https://www.scmp.com/rss/524516/feed Before his two terms as US President (1981-1989), Ronald Reagan was a prominent actor, leading the Screen Actors Guild, and later serving as Governor of California. His presidency saw significant economic reforms, dubbed "Reaganomics," involving substantial tax cuts and deregulation. He strengthened national defence and adopted a firm stance against the Soviet Union, contributing to the Cold War’s conclusion. His Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a proposed space-based missile defence system,... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Joshua Hendren Joshua Hendren Your favourite red carpet rebels are swapping out their dress shoes for something more rugged. A-listers from Timothée Chalamet to Austin Butler have been pairing classic workwear boots with tailoring, sidestepping tried-and-true formal attire for a more relaxed approach to dressing. Chalamet, who has emerged as one of menswear’s most closely watched dressers, made a strong case at this year’s Golden Globes in January, pairing a custom black velvet three-piece suit by Los Angeles label Chrome... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/fashion/celebrity-style/article/3353711/work-boots-new-red-carpet-shoe-just-ask-timothee-chalamet-and-austin-butler?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/fashion/celebrity-style/article/3353711/work-boots-new-red-carpet-shoe-just-ask-timothee-chalamet-and-austin-butler?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 May 2026 22:00:09 +0000 Hei Kiu Au Hei Kiu Au If and when Donald Trump touches down in Beijing this week for his long-anticipated state visit, the chefs who will feed him and his entourage – probably at least once in the Great Hall of the People – will already have run the scenarios for his meals. The last time he came, in 2017, the state banquet menu reportedly included Kung Pao chicken, coconut chicken soup, tomato beef and poached star grouper. It was a diplomatic tightrope walk: how do you honour a guest whose culinary preferences,... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/food-drink/article/3353112/if-trump-didnt-eat-just-burgers-what-might-he-be-served-his-beijing-visit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/food-drink/article/3353112/if-trump-didnt-eat-just-burgers-what-might-he-be-served-his-beijing-visit?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:10 +0000 Reuters Reuters The shooting on Saturday night of a Secret Service agent at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner raises questions yet again about the protection afforded to America’s political leaders at a time of increased political violence. Hundreds of agents from several law enforcement agencies were tasked with protecting the annual bash, which US President Donald Trump headlined this year. Yet a suspect with a shotgun and other weapons ‌managed to get just a floor above the Washington... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3351466/us-press-dinner-shooting-casts-fresh-spotlight-trumps-security?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3351466/us-press-dinner-shooting-casts-fresh-spotlight-trumps-security?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:58:40 +0000 SCMP SCMP This story was published on February 25, 1986. Marcos on brink of Manila turmoil From Harvey Stockwin The Philippine capital Manila was last night (February 24, 1986) in revolutionary turmoil as a people’s government led by Corazon Aquino sought to take over the country backed by a massive demonstration of non-violence by hundreds of thousands of unarmed supporters. But President Ferdinand Marcos clung to the illusion that he is still in control. Yesterday evening he effectively declared war on... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3342181/turmoil-grips-philippines-1986-people-power-ends-marcos-rule-scmp-archive?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3342181/turmoil-grips-philippines-1986-people-power-ends-marcos-rule-scmp-archive?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:15:08 +0000 Reuters,Agence France-Presse Reuters,Agence France-Presse A monster storm barrelling across the United States had killed at least 11 people on Monday, prompting warnings to stay off the roads, mass flight cancellations and power outages after a weekend of misery. The storm dumped snow, sleet and freezing rain across swathes of the country from Texas to New England, with temperatures set to fall dangerously low this week. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said five people were found dead outside over the weekend, telling reporters “there is no more... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341187/close-million-us-households-without-power-severe-winter-storm?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341187/close-million-us-households-without-power-severe-winter-storm?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:15:30 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg US President Donald Trump’s White House trade adviser predicted American industrial breakthroughs would help boost domestic production and eliminate China’s market dominance of rare earths. “China has been flexing its muscles now in Europe, in India, in the United States saying, basically, we’re gonna do what we want, and if you try to stop us, we’re gonna take away your critical minerals,” Peter Navarro said in an interview on Bloomberg’s The Mishal Husain Show. “Because they have, they think... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339243/us-will-end-chinas-dominance-rare-earths-trump-adviser-navarro-predicts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339243/us-will-end-chinas-dominance-rare-earths-trump-adviser-navarro-predicts?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:19:42 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The United States, which on Saturday attacked Venezuela and is said to have abducted its president, has a long history of military interventions and support for dictatorships in Latin America. On multiple occasions the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro – who Donald Trump says is now in US hands – accused Washington of backing coup attempts. Here are the main US interventions in Latin America since the Cold War. 1954: Guatemala On June 27, 1954, colonel Jacobo... