The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Va., Jan. 30, 2025. Air traffic controllers missed their first full paycheck of the shutdown on Tuesday, Oct. 28, as union leaders and the secretary of transportation warned of dire consequences if they missed another. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times) By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN and CHRISTINE CHUNG Air traffic controllers missed their first full paycheck of the shutdown Tuesday, as union leaders and t

Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, during a meeting in Washington, Oct. 24, 2025. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to lower interest rates on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, by a quarter of a percentage point for the second meeting in a row. (Caroline Gutman/The New York Times) By COLBY SMITH The Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday for a second time this year, despite officials having only a partial view of how the economy is faring

President Donald Trump, left, meets with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. The two leaders reached an agreement on fentanyl, some tariffs and rare earths, at least for a year. But even as the global trade picture cleared a little, Trump spurred new worries about nuclear proliferation. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By KATIE ROGERS and ERICA L. GREEN Before the high-stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping

A damaged building amid floodwaters following Hurricane Melissa in the Treasure Beach area of Jamaica, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. As Melissa was on course to hit Bermuda by Thursday night, Jamaica worked through the day to assess the damage from the powerful storm. It faced a long and daunting road to recovery, particularly in the western part of the country, the hardest-hit region. (Abbie Townsend/The New York Times) By EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA, ANNIE CORREAL, FRANCES ROBLE

Investors were pinning hopes on more monetary policy easing ahead, even as Wednesday’s Federal Reserve meeting revealed a less-certain path toward more interest rate cuts in the face of a data drought, sticky inflation and divided opinions among the central bank’s members. Fed Chair Jerome Powell surprised markets by casting doubt on the prospects of an interest rate cut at the central bank’s next meeting in December, saying such a move was “not a foregone conclusion” even th

Scarlet Camilo in “Boca Chica” (2023). (pragda.com via Selene Films) By DEVIKA GIRISH ‘Milisuthando’ South African artist and filmmaker Milisuthando Bongela had never really encountered racism until she was 9 years old — or so she thought. Born in 1985, Bongela was raised in the Transkei, one of South Africa’s many Bantustans: segregated regions that the apartheid government claimed conferred autonomy on the country’s native Black population, when in fact, they only entrenche

POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – El presidente de la Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico (AMPR), Víctor Manuel Bonilla Sánchez, lamentó el jueves el fallecimiento de la profesora Maritza Enid Sierra Vega, destacada maestra de salud y miembro activo de la Junta Local de la AMPR en Ponce, quien murió en circunstancias trágicas que son investigadas por la Policía. “Desde el momento en que conocimos esta lamentable noticia, activamos nuestro protocolo de apoyo institucional para acompa

FOR CYBERNEWS LA FORTALEZA – La gobernadora Jenniffer Aydin González Colón reaccionó el jueves a las mociones presentadas por la Fiscalía Federal y el Tribunal de Distrito de Estados Unidos en Puerto Rico, que dejaron establecido que no existe investigación alguna, de cuello blanco o de cualquier otro tipo, en su contra. Las expresiones surgen tras la controversia generada por una orden judicial en el caso del arrestado Daniel García Martín, vinculado a una intervención en La