LendingTree CEO and founder Doug Lebda died in an all-terrain vehicle accident over the weekend, the online loaning platform said Monday. He was 55. In a company announcement, LendingTree confirmed that Lebda died on Sunday and that the company was grieving his unexpected death. A spokesperson said the accident occurred at a family farm in…
Hong Kong — President Donald Trump expressed shock at China’s “surprising” move to unleash sweeping export controls on rare earths, accusing the country of “becoming very hostile.” But according to Beijing, it was Washington’s expansion of curbs on Chinese firms that ratcheted up tensions and drove it to further tighten its grip on the critical…
The Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal is Trumpism’s biggest triumph. President Donald Trump is likely to see it as validation of his contempt for orthodox establishment peacemaking, traditional foreign policy dogmas and presidential caution. It’s a win for unpredictability, supping with tyrants and using real estate moguls as negotiators to chase the art of…
HICKORY, NC — Ready or not, help is on the way for North Carolina’s beleaguered furniture manufacturers. President Donald Trump is turning to his favorite weapon, massive tariffs on foreign goods slapped together with little notice, to revive furniture manufacturing in a state haunted by jobs shipped overseas over the past two decades. Yet some…
Utter devastation lies before investigators days after a building at a Tennessee explosives plant was razed by a blast so powerful that it left behind no living witnesses, created a vast and volatile investigative scene and cast potential evidence for miles around. The cause of Friday’s explosion is still under investigation, but authorities caution answers…
In many ways, Janet Mills is the ideal Democratic recruit to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a fifth-term moderate with a track record of beating well-funded challengers. Mills is a two-term governor with a history of outperforming her party and a record of pushing back against President Donald Trump. But there’s one issue her…
Oakland, California AP — Former All-Pro NFL running back Doug Martin died after a struggle with police officers who were taking him into custody while they were investigating a break-in at a home in Oakland, police said Monday. Martin, best known for his stellar career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, became unresponsive after being arrested…
Tokyo — Staunch conservative Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan’s first female prime minister by parliament on Tuesday, in a landmark moment for the historically patriarchal country where both politics and workplaces are dominated by older men. Takaichi steps into the role as Japan faces mounting economic woes and a fractured politics, and just days before…
Washington — An American Airlines flight, operated by SkyWest Airlines, made an emergency landing Monday night in Nebraska, after the pilots could not reach the flight attendants and heard someone outside the cockpit door, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Flight 6469 took off from Omaha’s Eppley Airfield at 6:41 p.m. local time headed to…
President Donald Trump’s hopes for a quick meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin have stalled out, with an administration official telling CNN on Tuesday there were “no plans” for a summit between the two “in the immediate future.” The change in posture comes after Trump said the leaders would meet “within two weeks or so,…
