• Death toll rises to 15 from Chilean protest clashes

    Death toll rises to 15 from Chilean protest clashes

    Oct 22, 2019 07:49 PM EDT

    ... no inflation these days, that the economy is controlled, etc., etc.," Lagos said. "And all those arguments mean nothing to the people who can't make it to the end of the month." José Tomás López, a cook, said he was protesting "because I've seen how my other lives ...

  • China to lift punitive tariffs on US soybeans, pork

    China to lift punitive tariffs on US soybeans, pork

    Sep 13, 2019 01:48 PM EDT

    ... were due to meet next week or the following week to prepare.By delaying his tariff hike, Trump allowed for the possibility the talks might make enough progress to avert the increase indefinitely. However, economists say a final agreement is unlikely this year. Tariff hikes by both sides on billions ...

  • GOP likely to create hurdles for Trump primary challengers

    GOP likely to create hurdles for Trump primary challengers

    Aug 27, 2019 01:20 PM EDT

    ... surrounded by Trump supporters waving signs and shouting, "Go take a hike!" — a reference to his 2009 disappearance when he was visiting his mistress in Argentina but told staffers he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. In September, Nevada's Republican Party will consider bypassing its 2020 presidential nominating caucuses and ...

  • Ivanka Trump to promote women's initiative in South America

    Ivanka Trump to promote women's initiative in South America

    Aug 08, 2019 04:02 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump will call attention to issues that make it difficult for women in developing countries to prosper financially when she travels to South America in September. Aides to President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser say she plans to visit Paraguay and Argentina to promote her Women's ...

  • Hal Prince, towering Broadway director and producer, dead at 91

    Hal Prince, towering Broadway director and producer, dead at 91

    Jul 31, 2019 04:25 PM EDT

    ... his more notable achievements: "On the Twentieth Century" (1978) and two of Lloyd Webber's biggest hits, "Evita" (1979), starring Patti LuPone as the charismatic Argentinian, and "The Phantom of the Opera," in London (1986), New York (1988) and around the world. He was a champion of imagination in the ...

  • Former Rep. Mark Sanford mulls 2020 challenge to Trump

    Former Rep. Mark Sanford mulls 2020 challenge to Trump

    Jul 17, 2019 01:42 PM EDT

    ... the polls closed last year. He tweeted that Sanford "has been very unhelpful to me in my campaign" and that "He is better off in Argentina" — a reference to Sanford's secret 2009 rendezvous to South America for an extramarital affair while his in-the-dark gubernatorial staff told reporters ...

  • WATCH: Total solar eclipse darkens skies across South America

    WATCH: Total solar eclipse darkens skies across South America

    Jul 02, 2019 04:50 PM EDT

    ... Argentina, the only places that the total eclipse will be seen aside from an uninhabited island out in the ocean. The eclipse is expected to make its first landfall in Chile at 3:22 p.m. (1922 GMT) in La Serena, a city of some 200,000 people where the ...

  • In Japan, Trump begins talks on trade, Iran, North Korea

    In Japan, Trump begins talks on trade, Iran, North Korea

    Jun 27, 2019 12:05 PM EDT

    ... counsel now has a date to testify before Congress next month. Last November, Trump canceled a planned meeting with Putin at the G-20 in Argentina after Russia seized two Ukrainian vessels and their crew in the Sea of Azov, but the continued detention of the crew members does not ...

  • To fight the next major pandemic, flu hunters turn to these animals

    To fight the next major pandemic, flu hunters turn to these animals

    Jun 20, 2019 10:00 PM EDT

    ... turnstones, which make a pitstop at Cape May on their way to summer breeding grounds in the Arctic. Both travel huge distances to reach the Delaware Bay -- the red knots from Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina, the bottommost point in South America, and the ruddy turnstones from the southern United States.

  • How Antarctica's tourist boom could affect Earth's 'last great wilderness'

    How Antarctica's tourist boom could affect Earth's 'last great wilderness'

    Apr 17, 2019 10:25 PM EDT

    ... similar scrub every day. But invasive species have already taken hold. This moss is from the Arctic. A trace amount somehow made the 12,000-mile trip. And there are also concerns about wildlife. Two of the three penguin species on the peninsula are in decline. Researchers believe it's ...