Several key Republican senators on Tuesday pushed back against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' recent comments that US support for Ukraine is not a "vital" national interest, exposing a key intraparty fault line ahead of the 2024 election.
After Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed, the US government stepped in with an extraordinary measure to rescue customers, some of whom held many millions of dollars in uninsured deposits that otherwise would have been wiped out.
The Alabama Crimson Tide will begin their March Madness journey on Thursday when they face the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders in the opening round.
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The last time a British finance minister unveiled a "budget for growth," UK financial markets crashed and mortgage rates shot up, threatening to tip an already weak economy into a deep recession. Kwasi Kwarteng was out of office within weeks, to be followed shortly by his boss, former Prime Minister Liz Truss.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a clear strategy for building support for his presidential bid: chum the waters with red meat for the Republican base, then follow his rhetorical punches with legislative and executive action. From banning books in school libraries to flying migrants to blue states to firing a progressive prosecutor, DeSantis has displayed a Trumpian knack for driving media coverage.
South Korea says it will build an enormous facility to make computer chips in the greater Seoul area, with about $230 billion in investment from memory chip giant Samsung Electronics.
Pakistani police fired tear gas into the grounds of Imran Khan's Lahore home on Wednesday following a night of violent clashes between security personnel and the former prime minister's supporters as attempts by authorities to arrest him stretched into a second day.
A deadly cyclone has broken records for the longest-lasting storm of its kind after making landfall in southern Africa for a second time, more than two weeks after the first. CNN's Larry Madowo reports.
Students at Wellesley College in Massachusetts approved a referendum Tuesday that called for accepting admissions applications from all nonbinary and transgender prospective students, a college spokesperson said.
CNN's Rosemary Church interviews a leading scientist about a 5,000 mile wide stinky seaweed blob that's headed for Florida beaches in the coming months.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has quietly reclassified some of its paintings. Two artists, once labeled Russian, are now categorized as Ukrainian and a painting by the French Impressionist Edgar Degas has been renamed from "Russian Dancer" to "Dancer in Ukrainian Dress."
At least 22 people, including three monks, were killed at a monastery in Myanmar's Southern Shan State on Saturday as local insurgent groups and the military accused each other of carrying out a massacre.
Russia might be bogged down in its vicious onslaught on Ukraine, but President Vladimir Putin is winning big elsewhere -- in the Republican presidential primary.
