By putting more resources in the pockets of vulnerable Americans, SNAP increases purchasing power and is good for the economy, infusing approximately $29 million each month into Rhode Island. Despite the government shutdown, SNAP recipients received their disbursements in October. However, starting in November, SNAP recipients in Rhode Island will have to forego their benefits…
A court in Paris on Thursday found Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of France, guilty of a criminal conspiracy to illegally finance his 2007 campaign with funds from the government of the onetime Libyan strongman Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. But Mr. Sarkozy, a conservative politician who led France from 2007 to 2012, was acquitted by the court…
President Trump appeared to suggest on Friday that a deal to separate TikTok from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had been approved by China’s top leader, Xi Jinping. In a post on Truth Social after a call with Mr. Xi, Mr. Trump wrote, “The call was a very good one, we will be speaking again by…
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Uganda said on Thursday that it had reached a deal with the U.S. government to accept migrants deported from the United States, stipulating that those sent must not have criminal records or be unaccompanied minors. The East African country will accept “third country nationals who may not be granted asylum in the United States but…
This is a patent application filed by a Chinese company in multiple countries to protect its novel design for an E.V. battery. A single red rectangle with a patent drawing. In 2000, Chinese applicants filed 18 clean energy patents that analysts said were internationally competitive. 18 red rectangles. In 2022, Chinese applicants filed more than…
After one of the most brutal wars of this century, a new Syria is rising from the disastrous legacy of the toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad. His photos have been torn from the walls, as people exercise freedoms denied during his family’s decades-long reign. Now, a different flag flies across Syria, the emblem of the rebels…
Five Western countries announced on Tuesday that they would impose sanctions on two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers, a remarkable rebuke of Israel’s leadership and a significant escalation of Western pressure on Israel over settler violence in the West Bank and the conduct of the war in Gaza. Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Norway jointly…
On a wet Wednesday morning in April, Ashley Holroyd had a steady but slow stream of customers into his coffee shop in Barrow-in-Furness, an industrial town in northwest England. The cafe, Coffee D’Ash, had been open for only about six months, and it barely filled the cavernous space. Despite the empty storefronts on the same…
A dramatic victory in a parliamentary special election. Hundreds of seats won in English municipalities. A first taste of power in the lower tiers of government. By making extensive gains in a set of local elections held on Thursday in England, Nigel Farage, one of Britain’s best known supporters of President Trump and the leader…