UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives in Ukraine for security talks with Zelenskyy days before Trump takes office
KYIV (AP) — UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives in Ukraine for security talks with Zelenskyy days before Trump takes office.
KYIV (AP) — UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives in Ukraine for security talks with Zelenskyy days before Trump takes office.
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President Donald Trump called for CBS News program 60 Minutes to be “immediately terminated” and its network shut down Thursday, as he escalated campaign threats to punish media outlets that don’t offer coverage to his liking. He also tried to shoehorn the network into an online rightwing conspiracy theory that falsely claimed media outlets took millions in government kickbacks. In a post on Truth Social, Trump reiterated his claim that 60 Minutes committed “election interference” last year by a
A pro-President Trump Arab American organization, which performed voter outreach on his behalf to the Arab American communities during his 2024 White House run, has changed its name after the commander in chief’s remarks about taking over Gaza. The group’s name was changed from “Arab Americans for Trump” to “Arab Americans for Peace” on Tuesday,…
A former four-star Coast Guard admiral was forced to leave behind most of her belongings after the Trump administration gave her just three hours to vacate her home on Tuesday, according to NBC News. Linda Fagan, an ex-Coast Guard commandant who was also the first female leader of a military branch, was evicted from her home at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling by the Department of Homeland Security after she was fired by President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day. A Homeland Security official confir
President Donald Trump warned that he left instructions to have Iran “obliterated” if the country should succeed in any assassination attempt on his life. Speaking from the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump said he was “torn” over signing a new executive order targeting Iran but ultimately pushed forward with the directive to reinstate oil export sanctions on the country. Last year, it was reported that Iran ordered an operative to assassinate Trump before the election, with three people charged in
More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesperson has said.
Donald Trump’s aides rejected a request from Elon Musk to bring in a foreign national to help gut the federal government, according to a new report, as the president has sought to make it clear who’s in charge. The world’s richest man wanted Baris Akis, a Turkish-born venture capitalist who holds a green card, to join his DOGE initiative, an advisory committee that calls itself the “department” of government efficiency, The Atlantic reported on Tuesday. The law typically doesn’t allow noncitizen
The Trump White House press secretary's gaffe prompted two words to trend online.
Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal risks British and American planes being shot down by China, a former commander of the Diego Garcia air base has warned.
In the hours before Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a 30-day pause on US President Donald Trump’s threatened 25% tariff on Canadian goods, the co-founder of one of Canada’s largest auto parts manufacturers was bewildered.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he won’t attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg later this month, saying South Africa’s support for DEI and climate change policies are “very bad things.” “I will NOT attend the G20 summit,” Rubio wrote in a post on X, saying, “South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, & sustainability.’ In other words: DEI and climate change.” It would be highly unusual for the secretary of state to skip
Thailand cut electricity supplies on Wednesday to several areas in neighboring Myanmar that are home to sites at the center of a global, billion-dollar online scam industry.
China announced retaliatory tariffs on select American imports and an antitrust investigation into Google on Tuesday, just minutes after a sweeping levy on Chinese products imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump took effect. American tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico were also set to go into effect Tuesday before Trump agreed to a 30-day pause, as the two countries acted to address his concerns about border security and drug trafficking. Trump planned to talk with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the coming days.
Some senior party leaders call Trump’s vow that the US will ‘take over’ Gaza ‘problematic’ while others approve
LOS ANGELES/LONDON (Reuters) -The U.S. Postal Service said on Wednesday it would again accept parcels from China and Hong Kong, reversing a 12-hour suspension after President Donald Trump scrapped an exemption used by retailers including Temu, Shein, and Amazon to ship low-value packages duty-free to the United States. The about-face added to the growing confusion among retailers and express shipping firms over how to deal with Trump's new 10% tariff on imports from China and his closure of the "de minimis" duty exemption for packages valued at under $800, with the stated aim of stopping the flow of fentanyl and precursor chemicals into the United States.
"They think the orange buffoon is 'winning,' when in fact, the US is in the process of making enemies of the rest of the world."
Hugely popular Chinese AI app has raised security, privacy and ethical concerns
The president appeared grossly out of touch in talking about the price of transportation.
Musk shared a misleading video Tuesday, falsely claiming that it showed the Minnesota Democrat "breaking the law."
The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer said, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to shrink the federal government and shape it to his agenda.