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BERLIN (AP) — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin’s “power games” over the years, remembers contrasting meetings with Barack Obama and Donald Trump and says she asked herself whether she could have done more to prevent Brexit, in her memoirs published Tuesday. Merkel, 70, appears to have no significant doubts about the major […]
A supplier of fuel for nuclear power plants announced a $60 million expansion in Tennessee on Wednesday, promising to resume and grow its manufacturing of high-tech centrifuges there to enrich uranium at its facility in Ohio. The expansion by Centrus Energy at its massive facility in Oak Ridge comes as the U.S. ramps up its […]
A major storm battered the U.S. Northwest with strong winds and rain, causing widespread power outages, closing schools and downing trees that killed at least two people. The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks through Friday, and hurricane-force wind warnings were in effect as the strongest atmospheric river — a large plume of moisture […]
A bomb cyclone slammed into the Pacific Northwest overnight with hurricane-force winds, downing trees, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people and leaving at least two people dead. ABC News reported that a woman was killed on Tuesday when a tree fell into a home in Bellevue, Wash., while she was in the […]
Authorities warn that severe winds and heavy rains are expected across the northwestern United States through Friday. A powerful storm known as a “bomb cyclone” has killed at least one person and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands across the West Coast of the United States. The bomb cyclone, named for the rapid intensification […]
The US could be heading for two good years — at least if you are a Republican supporter. Not only will the party’s presidential candidate Donald Trump be moving into the White House on January 20 — the right-lurching GOP (Grand Old Party) has also won control of the 100-seat Senate and retained control of the lower […]
The United States’s blossoming emergence as a clean energy superpower could be stopped in its tracks by Donald Trump, further empowering Chinese leadership and forfeiting tens of billions of dollars of investment to other countries, according to a new report. Trump’s promise to repeal major climate policies passed during Joe Biden’s presidency threatens to push […]
Trump, Biden meet at White House Donald Trump and Joe Biden are meeting in the Oval Office, according to reporters at the White House. The press was only let into the room for about a minute, but could hear Trump say something about how politics is tough, and thank Biden for a smooth transition of […]
Republicans are five seats short of a majority in the House of Representatives, with 20 races still uncalled. Republicans are edging closer to unified control of the United States government after winning another seat in the US House of Representatives. Incumbent Congressman Eli Crane, representing Arizona’s second district, won re-election on Saturday, the Associated Press […]
In 2016, Taiwan’s president called Donald J. Trump to congratulate him after he won the presidential election. Mr. Trump took the call, becoming the first American president or president-elect to speak to a Taiwanese leader in decades. This time, after Mr. Trump won a second term in the White House, Taiwan was quick to deny […]