At a trucking school in New Jersey, students are manoeuvring 18-wheelers around traffic cones. Other future drivers look under hoods to perform safety checks, narrating as they examine steering hoses for cracks and leaks. An instructor glides between speaking Spanish and English as he teaches Manuel Castillo, a native Spanish speaker, how to inspect a … Read more
The recent shootings at the homes of Minnesota state lawmakers, which have left two people dead, are a “grim milestone” in the ongoing history of American political violence. That’s the assessment of analyst Riley McCabe, who helped compile a comprehensive report on that subject released in late 2024 by Washington think-tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The shootings … Read more
MIAMI — A hurricane watch was in effect Tuesday for southern Mexico as a tropical depression in the eastern Pacific gained strength. The depression was likely to become a tropical storm later Tuesday and a hurricane Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. It had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and was … Read more
President Donald Trump’s new ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries took effect Monday amid rising tension over the president’s escalating campaign of immigration enforcement. The new proclamation, which Trump signed last week, applies to citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, … Read more