White House lays off thousands of US government workers, blaming shutdown
President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Democrats for his decision to lay off thousands of workers across the
October 10, 2025President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Democrats for his decision to lay off thousands of workers across the
October 10, 2025
The heroic images of three Confederate leaders carved into the granite face of Georgia's Stone Mountain have towered over the countryside outside Atlanta since the
October 11, 2025
Europe needs to build up its own digital infrastructure to reduce dependence on U.S. providers, but that does not mean turning away from them completely, Germany's digital minister
October 11, 2025
Lifelong Democrat Samra'a Luqman became a vocal backer of Donald Trump in 2024, helping to rally support for him among the pivotal Arab American
October 11, 2025
Political violence, made easier to carry out by the proliferation of guns, harms democracy by shifting the field of political disagreement from debate to aggression.
October 10, 2025
Before white settlers came to Onondaga Lake and the city of Syracuse grew along its shore, it was a sacred place for the Onondaga Nation
October 11, 2025
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a large military parade displaying its new intercontinental ballistic missile in front of visiting international
October 10, 2025
King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Friday called for accelerating reforms to create jobs for young people, improve public services, and reduce regional inequalities by giving greater
October 10, 2025
North Korea and Vietnam signed cooperation agreements in fields including their defence, foreign and health ministries, North Korean state media KCNA said on Saturday.
October 11, 2025
Thousands of displaced Palestinians trekked over the wastelands of Gaza to return to the ruins of their abandoned homes on Friday
October 09, 2025
Far-right activist Laura Loomer slammed President Donald Trump's administration on Friday over its deepening defense ties with Qatar and made false accusations
October 10, 2025
Emergency crews restored power to many parts of Ukraine
October 09, 2025
The most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader — Marwan Barghouti — is not among the prisoners Israel intends to free in exchange for hostages held by Hamas under the new Gaza ceasefire deal
October 11, 2025
Chinese police on Saturday offered rewards of $1,400 for information about 18 people it said were Taiwanese military psychological operations officers spreading "separatist"
October 11, 2025
Venezuelans in the U.S. are welcoming the news that opposition leader leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Price
October 11, 2025
A juvenile male has been arrested for his role in a shooting that killed two people and injured 12 others in Montgomery, Alabama
October 10, 2025
The United States on Friday threatened to use visa restrictions and sanctions to retaliate against nations that vote in favor of a plan put forward by a United Nations agency to reduce
October 11, 2025
Myanmar's junta has invited the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to send observers for planned year-end elections, and the bloc will discuss the request during a
October 10, 2025
Trump speaks with Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado after his administration denounced the decision to award it to her
October 10, 2025
Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year
October 11, 2025
On a chilly morning outside Nash Elementary School in a working-class Chicago neighborhood, teachers greeted students with the usual high-fives and hugs, while
October 10, 2025
Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo
October 10, 2025
The United States could impose export controls on Boeing plane parts as part of Washington's response to Chinese export limits on rare earth
October 10, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military is moving forward with plans to build a dedicated facility in Idaho to train pilots from Qatar, an important U.S. ally in the Middle East
October 10, 2025
The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues
October 10, 2025
Tens of thousands of Palestinians headed back to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire came into effect on Friday
October 10, 2025
Zohran Mamdani opens the door to praising Trump for Israel-Hamas deal
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U.N.
October 10, 2025
Letitia James sees a record fundraising surge and Democratic support after indictment
October 11, 2025
Trump announces deal with AstraZeneca aimed at lowering drug prices
October 10, 2025
The Trump administration has provided a $300 million infusion to a food aid program for low-income mothers and children, easing concerns about funding during the government shutdown
October 10, 2025
Katie Porter is fighting back
October 10, 2025
Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year
October 10, 2025
Mass firings of federal workers have begun
October 10, 2025
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, freshly reappointed late on Friday days after resigning, faces an immediate test to deliver a 2026 budget bill by Monday to
October 10, 2025
Peruvian President Jose Jeri scrambled to assemble a new government after taking office on Friday, looking to tap names that can help calm widespread public anger over
October 10, 2025
U.S.
October 10, 2025
President Donald Trump says he hasn't canceled a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping planned for late October in South Korea after earlier expressing anger about export controls China has placed on rare earths
October 10, 2025
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuela’s María Corina Machado for keeping ‘the flame of democracy burning’
October 10, 2025
Tens of thousands of Palestinians are starting to walk north to return to their homes after the Israeli military said the ceasefire agreement with Hamas came into effect at noon local time and that troops were withdrawing to the agreed-upon deployment lines
October 10, 2025
US announces it will allow Qatar to build an Air Force facility in Idaho
October 10, 2025
National Guard troops are patrolling in Memphis for the first time, as part of President Donald Trump’s federal task force
October 10, 2025
AstraZeneca has agreed to lower prescription drug costs for Medicaid under a deal with the Trump administration
October 10, 2025
The United States of America will slap an additional 100% tariff on imports from China and impose export controls on all critical U.S.-made software from November 1, President Donald Trump
October 10, 2025
President Emmanuel Macron reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister on Friday, just four days after he had resigned from the role, searching for a way out of France's worst
October 10, 2025
U.S.
