[ad_1] Officials move to contain US banking crisis On Monday morning, US government officials seized First Republic Bank and later sold it to the nation’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase. The move appears, for now, to have ended nearly two months…
[ad_1] Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California who became House speaker in January, made a public pledge on Monday to continue supporting Ukraine’s war effort, walking back earlier suggestions that the new House majority could limit US military and financial…
[ad_1] Marcos in the White House Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. began his four-day visit to the US with a meeting with President Biden in Washington yesterday. The trip was intended to send a message to China that Marcos had…
[ad_1] At least 100,000 Russian fighters have been killed or wounded in Ukraine just five months ago, the White House said on Friday, the latest measure of the human toll of President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion. John Kirby, a spokesman…
[ad_1] Israel is increasingly relying on facial recognition in the occupied West Bank to track Palestinians and restrict their passage through key checkpoints, according to a new report, in a sign of how surveillance powered by artificial intelligence can be…
[ad_1] On July 1, 1969, 11-year-old Maria Sarnacki stood cheek by jowl with her friends, Brownie camera raised, as she tried to capture Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles on the balcony of Caernarfon Castle. “It was literally out of…
[ad_1] The Biden administration will end most of the US federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements by the end of next week when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus ends, the White House said Monday. The vaccine requirement for federal…
[ad_1] A windstorm in south-central Illinois sent clouds of dust over fields Monday, disrupting drivers and causing multiple crashes, pile-ups and “multiple fatalities” on Interstate 55, police said. The accident happened late in the morning and involved 40 to 60…
[ad_1] WASHINGTON – President Biden met with President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. of the Philippines at the White House on Friday, a visit intended to send a message to China that the Filipino leader plans to deepen the country’s relationship…
[ad_1] Keshub Mahindra, the Indian industrialist who built his family’s steel and automotive business into a sprawling multinational conglomerate but whose reputation was tarnished by his conviction for ignoring a toxic gas leak that killed thousands in Bhopal in 1984,…