A history of the Panama Canal – and why Trump can't take it back on his own
Trump is decrying increased fees Panama has imposed to use the waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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‘A calling’: Oren reflects on Community Education Coalition career
President and CEO Kathy Oren is retiring at the end of this year, capping more than a decade of working to align education ...
Trump adds Europe to the list of US trade partners he’s threatening with tariffs
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday added the 27 countries that make up the European Union to the list of trade partners ...
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In a calendar rarity, Hanukkah starts this year on Christmas Day
Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day, which has only happened four times since 1900. For some rabbis, the ...
Collapse of budget deal over Trump’s objections leaves American farmers in limbo
American farmers are hoping that aid to agriculture will be revived as Congress struggles to pass a short-term spending bill ...
South Korean investigators seek to question reluctant president over martial law
South Korean investigators on Friday again sought to question impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his Dec. 3 declaration of martial law, summoning him for questioning on Christmas Day despite his ...
Biden honors memory of his late first wife and baby daughter who died in a 1972 Delaware car crash
President Joe Biden on Wednesday honored his first wife and baby daughter 52 years after they were killed in a car crash in ...
White House starts scrapping pending regulations, including student debt cancellation
President Joe Biden is abandoning his effort to cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans, the first step in an ...
Government funding plan collapses as Trump makes new demands days before shutdown
President-elect Donald Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan Wednesday to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown, ...
What’s the history of the Panama Canal, and why is Trump threatening to retake control of it?
President-elect Donald Trump over the weekend suggested the US should retake the Panama Canal, an idea that was immediately ...
Musk helped kill a congressional spending bill. But much of what he spread was misinformation
President-elect Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk played a key role this week in killing a bipartisan funding ...