Chinese leader Xi Jinping met more than a dozen US CEOs and academics on Wednesday as Beijing renewed efforts to woo back foreign investors and mend strained relations with the United States.
Foreign direct investment in China has slumped in recent (...)
Haiti is a state out of action.
More than two weeks after the country's prime minister resigned, following a surge of violence in Port-au-Prince, details of a presidential transitional council have still not been revealed.
One of the challenges this (...)
How lucky can the residents of Carbondale, Illinois, be?
Celestial mechanics says any one spot on the Earth's surface should experience a total solar eclipse only once every 375 years, on average.
The 30,000 residents of the Midwestern city will (...)
A federal appeals court has frozen Texas' controversial immigration law, one of the toughest laws of its kind enacted by a US state in modern times.
The decision came just hours after the Supreme Court allowed the measure, SB4, to take effect (...)
The US Supreme Court has again blocked a Texas immigration law that President Joe Biden's administration has called unconstitutional from taking effect.
SB4 would allow local and state police to arrest those illegally crossing the border from (...)
The Supreme Court has allowed Texas to arrest and jail migrants, as part of the state's new tough immigration law.
Under the law, known as SB4, local and state police can arrest and prosecute those suspected of illegally crossing the Mexican (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is refusing to bow to calls by the top US senator for a new election and is pushing back against White House warnings about a potential new offensive in Gaza, widening a rift with top Democrats in (...)
A SpaceX Starship rocket launched on its third test flight from the Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, and achieved multiple milestones Thursday morning before likely breaking apart.
The deep-space rocket system went through nearly an hour-long (...)
Elon Musk is notoriously skeptical of charity, preferring to focus on his for-profit ventures, which he believes will offer more transformative change for the world.
As CEO of Tesla, "I've done more for the environment than any single human on (...)
The Duchess of Sussex has criticised the "seemingly endless toxicity" of social media, revealing she was targeted with "bullying and abuse" while pregnant with Archie and Lilibet.
Meghan was the keynote speaker on a high-profile panel marking (...)
A massive blizzard is continuing to batter parts of California and Nevada in the western United States.
It has shut major roads and ski resorts in the two states, and left more than 15,000 customers without power.
The snowstorm is especially severe (...)
President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have made competing visits to the US border in Texas, each seeking to stress they can tackle illegal immigration.
The issue is one of the most polarising in US politics, and will be central to this year's (...)
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will step down as GOP leader in November, the Kentucky Republican announced on the Senate floor Wednesday, marking the end of an era on Capitol Hill and setting up a high-stakes race for his successor.
He will (...)
A rapidly spreading Texas wildfire has forced residents to evacuate, cut off power to homes and businesses, and briefly paused operations at a nuclear weapons facility.
The second largest fire in Texas history, it has burned 500,000 acres of land (...)
When Alabama's Supreme Court defined frozen embryos as children, the shock and confusion was immediate. Major hospitals pulled fertility services and would-be parents scrambled for clarity on what would happen next.
The debate over reproductive (...)
The US Supreme Court is set to make a pivotal decision about what Americans can see on social media as it takes up two cases this week that could transform the Internet as we know it.
On Monday, the court will consider arguments on whether to give (...)
The House of Representatives has narrowly voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, making him the first cabinet member to face impeachment in nearly 150 years.
Many Republicans blame Mayorkas for an unprecedented influx of (...)
A woman clad in a trench coat and accompanied by a child opened fire in a crowded Texas megachurch before she was gunned down by security, officials say.
The suspect, named by police as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, was with her seven-year-old son, who (...)
The scene that greeted Tijuana's paramedics as they entered 'La Perla' bar in the early hours of the morning was grim.
Two men were unconscious — a heavy-set man sprawled on the floor, his friend slumped in a chair — both clinging to life by a (...)
The deaths of three American troops in a drone attack Sunday has thrust the United States deeper into the Middle East conflict and lent fresh urgency to efforts at securing the release of hostages in Gaza in exchange for a prolonged halt in the (...)
Speaker Mike Johnson speaks regularly with former President Donald Trump. One member of his leadership team stumped for Trump in New Hampshire. And all the top House leaders have made crystal clear: They are on Team Trump.
The same can't be said of (...)
A gunman suspected of killing eight people in the city of Joliet, Illinois, has died after a confrontation with law enforcement officials, police say.
Police in Joliet said Romeo Nance, 23, is believed to have fatally shot himself after the (...)
Oil giant ExxonMobil has sued climate activist investors in a bid to prevent their climate proposal from going to a vote at its annual investor meeting.
The complaint is against Follow This and Arjuna Capital, which have called on Exxon to step up (...)
An American airline passenger allegedly bit a female cabin crew member mid-flight on Tuesday, forcing an All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight bound for Seattle to return to Tokyo, an airline spokesperson said.
Flight ANA 118 departed Tokyo's Haneda (...)
A series of pro-Trump, GOP House members told CNN on Monday that former President Donald Trump's victory in Iowa should send a clear signal to his Republican rivals: It's time to drop out.
"It's been real. You know, tip your waitresses on the way (...)