Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area are set to receive an unusually high amount of snow this weekend, as a massive winter storm makes its way across the United States. Several inches of snow and frigid temperatures are expected to hit the Beltway region, potentially lasting from Saturday through Monday. As the snowstorm materializes closer […]

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted to assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday. The case has revealed decades of cozy ties between Japan’s governing party and a controversial South Korean church. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, earlier admitted to killing Abe in July 2022 as the former prime […]

President Donald Trump singled out Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during his Davos speech, deriding him as “ungrateful” in his own speech. In a free-wheeling speech on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump touted his accomplishments during his first year back in office and reiterated his grievances with the NATO alliance. […]

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed Denmark as “irrelevant” on Wednesday after its pension operator threatened to pull its investments from the United States. As the European Union continues to search for a response to President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland and the resulting tariffs, Denmark’s pension operator, AkademikerPension, announced on Tuesday that it would […]