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The International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency, announced on Monday that it opposes transit fees in the Strait of Hormuz after President Donald Trump called for ships to pay protection fees.”We have always been consistent in our stance on tolls and the IMO is firmly opposed to imposing tolls on passage through straits used for international navigation,” the spokesperson said. “There is no legal basis to require a toll just for crossing the strait,” the spokesperson said. President Trump said on Monday that the U.S. military would protect shipping traffic through Hormuz, but demanded reimbursement equal to 20% of…
Friday, August 8, 2025, Huaqiangbei Electronic Market in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, southern China.Featured China | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesHello, I’m Evelyn. I am writing to you from Beijing. Welcome to the latest edition of The China Connection. This is a snapshot of what I’ve seen and heard from local businesses.U.S. buyers show up in conversations with Chinese companies far more often than geopolitics would suggest. What is the thread that ties everything together?big storyMIT graduate Joshua Woodard lives by his bold beliefs. He believes that for the next 10 years after he leaves, the Shenzhen factory will be selling…
South Carolina’s governor has selected Darling Graham Nordon to serve the remainder of his term in the U.S. Senate until early 2027.Published July 13, 2026July 13, 2026South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has selected Darling Graham Nordon to replace his late brother Lindsey Graham in the U.S. Senate after President Donald Trump endorsed him.Monday’s appointments ensure that seats will be quickly filled to maintain the 53-member Republican majority in the 100-member House. Mr. Nordon will serve out the remainder of Mr. Graham’s term until January 3.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe interim senator who heads the South Carolina Commission…
Credit card debt can obviously be stressful, even if you’re not the one carrying the balance.”It’s always so stressful when I find out a friend has a lot of credit card debt,” wrote X user Alex Ray on July 5, which has since received 32,000 likes.Ray is a 30-year-old bartender and freelance writer living in Baltimore. He said he tries to avoid credit card debt, but sees many of his colleagues in the service industry carrying credit card balances and other forms of debt. “When I know that my friends are being a little more free-spirited[with credit card debt]it stresses…
A slow-moving storm could dump a summer’s worth of rain on parts of Texas this week, posing a significant flash flooding threat to the state. Heavy rain could cause flash flooding in much of East, Central and Southwest Texas through Thursday, but the areas most at risk are near the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley and the southern Edwards Plateau. Austin, Houston and San Antonio are among the large cities that could see at least localized flash flooding, especially on Monday and Tuesday. ⛈️ Get the weather forecast with the CNN Weather app A chance of showers and…
Quick question: Would you like the AI to be so highly trained that it could help a husband (or wife) plan the perfect murder of his or her spouse? As a gut reaction, that feels like a no to me. I didn’t think it was a particularly difficult question. But there are many diverse perspectives in America, and one such perspective was shared over the weekend by Comma AI founder and longtime jailbreak escapee George Hotz. This post is in response to a series of big-picture AI collaboration plans, most recently the AI Futures Project’s “AI 2040: Plan A” policy…
The plunge in oil prices in June will likely be welcome news for inflation, but it won’t be a big change for Federal Reserve policymakers. Economists widely expect the consumer price index, a broad measure of the cost of goods and services across the U.S. economy, to fall 0.2% this month, according to the Dow Jones Consensus. If that happens, the overall interest rate will be 3.8%, down 0.4 percentage point from May. The expected decline is due to a drop in energy prices, with U.S. oil prices falling by about 25% in June, reversing an earlier surge that pushed…
US President Donald Trump speaks at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix Showcase at the White House in Washington, DC, USA on July 13, 2026. Kylie Cooper | ReutersPresident Donald Trump will claim in a speech Thursday night that a newly declassified intelligence report reveals a foreign plot to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, two White House officials told MS NOW on Monday.MS NOW reports that Trump will be joined by officials including CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, FBI Director Kash Patel and Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin, according to one of the…
WASHINGTON, DC – The administration of President Donald Trump is escalating its pressure campaign against the International Criminal Court (ICC), with the US State Department vowing to “take a whole-of-government response to systematically disable” the court’s ability to operate.The State Department’s “campaign” was announced in a news release on Monday, accompanied by a video statement from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listIt comes amid widespread threats to punish any group that supports investigations against the United States and its allies, particularly Israel, and comes as the…
An Israeli soldier who physically assaulted a CNN photojournalist in March has been formally reprimanded by his superiors for use of force, but no criminal charges have been filed in the case, the Israeli military announced Monday. “The investigation revealed that during an encounter between IDF (Israel Defense Forces) soldiers and a media crew in the area, one of the soldiers used physical violence against a photographer from a media organization,” the military said in a statement to CNN. The military police’s criminal investigation unit investigated the assault, but military prosecutors ultimately did not file criminal charges, instead moving to…