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338634/us-interventions-latin-america-history-coups-and-conflicts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338634/us-interventions-latin-america-history-coups-and-conflicts?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:16:04 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Donald Trump returned to office vowing to be the peace president. Nearly a year later, he is embracing war on multiple fronts. Trump on Saturday ordered large-scale military strikes in Venezuela and announced that leftist leader Nicolas Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country. The raid to kick off the new year comes after the US military on Christmas Day hit Nigeria, in what Trump said was an operation targeting jihadists who had attacked Christians. And hours before the attack in... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338630/self-proclaimed-peace-president-trump-bombs-venezuela-strikes-nigeria-warns-iran?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338630/self-proclaimed-peace-president-trump-bombs-venezuela-strikes-nigeria-warns-iran?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:05:09 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa It’s no secret that several influential people have turned to psychics and astrologers for help and comfort in the past. Former US president Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan were known to heavily rely on their astrologer Joan Quigley for everything, from scheduling presidential trips to press conferences. Meghan Markle is said to have befriended famed Australian astrologer Angela Pearl, while a picture of designer Jonathan Anderson having a tarot reading done recently went viral on... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/icons-influencers/article/3336994/meet-laura-lynne-jackson-clairvoyant-and-psychic-medium-kim-kardashian-and-gwyneth-paltrow?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/icons-influencers/article/3336994/meet-laura-lynne-jackson-clairvoyant-and-psychic-medium-kim-kardashian-and-gwyneth-paltrow?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:00:12 +0000 Rob York Rob York The new US national security strategy says a great deal about how the government imagines its foreign policy in the next few years but tells us just as much about communism and the US president’s view of it. Donald Trump has long had an unusual relationship with communism, in that he does not seem especially concerned by it. Yes, it’s true he does denounce “communists”, “socialists”, “radicals” and “the far left”, but he is rarely speaking about communist regimes opposed to US interests... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3336268/trump-only-communists-really-dislike-are-those-home?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3336268/trump-only-communists-really-dislike-are-those-home?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:30:08 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The Trump administration has renamed the US Institute of Peace after President Donald Trump and has planted the president’s name on the organisation’s headquarters despite an ongoing fight over the institute’s control. It was the latest twist in a see-saw court battle over who controls the US Institute of Peace, a non-profit think tank that focuses on peace initiatives. It was an early target of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) this year. On Wednesday, the State Department said it... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335140/us-institute-peace-renamed-after-greatest-dealmaker-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335140/us-institute-peace-renamed-after-greatest-dealmaker-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:18:25 +0000 David Dodwell David Dodwell For a man like Donald Trump, desperately in search of an indelible legacy and congenitally needing to be the centre of news attention, it was only a matter of time before he got round to building a grand ballroom at the White House. Why not a US$300 million solution to the problem of having to entertain national and global elites in a tent, and the embarrassment of women’s high heels getting stuck in the White House lawn? As US President Trump toils to make America great again, why should the... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3331811/giving-white-house-big-beautiful-ballroom-trump-may-be-right?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3331811/giving-white-house-big-beautiful-ballroom-trump-may-be-right?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:30:09 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he told Ontario’s premier not to run an anti-tariff advertisement that prompted US President Donald Trump to end trade talks with Canada. Carney also confirmed that he apologised to the president during a dinner at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit because Trump was “offended”. Ontario’s television advertisement that aired in the US criticised Trump’s tariffs by citing a speech from former US President Ronald Reagan. The ad infuriated Trump,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331196/canada-pm-carney-told-ontario-premier-not-run-anti-tariff-ad-upset-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331196/canada-pm-carney-told-ontario-premier-not-run-anti-tariff-ad-upset-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:13:40 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg US President Donald Trump said he received an apology from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney over a television ad that opposed tariffs, but suggested that trade talks between the two countries would not restart. Asked by reporters aboard Air Force One whether negotiations between the White House and Carney’s government would resume, Trump said: “No, but I have a very good relationship. I like him a lot, but you know, what they did was wrong. He was very nice. He apologised for what they did... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331138/trump-says-canadas-carney-apologised-ad-trade-talks-wont-resume?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331138/trump-says-canadas-carney-apologised-ad-trade-talks-wont-resume?