Explainer: What Members of Congress in the United States Are Arguing About as the Government Shutdown Looms

The House of Representatives, which is controlled by Republicans, and the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats, are at odds over the priorities that each chamber would like to see included in any legislation that would continue to fund the government into the new fiscal year, which begins on ...

US President Biden's Visit to the UAW Strike Would Be a Historic Event

If Joe Biden accepts the United Auto Workers' invitation to visit their picket line, it would be the first time in more than a century that the U.S. President has shown support for union workers in a labor dispute, according to a presidential historian.

Friday, the UAW invited Vice ...

Senior officials from South Korea and the United States have reached a consensus that North Korea and Russia's cooperation in the arms trade violates UN sanctions.

On Friday, senior South Korean and United States diplomats and defense officials reached a consensus that military collaboration between North Korea and Russia is a grave violation of US sanctions and that the allies would guarantee that there is a price to pay for this violation. They also agree...

Hydrogen is a huge bet for the most valuable power company in the United States.

Through early investments in wind and solar farms, NextEra Energy NEE 0.73%increase; green up pointing triangle has become a clean-energy powerhouse. Hydrogen is a much-touted energy source, but its economic viability remains unproven, so now the company is betting its expansion on it. The Florid...

A ChatGPT programmer has a meeting with Kishida and is keen to set up shop in Japan.

On Monday, the developer of ChatGPT said that his company would be opening an office in Japan in response to rising worries about the chatbot's improper acquisition of personal data and impact on educational settings. Sam Altman, CEO of the United States-based OpenAI, met with Japanese Prime ...

Widening chasm in 'excess deaths' between Europe and the US

The United States has significantly higher death rates than five similarly high-income European countries, with the exception of the oldest age group, according to new research from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Patrick Heuveline, a sociologist at UCLA, conducted a s...

At the South Korea-United States summit, extending deterrence should be the top goal.

Ahn Ho-young, the former South Korean ambassador to the United States, has encouraged the leaders of the United States and South Korea to undertake an in-depth conversation on improving US steps to reinforce extended deterrence, the United States' pledge to protect South Korea with the entire...

If the United States were to ban TikTok, it would cause influencers to re-evaluate their goals and priorities.

At the tender age of thirteen, TikTok user Cassidy Jacobson shared a video of herself dancing. They were drawn to her enthusiasm for dance and hair care, and she had no idea that six years later her Casssidy J account would have 1.5 million followers on the short-form video platform. Jacobson hop...

The United States does not appear on this list of the top five countries in the world for working parents.

There should be as much support as possible for working parents. It's provided to varying degrees of quality by different nations. According to a new report from Bloomberg, which compares countries based on the quality and cost of child care for working parents, Iceland ranks among the best i...

Once again, growth stocks are outperforming value

Fast-growing company shares are heading the 2023 stock rally, but some investors believe they don't have much further to run. This year, the Russell 3000 Growth Index has gained 9.8%, beating the Russell 3000 Value Index's 4.4% gain. The rally is a sharp contrast to last year, when value ...

Gas producers in the United States scrimped on price hedges and now face a punishment.

Natural gas price declines will affect gas producers' first-quarter profitability and cash flows because hedges - the industry's equivalent of price insurance - were insufficient to offset predicted losses, according to analysts and industry experts. Producers who begin the year with fewe...

India will profit from the decoupling of the United States and China, Gautam Adani said at the Davos Economic Summit

Billionaire Gautam Adani said in Davos that the decoupling of trading superpowers the United States and China presents a massive opportunity for India to become a major player in the global supply chain. The world is experiencing the "Great Fracture," according to a blog post written by...

Tougher Air Pollution Regulations Are Being Proposed by the EPA.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States has recommended, for the first time in a decade, stricter limits on fine soot in the air, which is linked to numerous health problems. Changes to PM 2.5 standards would lower the current limit from 12 micrograms per cubic meter to a r...

Borrowing more money to compete with the United States, according to Germany, would constitute a threat to Europe

If Europe takes on additional debt to match U.S. green subsidies, Germany warns, the continent's competitiveness would suffer. When it comes to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the European Union has been quite loud about its worries, claiming that the act's subsidies for North Ame...

Highlights of 2022 Research Discussed

Certainly, 2022 was a pivotal year for medical research, but what were the most fascinating discoveries and developments of the year? In the December installment of "In Conversation," editors Maria Cohut, Yasemin Nicola Sakay, and James McIntosh look back on the year's highlights. E...

The CDC in the United States is expanding the use of Bivalent COVID vaccines for children as young as six months

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States increased the use of COVID-19 vaccinations, which target both the original coronavirus and Omicron sub-variants, to children aged 6 months to 5 years old on Friday.

The news comes only one day after the U.S. The F...

Efforts to clean up the Keystone XL oil spill, the largest in the United States in over a decade, are ongoing

Crews in Kansas began cleaning up after TC Energy's Keystone pipeline spilled 14,000 barrels of oil into a stream on Friday, but the reason of the worst crude spill in the United States in over a decade remained unexplained.

TC Energy of Canada noticed the breach and shut down the i...

After WWII, the United States and Japan left behind thousands of bombs. They're still exploding and murdering people in the Pacific

As the Manele family prepares for a normal Monday night meal on Guadalcanal, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, coconut crabs roast over a sheet of roofing iron heated by a fire below.

As the sun sets, John Manele, a subsistence farmer, talks with his boys, 13-year-old Junior Dominic...

All in one day, Joe Biden embraces and runs afoul of labor.

A labor conflict was developing in Washington as the president delighted in his pro-worker message and working-class heritage during a speech in Michigan. And Biden was not the labor hero this time.

Joe Biden, the Labor Guy, was in his own Tuesday, speaking to union employees at a semic...

Macron will conclude his tour to the United States by meeting with French speakers in Louisiana

French President Emmanuel Macron will conclude his tour to the United States on Friday with a visit to Louisiana, where he will announce the establishment of a fund to subsidize French education in the state.

The visit is wonderful news for Louisiana French speakers who wish to maintain...