Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday that a great wrong was being done to Tesla employees and customers when asked on Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier” about incidents at dealerships that include arson attacks. Tesla has…

LONDON/WHITE LAKE, Michigan – Major automakers can deal with President Donald Trump’s tariffs on U.S. auto imports in a number of ways, but all of them lead to higher prices, fewer choices of models or limits on features for consumers,…

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Agency for International Development will send some teams to Thailand to help with recovery efforts following an earthquake that hit southeast Asia, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Trevor Milton, the founder of bankrupt electric and hydrogen-powered truck maker Nikola who was convicted of fraud, has been pardoned by U.S. President Donald Trump, Milton said in a social media post on Thursday. Milton was sentenced to four years…

Tech billionaire Elon Musk, whom U.S. President Donald Trump has tapped to shrink the government, said on Thursday he would finish most of the work to cut $1 trillion in federal spending when his tenure ends in as soon as…

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are probing a claim by GSK that Pfizer delayed announcing its COVID shot’s success in 2020 until after that year’s election, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The report said on…

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday launched a nuclear-powered submarine equipped with hypersonic Zircon missiles capable of travelling at several times the speed of sound. Russian news agencies, referring to a video link from the Arctic port of Murmansk, said Putin…

WASHINGTON – U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty said on Thursday that its parent agency had rescinded an order terminating its grant funding, after the news outlet sued the Trump administration over the cuts. RFE/RL’s sister organization, Radio Free Asia,…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -U.S. Secretary of State warned Venezuela on Thursday that it would be “a very bad day” for the South American country if it were to attack its neighbor Guyana or U.S.-based energy giant ExxonMobil, in comments that threatened…

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration invited companies to email the Environmental Protection Agency to seek presidential exemptions from nine clean-air regulations, including mercury limits for power plants and limits on hazardous air pollutants in plastic production by March 31, the…

NEW YORK – Dua Lipa won the dismissal on Thursday of a lawsuit in Manhattan accusing the British pop star of copying her 2021 megahit “Levitating” from a 1979 disco song. U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla said L. Russell…

The Trump administration on Thursday asked a U.S. appeals court to allow it to enforce a ban on transgender people serving in the military while it appeals a federal judge’s order blocking the ban. In an emergency motion filed in…

DUBAI  -Iran has sent a response through Oman to U.S. President Donald Trump’s letter in which he urged Tehran to reach a new nuclear deal, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was cited as saying by the official IRNA news agency…

WASHINGTON -The Trump administration’s nominee to oversee a $42 billion government fund to bring high-speed broadband internet to unserved or underserved parts of the United States denied on Thursday that she would administer the program to benefit Starlink owner Elon…

BRUSSELS – The European Union’s member states announced on Thursday sanctions on a further 25 individuals and seven entities over what the EU said was the undermining of democracy and rule of law in Belarus. Among those being sanctioned is…

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned against “the fires of antisemitism” in Western Europe at a conference on Thursday overshadowed by a boycott by several Jewish speakers over the presence of a number of right-wing and far-right European…

PARIS – French prosecutors requested on Thursday an 18-month suspended sentence and a 20,000-euro ($21,588.00) fine for actor Gerard Depardieu in his sexual assault trial, Le Parisien and other media reported. Depardieu, 76, a towering figure of French cinema, is…

(This March 26 story has been refiled to correct grammatical errors in paragraphs 1 and 2) KINGSTON  – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday said that Jamaica and the U.S. will discuss the Cuban doctors helping the Caribbean…

GEORGETOWN -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday the State Department may have revoked more than 300 visas and warned that the Trump administration was looking every day for “these lunatics” after Washington this week detained and revoked…

BOGOTA – The United States will deploy biometric capabilities in partnership with Colombia to help manage migration and disrupt criminal activity, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said during a visit to Bogota on Thursday. “Today we have signed a…

KYIV – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday Russian artillery had damaged Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in the front-line city of Kherson, two days after the U.S. announced that each side had agreed to a truce on energy strikes. “Two days…

PARIS – French prosecutors on Thursday requested a seven-year jail sentence and a 300,000-euro fine for French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy for allegedly taking millions of euros from late Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi to help his 2007 election campaign. Sarkozy has…

COPENHAGEN  -Greenland’s Democrats will announce a four-party coalition government on Friday, local media said on Thursday, following an election overshadowed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s interest in taking control of the island. The expected announcement of a broad coalition would…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney did not speak to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, a spokeswoman for Carney said, denying an earlier story. Citing sources in Washington, said the two men had held their first call since Carney was…

A local official in New York on Thursday rejected Texas’ effort to enforce a $100,000 judgment against a New York doctor accused of sending abortion pills to the state, escalating an unprecedented interstate conflict. Acting Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck…

CHICAGO/NEW YORK – U.S. airlines were flying high less than two months ago on talk of a new golden age, as strong travel demand and tight industry-wide capacity raised the prospect of a multi-year profit boom. But President Donald Trump’s…

NEW YORK – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has asked oil and biofuels producers to hash out a deal on the next phase of the nation’s biofuels policy to avoid the kind of political clashes that marked his first term,…

DHAKA – The United Nations World Food Programme has managed to sustain food assistance for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, though rations have been slightly reduced due to funding shortages, officials said on Thursday. Under the revised system, each refugee in…

Shares of highly shorted Hertz and Avis Budget Group surged on Thursday as U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to slap a 25% tariff on imported vehicles raised prospects of consumers opting for car rentals instead of buying expensive new cars….