On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host the inaugural Critical Minerals Ministerial at the Department of State in Washington, D.C. The United States will welcome delegations from over 50 nations to advance collective efforts to strengthen and diversify critical minerals supply chains....
The reopening of the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday after more than a year is being met with both optimism and fear, a senior official with the UN agency that assists the Palestinian people, UNRWA, has said. The sole border point with Egypt is a lifeline to the world - including...
In welcome news for American renter families struggling with high housing costs, the national median rent has fallen to its lowest level since 2022. According to new data, rents posted their sixth straight monthly decline in January, with the largest annual drop in more than two years — down 6.2 percent from their Biden-era peak. The national median rent fell 0.2 percent in January, and now st
Eswin Mejia, the Honduran immigrant who killed 21-year-old Sarah Root in a drunk-driving accident a decade ago, has been sentenced to at least 20 years in prison. Mejia was arrested in January 2016 for vehicular homicide after the crash that killed Sarah in Douglas County, Nebraska, while he was...
A fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina, now the largest in recent U.S. history, has broken the record in the contagious disease reported in Texas last year. South Carolina's Department of Public Health announced that the number of confirmed cases has reached 789, eclipsing the record of...
Two new polls have found overwhelming support for the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration - from mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens to ICE agents' law enforcement operations. In a survey by private polling firm Cygnal, 73 percent of the respondents agreed that entering the U.S. without permission is breaking the law. 61 percent support deporting illegal aliens to th
The U.S. Central Command has urged Iran to avoid risky live-fire naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz. Last week, Iran announced that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will begin a two-day live-fire naval exercise in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. CENTCOM urged the IRGC to conduct the...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has begun accepting requests to participate in the FDA PreCheck pilot program. FDA PreCheck is designed to strengthen the domestic pharmaceutical supply chain by increasing regulatory predictability, facilitating the construction of manufacturing sites in the...
Right-Wing populist Laura Fernandez has been elected as Costa Rica's new president, with most of the votes counted. With 85 percent of the ballots counted, Fernandez secured nearly half of the votes, which is enough to avoid a runoff. No presidential candidate in Costa Rica was able to win in the first round of voting in more than a decade. A nominee of the outgoing president Rodrigo Chaves, 3
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced that its Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance program has surpassed one million voluntary participants, marking a significant milestone in the United States' ability to detect and respond to emerging public health threats at its borders. TGS...
The European Commission, together with the European Investment Bank, has provided an additional 50 million EUROS to Ukraine's state-owned energy company, Naftogaz, to support the country's energy system amidst the harshest winter conditions since the start of the war. In the face of ongoing Russian attacks...
A dietary supplement containing moringa leaf powder has been recalled after CDC found that it is linked to an additional strain of Salmonella outbreak. The FDA and CDC, in collaboration with state and local partners, are investigating illnesses in a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium and...
President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order creating the White House Great American Recovery Initiative to coordinate a national response to the disease of addiction across government, healthcare, faith communities, and the private sector. The Order establishes the Initiative, co-chaired by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Senior Advisor for Addiction Recovery. Additio
Millions of families in the UK will receive 150 Pound energy bill discount for the rest of the decade, as the government announced the continuation of the Warm Home Discount scheme through to 2030-2031. The extension will see eligible households provided with the rebate on their energy bills every...
President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order declaring a national emergency and establishing a process to impose tariffs on goods from countries that sell or otherwise provide oil to Cuba. The Trump administration says the action is taken "to protect U.S. national security and foreign policy...
January 30, 2026 15:51 ET The Federal Reserve policy decision was the main event in the final week of January, which saw a heavy flow of economics news. Several data reflecting the trends in the U.S. economy were also released during the week. The interest rate decision from Canada also was in focus. In Europe, economic sentiment data gained attention. The policy decision from Singapore was the highlight in Asia.