By Kevin Zhang Israeli police have arrested 42 people in connection with a deadly shooting in a synagogue in East Jerusalem on Friday. Seven people were killed, and at least three more injured, in the deadliest attack of its kind in years. …
Read More »US Hits Debt Ceiling, Prompting Extraordinary Measures From Treasury
By Kevin Zhang The U.S. hit the debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion set by Congress on Thursday, forcing the Treasury Department to start taking extraordinary measures to keep the government paying its bills and escalating pressure on the Capitol to avoid a …
Read More »FAA System Outage Grounds Thousands Of Flights Across U.S.
By Kevin Zhang Thousands of flights across the U.S. were delayed Wednesday after a Federal Aviation Administration pilot alert system failed overnight, causing a nationwide halt on flights. The FAA lifted the ground stop on departing flights around 9 a.m. ET as …
Read More »U.S. and Germany Send Additional Armored Vehicles to Ukraine
By Kevin Zhang U.S. President Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced Thursday that they would be sending additional armored fighting vehicles to Ukraine, following a similar pledge on Wednesday by French President Emmanuel Macron. As the war in Ukraine continues, western …
Read More »Benjamin Netanyahu Sworn In As Leader of Israel
By Kevin Zhang Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in on Thursday in a dramatic return to the position of Israel’s prime minister, after being sworn in as the leader of what many are predicting to be the most right-wing government in Israeli history. …
Read More »Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Arrives in Washington D.C.
By Kevin Zhang Three hundred days after the onset of the Russia-Ukraine war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky landed in Washington D.C., for talks on what the next 300 days might look like for the conflict. Shrouded in secrecy until the last minute, …
Read More »Thousands of Undoctored Government JFK Assassination Files Released
By Kevin Zhang The White House has ordered the release of thousands of documents regarding the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy for the first time. Some 13,173 files were published online, with the White House saying that over 97% of …
Read More »Brittney Griner Arrives In U.S. Following Prisoner Swap For Russian Arms Dealer Viktor Bout
By Kevin Zhang Brittney Griner arrived in the U.S. early on Friday. Landing at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas. The WNBA star had been held for months in Russian prisons on drug charges and was released on Thursday in a one-for-one …
Read More »Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin Dies at 96
By Kevin Zhang On Wednesday, November 30, former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, who led the country for a decade of rapid economic growth after the Tiananmen crackdown, died at the age of 96. A wave of nostalgia has erupted across the country …
Read More »Taiwanese President Resigns as Party Leader After Staggering Election Losses
By Kevin Zhang Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has resigned as head of the Democratic Progressive Party, the ruling party of Taiwan, after facing a multitude of local election losses on Saturday, in which voters elected officials from the opposition Nationalist Kuomintang party …
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