4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (596+ words) A former member of Puerto Rico’s Drought Committee is warning that cloud‑seeding remains an unreliable and largely unproven tool for the island, even as the government has restarted operations over the Carraízo and La Plata reservoir basins to confront…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (880+ words) By ANUPREETA DAS, SAJAL PRADHAN and BINOD GHIMIRE Two days after a catastrophic earthquake shook Nepal in April 2015, the United States Agency for International Development deployed a 128-member disaster response team to assess how it could help and pledged $10 million…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (462+ words) A Treasury Department employee pleaded guilty to participating in a bribery scheme in which he received payments to eliminate taxes owed by individuals and businesses -- a case that caused an estimated $6.7 million loss to the public treasury, the U.S. Attorney’s Office…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (504+ words) Like much of the world, I’ve watched and rewatched videos of the catastrophic flood that have filtered out of Nepal with horror and sadness. But unlike many, I have an intimate knowledge of this part of the world, where I…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (759+ words) Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first stop on a three-country trip this week is Colombia. There, he plans to deliver a strong message from President Donald Trump to the country’s new president, a staunch U.S. ally, according to two…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (900+ words) When a far-right party won a landslide victory Sunday in a small state in eastern Germany, its reverberations could be felt from Downing Street in London to the Élysée Palace in Paris. Rarely has the result of a regional election…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (655+ words) After more than two weeks of finger-pointing, threats and patronizing insults between longtime trading partners, Canada’s latest retaliatory tariffs against the United States are set to take effect just after midnight Eastern time Tuesday. Polls show that Canadians strongly back…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1024+ words) Dozens of deportees are arriving in the Haitian city of Cap Haitien weekly as the Trump administration pushes to remove Haitians who lack legal immigration status in the United States, and some are now marooned in an unfamiliar place. More…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (692+ words) Businesses in August shook off uncertainty related to higher gas prices, tariffs and artificial intelligence, unleashing an unexpected wave of hiring that affirmed the labor market’s health. The zesty employment figures come at a time of broader economic resilience, marked…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (1214+ words) By ANDRÉ PAULTRE and FRANCES ROBLES Gang violence in Haiti is so bad that Antoine Rodon Bien-Aimé, a candidate for the Haitian Senate, has been campaigning via speakerphone and video calls to community meetings. Elections — the first in a decade…...