Last August, a hotel room in Europe priced at 200 euros was about $224. Last month, travelers spending American dollars would pay only $208. On the rise since last autumn, the dollar is strong compared with a number of foreign currencies, including the euro, the Japanese yen and the Canadian...
Iran’s Top Leader Rejects Talks With the US Over Missile Range, Regional Influence
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he rejects a U.S. push for talks between the two countries because they would be aimed at imposing restrictions on Iranian missile range and its influence in the region. Speaking to a group of officials on Saturday, Khamenei did not...
FEMA Cancels Classes at National Fire Training Academy Amid Federal Funding Cuts
CHICAGO — The country's preeminent federal fire training academy canceled classes, effective immediately, on Saturday amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staffing cuts by President Donald Trump's administration. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that National Fire Academy courses were canceled amid a "process of evaluating agency programs...
North Korea Unveils Nuclear-Powered Submarine for the First Time
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea unveiled for the first time a nuclear-powered submarine under construction, a weapons system that can pose a major security threat to South Korea and the U.S. The state media agency on Saturday released photos showing what it called "a nuclear-powered strategic guided missile submarine,"...
Labor Unions Seek to Block DOGE Access to Social Security Data
WASHINGTON — A group of labor unions are asking a federal court for an emergency order to stop Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the sensitive Social Security data of millions of Americans. The motion for emergency relief was filed late Friday in federal court in Maryland by...
House GOP Unveils Partisan Spending Bill, Dares Democrats to Oppose It
WASHINGTON — House Republicans unveiled a spending bill Saturday that would keep federal agencies funded through Sept. 30, pushing ahead with a go-it-alone strategy that seems certain to spark a major confrontation with Democrats over the contours of government spending. The 99-page bill would provide a slight boost to defense...
14-Year-Old Charged with Killing a Police Officer and Wounding Another
NEWARK, N.J. — A 14-year-old shot and killed a police officer and wounded another Friday evening in New Jersey, authorities said, in a chaotic scene that witnesses described as seeing officers running down a busy street before they heard a volley of a dozen or more gunshots. The slain officer,...
Trump Will Lead Task Force Preparing for 2026 World Cup
President Donald Trump has created a task force to prepare for the 2026 World Cup, which will bring the globe's premier soccer tournament to North America at a time when his on-again, off-again tariffs have ratcheted up tensions across the continent. "I think it's going to make it more exciting,"...
Trump Has Begun Another Trade War. Here’s a Timeline of How We Got Here
NEW YORK — Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into a trade war abroad — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty. Since taking office less than two months ago, Trump has rolled out hefty import taxes on goods coming from America's...
2 Days of Clashes in Syria Leave More Than 600 People Dead
BEIRUT — The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 600, a war monitoring group said Saturday, making it one of the deadliest acts of violence since Syria's conflict...