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Congress members will now be permitted to use campaign cash to hire bodyguards, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) ruled Thursday, after hours of debate. Under the FEC ruling, House and Senate members may use campaign funds to hire private security personnel without violating the prohibition on personal use, for occasions when they aren’t under the […]

TAIPEI—Taiwan and the United States have signed their first agreement under the Biden administration, establishing a Coast Guard Working Group to coordinate policy, following China’s passing of a law that allows its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels. The new government of U.S. President Joe Biden has moved to reassure Taiwan that its commitment

Tasmania, the island state in the south of Australia, will head to the polls on May 1, a year sooner than planned, after Speaker Sue Hickey quit the party, plunging the state Liberal government into a minority. Premier Peter Gutwein on Friday said, “Tasmania can’t afford the uncertainty of minority government. Now more than ever, we need

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said he would prevent China from passing the United States to become the most powerful country in the world, vowing to invest heavily to ensure America and its system of governance prevails as the leading model for the world. Biden said he had spent “hours upon hours” with Xi

An Australian school has apologised to parents after male students were forced to stand up in a show of compulsory solidarity at an assembly and apologise to the female students for sexism and assault on behalf of their gender. The assembly, which was held on March 24 at Brauer College, a government school in Warrnambool,

ISTANBUL—Turkey raised the issue of Uyghur Muslims during talks with China’s foreign minister in Ankara on Thursday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said, as hundreds of Uyghurs protested against the treatment of their ethnic kin in China. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Cavusoglu and later President Tayyip Erdogan, as around 1,000 protesters gathered in

Several powerful tornadoes tore through northern Alabama on Thursday, killing at least five people, injuring dozens of others, and destroying entire neighborhoods. The five confirmed fatalities were in Ohatchee, a town of about 1,200 people in the northwestern corner of the state where a twister ripped apart homes and downed trees and power lines, according to the Calhoun County Emergency Management

After two weeks of lifting its mask mandate and allowing businesses to open at full capacity, Texas is not seeing a surge of new COVID-19 cases. Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, issued an executive order (pdf) that went into effect on March 10 to loosen COVID-19 restrictions. Although the government’s statewide mask mandate was lifted,

The skyscraper-sized cargo ship blocking Egypt’s Suez Canal like a “beached whale” may remain stuck for weeks as salvage teams work to free the vessel. Officials blocked ships from entering the waterway after the MV Ever Given, a Panama-flagged ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, ran aground on Tuesday in the narrow, man-made

A few years ago at a friend’s house, I met a woman who had lost over 100 pounds. I was clearly impressed and asked her how she did it. Her answer was simple. “Walking,” she said. Walking? She went on to elaborate that she just put on her shoes one day and pretty much began walking