Chinese stocks have outpaced their American counterparts in recent weeks, credited to increased optimism in the country's tech sector and tariff-related volatility in the United States. Since the day before President Donald Trump's inauguration, the CSI 300 Index, which tracks the top stocks on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges, has risen 5.2 percent. The MSCI China Index, composed of Chinese equities across share classes, has risen nearly 28 percent over the same period, while the Hong Kong-based Hang Seng Index has gained 26 percent. read more
The US government has defunded one programme and left another that both document alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The Trump administration cut funding for Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), which had detailed the mass deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. It has also withdrawn from a multinational group meant to investigate the leaders responsible for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including President Vladimir Putin. read more
US President Donald Trump's administration is working to bring back nearly 25,000 fired federal workers after judges ruled their terminations were illegal, court documents show. read more
United States President Donald Trump has said his administration will on Tuesday release approximately 80,000 pages of files about the assassination of John F Kennedy...
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed from its website information and educational materials about the history of black and female service members. Some of the content unpublished from the site was on veterans who had received the nation's highest military recognition, the Medal of Honor, according to military news site Task & Purpose. read more
Remember the good old days when it was just the pillow guy hanging out in the Oval?