From free cruises to cash-filled birthday cards: The wild shadow economy of unofficial recruiting visits
Schools are increasingly paying for unofficial visits despite NCAA rules preventing it.
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Hegseth Visits Guantánamo Bay Amid U.S. Tensions With Cuba
The trip comes as the Trump administration pushes for political and economic changes on the island.
Unbreakable Kim? China's Xi visits Russia-backed North Korean leader
It takes convincing these days to get China’s leader to go abroad. Xi Jinping’s just wrapped up what was only his first foreign visit of 2026. Why Pyongyang?
Speaker Visits White House as FISA, Budget Bill Hang in Balance
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La. ) will head to the White House for a meeting Tuesday, an aide familiar confirmed, as a key spy powers tool’s expiration looms and the House GOP ramps up ambitious plans for a third party-line budget bill. Mick Mulvaney, who served as director of the Office of Managem...
‘Woefully unprepared’: extreme heat will double US hospitalizations by 2040, study finds
Sharp rise in hospital visits will in turn drive up annual healthcare costs for heat-related conditions to over $1bn People in the US are poised to endure another summer of unusually ferocious heat and there will be little respite in the years ahead, with a new study finding that the coming 15 ye...