Tech TikTok returns to Apple and Google app stores in the US

TikTok has returned to the app stores of Apple and Google in the U.S., after President Donald Trump delayed the enforcement of a TikTok ban.

Trump says he and Putin have agreed to begin talks on ending the war

President Donald Trump upended three years of U.S. policy toward Ukraine yesterday , saying that he and Russian leader Vladimir Putin had agreed to begin negotiations

A joke petition seeks to help Denmark buy California as Trump eyes Greenland

Is California for sale? A lighthearted petition to buy the state of California for Denmark prompted more than 200,000 signatures by Wednesday in response to President Donald Trump’s

Inflation is heating up again, putting pressure on Trump to cool it on tariffs

Inflation figures released on Feb. 12, 2025, will come as a disappointment to Americans who hoped President Donald Trump would be true to his word on bringing down

Ukraine’s rare earth elements could help keep US military aid flowing

Ukraine has offered to strike a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump for continued American military aid in exchange for developing Ukraine’s mineral industry, which

Trump signs order for plastic straws as he declares paper ones ‘don’t work’

President Donald Trump said yesterday he is banning federal use of paper straws, saying they “don’t work” and don’t last very long. Instead he wants

US officials are bound for Europe for top-level talks on Ukraine

President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said yesterday that top administration officials will meet with European officials this week about how to end the war

Trump’s AI ambition and China’s DeepSeek overshadow an AI summit in Paris

The geopolitics of artificial intelligence will be in focus at a major summit in France where world leaders, executives and experts will hammer out pledges on

Trump’s suggestion the US ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip rejected by friends and foes

President Donald Trump’s proposal that the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its Palestinian residents was swiftly rejected and denounced yesterday by American

Trump will sign an executive order barring transgender female athletes from competing

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order today designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in women’s or girls’

Trump sings in Chinese and wins cheers in Hong Kong

A traditional Hong Kong theater came alive with an untraditional twist: Donald Trump singing in Chinese. On Monday night, the Cantonese opera production “Trump on Show”

Trump fills his cabinet with billionaires after running on a working-class message

President Donald Trump’s brash populism has always involved incongruence: the billionaire businessman-politician stirring the passions of millions who, regardless of the U.S. economy’s trajectory, could

Trump signs order that likely sets in motion a future ban on transgender troops

President Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops, likely setting in motion a future

Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more Palestinian refugees and floats plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza

President Donald Trump said Saturday he would like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from

Better trajectory for Sino-US relations requires actions in line with direction indicated by talks

In a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi expressed Beijing’s hope and expectation that China and the United

Mapmakers grapple with Trump’s geographic renaming plans

What’s in a name change, after all? The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will be critical to shipping lanes and vacationers

Saudi crown prince says kingdom intends to invest $600 billion in US during call with Trump

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said yesterday the kingdom wants to invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years, comments that came after President Donald Trump

Trump highlights partnership investing $500 billion in AI

President Donald Trump yesterday talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by

Fact check: false and misleading claims Trump made at inaugural events

In his first address after being sworn in yesterday , President Donald Trump repeated several false and misleading statements that he made during his campaign. They included

Panama, familiar with US intervention, bristles at Trump’s comments on canal

U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence yesterday that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control fed nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to

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