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The potential deal could challenge Canada’s dominant position in the U.S. potash market, although details of the proposed agreement have not been released. The United States relies heavily on Canadian...
Beijing has issued new rules on homebuying. It will now allow longer mortgage terms than previously, which should relieve the monthly cost of financing a property. It has also moved to protect buyers ...
Foreign actors gained access to computer systems at two small private water utilities in Colorado in late August, changing equipment controls before operators restored normal operations, according to ...
Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to halt every permit sought by data centers amid state efforts to enforce its data center standards. The freeze...
When President Donald Trump hosts Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping at the White House on Sept. 24, public attention, when it comes to supply chain and rare earths, will inevitably fixate on the vi...
The CCP’s four global initiatives are ostensibly related to development, security, civilization, and governance. They are meant to seem palatable to the international community while integrating the U...
As many as six in 10 people prescribed a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine for sleep apnea can’t stick with it. However, there may be a way to treat sleep apnea without a mask at all....
There is a Korean beauty brand that has been targeting overseas markets even before K-beauty became a global trend: Skin79. Founded in 2004, Skin79 introduced its BB cream in 2006, making its name kno...
I played a small role in trying to stop the ABA’s collapse, which I have not previously discussed, but now wish to share. In early 2023, the Editor of the ABA Journal invited me to write a regular col...
Half a century ago, raw emotion drove an anti-nuclear energy campaign that still stifles clean energy development in the United States. Today, that same fear-driven playbook is being deployed in a cam...
A top Republican senator has urged President Donald Trump to impose an embargo on diesel exports as the price of the fuel hit a record high on the morning of Sept. 21. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), he...
This is the great paradox of life: We spend years searching for grand things—success, recognition, achievement, wealth, power, and the intoxicating feeling of conquering a summit—only to discover, aft...
I have a theory that somewhere in America there is a warehouse containing the nation’s entire supply of clutter. Every few months, workers box it up and redistribute it among our homes. That’s the onl...
China’s yuan has risen to its strongest level against the U.S. dollar in more than four years, days before Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping meets President Donald Trump in Washington on Sept....
While Chinese leader Xi Jinping portrays China as a Middle East peacemaker, state-linked companies have supplied Iran with air-defense equipment and satellite imagery through a relationship sustained ...
In what it calls “a new wave of agency-wide actions,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced new steps toward halting unnecessary laboratory testing on animals. “We are movin...
Two pilots died when their helicopter crashed on Sunday afternoon while dropping water on a wildfire in California’s Yosemite National Park, authorities said on Monday. Greg King, with contract firm P...
Artificial intelligence will be at the forefront of the upcoming meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, according to several sources familiar with the matter. Beijing wi...
Although the United States and Canada have different responses to Brussels’s suggestion that Canada become a European Union (EU) associate member as part of efforts to reduce supply chain dependence o...
Media outlets on Sept. 21 sued President Donald Trump and other officials over their ban from the White House. The lawsuit says that Trump is targeting the outlets based on their viewpoints, which vio...