October 10, 2025
President Donald Trump unveiled a deal with UK-based drugmaker AstraZeneca on Friday under which the company will sell some medicines at a
October 10, 2025
The Trump administration is pushing again to deport a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador
October 10, 2025
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine rejected in a joint statement on Friday any "foreign guardianship" over Gaza, stressing that its governance
October 10, 2025
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
October 10, 2025
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize
October 10, 2025
Two months after a smiling Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shook hands at a military base in Alaska in what looked like the start of a U.S.-Russia rapprochement, a
October 10, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister on Friday just days after he quit the job, a move that enraged some of the
October 10, 2025
What to know about the Letitia James case and what happens next
October 10, 2025
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot put conditions on grants that fund efforts to combat domestic violence or provide access to abortion resources
October 10, 2025
Peruvians woke up to their seventh president in less than a decade Friday
October 10, 2025
In shock move, French president reappoints prime minister who quit Monday
October 10, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday re-appointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, to try again to form a government in a bid to end the country’s political deadlock
October 10, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Russia deliberately waited for bad weather before staging a vast attack on Ukraine's energy system, adding the conditions reduced
October 10, 2025
A ceasefire has taken effect in Gaza under a breakthrough deal
October 10, 2025
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country and dedicated the
October 09, 2025
MIT's president said she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to federal funding
October 10, 2025
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he understands the frustrations and worries of air traffic controllers who have to work without a paycheck during the government shutdown, but he and the union that represents controllers are also now emphasizing that calling out sick in protest could cost them their jobs
October 10, 2025
House members' absence during the government shutdown is creating a political dilemma for Speaker Mike Johnson
October 10, 2025
Dutch far right politician Geert Wilders says he’s suspending campaigning for national elections later this month amid reports that he was a possible target of a suspected plot in Belgium to kill politicians using a drone carrying explosives
October 10, 2025
Conservative influencer Benny Johnson accuses Democratic Party of violence as Pam Bondi announces arrest in his death threat
October 10, 2025
Pentagon orders ‘white glove’ treatment for those returning to military service after Covid-19 vaccine refusal
October 10, 2025
New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted in federal court on Thursday as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department continues to pursue charges against his political opponents, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
October 09, 2025
U.S. first lady Melania Trump said she had secured an open line of communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin about repatriating Ukrainian children caught
October 10, 2025
Dina Boluarte's dramatic midnight removal on Friday makes her the sixth consecutive president in Peru to fail to complete a full term in office.
October 10, 2025
Madagascar's newly appointed prime minister, General Ruphin Fortunat Zafisambo, condemned on Friday what he said was "excessive use of force" by both security personnel and
October 10, 2025
Michelle Bolsonaro is waving off speculation that she is ready to run for office in place of her husband, former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, after he
October 10, 2025
Peru's lawmakers swore in Congress chief Jose Jeri as the country's new president less than an hour after unanimously voting to remove President Dina
October 09, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace efforts, despite not winning a Nobel prize, and voiced hope for securing an agreement to extend a pivotal nuclear arms pact with Washington for another year
October 10, 2025
North Korea appears to have staged a military parade in its capital Pyongyang to mark the 80th anniversary of the creation of its ruling Workers' Party,
October 09, 2025
Burkina Faso has said it rejected a proposal by the United States to take in foreigners being deported as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
October 10, 2025
Brazil's government on Friday announced a new real estate funding framework that loosens rules on the mandatory allocation of bank resources to the sector, releasing 36.9 billion
October 10, 2025
First lady Melania Trump says eight children displaced by the Russia-Ukraine war have been reunited with their families after ongoing talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin
October 10, 2025
Maine Gov. Janet Mills set to challenge Susan Collins for US Senate seat
October 10, 2025
An Afghan national was on Friday found guilty of making a threat in a TikTok video to kill Nigel Farage, the leader of the populist Reform UK party which leads opinion polls in
October 10, 2025
The specific deals that Canada is negotiating with the U.S. in key sectors such as steel, aluminum and autos are likely to persist even if the United States-Canada-Mexico trade deal
October 10, 2025
Black people rallying around Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl stands in stark contrast to their feelings about the election
October 10, 2025
European shares tanked on Friday, erasing weekly gains in a last-minute slide as renewed trade war fears sparked by fresh threats from U.S.
October 10, 2025
Foster parents lose license after refusing to sign gender affirming policy
October 10, 2025
The choice of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize reinforces the need for a democratic transition in Venezuela, Human Rights Watch said on
October 10, 2025
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday he had discussed "fair use" of frozen Russian assets with European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde.
