The United States remains the largest travel market in the world and retained its position in 2025. However, it is losing ground. Last year, the U.S. experienced a slump in visitor numbers and international spending, driven in part by Canadians choosing to stay away. This has cost the country billions of dollars in revenue, and if the downward trend continues, it could lose its top position to China.
Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against the owner of the cargo ship Dali, two years after the vessel struck Baltimore's Key Bridge, causing its collapse and killing six people. Synergy Marine, the company that operated the ship, along with one of its employees, has been charged with conspiracy, obstruction and misconduct resulting in death, among other offences. Read more
Consumer prices climbed last month by the most in three years, but prices for electricity surged even more, highlighting an intensifying battle between utilities, consumers and power grids. Electricity prices jumped 6.1% last month compared to a year earlier, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data published on Tuesday. Read more
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Americans' increasingly perilous finances and rising prices aren't on his mind at all as the months-long impasse over the Strait of Hormuz continues to fuel surging inflation and skyrocketing gas prices across the United States. Trump made the shocking confession as he departed the White House for Beijing, where he will be feted by Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a state visit, including a lavish Thursday night banquet at the Great Hall of the People. Asked about the continuing pocketbook pressures faced by everyday consumers as a result of the war he started more than two months ago, he told reporters: "I don't think about American financial situation " I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon."
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The court said law-abiding residents who have deep community ties have stronger constitutional protections than those who are detained at the border.
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Chief Justice John Roberts warned that the Supreme Court must be cautious about overruling precedent, saying doing so for ideological reasons can damage the legal system.
Since the Citizens United decision of 2010, the justices have dismantled Americans' voices. The only solution is at the ballot box
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Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has labelled New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a "parasite sucking on the taxpayer" because she collects a federal paycheck - just as he does. Cruz was guesting on Sean Hannity's Fox News show Monday evening when he lashed out at "radical extremists" like Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and AOC in a warning to viewers about what is at stake if Republicans lose November's midterm elections. "The stakes are, do we hand over the Congress and the country to a bunch of radical extremists?" the senator said.
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President Donald Trump is scheduled to see doctors for a medical and dental checkup this month " his fourth publicized visit to medical experts since returning to office " in what the White House describes as an annual physical and regular preventive care. Trump, who turns 80 next month and was the oldest person elected U.S. president, will see his doctors at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on May 26, the White House said in a brief statement Monday evening. Trump " who has been frequently critical of former President Joe Biden for age-related health and fitness issues " has recently remarked how good he feels despite his years. Earlier Monday, Trump that he feels the same as he did 50 years ago.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden"This paragon of collectivism is pivoting toward rugged individualism. For decades, Sweden was shorthand for the brand of high-tax, high-spend government that managed people's lives from cradle to grave through state-run hospitals, schools and care homes. No longer. With little fanfare, this Nordic country of 11 million has embraced capitalism. Today, nearly half of primary healthcare clinics are privately owned, many by private-equity firms. One in three public high schools is privately run, up from 20% in 2011. School operators are listed on the stock exchange. Read more
For decades, many Chinese viewed the United States with a mix of admiration, envy and resentment. President Trump's volatile second term shattered that image.
For the first time in three years, Americans' wages are no longer outpacing inflation. Prices rose 0.6% on a monthly basis, driving the annual rate to 3.8%, the highest since May 2023, according to the latest Consumer Price Index data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists had expected prices to rise 0.6% from March and for the annual rate to climb to 3.7%. Read more
