Yoon Suk Yeol attends a hearing for his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, on Jan. 23, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSouth Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol walked out of a detention center in Seoul on Saturday after prosecutors decided not to appeal a court decision to cancel the impeached leader’s arrest warrant on insurrection charges.Yoon, 64, remains suspended from his duties, and his criminal and impeachment trials continue over his short-lived imposition of martial law on December 3.The Seoul Central District Court canceled Yoon’s arrest warrant on Friday, citing the timing of his indictment…
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wears an ICE vest during a briefing with law enforcement agents ahead of immigration raids in New York City, U.S., January 28, 2025 in this image obtained from social media. @sec_noem Via ReutersThe Department of Homeland Security has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to determine who might be leaking information to the media about immigration operations, according to four sources familiar with the practice. The department’s plans to perform these tests was first reported by Bloomberg Government.A spokesperson for DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Border czar Tom Homan and Homeland…
Evangelical Christian leaders who delivered votes to President Trump are now pressing him to declare that Israel can claim ownership of the West Bank, based on a promise God made to the Jews in the Bible.They are seeking a way to pave a path toward annexation of territory that is widely viewed internationally as intended for a future Palestinian state. Israel seized the territory as part of a war between it, Jordan, Egypt and Syria in 1967 and has occupied it since. In recent years, the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been encouraging Jewish settlers to build…
The market’s message and intentions are always worth debating — especially so during an intense pullback, with cacophonous policy headlines and piqued investor emotions animating the action day to day. Here’s an assessment of the weight of the evidence, after another rough week — but one that ended in a perky, if apprehensive, rally off a six-month low Friday afternoon, leaving the S & P 500 more than 6% from its record high reached less than three weeks ago — in the form of a bull-bear debate. The bear case: This tape is guilty until proven innocent. The Nasdaq ended…
Bill Gates’ favorite author has a new book, and the billionaire says “it will teach you a lot” about food.Specifically, how eliminating food waste and reducing global food insecurity could make food cheaper for everyone. Vaclav Smil’s “How to Feed the World,” which was published on Tuesday, “will transform the way you think about hunger, food, and what we eat (and don’t),” Gates wrote in an Instagram post on Wednesday.Smil, a Czech-Canadian professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba, has written more than 40 books on a range of topics like technological innovation, energy, public policy and population growth. Gates…
Growing up with very little money and six older siblings in the 1910s and 20s, Shirley Hodes and her sister Ruth “Ruthy” Sweedler didn’t have their own rooms. They didn’t even have their own places to sleep. The 10 members of their immediate family were all wedged into a 2-bedroom, 1-bath apartment with an attic. Five girls slept up there. Ruthy, Shirley, and a third sister shared one bed.One bonus of the cramped arrangement: The sisters formed a tight and enduring bond and stayed close their entire lives. When they passed away this winter, it was within days of each…
In early 2017, American intelligence agencies delivered an unequivocal judgment about why President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had ordered a sprawling effort to sabotage the recent American presidential election.Mr. Putin wanted to cripple the faith Americans have in their own elections, they found, and to undermine a United States-led “liberal world order” that the Russians see as a threat to their security. As a way to achieve this goal, the assessment found, Russia worked to help Donald J. Trump win the election.Eight years later, Mr. Trump sat in the Oval Office for a blustery meeting with President Voldymyr Zelensky…
Guido Mieth | Moment | Getty Images’Your IRA is an IOU to the IRS’Traditional IRAs are the oldest and most common type of IRA, owned by 31.3% of U.S. households as of mid-2023, according to research from the Investment Company Institute.Nearly two-thirds of families with traditional IRAs have accounts with retirement plan rollovers, and 43% made contributions on top of rolled over funds, ICI found. These accounts continue to grow, and many retirees don’t have a plan to withdraw the money, experts say.”Your IRA is an IOU to the IRS,” said Slott, who is also a certified public accountant.Starting at…
House Republicans unveiled a spending bill Saturday that would keep federal agencies funded through Sept. 30, pushing ahead with a go-it-alone strategy that seems certain to spark a major confrontation with Democrats over the contours of government spending.The 99-page bill would provide a slight boost to defense programs while trimming nondefense programs below 2024 budget year levels. That approach is likely to be a nonstarter for most Democrats who have long insisted that defense and nondefense spending move in the same direction.Congress must act by midnight Friday to avoid a partial government shutdown.Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is teeing up the…
In honor of International Women’s Day, The Economist released its annual glass-ceiling index which analyzes working conditions for women across the 29 countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).The countries were ranked based on these ten measures:Higher educationGMAT exams taken by womenLabor-force participation rateGender wage gapWomen in managerial positionsWomen on company boardsWomen in governmentNet child-care costsPaid leave for mothersPaid leave for fathersThe United States failed to make the top 10 ranking — taking the no. 19 position on the list. It’s something Lizzy Peet, data researcher at The Economist, says is not surprising, as America typically falls…