October 10, 2025
President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia was developing new strategic weapons and it would not be critical for Moscow if the United States declined to extend the warhead
October 10, 2025
As thousands of Gazans began picking through the ruins of their shattered homes on Friday after a ceasefire deal, the excitement of return was quickly
October 10, 2025
Mike Greenwell, an outfielder who played 12 seasons with the Boston Red Sox and finished second in the 1988 American League MVP voting, has died
October 09, 2025
Twin brothers, childhood friends and IDF soldiers: Who are the hostages still held in Gaza?
October 09, 2025
The Taliban government accuses Pakistan of bombing Kabul and a market in eastern Afghanistan
October 10, 2025
Cindy McCain has suffered a mild stroke this week and is said to be recovering well
October 09, 2025
Here’s what Aziz Ansari can do with his Riyadh Comedy Festival money
October 10, 2025
New York Attorney General Letitia James and President Donald Trump have long found themselves as legal and political foes
October 10, 2025
Generators, extra electricity supplies and an LNG terminal are at Ukraine's disposal, Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Friday, as Russia continues to attack Kyiv's
October 10, 2025
Japan's Komeito quit the ruling coalition on Friday, dealing a blow to new Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi's premiership bid and potentially to her party's grip on
October 10, 2025
Hamas is no longer the militant group whose invasion of Israel triggered the two-year war in Gaza, the Israeli military spokesperson said on Friday at the start of a ceasefire with the
October 10, 2025
The federal government has awarded 10 construction contracts worth $4.5 billion that will add 230 miles of barrier along the southwest U.S. border, the Department of Homeland
October 10, 2025
The U.S.
October 09, 2025
Democrats are ramping up pressure on Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in the newest member of Congress
October 10, 2025
Israel's government approved the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal early on Friday, setting the clock ticking on the first phase of
October 10, 2025
What we know and don’t know about Trump’s deal to end the war in Gaza
October 09, 2025
Donald Trump achieved a long-sought goal when federal prosecutors brought criminal charges against former FBI
October 10, 2025
Lawyers representing Prince Harry and other high-profile British figures cannot use allegations about Prince William's wife Kate being targeted in their privacy lawsuits against the
October 10, 2025
Taiwan will build a new multi-layered air defence system called "T-Dome" to defend itself against enemy threats and increase defence spending,
October 10, 2025
Malaysia said on Friday it plans to boost tax collection and strengthen social protection systems next year, as it looks to
October 10, 2025
The latest U.S. sanctions on Iranian petroleum exports deal a blow to Chinese refining giant Sinopec by targeting a terminal through which
October 10, 2025
U.S.
October 09, 2025
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for promoting democratic rights in her country and her struggle to achieve a transition to democracy,
October 10, 2025
Syria's foreign minister has arrived in Lebanon's capital, marking a potential breakthrough in relations between the two countries
October 10, 2025
Drones have increasingly disrupted airspace across Europe in recent weeks, raising alarm over the repeated incursions of uncrewed
October 10, 2025
Peru's Congress voted on Friday to remove President Dina Boluarte, among the world's most unpopular leaders, in a
October 10, 2025
Ukraine says ‘massive’ Russian attack targeted energy infrastructure
October 10, 2025
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has proposed that Qatar could mediate to end the U.S. military presence in international waters near Venezuela
October 09, 2025
Burkina Faso said it has refused a proposal from the Trump administration to accept deportees from the United States
October 10, 2025
Authorities in Azerbaijan released a Russian journalist from prison to house arrest following a meeting between the leaders of Russia and Azerbaijan, Russia's Kommersant newspaper
October 10, 2025
France's political uncertainty is costing the country at least 0.2 percentage points of economic growth and risks further sapping business and consumer confidence, central bank chief
October 10, 2025
Sanae Takaichi's bid to become Japan's first female prime minister was thrown into doubt on Friday when her ruling party's junior coalition partner
October 10, 2025
Judge orders restrictions on federal tactics against ICE protesters after Chicago-area pastor shot with pepper balls
October 10, 2025
Jared Kushner returns to forefront of Trump’s Middle East diplomacy with Gaza ceasefire deal
October 10, 2025
NATO has announced that its major annual nuclear exercise, "Steadfast Noon," is starting next week
October 10, 2025
India is upgrading its technical mission in Kabul to a full embassy, according to India's foreign minister
October 10, 2025
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has lauded what he called his country’s fight against a U_S_-led military threat and vowed to turn North Korea into “the best socialist paradise in the world."
October 10, 2025
The head of Japan’s Komeito says it is leaving the ruling coalition headed by the Liberal Democratic Party due to concerns over corruption
October 10, 2025
Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te has pledged to accelerate the building of a “T-Dome” air defense system in the face of the threat from China
October 10, 2025