• Ex-South Korean president remains defiant
  • Trump Imposes 15% Worldwide Tariff, up From 10%
  • India joins initiative to secure technology supply chains
  • Israel Kills 8 Hezbollah Members in Lebanon
  • Kim lauds North Korea's economy
Ukraine strikes a key industrial site deep inside Russia

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian forces struck an industrial site deep inside Russia on Saturday, which Ukraine and unofficial Russian news channels say was a key state-owned missile factory. The attack in Russia’s Udmurt Republic left 11 people wounded, three of whom were hospitalized, according to a Telegram post by Sergei Bagin, the local health minister.

Former South Korean president receives life sentence

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was found guilty of leading an insurrection on Thursday and sentenced to life in prison for his brief imposition of martial law in 2024, a ruling that marks a dramatic culmination of the country’s biggest political crisis in decades.

Blizzard warnings issued for New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut

NEW YORK (AP) – Blizzard warnings were issued Saturday for New York City, New Jersey and coastal communities along the East Coast as a late-winter storm set to arrive on Sunday. The National Weather Service increased its assessment of the potential severity of a storm that was projected to be less ferocious only days earlier.

US wins its record 11th gold medal at the Winter Olympics

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) – The U.S. Olympic team won its record-breaking 11th gold medal of the Winter Games on Saturday, with at least one more good possibility when its men’s hockey team wraps up the action on closing day with the title game against Canada.

Klaebo sets Winter Olympics gold standard and Norway to new heights

TESERO, Italy (AP) – Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo set the new gold standard Saturday for the most wins by one athlete in a single Winter Olympics by sweeping all six men’s cross-country skiing events at the Milan Cortina Games.

France takes gold and silver in the women's biathlon mass start race

ANTERSELVA, Italy (AP) – In the final biathlon event of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, France’s Oceane Michelon overcame a missed target in the final shooting stage in the 12.5-kilometer mass start race to take gold.

Trump imposes 15% worldwide tariff, up from 10% the day earlier

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump said that he was raising the global tariff he wants to impose to 15%, up from 10% he had announced a day earlier. Trump said he made the decision “Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday,” by the U.S. Supreme Court.

After Supreme Court tariff decision, the hard part is issuing refunds

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s biggest and boldest tariffs. But the justices left a $133 billion question unanswered: What’s going to happen to the money the government has already collected in import taxes now declared unlawful?

Global leaders pore over fallout of more US tariff swoons

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korean trade officials scrambled Saturday to assess the impact of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to invalidate some Trump administration tariffs, as business and governments around the world pored over the possible fallout from moves in Washington on the global economy.

Trump imposes 15% worldwide tariff, up from 10% the day earlier

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump said that he was raising the global tariff he wants to impose to 15%, up from 10% he had announced a day earlier. Trump said he made the decision “Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday,” by the U.S. Supreme Court.

After Supreme Court tariff decision, the hard part is issuing refunds

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s biggest and boldest tariffs. But the justices left a $133 billion question unanswered: What’s going to happen to the money the government has already collected in import taxes now declared unlawful?

Hungary blocks key EU loan to Ukraine until Russian oil shipments resume

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – Hungary will block a planned 90-billion-euro ($106-billion) European Union loan to Ukraine until the flow of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline resumes, Hungary’s foreign minister said.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a stinging loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda. The 6-3 decision centers on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law, including the sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs he levied on nearly every other country.