MAY 4, 2025
Main image: Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks at Santa Lucia Air Base near Mexico City on April 22. Inset: President Donald Trump walks before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on April 29 in Washington, D.C. Yuri Cortez/AFP/Win McNamee/Getty Images
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she drew a red line to protect the nation's sovereignty...
MAY 4, 2025
Financial Markets Wall Street. - Richard Drew
It felt much longer, but the U.S. stock market needed just a few weeks to roar all the way back to where it was on President Donald Trump's “Liberation Day.” That's when he shocked Wall Street by announcing much steeper tariffs than expected on nearly all U.S. trading partners.
Those tariffs unveiled on April 2 were so...
MAY 3, 2025
Mike Rowe on the labor force 'horror story. - Moms For America/YouTube
American TV host and philanthropist Mike Rowe believes there’s a “horror story” unfolding in the American labor market.
“The stat that sticks with me and worries me today is 7.2 million able-bodied men, today in their prime working years, are not only unemployed … officially not even...
MAY 3, 2025
A man who spent nearly a decade in the United States studying and working in top tech companies said he struggled to readjust to life in India after losing his job in 2024.
Sharing his experience in a post on Reddit, the techie said he returned home at the start of the year following a company-wide layoff that...
MAY 3, 2025
Posters of Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese outside a polling center in Sydney. - saeed khan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was returned to power in an election Saturday, the latest left-leaning leader to achieve a comeback victory as President Trump roils global markets and upends international affairs.
As of about 11 p.m. Sydney time, Albanese’s Labor...
MAY 3, 2025
Warren Buffett CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
Legendary investor Warren Buffett said Saturday that he plans to step down from his role leading Berkshire Hathaway.
Buffett, 94, serves as the conglomerate’s chairman and chief executive. He said Saturday that he will recommend to the Berkshire Hathaway board that Greg Abel become CEO at the end of 2025.
“I think the time...
MAY 3, 2025
Newark Liberty International Airport is facing a shortage of air traffic controllers, forcing flight cancellations. Gary Hershorn/Getty Images
United Airlines will cancel 35 daily round-trip flights from Newark Liberty International Airport.
CEO Scott Kirby cites the airport's inability to handle the scheduled flight volume.
The decision comes after more than 20% of FAA staff members walked off...
MAY 3, 2025
An electoral placard with the picture of Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is placed on the street in Grayndler during the Australian federal election, in Sydney, Australia, May 3, 2025. REUTERS/Hollie Adams
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's centre-left Labor Party was projected to win over the conservative opposition, Sky News Australia and the Australian Broadcasting...
MAY 2, 2025
Trump targeted PBS and NPR in a new executive order. - Getty
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting.
The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR...
MAY 1, 2025
The former first lady reveals the moment she realized she’d been tricked into thinking she didn’t belong at Princeton. - Julia Beverly/WireImage
Former First Lady Michelle Obama reveals the moment she realized she’d been tricked into thinking she didn’t belong at Princeton. “It was infuriating, but it was freeing," she says, while warning Gen Z: “Do not let these people scam...
