President Trump says he has commuted the prison sentence of Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor jailed on corruption charges.
Georgia's parliament on Tuesday adopted a controversial "foreign influence" law that has sparked weeks of mass protests against the measure, which Brussels has warned would undermine Tbilisi's European aspirations.The EU has said the law is "incompatible" with Georgia's longstanding bid to join the 27-nation bloc, while Washington has warned its adoption would signal Tbilisi's departure from the Western orbit.
Dozens of workers were on their way to a Florida farm when their bus crashed and overturned, killing at least eight, officials said.
Following the ramming of a small boat by an orca in the Strait of Gibraltar, authorities in Spain issued recommendations Tuesday that small vessels stick to the coastline in that region to avoid often-scary interactions with killer whales during summer months. In the latest incident, two people aboard a 15-meter (50-foot) boat in Moroccan waters requested help from Spain’s maritime rescue service Sunday after reporting that an orca knocked the craft several times, damaging its rudder and causing a leak. Spain’s ministries for transport and the environment, along with its merchant marines, issued notices Tuesday urging both sailing boats and small motorboats to beware of orcas between May and August in the area between the Strait of Gibraltar and the Gulf of Cadiz.
The broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years, a new study found. When the temperatures spiked last year, numerous weather agencies said it was the hottest month, summer and year on record. But those records only go back to 1850 at best because it's based on thermometers. Now scientists can go back to the modern western calendar's year 1, when the Bible says Jesus Christ walked the Earth, but have found no hotter northern summer than last year's.
Federal grants can be a huge boost for small businesses. The Small Business Administration released its annual scorecard measuring how well federal agencies meet their small business contracting goals each year. Overall, the federal government has a goal to award 23% of contracts to small businesses.
Israel's military operation in Rafah has set truce negotiations with Hamas "backward", mediator Qatar said on Tuesday, adding that talks have reached "almost a stalemate"."Of course, what happened with Rafah has set us backward."
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that hot US inflation data has lowered his level of confidence that price rises will slow back down towards the bank's long-term target. Powell said that, while he still expected inflation to move back down towards the levels seen last year, "my confidence in that is not as high as it was having seen these readings in these first three months of the year."
US shoppers under pressure are expected to spend less at Home Depot, but the home improvement retailer may make up some of the loss with professional consumers.
Right-wing Israeli activists in the Wests Bank attack a convoy carrying food to Gaza as a U.N. worker is killed in Rafah.
A 9-year-old boy came within inches of being hit by stray bullets while he sat in his house in Fort Worth, Texas, when a drive-by shooting took place at an apartment complex earlier this month.
Meme stocks soared again as US equities more broadly stayed muted in the countdown to fresh inflation data and a Jerome Powell speech.
Billionaire investor Kenneth Griffin has not donated money to President Donald Trump's election campaign but will wait to see who the former U.S. leader picks as his running mate, he told attendees at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha on Tuesday. When asked if he had donated to Trump's campaign, he said, "I have not," adding, "I'm going to see who he (Trump) picks for his VP candidate." "If President Trump returns to the White House you'll see a global perception of a stronger America," said Griffin, who is the CEO and founder of the $61 billion hedge fund Citadel.
Protesters against the war between Israel and Hamas were voluntarily taking down their tents in Harvard Yard on Tuesday after university officials agreed to discuss their questions about the endowment, bringing a peaceful end to the kinds of demonstrations that were broken up by police on other campuses. The student protest group Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine said in a statement that the encampment “outlasted its utility with respect to our demands.” Meanwhile, Harvard University interim President Alan Garber agreed to pursue a meeting between protesters and university officials regarding the students’ questions.
The CEO of Amazon's cloud computing business took over during the pandemic and oversaw the early transition to AI.
One of Germany's most controversial politicians, from the far-right AfD party, faces a court verdict on Tuesday on whether he deliberately used a Nazi slogan at a rally.Bjoern Hoecke, 52, is in the dock for using the Nazi slogan "Alles fuer Deutschland" ("Everything for Germany") during a 2021 campaign rally.
Fotios “Freddy” Geas, Paul DeCologero and Sean McKinnon will change their pleas to guilty after coming to agreements with prosecutors, according to court documents filed in the Northern District of West Virginia on Monday. Details of the plea agreements were not disclosed in the court documents.
The United States is hiking tariffs on $18 billion worth of Chinese imports, targeting strategic sectors like electric vehicles, batteries, steel and critical minerals, the White House said Tuesday."It is really a signal to US automakers that the Biden administration is protecting the industry from Chinese EVs," he told AFP. But tariffs covering EV batteries and supply chains would be "a much bigger issue, because of the dominance of Chinese companies in the finished battery space and for critic
The death toll from a building collapse in the South African city of George last week edged up to 33 on Tuesday, as rescuers continued to comb through the rubble with 19 people still unaccounted for more than a week after the incident. Municipal officials said in a statement that only six of those who had been killed on the construction site had been identified so far, as authorities were struggling to get accurate names. Municipal officials said fluent speakers of the Chewa, Portuguese and Shona languages had been at the scene providing support.
South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol confirmed his country's participation in a Ukraine peace summit in a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart on Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on X. Zelenskiy said he told Yoon about the importance of encouraging other countries, including those from Asia-Pacific and Africa, to attend the summit next month in Switzerland that aims to rally support for Ukraine's vision for ending the war. "We also discussed ways to further develop our bilateral cooperation, including in the area of humanitarian mine clearance," Zelenskiy said.
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