Thursday, July 31, 2025

Scientists in South Africa are making rhino horns radioactive to fight poaching

A sedated rhino is being prepared before a hole is drilled into its horn and isotopes carefully inserted, at a rhino orphanage in Mokopane, South Africa, Thursday, July 31, 2025.

A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign Thursday to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals but can be detected by customs agents.

(Image credit: Alfonso Nqunjana)

El Salvador approves indefinite presidential reelection, extends presidential terms

El Salvador

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's party approved constitutional changes in the country's National Assembly that allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years.

(Image credit: Salvador Melendez)

The White House sets a swath of new tariff rates -- and a new date -- for dozens of countries

A general view shows shipping containers at the port in Keelung on Aug. 1

An executive order says most of the tariffs will not take effect for at least a week, despite an earlier assertion that new rates would take effect on Friday. Some goods from Canada would get a new 35% tariff rate beginning Aug. 1, though.

(Image credit: I-Hwa Cheng)

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

President Trump's Vision of U.S. Shipbuilding Requires Rebuilding An Industry

The USS Enterprise CVN 80 is seen in the Newport News Shipbuilding yard on Aug. 26, 2022, ahead of a keel-laying ceremony. (Kendall Warner/Daily Press/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

President Trump wants to bring shipbuilding back to the U.S. to counter China and boost American jobs. The ambitious goal will require rebuilding infrastructure and retraining a workforce. And in Paris, twenty years of discouraging car traffic and planting trees is yielding cleaner air and revitalized river banks and public spaces.

(Image credit: Kendall Warner/Newport News Daily Press)