January 30, 2025
Passenger jet collides with helicopter in the US
A passenger jet collided with a helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington on Wednesday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. There was no immediate word on casualties, but all takeoffs and landings from…
January 22, 2025
Biden Posthumously Pardons Marcus Garvey
United States President Joe Biden on Sunday just before stepping down from the role, posthumously pardoned black nationalist and Jamaican National Hero Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail…
January 21, 2025
US Swears in Donald J Trump as 47th President
The United States has sworn in Donald J. Trump for a second term, making him the 47th president of the United States of America. Trump is also the second president, after Grover Cleveland in 1982, to serve two non-consecutive terms and the first…
January 17, 2025
Israeli cabinet to ratify ceasefire on Friday
A day after a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was announced, the agreement is being held up by disagreements between the two sides, according to a senior Israeli official. "The hold up is due to new demands by Hamas that Israel will never agree…
January 13, 2025
Former and Current Presidents of the United States Attend Carter’s Funeral
As they filed into the front pews at Washington National Cathedral, wearing dark suits and mostly solemn faces, five current and former presidents came together for former president Jimmy Carter's funeral. For a service that stretched more than an…
January 10, 2025
LA area’s 2 biggest blazes burn at least 10,000 structures, while new fire leads to more evacuations
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The two biggest wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area have burned at least 10,000 homes, buildings and other structures, officials said Thursday as they urged more people to heed evacuation orders after a new blaze ignited and…
January 10, 2025
Venezuela opposition leader Machado free after brief detention, government denies involvement
CARACAS, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was freed on Thursday, her Vente Venezuela movement said, shortly after she was detained amid gunshots while leaving a protest in eastern Caracas. Opposition demonstrations…
January 10, 2025
Trump to be sentenced in hush money case, days before his inauguration
NEW YORK, Jan 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a case that for a time overshadowed his bid to retake the White House.…
December 29, 2024
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter dead at 100
Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer who was elected as the 39th U.S. president and later earned a Nobel Peace Prize as a global champion of human rights, has died. He turned 100 on Oct. 1. Carter's wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, died of natural…
December 29, 2024
Plane skids, crashes and burns while landing in South Korea, killing 179
A passenger plane skidded off a runway at a South Korean airport on Sunday, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames after its front landing gear apparently failed to deploy. All but two of the 181 people on board died in one of the…