Category Archives: World/National
Delta jet flips upside down on a snowy Toronto runway and all 80 aboard survive
By JOHN WAWROW and MICHAEL CASEY Associated PressTORONTO (AP) - A Delta Air Lines jet flipped on its roof while landing Monday at Toronto's Pearson Airport, but all 80 people on board survived and tho...
Feb 17, 2025
Mexico awaits new response from Google on dispute over Gulf of Mexico name before filing lawsuit
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico said Monday it’s awaiting a new response from Google to its request that the tech company fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before filing...
Feb 17, 2025
Mexico awaits new response from Google on dispute over Gulf of Mexico name before filing lawsuit
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico said Monday it’s awaiting a new response from Google to its request that the tech company fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before filing...
Feb 17, 2025
Trump begins firings of FAA staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash
By TARA COPP Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just...
Feb 17, 2025
A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia - and it's all captured on camera
PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (AP) - A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral. Last Saturday, ...
Feb 14, 2025
Trump signs a plan for reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners, ushering in economic uncertainty
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Thursday rolled out his plan to increase U.S. tariffs to match the tax rates that other countries charge on imports, possibly ...
Feb 13, 2025
Brooke Rollins confirmed as Trump's agriculture secretary as tariff fights loom
WASHINGTON (AP) - Brooke Rollins has been confirmed as secretary of agriculture. The Senate confirmed Rollins in a vote Thursday, placing a close ally of President Donald Trump into a key Cabinet posi...
Feb 13, 2025
Vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as Trump's health chief after a close Senate vote
By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Thursday confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump's health secretary, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control...
Feb 13, 2025
Could Canada really become the 51st US state? Here's what it would take
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state as he proposes erasing the 5,525-mile-long border that separates the...
Feb 13, 2025
Judge finds Trump administration hasn't fully followed his order to unfreeze federal spending
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge found Monday that the Trump administration hasn't fully followed his order to unfreeze federal spending and told the White Hous...
Feb 10, 2025