A deal giving the United States access to Ukraine’s critical and rare-earth minerals is “at the 99 yard line with one inch to go,” a senior administration official engaged in the negotiations told NBC News. According to reports in the Financial Times and elsewhere, the reported agreement appeared to involve concessions on both sides. Ukraine...
SYDNEY — A Sydney nurse has been charged with making threats after she appeared in an online video saying she would not treat Israeli patients. Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 26, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with the federal offenses of threatening violence to a group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill and using...
China’s military held “shooting training” on Wednesday off Taiwan’s southwest coast in a move Taipei described as provocative and dangerous, while a senior Chinese leader vowed unswerving efforts to bring the island under Beijing’s control. Democratically governed Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, has repeatedly complained of Chinese military activities, including several rounds of full-scale war games...
BANGKOK — At least 18 people were killed and 23 injured in eastern Thailand on Wednesday after the brakes failed on a tour bus and it rolled upside down into a ditch, police said. “It was a downhill road and the brakes failed, and the driver lost control of the vehicle before it overturned,” said Col. Sophon Phramaneehe,...
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s fertility rate rose in 2024 for the first time in nine years, supported by an increase in marriages, preliminary data showed Wednesday, in a sign that the country’s demographic crisis might have turned a corner. The country’s fertility rate, the average number of babies a woman is expected to have during her...
Three tropical cyclones are spinning in the South Pacific, an occurrence that scientists say is unusual. Tropical cyclones Rae, Seru and Alfred are all churning as the region is in the peak of a season that starts in November and ends in April. The storms are called cyclones when they happen in the Southwest Pacific...
Pope Francis had another “peaceful night” at Rome’s Gemelli hospital and was resting on Wednesday morning as he continues to receive treatment for double pneumonia, the Vatican said. The Holy See did not provide any further updates on the 88-year-old pontiff’s condition. On Tuesday, the Vatican said that Francis continued to show a slight improvement,...
Playing against his former team for the first time, Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Dončić recorded a triple double in a 107-99 win against the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday. Dončić scored 19 points, dished 12 assists and collected 15 rebounds for Los Angeles, which improved to 34-21 with the victory. The Lakers were playing the...
The California firefighter killed in a stabbing last week was captured on a home security camera bloodied and appearing to plead for her life with the woman now wanted in connection with the death, court records show. When Rebecca Marodi, a captain with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, told her wife that...
WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday muscled a multitrillion-dollar budget blueprint through the House by the narrowest of margins — a crucial step for Republicans as they embark on advancing President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. The vote was 217-215, with Republicans casting all of the votes in favor of the budget resolution. Just one...