A winter storm sweeping through the U.S. South on Tuesday was dumping snow at levels millions of residents haven't seen before. A person uses cross-country skis as he walks through a snow covered hill at Herman Park Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Moisture from the Gulf...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation after a ceasefire paused more than 15 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas. Across the tiny coastal enclave, where built-up refugee camps are interspersed between cities, drone footage...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on his first full day in office Tuesday defended his decision to grant clemency to people convicted of assaulting police officers during the 2021 attack on the Capitol and suggested there could be a place in U.S. politics for the Proud Boys and Oath...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (center) delivers his message at the welcome lunch for the Philippine delegation to the World Economic Forum 2025 annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Monday (Switzerland time) (PPAB) House Speaker Martin...
Nervosa, Brazil’s all-female thrash metal band, will be coming to Manila for their Asia-Pacific tour. “Nervosa is considered an important reference in the female metal scene as well as in the thrash metal scene worldwide, being known for its compositions characterized by her own style,”...
BOSTON (AP) — Residents across the country from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine are bracing for dangerously low temperatures as tens of millions of residents along the East Coast contend with a thick blanket of snow — and more snowfall in the forecast. A pedestrian crosses First Avenue...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an extraordinary use of the powers of the presidency in his final hours to guard against potential...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is going to issue a series of orders aimed at remaking America’s immigration policies, ending asylum access, sending troops to the southern border and ending birthright citizenship, an incoming White House official said. A young mother signs a form...
Engineering and infrastructure firm Megawide Construction Corporation is setting a P1.8 billion capital expenditure budget for 2025, an increase of 50 percent over the estimated P1.2 billion it spent last year. In an interview, Megawide Chairman Edgar Saavedra said this year’s capex will be...
Key government officials, including Department of Finance (DOF) Secretary Ralph Recto and Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Cristina Roque, and delegates from the private sector are set to push for more investments to the Philippines in the upcoming World Economic Forum (WEF). Recto,...
A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. FILE - Girls attend school on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 25, 2023. (AP...
A 33-year-old man was arrested by operatives of the Quezon Police District for robbery and illegal possession of firearms on Saturday, Jan. 18. The suspect was identified as Raffy Radaza, 33, a resident of Brgy. Batasan Hills, Quezon City. (Quezon City Police District) According to a police report...
