Palm trees are a symbol of the Los Angeles (LA) area, like the Empire State Building in New York or the Space Needle in Seattle. With tall trunks and thick leaves, palm trees have long dominated the LA skyline. However, recently, there has been a growing call in LA to remove the palm trees that line...
Haiti in the Caribbean has been struggling with gang violence in recent years. Most gangs are armed, resulting in over 5,600 deaths last year alone, an increase of 1,000 compared to the previous year. Additionally, the number of displaced people due to gang violence in Haiti exceeds 1 million. Accor...
On the 26th (local time), U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 25% tax on automobiles at the White House, stating that if the Chinese video platform TikTok cooperates in selling its U.S. business rights to the country, he could lower the tariffs. This reveals Trump’s ambition to make TikTok a U.S...
On the 28th (local time), a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar, causing a 30-story high-rise building under construction in Bangkok, Thailand, to collapse. According to AFP, local police reported that a building under construction near the Chatuchak market, a Bangkok landmark, collapsed, b...
On the 28th (local time), a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred in the interior of Myanmar. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported that a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the interior of Myanmar around 12:50 p.m. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) also confirmed the earthquake's...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on the 27th (local time), "The existing relationship with the United States is now over,” and, “The United States is no longer a reliable partner, and we cannot go back to the past." After a Cabinet special committee meeting on tariff responses to the Trump a...
On the 27th (local time), the U.S. Department of State expressed condolences for the significant loss of life and property caused by the wildfire that occurred in the Yeongnam region of South Korea. The Department of State, in a statement issued in the afternoon by Spokesperson Tammy Bruce, said, “W...
Samsung Electronics recently signed a lobbying contract with the company where Susan Wyles, the chief of staff at the White House, works. According to the lobbying disclosure report of the U.S. Federal Senate on the 27th (local time), the U.S. branch of Samsung Electronics signed a contract with the...
Recently, as attacks targeting Tesla occur across the U.S., a man in his 30s, believed to be of Korean descent, was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, on suspicion of setting multiple Teslas on fire. According to reports from the New York Times (NYT) and others on the 27th (local time), local police arr...
Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that he would cooperate with other countries, including North Korea, to resolve the Ukraine war. On the 28th (local time), President Putin visited the Murmansk region and stated, "We support resolving all these issues through peaceful means, but we must elimina...
