3+ hour, 8+ min ago   (1068+ words) WASHINGTON — Canada might seem an unlikely target for a U.S. trade war. No country on Earth buys as much from the United States as its northern neighbor. For American farmers, Canada is second only to Mexico as an export market. A…...

7+ hour, 31+ min ago   (415+ words) “Water, Carbon, Time: Exploring Peatlands in a Warming World” By Jennifer de Mooy; University of Minnesota Press, 2026; 200 pages; $19.95 paperback. As de Mooy points out, peatlands have not always been appreciated. In America, they were long considered to be wastelands that…...

17+ hour, 16+ min ago   (437+ words) Sarah Short, a Republican candidate for House District 13 in Anchorage, sued the Alaska Public Offices Commission and the Alaska Division of Elections on Thursday, arguing that she was improperly disqualified from running in the primary after failing to file a…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (544+ words) KYIV, Ukraine — Russia bombarded cities across Ukraine with missiles and drones in an onslaught that began after nightfall Wednesday and continued into daylight hours Thursday, when explosions echoed around the capital Kyiv through the morning. Ukraine is desperately short of…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (828+ words) NEW YORK — Oil prices keep climbing as the war with Iran keeps clogging the global flow of crude, and they leaped Thursday to their highest levels since before the summer. That worsened worries about inflation and cranked up pressure within…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (783+ words) The sprawling snack-food factory in upstate New York appeared to be closed when a small army of immigration officers arrived after 9 a.m. Following a brief discussion of whether to force their way inside, a manager opened the front door. Over the…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (467+ words) WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is promising $500 rebate checks to an estimated 1 million Affordable Care Act enrollees across 30 states, who the White House alleged were overcharged by the Biden administration for exchange fees. The promise comes after Trump pledged Wednesday to…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (555+ words) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that oil prices that have surged because of the Iran war likely won’t come down until after U.S. midterm elections. Oil prices on Wednesday jumped more than 3%, pushing international Brent crude past the…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (432+ words) ADEN, Yemen — The Iran-backed Houthi rebel group on Thursday took over Yemen’s port city of Mokha, an area vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea, Houthi and Yemeni officials said. Mokha is about 50 miles from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait,…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (627+ words) President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party’s sagging fortunes in November. The dubious promise would most likely…...