US Treasury SecretaryJanet Yellen on Saturday warned of dire consequences the country may be facing if it doesn't hike its statutory debt ceiling in the coming months ... Yellen told Axios news outlet ... ....
MONTARA, Calif. — . The driver of a car that plunged 250 feet off a cliff along Highway 1 in Northern California, injuring his two young children and his wife, has been released from the hospital and jailed on suspicion of attempted murder and child abuse ... 2 ... California They were the ‘idyllic’ family ... However, Dist. Atty ... California. Newsletter.
Israel was preparing to demolish the east Jerusalem family home of a Palestinian man who killed seven people near a synagogue, as part of measures to punish the relatives of attackers. The step comes as violence rages in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which also saw dozens of Palestinians killed this month, sparking global alarm ... Gun permits ... .
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Former PresidentDonald Trump kicked off his 2024 White House bid with stops Saturday in New Hampshire and South Carolina, events in early-voting states marking the first campaign appearances since announcing his latest run more than two months ago ... “If he runs, that’s fine ... He had no chance ... Gov ... Sen ... Calhoun ... ___.
A new version of the Nissan-Renault alliance, expected to be announced as early as this week, almost certainly will be billed as a new beginning. In reality, it’s a serious breakup between two badly damaged partners who remain married only in name ... (Read down for comments from former alliance boss Carlos Ghosn, exclusive to Asia Times.) ... Photo ... Photo.
More than two dozen Madagascans have died and tens of thousands have been left homeless since a severe tropical cyclone made landfall last week and swirled for days off the island’s western coast, official records show ... Over the week it tracked southeastwards, extending damage to houses, and schools and cutting off several national roads ... .
Russian PresidentVladimir Putin is pictured on the left while Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is pictured on the right. Reuters/Getty Russia and Iran are integrating their banking systems, several Iranian central bankers said on Monday. Banks in both countries have been cut off from SWIFT, the critical payments messaging system ... ....
NATO Secretary GeneralJens Stoltenberg on Monday asked South Korea to reconsider its rule on not exporting weapons to countries in conflict so it could help arm Ukraine in repelling Russia’s invasion ...The Leopard 2 is a next generation tank that is both agile and quick, despite being equipped with advanced protective armor and long-range firepower.
Former PresidentDonald Trump in 2018 had an infamous press conference with Russian PresidentVladimir Putin in the Finnish capital of Helsinki in which he signaled that believed Putin's denials about having interfered in the 2016 election despite assessments to the contrary from American intelligence agencies ... IN OTHER NEWS ... .
Talk of a second mobilization wave in Russia has been on everyone’s lips in recent weeks. UkrainianDefense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov claimed it would begin at the start of January. And, citing Western intelligence officials, CNN reported last week that Russian PresidentVladimir Putin was considering drafting a further 200,000 men ... kremlin.ru.