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Jones Act Waiver Extension Tests Trump’s Effort to Rebuild American Shipping

News analysis The Trump administration's suspension of the Jones Act, the 1920 law requiring that goods moved between U.S. ports travel on vessels that are American-built, American-flagged, and mostly American-crewed,
container ship sits anchored in New York Harbor as it waits for the Port of Newark on October 2 2024

Trump Says Iran Will Not Obtain Nuclear Weapons as Oil Price Fears Ease

According to a report by Axios, Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy for Iran affairs, and senior advisor Jared Kushner made a discreet trip this week to Tennessee, where
Ukraine Launches Major Drone Assault During Russia’s Economic Forum as Putin Rejects Talks
US Senate Passes $70 Billion Immigration Enforcement Bill After Marathon Voting Session
Taiwan’s Opposition Leader Cheng Li-wun Says She Would Welcome Talks With Trump
Czech Senate President in Taiwan: ‘Freedom Comes With Responsibility’
Another Member of Wang Qishan’s Inner Circle Falls Under Investigation in China
Former Inner Mongolia Chair Indicted on Bribery Charges Amid Political Fallout
Lawyer Peter Langstraat looks on in the courtroom as the Dutch court announces its ruling in the MH17 trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian in the Schiphol Judicial Complex, Badhoevedorp, Netherlands, November 17, 2022. (Image: Screenshot / REUTERS)
Dutch Court Sentences 3 to Life in Prison for 2014 Downing of MH17
By Stephanie van den Berg and Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM - Dutch judges on Thursday convicted three men...
A Starbucks logo is pictured on the door of the Green Apron Delivery Service at the Empire State Building in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S. June 1, 2016. (Image: Screenshot / REUTERS)
Starbucks U.S. Workers at 100 Stores Hold One-Day Walkout
By Hilary Russ NEW YORK - Workers at more than 100 U.S. company-owned Starbucks locations are striking...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking with China's President Xi Jinping at G-20 meeting. (Image: Screenshot/Reuters)
China’s Xi Confronts Canada’s Trudeau at G20 Over Media Leaks
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday (November 16) criticized Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
A view shows damages after an explosion in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine, in this image obtained from social media by Reuters released on November 15, 2022. (Image: Screenshot / REUTERS)
Escalation Fears Ease After NATO, Warsaw Say Missile That Hit Poland was Ukrainian Stray
By Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk, Sabine Siebold and Nandita Bose WARSAW/BRUSSELS/NUSA DUA, Indonesia -...
Elon Musk photo and Twitter logo are seen through magnifier in this illustration taken November 4, 2022. (Image: Screenshot / REUTERS)
Musk Tells Twitter Staff: Opt in for ‘Intensity’ or Take Severance
By Hyunjoo Jin and Fanny Potkin Elon Musk sent a message to Twitter Inc staff telling them they had...
NASA's towering next-generation moon rocket blasted off from Florida early on Wednesday on its debut flight, a crewless voyage inaugurating the U.S. space agency's Artemis exploration program 50 years after the final Apollo moon mission. (Image: Screenshot / Reuters)
NASA’s Artemis Rocketship on Course for Moon After Epic Launch
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - With a dash of launch-pad heroics and 8.8...
China’s Guangzhou in Revolt Over Newest COVID Lockdown
Throngs of people in the city of Guangzhou, southern China, rose up in protest against the authorities...
Kevin McCarthy Eyes Coveted Seat As Republicans Close-In On US House Majority
WASHINGTON — With Republicans closing in on a narrower-than-expected majority in the U.S. House of Representatives...
Argentina Strikes $5 Billion Deal With China to Expand Currency Swap
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina has agreed to expand its currency swap deal with China by $5 billion — the Latin...