(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)HONG KONG -- China's economy expanded at a 5% annual pace in 2025, buoyed by strong exports despite U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed to extend a truce in their bruising tariffs war, also helping to alleviate pressure on China’s exports. But China's exports to the U.S. still fell 20% last year. Kang Yi, head of China’s National Bureau of Statistics, on Monday told reporters that China’s economy had sustained "steady progress in 2025 despite multiple pressures” and has “solid foundations" in countering risks. The Rhodium Group, a think tank, said last month it expected China’s economy to grow only by 2.5% to 3% last year.

Mom's heartbreak fuels serving the homeless Shirley Raines, the founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, has spent nearly a decade helping people facing hunger and homelessness by offering food and supplies with a message of dignity.

U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades. Federal data released Wednesday showed that overdose deaths have been falling for more than two years — the longest drop in decades — but also that the decline was slowing. Overdose deaths fell in 45 statesDeaths began steadily climbing in the 1990s with overdoses involving opioid painkillers, followed by waves of deaths from heroin and — more recently — illicit fentanyl. The new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data run through August 2025 and represents the first update of monthly provisional drug overdose deaths since the federal government shutdown. The recent deceleration of overdose deaths could be because producers in Canada and Mexico found alternative sources, Reuter and his colleagues think.

It was 1941, and Franklin D. Roosevelt had been encouraged to build a bomb shelter at the White House in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. At the time, “no public acknowledgment was made of there being a bomb shelter under construction, only the East Wing,” according to White House Historical Association historian Bill Seale. Nixon during a press conference in the East Wing of the White House in January 1969. The White House declined CNN’s request for comment. A ‘tomb-like’ shelterThough Roosevelt’s construction was initially envisioned as a bomb shelter, underground facilities beneath the East Wing evolved over time to serve multiple functions.

Trump carried Iowa in all three of his White House runs, with a bigger share of the vote each time. And I think Trump has proved himself. Mudd knows Trump voters who don’t care as much about voting when Trump is not on the ballot. But the new county Democratic chairwoman, Michele Pegg, said voter registration drives and door-to-door canvassing are on the horizon. Knock on a door.”This story has been updated to clarify Trump’s share of the vote in Iowa in the past three presidential elections.

But SBA funding ran out on Sept. 30 as lawmakers clashed over proposed reforms. A bipartisan House bill that would have reauthorized SBA funding for a year failed in the Senate amid opposition by Ernst, who is leaving Congress in a year. This month he visited several L.A.-area defense companies, including Torrance startup Castelion, a manufacture of hypersonic missiles that received SBIR funding. Hollywood Inc. Palmer Luckey’s Anduril leads second-quarter surge for venture capital in greater L.A. Venture capital investments in the L.A. region totaled $5.8 billion in the second quarter, more than double the amount from a year ago, according to a report from research firm CB Insights. He now assumes he will have to look for other sources of money to grow the company, which already attracted undisclosed venture capital.

The U.S. leader seems to revel in strolling through the Davos Congress Center and among executives who back his business-minded, money-making approach to politics. Oxfam, the world-renowned advocacy group, issued a report ahead of the Davos event which showed that billionaire wealth rose by more than 16% last year, three times faster than the past five-year average, to more than $18 trillion. Critics of WEF, and Trump, take to the streetsAs usual, protesters rallied over the weekend in and near Davos ahead of the event. Davos storekeepers rent out their premises so that forum participants can have the prime real estate for the week. Some say Swiss leaders who support the event and flock to Davos too are adding to the problem.

Thomas Lohnes/Getty ImagesStocks in Europe weakened, while the price of gold – a safe-haven asset – reached a new peak after US President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on European allies until a deal was reached for the US purchase of Greenland. In the United States, where markets are closed Monday, Dow futures were 0.9% down, while S&P 500 futures dropped by a steeper 1.2%. The US president announced Saturday that he would impose a 10% tariff from February 1 on goods from eight European countries. In response, the European Union is considering imposing €93 billion ($108 billion) of previously announced retaliatory tariffs against the United States. French President Emmanuel Macron has also reportedly called for the activation of the EU’s so-called anti-coercion instrument.

US President Donald Trump told Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre that he no longer feels bound “to think purely of Peace” because the Norwegian Nobel Committee did not award him the Nobel Peace Prize. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland,” Trump said in his note to Støre. Although the US has been the bedrock of Euro-Atlantic security for decades, and spent far more on defense in that period than any other NATO member, many NATO allies participated in recent US wars. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado holds a press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere, a day after the award ceremony, in Oslo, Norway, on December 11. The Nobel Committee awarded the 2025 peace prize to María Corina Machado, the leader of Venezuela’s democratic opposition, who last week gifted her medal to Trump when the pair met in Washington.

The Trump administration, meanwhile, raised the stakes further this month by opening a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. That fight isn’t before the Supreme Court, but it is likely to sit in the back of the justices’ minds. Rather than deciding the appeal on its emergency docket, the Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments. ‘Logically incoherent’Lawyers for fired leaders at other independent agencies for months sounded a warning they hoped would give the Supreme Court pause. The Federal Reserve did cut its benchmark interest rate in September, October and December — citing economic indicators, not presidential pressure.

“We came out [to protest] with fear, but we had hope that Trump will strike now, will kill these guys.”After Trump refrained from launching an attack, she concluded that he did not have Iranians’ interests in mind. We’ll be hitting them very hard where it hurts.”In another post, Trump promised that “HELP IS ON ITS WAY,” encouraging Iranians to “TAKE OVER” regime institutions. Trump said late last week that Iranian authorities had canceled plans to execute 800 protesters. Some Iranians hold out hope that Trump could yet decide to intervene. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said in a statement that “nobody knows what President Trump will do with respect to Iran besides the President himself.”Some foreign officials said Trump owes support to the Iranian protesters.

Of course I want to face this year determined to be a happier, kinder, more empathetic and more just person. It’s very simple, really: We need to demand the resurrection of customer service and put large numbers of well-paid and trained employees back in charge. My point is not that travel should always go smoothly — things break, weather turns, accidents happen. I’m not saying it would solve all of our problems, but it would go a long way to lowering the national temperature. Not to mention all the jobs, and career paths, at all levels, restoring customer service could provide.

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President Trump added a new dimension into his increasingly aggressive pursuit of Greenland , telling Norway that he no longer needed to think “purely of peace” after being snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize. European leaders are looking to take the heat out of the rapidly escalating issue, in hope that Trump won’t follow through with his pledge. In Brussels, EU officials and diplomats are taking the U.S. threats extremely seriously and see them as the latest evidence of a fundamental reshaping of trans-Atlantic ties. European officials are searching for ways to respond to the president without escalating the situation into a broader trade spat or capitulating on security in the face of his trade threats. European officials also point out that imposing tariffs on some—but not all—EU countries would be very difficult to enforce because the bloc operates as a single market.

Therapy language used to be confined to clinical settings and academic journals, but now, it crops up everywhere from TikTok captions to relationship arguments. Very few non-professionals using this language have a full, well-rounded academic understanding of the concepts they’re actually invoking. As a result of this, therapy language has quickly started to lose its original meaning. Therapy Language Weaponizes BoundariesFew therapy terms have entered popular culture as fully (or as confusingly) as boundaries have. Ironically, this dynamic undermines the very safety that therapy language is often used to protect.