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:43:22 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Monday he was ready to talk to US President Donald Trump after Washington hiked tariffs on Canadian goods by an additional 10 per cent. “We stand ready to sit down with the United States, myself with the president, my colleagues with their colleagues, when the US is ready to sit down,” Carney told reporters, after Trump said he had terminated all trade talks with Canada over what he called a “fake” advertisement campaign. Trump though, said he does not... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3330503/canada-ready-sit-down-and-resume-us-talks?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3330503/canada-ready-sit-down-and-resume-us-talks?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:20:31 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US President Donald Trump said late on Thursday that he was ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of a television ad opposing US tariffs that he said misstated the facts and called “egregious” behaviour aimed at influencing US court decisions. The post on Trump’s social media site came after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he aimed to double his country’s exports to countries outside the US because of the threat posed by Trump’s tariffs. Trump’s call for an abrupt end to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3330146/trump-says-all-trade-talks-canada-are-terminated?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3330146/trump-says-all-trade-talks-canada-are-terminated?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:09:05 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service Hair. Human hair. Hair woven into jewellery, wreaths, keepsakes. Michael Jackson’s hair. Marilyn Monroe’s hair. Hair as art, hair as spectacle. It was Leila Cohoon’s world, and she showcased it all at Leila’s Hair Museum, located in an otherwise unremarkable free-standing building on Noland Road in Independence, in the US state of Missouri. Cohoon died in November at the age of 92, and as of last week, her family has decided to close her surreal attraction – the only museum of its kind in the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3328468/michael-jacksons-locks-hair-woven-art-us-museum-had-it-all?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3328468/michael-jacksons-locks-hair-woven-art-us-museum-had-it-all?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 Oct 2025 08:15:07 +0000 Alex Lo Alex Lo In reaching a compromise on the forced sale of TikTok, Beijing has emphasised that it welcomes companies to conduct business negotiations “in line with market rules”. It is also its view that Chinese firms investing overseas should respect local laws and customs. In the United States, however, this is particularly challenging, given the idiosyncrasies and complex interplay of its domestic politics, international power dynamics, complicated regulatory regimes and corporate culture. TikTok has... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3327195/forced-sale-spanish-tv-network-foreshadows-tiktoks-saga?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3327195/forced-sale-spanish-tv-network-foreshadows-tiktoks-saga?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:30:09 +0000 Todd G. Buchholz Todd G. Buchholz Ever since the Reagan boom of the 1980s, many elites outside the United States have been telling Americans that they have been hoodwinked – that cutting taxes and regulations is a reckless, unnecessary way to spur growth. Countries that provide generous childcare subsidies and wrap businesses in reams of red tape still enjoy equivalent incomes, the argument goes. So why put up with a rugged, muddy cowboy economy? Two reasons stand out. First, over the past 10 years, US income growth has left... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3325463/why-world-still-free-riding-america?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3325463/why-world-still-free-riding-america?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Sep 2025 06:30:09 +0000 Andrew Sheng Andrew Sheng Central bankers are sometimes known as the high priests of finance. That is because they control high-powered money, commonly known as the monetary base, or the sum of currency in circulation plus commercial bank deposits with them. By buying government bonds from banks or the market, which expands central bank balance sheets, the commercial banks’ reserves rise, improving market liquidity and therefore reducing short-term interest rates. In effect, central banks affect market sentiment by... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3323585/markets-can-see-whos-calling-shots-us-rates-and-its-not-fed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3323585/markets-can-see-whos-calling-shots-us-rates-and-its-not-fed?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:30:07 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The FBI on Friday searched the Maryland home and Washington office of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton as part of a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, a person familiar with the matter said. Bolton was not detained and has not been charged with any crimes, said the person, who was not authorised to discuss the investigation by name and spoke on the condition of anonymity. Messages left with a spokesperson for Bolton... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3322867/fbi-searches-home-ex-trump-national-security-adviser-bolton-classified-documents-probe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3322867/fbi-searches-home-ex-trump-national-security-adviser-bolton-classified-documents-probe?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:01:26 +0000 Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma US President Donald Trump is seeking about US$150 billion of additional defence spending in the One Big Beautiful Bill amid rising competition with China in the Pacific Ocean. The plans include US$25 billion for the Golden Dome, Trump’s planned space-based defence system, and US$32 billion for naval vessels and to challenge China’s dominance of shipbuilding (See SCMP Plus Factsheet). The bill is heading for a final vote in the House of Representatives after hours of wrangling on the floor. It... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3316798/china-military-growth-looms-over-trumps-one-big-beautiful-bill?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3316798/china-military-growth-looms-over-trumps-one-big-beautiful-bill?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:00:11 +0000