MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine court on Thursday convicted a journalist on charges of financing terrorism and sentenced her to more than a decade in prison, in a ruling that rights and press groups said was a blatant attack on press freedom. The Regional Trial Court in Tacloban City gave...
Trump Touts ‘Total Access’ Greenland Deal as NATO Asks Allies to Step Up
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had secured total and permanent U.S. access to Greenland in a deal with NATO, whose head said allies would have to step up their commitment to Arctic security to ward off threats from Russia and China. News of a framework deal came as...
Trump Sues JPMorgan Chase, CEO Dimon Over Alleged ‘Political’ Debanking, Fox Business Reports
President Donald Trump is suing JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, in a $5 billion lawsuit, Fox Business reported on Thursday. The president's attorney, Alejandro Brito, filed the lawsuit Thursday morning in Florida state court in Miami, the report said, alleging the bank of debanking him for political reasons....
Venezuela’s Proposed Oil Reform to Give Operating Autonomy to Companies, Cash Proceeds, Documents Show
Jan 22 - A sweeping proposed reform of Venezuela's hydrocarbons law would allow foreign and local companies to operate oilfields on their own through a new contract model, commercialize output and receive sale proceeds even if acting as minority partners of state company PDVSA, drafts seen by Reuters on Thursday...
X Down for Thousands, Downdetector Reports
X (formerly Twitter) experienced a possible outage Thursday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 17,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 9:23 a.m. PST, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reporting issues say...
Instagram Down for Thousands of Users, Downdetector Reports
Instagram experienced a possible outage Thursday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 4,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 9:20 a.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reporting issues say they’re experiencing...
China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy
DAVOS, Switzerland — In a long, rambling address that was by turns bombastic, aggrieved and self-congratulatory, President Donald Trump pronounced last rites on American leadership of the liberal democratic order forged by the United States and its allies after World War II. Trump used a keynote speech at the World...
Largest US Electric Grid Expects All-Time Record Winter Demand
Winter electricity demand on the largest U.S. power grid - the PJM Interconnection - is expected to set an all-time record next week as large swaths of the United States brace for an Arctic blast of cold weather. PJM's seven-day forecast on Thursday morning predicted 144,465 megawatts of demand on...
Oil Slides 2% as Trump Tones Down Threats Against Greenland and Iran
Oil prices slid about 2% on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump softened threats against Greenland and Iran, and as investors assessed the supply-demand outlook. Brent futures fell $1.01, or 1.6%, to $64.23 a barrel at 11:26 a.m. EDT (1626 GMT). U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell 96 cents,...
18-Year-Old Pleads Guilty in North Carolina Shooting That Left 5 Dead
RALEIGH, N.C. — A young man who went on a killing rampage that left five people dead in North Carolina in 2022 pleaded guilty Wednesday to all the charges against him, a rare conclusion to a mass shooting case that was expected to go to trial and be closely watched...