Mexico Agriculture Secretary Says Still No Date for Restarting Cattle Exports to U.S.

By Cassandra Garrison MEXICO CITY, Oct. 29 (Reuters) - Mexican Agriculture Minister Julio Berdegue said on Wednesday that Mexico and the United States have not yet set a date to resume Mexican cattle exports amid an outbreak of the flesh-eating...

The government shutdown takes a $7 billion toll on the U.S. economy, so far

That sum would climb to $14 billion if the government shutdown drags on for another month. Michele Sandiford October 30, 2025 11:51 am < a min read The second-longest government shutdown is projected to put a toll on the U.S. economy. The...

Iowa Ag Secretary Naig: ‘great news’ that China’s buying U.S. beans again

by O. Kay Henderson | Oct 30, 2025 Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig on the "Iowa Press" set at Iowa PBS (Iowa PBS photo) President Trump met with China’s president earlier today and Trump says China has agreed to start buying “massive...

Federal Policy Shifts Leave Refugee and Displaced Students in Limbo on U.S. Campuses

Higher education institutions are grappling with cascading federal immigration File photochanges that have upended protections for hundreds of thousands of refugee and displaced students across the United States, according to a comprehensive...

Federal Reserve Eases Monetary Policy, Slashes Rates y 25bps Amid Record U.S. Government Shutdown

The United States Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced a 25-basis-point interest rate cut — the second in 2025 — as the country faces its longest federal government shutdown on record. With this latest reduction, the benchmark federal funds rate...

Korea and U.S. have diverging views after tariff 'deal'

Published: 31 Oct. 2025, 00:00 President Lee Jae Myung welcomes U.S. President Donald Trump before a state banquet at the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang, on Wednesday. [YONHAP] Korea and the United States reached...

Judge disqualifies acting U.S. attorney Bill Essayli

A federal judge disqualified acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli in Southern California from several cases after concluding Tuesday that the Trump appointee has stayed in the temporary job longer than allowed by law. U.S. District Judge J. Michael...

OKLAHOMA VOICE: U.S. Senate again rejects bill ending shutdown, as air traffic controllers miss paychecks

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Tuesday failed for the 13th time to advance a stopgap spending bill that would fund the government until Nov. 21 and end the nearly one-month government shutdown. Tuesday was also the day when air traffic controllers,...

Mexican activists highlight UN rejection of U.S. blockade against Cuba

7 Activist Ivón Guerra, a member of the board of directors of the José Martí Association of Cuban Residents in Mexico, highlighted today the rejection by 165 nations at the UN of the blockade imposed by the United States on the island. “Despite...

Trump sets lowest refugee cap in U.S. history at 7,500, mostly for Afrikaners

The Trump administration on Thursday announced it would set the lowest refugee admissions cap in U.S. history, allocating just 7,500 spots for this fiscal year, mostly for Afrikaners who it has claimed are facing racial discrimination in South...

Jester: Approximately 240 of Arkansas’ 1.8 million registered voters are not U.S. citizens

Arkansas Secretary of State Cole Jester said Thursday the secretary of state's office determined that roughly 240 of Arkansas' about 1.8 million registered voters are not U.S. citizens, after submitting the state's voter rolls to the federal...

Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering U.S. It’ll be mostly white South Africans

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previously allowed in hundreds of...

Iraq Seals USD1B Deal with U.S. Energy Company for Gas Supply Boost

(MENAFN) Iraq sealed a pivotal agreement with U.S. energy company Excelerate Energy on Tuesday to deploy a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), a move aimed at strengthening the nation’s energy security and electricity generation...

Offshore wind set to triple by 2030 despite U.S. slowdown, says report

Offshore wind energy is on track to triple globally by 2030, offering a rare climate success story amid global energy uncertainty, according to a new report by Ember, an energy and climate think tank based in the U.K., in collaboration with the...

Why Is The U.S. Planning Christian Nationalist Revival Meetings?

HUD Secretary Scott Turner teamed up with Christian nationalist and Dominionist cult leader Sean Feucht earlier this year to host a Christian nationalist worship service on the National Mall. Now, Feucht says he is working with members of the...

German ‘Anti-Greta’ Seeks U.S. Asylum Over European Persecution

Naomi Seibt, a 25-year-old conservative dubbed the “anti-Greta” due to her activism from a young age against mass immigration and ‘green’ zealotry, is fleeing from her native Germany and seeking asylum in America. Announcing the move on social...

Iranian Activist, Taught to Hate the U.S. as a Child, Now Grateful For the Freedom to Express Herself

"It’s ironic that a child who once chanted 'death to America' has, as an adult, been given a second life in the same country she was taught to hate," writes Iranian activist Masih Alinejad. She has written a very personal op-ed in The Free Press...

Casey Means U.S. Senate hearing postponed. What is the controversy? All you need to know about Donald Trump's surgeon general pick

Casey Means' Senate hearing has been postponed. The news comes just hours before the President Donald Trump's surgeon general pick, who has been pregnant, was set to appear virtually with the committee for her confirmation hearing. It was not...

Ongoing gov't shutdown could cost U.S. economy up to 14 bln USD

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing federal government shutdown could cost the U.S. economy between seven billion and 14 billion U.S. dollars, depending on how long it drags on, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Wednesday in a...

Could the United States Unilaterally Grant Puerto Rico Independence?

Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by Pablo José Hernández, the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico. He is basically the non-voting member in Congress for Puerto Rico, and caucuses with Democrats. The ostensible purpose...