Ice cream, picnics and beach balls are staples of summer at the beach. They are also sources of alarming oceanic pollution: plastic bottles, fishing lines, netting, cigarette butts, food wrappings and more are washing up on the world's beaches. The average cigarette butt takes 12 years to biodegrade, while a plastic bag takes up to 1,000 years. Can clean sand be a reality, or will waste be our legacy?
For Romania and Bulgaria, former Soviet Bloc countries that are now EU members, the light finally changed from red to green on Thursday as EU interior ministers agreed to let the two countries fully join the border-free Schengen zone on Jan. 1.
US President-elect Donald Trump has extended an unprecedentedinvitation to Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend his inauguration in Washington, DC, on Jan. 20, 2025.
GZERO Publisher Evan Solomon responds to comments made by two of our top 2024 game changers, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, about cutting foreign aid. “A dramatic turn to US isolationism in a world of crisis,” Solomon writes, “would be a troubling, game-changing trend that would only make the US more vulnerable.”
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Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old alleged assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was captured while eating hashbrowns in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s on Monday after a customer recognized him, ending a six-day manhunt.
The Bank of Canada cut interest rates by half a point to 3.25% on Wednesday to kickstart some growth in the Canadian economy.
Canadian Finance Minister Chyrstia Freeland is expected to reveal Monday that she has missed the $40.1 billion deficit target that she set for herself last year, the latest in a long string of fiscal targets Justin Trudeau’s government has missed over the years.
On Saturday, not long after Syrian dictator Bashar Assad fled to Russia, Donald Trump wrote — in all caps — that the United States should stay out of Syria: “This is not our fight,” he wrote. “Let it play out. Do not get involved.”
Kimberly Guilfoyle speaks during the third day of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 16, 2024.