By United Press International, Inc. | | 4/2/2025 7:10 PM
United Airlines on Wednesday announced expanded service to Asia becoming only U.S. carrier with daily flights to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Bangkok, Thailand on Oct. 26. ... Read full Story
The White House released a list more than 150 countries and territories that would see at least a 10 per cent 'reciprocal tariff' from the U.S. ... Read full Story
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to escalate the war with Hamas until the militant group returns dozens of remaining hostages, disarms and leaves the territory. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 4/2/2025 12:17 PM
The U.S. Treasury Department Wednesday sanctioned an alleged network of Houthi financial and procurement operatives it said has procured tens of millions of dollars worth of weapons and other goods from Russia. ... Read full Story
There is a second round of observations set for May 2025, before the asteroid could disappear into the outer solar system for the next several years. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 4/2/2025 10:28 AM
The United States doubled down on its decades-old support for Taiwan as China flexed its muscles with a second day of large-scale military exercises around Taiwan, including live-fire drills. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 4/2/2025 7:39 AM
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Wednesday a significant escalation of Israel's renewed offensive in Gaza to capture "large areas," creating security buffers between the Palestinian enclave and Israel. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 4/2/2025 5:11 AM
A South Korean company has launched political meme coins which it claims offer a real-time reflection of public sentiment amid the divisive impeachment trial of its president. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 4/2/2025 4:25 AM
South Korean acting President Han Duck-soo on Wednesday called for the public to "calmly and coolly" accept the forthcoming Constitutional Court verdict on the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol. ... Read full Story
'Air Canada, WestJet, Porter, and Flair have changed their schedule, at least for the summer. They’re still going to most U.S. destinations, but with less capacity.' ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 4/1/2025 8:13 PM
A 29-day round-trip cruise from England to the Caribbean aboard the Queen Mary 2 luxury liner turned into an ordeal for 224 passengers and 17 crew members who reported becoming ill. ... Read full Story
The head of Myanmar’s military government told a forum for relief donations in Naypyitaw that 2,719 people have now been found dead, with 4,521 others injured and 441 missing. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 4/1/2025 4:48 PM
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Hong-kyun agreed North Korea must remain nuclear-free while discussing matters in East Asia via telephone. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 4/1/2025 3:40 PM
The body of a fourth U.S. soldier missing since last week during training exercises in Lithuania was found Tuesday, officials confirmed. ... Read full Story
More than 500 days after she disappeared into the wilderness, Valerie has been spotted on surveillance cameras, still donning her pink collar. ... Read full Story
Gold prices have been spiking as President Donald Trump's tariff policies have started an international trade war that's roiled financial markets. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 4/1/2025 9:40 AM
China staged surprise military exercises in the sea and skies around Taiwan on Tuesday in what the People's Liberation Army said was a "stern warning" to the island's "separatist" government and those bent on dragging it ... Read full Story
U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to roll out taxes on imports from other countries on Wednesday. He says they will free the U.S. from reliance on foreign goods. ... Read full Story
"More recently, Billboard ranked Grande, who also writes and produces her own work, high on its list of the greatest pop stars of the 21st century. ... Rolling Stone has been similarly effusive, praising 'a whistle tone that rivals Mariah Carey’s in her prime.'" — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
Did you know?
English speakers have used effusive to describe excessive outpourings since the 17th century. Its oldest and still most common sense relates to the expression of abundant emotion or enthusiasm, but in the 1800s, geologists adopted a specific sense characterizing flowing lava, or hardened rock formed from flowing lava. Effusive can be traced, via the Medieval Latin adjective effūsīvus ("generating profusely, lavish"), to the Latin verb effundere ("to pour out"), which itself comes from fundere ("to pour") plus a modification of the prefix ex- ("out"). Our verb effuse has the same Latin ancestors. A person effuses when speaking effusively. Liquids can effuse as well, as in "water effusing from a pipe."