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Since 2018, South Korea has been the only member of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development with a rate below 1. File | Photo Credit: AP South Korea’s fertility rate rose in 2024 for the first time in nine years, supported by an increase in marriages, preliminary data showed on Wednesday (February 26, 2025), … Read more
With a push from President Donald Trump, House Republicans sent a Grand Old Party (GOP) budget blueprint to passage Tuesday (February 25, 2025), a step toward delivering his “big, beautiful bill” with $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $2 trillion in spending cuts despite a wall of Opposition from Democrats and discomfort among Republicans. House Speaker … Read more
Southwest Flight 2504 safely landed “after the crew performed a precautionary go-around to avoid a possible conflict with another aircraft that entered the runway,” an airline spokesperson said in an email. File | Photo Credit: AP Pilots on a Southwest Airlines flight attempting to land at Chicago’s Midway Airport were forced to climb back into … Read more
Representational image of a seismograph recording an earthquake. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit near the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Wednesday (February 26, 2025), the United States Geological Survey said, forcing residents to flee outside but with no damage or casualties reported. The tremor hit at 6:55 a.m. local time … Read more
Pope Francis was in critical but stable condition Tuesday (February 25, 2025) as he worked from the hospital while battling double pneumonia, and the Vatican announced some major governing decisions that suggest he is getting essential work done and looking ahead. The Vatican’s evening update said the 88-year-old pope had had no new respiratory crises … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on on the day he signs an executive order in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, D.C. on February 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday (February 25, 2025) that he plans to offer a “gold card” visa with a path to … Read more
Israel has delayed the release of 600 Palestinian prisoners since Saturday (February 22, 2025) to protest what it says is the cruel treatment of hostages during their release by Hamas. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli and Hamas officials said Tuesday (February 25, 2025) they have reached an agreement to exchange the bodies of dead hostages … Read more
Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include the exploitation of rare earth minerals. Representational image | Photo Credit: Getty Images Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include the exploitation of rare … Read more
Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include the exploitation of rare earth minerals. Representational image | Photo Credit: Getty Images Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include the exploitation of rare … Read more
A Lebanese army soldier and people stand on rubble at a damaged site in the aftermath of a Israeli strike in Lebanon | Photo Credit: Reuters Lebanese state media said that an Israeli air strike on Tuesday (February 25, 2025) killed at least two people in the country’s east, where the military said it targeted … Read more