wounded when Israeli troops opened fire on protesters who breached roadblocks set up along the border. Under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on Nov. 27, Israeli forces were to withdraw from southern Lebanon, and Hezbollah was to move north of the Litani River by Jan. 26.
An earthquake off the Maine coast rattled New England on Monday, causing shaking in parts of the state, as well as in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
An earthquake felt in Boston, Massachusetts Monday morning was centered in York Harbor, Maine.
European Union foreign ministers have agreed on a roadmap to ease sanctions on Syria, the bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday. "While we aim to move fast, the lifting of sanctions can be reversed if wrong steps are taken," Kallas said. The EU has a range of sanctions in place targeting both individuals and economic sectors in Syria, including a ban on Syrian oil exports and restrictions on access to global financial channels.
The Republican-backed candidate in Wisconsin's pivotal state Supreme Court race said Monday that he didn't object to President Donald Trump using his power to pardon when asked about clemency granted to about 1,500 rioters who were convicted of crimes related to the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “Presidents have the power to pardon,” said Brad Schimel, a Waukesha County judge and former Republican attorney general on a press conference call. President Trump has now issued pardons as he’s come in and presidents over history have done that.
The United States Geological Survey reported an earthquake off the coast of Maine on Monday morning,
Residents in western France used boats to escape their flooded homes on Monday as rivers and waterways broke their banks after successive storms battered Normandy and Brittany. The national weather service had issued flood and wind warnings as Storm Herminia hit Spain, France on parts of the UK. Storm Herminia caused road closures in some areas of France.
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As part of CEO Brian Niccol's Back to Starbucks plan, the company is making changes to get loyal customers back in the door.
Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and adapting to hotter conditions, a new study says. Currently, cold temperatures kill more people in Europe than heat by large margins.
Both supply and demand can affect the price of gold. But which one drives prices higher? Here's what experts think.
The tech-rich Nasdaq tumbled early Monday as traders around Wall Street and other global bourses reacted to the emergence of a low-cost Chinese generative AI venture that has apparently overtaken US companies.Meta and Microsoft are among the tech giants scheduled to report earnings later this week, offering opportunity for comment on the emergence of the Chinese company, likened by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to a "Sputnik moment," when the Soviet Union shocked Washington with its 1957 la
Auschwitz, despite its profound symbolism, was just one of countless sites where the Holocaust unfolded.
Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians began returning home to northern Gaza on Monday, bracing for what awaits them in a region that has been reduced to rubble by months of brutal bombardment and fighting.
Wondering why you’re already struggling with that New Year’s resolution? A new study suggests that forming healthy new habits takes a lot longer than we thought.
More mysterious drone sightings have been reported in the Northeast, in a strange surge after the Federal Aviation Administration lifted its temporary flight restrictions following thousands of reported drone sightings late last year.
South Sudan has lifted a nationwide curfew imposed more than 10 days ago after a night of deadly rioting in the capital over the alleged killing of South Sudanese people by the army and allied groups in neighbouring Sudan, its spokesperson said on Monday. Riots erupted in Juba and elsewhere in the country on Jan. 16 and 17, with protesters angry about what they believed was the involvement of Sudan's military and allied groups in the killing of South Sudanese citizen in Sudan's El Gezira. The Sudanese army condemned what it called "individual violations" in the area after human-rights groups blamed it and its allies for ethnically-targeted attacks against civilians accused of supporting the rebel Rapid Support Forces.
President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to sign three executive orders that would reshape the military, including banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces, gutting the military’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, and reinstating service members with backpay who were discharged for refusing to get vaccinated from Covid-19, two White House officials told CNN.
Trump signed an Executive Order, titled “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing."
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