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China Announces Record Trade Surplus as Its Exports Flood World Markets

China’s surplus reached $1.19 trillion last year, a 20 percent increase from 2024, as Beijing kept the currency weak and pursued self-reliance to replace imports.

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The production line at a car factory in Hangzhou, China, in October. Exports to the United States fell, but rose to much of the rest of the world.
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Cymbal of unity? South Korea and Japan leaders bash out K-pop hits after summit talks

South Korean president Lee Jae Myung had his work cut out, picking up his drumsticks alongside Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi, a former heavy metal drummer

If international diplomacy is as much about tone as substance, the leaders of South Korea and Japan seem to have nailed it.

In a scene few anticipated, South Korean president Lee Jae Myung and Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi spent the last moments of a crucial summit seated behind matching drum kits in matching blue uniforms as they bashed out hit song Golden from Netflix’s K-Pop Demon Hunters and BTS’s Dynamite.

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© Photograph: Yonhap News Agency/Reuters

© Photograph: Yonhap News Agency/Reuters

© Photograph: Yonhap News Agency/Reuters

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Ty Simpson turned down $6.5 million offer from Miami before entering 2026 NFL Draft

All the money in college football wasn’t enough to keep Ty Simpson from turning pro. Despite the massive sums of money that Tennessee, Miami and Ole Miss attempted to throw at the Alabama quarterback, Simpson was not swayed into going into the transfer portal to play another year of college football. But it wouldn’t be...

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Trump says Renee Good probably a ‘wonderful person – but her actions were pretty tough’

President speaks to CBS News about killing of woman by ICE agent and defends immigration crackdown

Donald Trump has defended his administration’s increasingly violent immigration crackdown, describing the 37-year-old woman killed by federal agents as likely a “wonderful person” whose “tough” actions justified a lethal response.

Trump’s comments, made during an interview with CBS News after his visit to a Ford factory in Detroit, came amid rising tensions between federal and local officials in Minneapolis after an ICE agent shot dead Renee Good at the wheel of her SUV on a residential street in Minneapolis last week.

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© Photograph: Riley Harty/Zuma/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Riley Harty/Zuma/Shutterstock

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Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer arrested for not giving up bus seat, dies aged 86

Colvin refused to give up seat to white woman in Alabama in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ act of defiance

US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks’ similar but more famous act of defiance, died on Tuesday at age 86.

Although she remained a largely unsung figure in the civil rights movement for decades, Colvin’s 1955 act of rebellion inspired Parks and others and helped form the basis for the federal lawsuit that outlawed racial segregation in US public transportation.

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© Photograph: Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Tory Burch Foundation

© Photograph: Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Tory Burch Foundation

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