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CIA Says COVID-19 ‘More Likely’ Came From Chinese Lab
By Eva Fu The CIA has found a lab origin “more likely” for the COVID-19 pandemic, joining two other top U.S. agencies that have previously made the assessment. “CIA assesses with low confidence that a...
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US Home Sales Fall to Lowest Level in Nearly 30 Years, Realtors Association Says
By Naveen Athrappully Existing home sales in the United States hit an almost three-decade low last year but showed signs of recovery in the final months, according to the latest numbers released by the...
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Colombia to Accept All Deported Illegal Immigrants After Trump Tariff Threat:...
By Melanie Sun The United States has reached an agreement with Colombia, which will now accept all Colombian illegal immigrants being deported by the former country, including those on U.S. military...
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Swedish Authorities Board Ship Seized Over Damage to Baltic Sea Cable
By Owen Evans Swedish authorities have boarded a Maltese-flagged ship seized in connection with a Baltic Sea cable damage probe. On Jan. 26, Latvian authorities said that an undersea cable between...
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DEA Announces Dozens Arrested in Colorado Raid Targeting Venezuelan Gang
By Jack Phillips The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has said it arrested dozens of people during a recent raid in Colorado that targeted the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. The DEA’s Rocky Mountain...
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Medicare Isn’t Broke—Yet
By Lawrence Wilson Medicare has a money problem. Or it will in about 10 years. It’s the sort of problem Dwight Eisenhower might have called important but not urgent, like a balloon payment on a...
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Trump Says He ‘Immediately Halted’ Hiring of New IRS Agents
By Jack Phillips President Donald Trump on Saturday said he has halted any new hires of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents. “They hired—were trying to hire 88,000 new workers to go with you, and...
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Trump Admin Outlines Criteria for Reclassifying Federal Workers for Easier...
By Tom Ozimek The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has issued detailed guidance for federal agencies on implementing one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders that the president says is...
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Eggflation Expected to Persist in 2025, Rising 20 Percent: USDA
By Andrew Moran The ongoing avian flu outbreak and higher production costs will force consumers to pay more for eggs this year, says the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). According to the USDA’s...
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Trump Says New Tariffs Will Target Semiconductors, Steel, and Pharma
By Emel Akan and Nathan Worcester DORAL, Fla.— President Donald Trump delivered a speech at the House Republican retreat on Jan. 27 at his Doral golf resort in Florida. During his speech, Trump laid...
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Trump Says Military ‘Turned on the Water’ in California, Although State...
By Jack Phillips President Donald Trump on Monday evening wrote on social media that the U.S. military, under his direction, turned on water supplies in California following devastating wildfires in...
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Government Officials Put on Leave After Allegedly Trying to Circumvent...
By Zachary Stieber Officials who work at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have been placed on leave because they allegedly tried to find a way around executive orders from...
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Nvidia Loses Nearly $600 Billion in Biggest Single-Day Market Loss in History
By Naveen Athrappully Tech giant Nvidia saw stock prices crash on Monday following investor concerns that low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) models could negatively affect sales of the...
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Denmark to Spend $2 Billion Beefing Up Military Capabilities in Greenland
By Chris Summers Denmark has unveiled the details of a $2.05 billion package to boost its military presence in the Arctic, following repeated requests by President Donald Trump for the United States to...
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Gabbard, Patel, RFK Jr. Face Senate Confirmation Hearings This Week
By Stacy Robinson President Donald Trump’s administration is gearing up for another round of confirmation battles. So far, four of his nominees have cleared the confirmation process. Secretary of State...
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Microplastics in Drinking Water: Small Enough to Enter Cells, Below Detection...
By Cara Michelle Miller Around the world, microplastics are slipping into our drinking water, and most of us have no idea. A recent study from France has found that most microplastics in bottled and...
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Chinese Control of Key Panama Canal Ports Could Violate Neutrality Treaty,...
By Darlene McCormick Sanchez An international law expert testifying before the U.S. Senate on national security threats to the Panama Canal said that “foreign operation” of the canal is prohibited and...
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Farmers Author Letter of Support for RFK Jr.’s Health Secretary Confirmation
By Jeff Louderback On the eve of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first confirmation hearing, a group of farmers sent a letter to the Senate Finance Committee urging the chamber to support the former...
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Trump Admin Offers Buyouts to Nearly All Federal Employees
By Tom Ozimek Federal employees are being offered buyouts under the Trump administration’s new “deferred resignation” initiative, with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to send emails with the...
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How Major US Stock Indexes Fared Jan. 28
By The Associated Press Rebounding tech stocks drove U.S. indexes higher a day after they tumbled on doubts about whether the artificial-intelligence frenzy really needs all the dollars being poured...
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