China’s leader Xi Jinping met for the last time with U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday but was already looking ahead to President-elect Donald Trump and his “America first” policies, saying Beijing “is ready to work with a new U.S. administration.” During their talks on the sidelines of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Xi cautioned that a…
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and now tasked with helping Donald Trump’s administration slash government spending, is asking super smart people to come work for him — but only if they can afford to work for free. Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who were named to lead of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under…
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is vowing to “fight fire with fire” and address U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s economic protectionism with policies aimed at attracting investment and higher wages in Canada. Poilievre told Jas Johal on Corus Radio station CKNW in Vancouver on Friday he also supports increased security at the U.S.-Canada border, but downplayed fears…
Edgar Barrientos-Quintana left a Minnesota prison a free man last week, 16 years after he was incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit. Barrientos-Quintana was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2008 drive-by-shooting and murder of Jesse Mickelson in Minneapolis. He had a twist of fate earlier this…
As U.S. President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for even some of the most powerful positions in U.S. government. Trump over the weekend demanded that…
Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party’s sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-elect Donald Trump. A House Republican victory in Arizona, alongside a win in slow-counting California earlier Wednesday, gave the GOP the 218 House victories that make up the majority. Republicans earlier…
A U.S. military judge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has scheduled hearings in early January for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants to enter guilty pleas in exchange for life sentences despite Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s effort to scuttle the plea agreements. The move Wednesday by Judge Matthew McCall, an Air Force colonel,…
Donald Trump’s second administration is filling up with some of his most loyal supporters and many of the people landing top jobs have been critical of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and security at Canada’s border. One expert says there are not many Canadian allies, so far, in the president-elect’s court. “I don’t see a whole…
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Massachusetts Air National Guard member to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine. Jack Teixeira pleaded guilty earlier this year to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act…
By Staff The Associated Press Posted November 11, 2024 12:01 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The U.S. government’s highway safety agency is investigating complaints that engines can fail on as many as 1.4 million Honda and Acura vehicles. The probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration covers…
