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By Amanda M. Castro is a Newsweek Live Blog Editor based in New York. Her focus is reporting on U.S. politics, breaking news, consumer topics, and entertainment. She specializes in delivering in-depth news and live blog reporting and has experience covering U.S. presidential debates, awards shows, and more. Amanda joined Newsweek in 2024 from the […]
Shipping containers at the Yantian International Container Terminals, operated by CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.’s Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust), in Shenzhen, China, on Monday, April 7, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from the inaugural edition of CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter, which brings you insights and analysis on what’s […]
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has made a reversal on decades-long guidance from the CDC to recommend the fluoridation of water. The stance is concerning to public health experts who say the practice has reduced the occurrence of oral disease. Kennedy, who has long been a skeptic of the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations, which meteorologists and former agency leaders said will degrade the accuracy of forecasts just as severe weather season kicks in. The normally twice-daily launches of weather balloons in about 100 locations provide […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market’s sell-off is getting even worse Monday, and it’s on track for its worst day in years as Wall Street questions how much pain President Donald Trump
By Brandon Drenon & Nadine Yousif BBC News, Washington 1 March 2024, 15:57 GMT Updated 54 minutes ago Image caption, Richard Murray surveys the charred land after historic Texas wildfires swept through his town Officials in Texas have warned the state’s biggest ever fire could be fuelled further over the weekend with high winds in […]
The Biden administration is overhauling the country’s disaster assistance programs, expanding aid for survivors of hurricanes, wildfires and other catastrophes and making it easier to access. The shift, announced on Friday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, comes amid a growing number of climate-related disasters. It follows years of criticism surrounding the agency’s aid programs, […]
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