US government shutdown: What it means for workers, federal programs, and the economy

The federal government shutdown is quickly approaching the second longest on record with no end in sight. Some lawmakers are predicting it could become the longest, surpassing the 35 days from President Donald Trump's first term. The Trump...

A new challenge for China’s economy: ‘Involution’

This is “involution," a once esoteric term that has come to define life for many in China and capture the biggest problems in the world’s second-largest economy. Involution, simply stated, means that, even as China pursues global dominance in...

Trump’s Defiance of Conventional Wisdom Proves Key to His Success in Middle East

“What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.” That was the mordant comment of Queen Victoria’s first prime minister, Lord Melbourne, on the failure of a liberal reform to...

Readers sound off on Italian-American voters, rooftop solar safety and civilian casualties

Think of LaGuardia, not Columbus, this election Manhattan: As a proud Italian-American, I must oppose the viewpoint that Italian-Americans should not vote for Zohran Mamdani because he doesn’t view Christopher Columbus as a hero, and support...

JIM “PAPPY” MOORE: Levers of Power: Trump’s Moves Are Working

My majors were History and Political Science. Two majors, related. 72 semester hours of History and Political Science. Then on to Law School, with 84 semester hours of mostly American History for the preceding 200 years. I’ll stack up my knowledge...

SC residents face rising health insurance rates as shutdown impacts subsidies

(WPDE) — The Affordable Care Act (ACA), a government program that more than 600,000 South Carolinians rely on for health insurance, is facing rising rates that may cause a huge chunk of people across the state to drop their insurance. Enhanced...

Customs Without Commerce: How Ghana’s Import Tax System Betrays Labor, Industry, and National Development

Trade policy in developing economies is both an industrial framework and a national employment instrument. It defines how a country positions itself in global markets, attracts investors, and distributes the gains of trade across its labor force....

Kash Patel hasn’t ruined the FBI — he’s only revealed its true nature

There’s an unanswerable question behind all the discourse about the rapidly decaying condition of American democracy: Did we ever have it in the first place? I don’t want to come off like a world-weary leftist lecturing the sheeple about how...

Trump can hit China's economy where it really hurts, analysts say The Trump administration insists it holds the upper hand as trade friction with Beijing has reignited over its sweeping rare-earths export controls. Read More »

The Trump administration insists it holds the upper hand as trade friction with Beijing has reignited over its sweeping rare-earths export controls. While President Donald Trump’s initial response was to announce an additional 100% tariff and...

Zimbabwe’s leaders obsessed with PhDs to cover their incompetence

As I watched proceedings at the ongoing ZANU-PF National People’s Conference in Mutare, one detail stood out far more than the political rhetoric and choreographed loyalty displays — the name plaques adorning the high table. By Tendai Ruben...

The Israeli politician who became Netanyahu’s top Trump whisperer

That man was Ron Dermer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidant and the manager of Israel’s relationship with America—and by extension, Trump. Most Americans don’t know his name and he rarely speaks publicly in Israel. But...

Joined politics on people’s call, they will lead me to victory: Jan Suraaj’s transgender candidate

Patna, Oct 19 (PTI) Priti Kinnar, a transgender social worker who is set to take on Bihar’s Education Minister and sitting JD(U) MLA Sunil Kumar in Bhorey assembly seat in Gopalganj district on a Jan Suraaj ticket, said she has responded to...

People Will Lead Me To Victory: Jan Suraaj's Transgender Candidate

Patna: Priti Kinnar, a transgender social worker who is set to take on Bihar's Education Minister and sitting JD(U) MLA Sunil Kumar in Bhorey assembly seat in Gopalganj district on a Jan Suraaj ticket, said she has responded to people's call to...

‘Devil’s ideology’: President Donald Trump’s darkening rhetoric escalates attacks and often targets Illinois

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has long wielded sharp rhetoric as a political weapon — who can forget “Crooked Hillary” Clinton or “Sleepy Joe” Biden? — but in his second term, the president’s language and that of his top aides has taken an...

China Helped Indonesia Build One of the World’s Biggest, Youngest Coal Fleets. It’s Still Growing.

Planet China: Ninth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world. BANTEN PROVINCE, Indonesia—The city of Cilegon is surrounded by coal-fired power plants, half a dozen within 10...

More than 2,000 students in Lancaster County are homeless. Here’s what that means

Luke Feltenberger stays locked in when he’s on the football field. A junior at Conestoga Valley High School, Luke has played football since the seventh grade. He’s mastered the art of blocking out the world when he’s on the field and sidelines now...

Xinhua Headlines: Low-altitude economy soars as China's new growth engine

* As the only national-level international helicopter exhibition in China and the world's second-largest helicopter event, the seventh China Helicopter Exposition, which concluded on Sunday in north China's Tianjin Municipality, attracted over 400...

Obesity study reveals Hawaii health disparities

Hawaii continues to rank among the nation’s healthiest states, but new national data show that progress on obesity and related health disparities remains uneven. The State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America 2025 report, released...

JPL's rough ride: Can California's shining star of space science recover?

Designing the system that would bring a slice of Mars back to Earth at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory — the Southern California lab that pioneered American rocketry and the scientific exploration of our solar system — was her dream job. As she...

Today's NYT Crossword answers and hints (Sun, October 19)

Need a hint for today's NYT Crossword on Sunday, 19th October? We get it! The NYT Crossword is always challenging, and Sunday's release is basically the final boss of each week's puzzles. The Sunday NYT Crossword is about twice the size and full...