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Nicholas Enrich, the former top U.S. official for global health at the U.S. Agency for International Development, said in a new book and interview that political appointees blocked the agency's response to a 2025 Ebola outbreak in Uganda,…
4 MIN READChinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Pyongyang on Monday for a two-day summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the first such visit since 2019, as both leaders seek to deepen their alliance against the Western-led international order.
3 MIN READChatbots on five different websites falsely claimed to be licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania when prompted by reporters, mirroring the type of output that led the state to sue the role-playing platform Character.AI last month.
3 MIN READThe Kennedy Center has removed President Donald Trump's name from its website, complying with a federal judge's order that the performing arts venue cannot be renamed without an act of Congress. The removal on Monday, June 8, came ahead of…
3 MIN READFormer reality television star Spencer Pratt fell to third place in the Los Angeles mayoral primary Sunday, overtaken by Democratic socialist Nithya Raman as late vote counts shifted the race’s trajectory.
3 MIN READPresident Trump's pattern of using social media posts and public statements to move oil prices, interest rates, and currencies has reshaped how investors approach markets, according to traders and analysts. A single afternoon of posts last…
4 MIN READFormer U.S. Sen. Bob Packwood, an Oregon Republican who was forced from office in 1995 after the Senate ethics committee investigated allegations of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women, has died at age 93. Packwood's death on…
3 MIN READA former senior CIA officer arrested last month on charges of stealing more than $40 million in gold bars from the agency now faces allegations that he also created a fraudulent intelligence program to siphon additional funds, according to…
3 MIN READFired 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley accused CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of interfering with a planned segment on the killing of Minneapolis protester Renee Good, saying Weiss demanded changes that would align the report with…
3 MIN READAHIP, the national trade organization representing the U.S. insurance industry, announced in late May that its members will continue covering routine vaccines through 2027, extending a similar policy for 2026. The decision comes as the…
3 MIN READMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her allies have reacted furiously to a U.S. indictment of Rubén Rocha, the sitting governor of Sinaloa and a member of her ruling Morena party, accusing Washington of meddling in Mexico's internal…
3 MIN READThe Justice Department has opened investigations into writer E. Jean Carroll, former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, former FBI Director James Comey, and former special counsel Jack Smith — four individuals who have previously clashed…
4 MIN READBob Brooks, a former firefighter who led the Pennsylvania Professional Fire Fighters Association, handily won the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District last month and will face Republican incumbent Ryan…
3 MIN READCalifornia Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui advanced to the November general election ballot on Friday after fending off a primary challenge from a younger Democrat, Sacramento City Council member Mai Vang.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Democrat Xavier Becerra advanced to the California governor general election on Friday, after winning the largest share of primary votes. Becerra, the former U.S. health secretary and state attorney general, leaned on…
3 MIN READAttorneys general from as many as 10 states are preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit in the coming weeks to block the proposed $111 billion merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, according to reports from the Los…
3 MIN READNew Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill is facing intensifying backlash from immigrant-rights advocates and protesters who say her administration dispatched state police in riot gear to suppress demonstrations at the Delaney Hall immigration…
4 MIN READIllinois State Treasurer Mike Frerichs delivered a certificate to Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday, authorizing the pontiff to reclaim $8.65 that had been sitting in Illinois' unclaimed property account — a sum once held by the…
3 MIN READThe FBI on Friday fired five analysts connected to the creation of a 2023 intelligence memo that warned of a potential threat from Catholic 'violent extremists,' their attorney said, the latest wave of personnel actions under Director Kash…
3 MIN READActing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director David Venturella has issued a memo ordering the agency to stop reporting and investigating deaths of detainees that occur within 30 days of their release, rescinding a Biden-era…
3 MIN READPresident Trump said he wants Bill Pulte, his incoming acting director of national intelligence, to fire a large number of employees and reduce the size of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, warning the agency overseeing…
3 MIN READThe former town manager of Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, was indicted on May 11 on a felony embezzlement charge for allegedly using taxpayer money to pay for personal expenses including hotel stays, restaurant meals and ammunition,…
4 MIN READActor and television personality Mario Lopez will host the first-ever Presidential 1776 Award national finals, a civics competition for high school students, airing June 30 on CBS. The event, presented by the U.S. Department of Education…
3 MIN READFormer Vice President Kamala Harris and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are widely expected to mount presidential bids in 2028, setting up what would be the first direct electoral matchup of a two-decade relationship defined by competition,…
3 MIN READThe United States on Thursday leveled sanctions against Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, members of former President Raúl Castro's family, the Cuban military, and other organizations, the latest in a series of escalating measures…
3 MIN READThe SAVE America Act, a sweeping Republican election overhaul that would have required proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, failed in the Senate on Thursday. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., acknowledged there were not…
4 MIN READFormer CIA senior official David Rush was arrested last month at his Virginia home, where investigators found over 300 gold bars valued at more than $40 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. The gold bars were allegedly taken from…
3 MIN READFormer Attorney General Pam Bondi told the House Oversight and Reform Committee on May 29 that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was "in charge" of the Justice Department's handling and release of Jeffrey Epstein-related records,…
5 MIN READHonolulu's bike-share system Biki has lost more than 800 bikes since its launch nearly a decade ago, with vandalism and wear reducing its fleet of 1,000 to just 478 by the end of April, according to city officials.
3 MIN READFive Republican governors have issued proclamations renaming June to titles such as Nuclear Family Month, Strong Families Month and Fidelity Month, offering alternatives to the widely recognized LGBTQ+ Pride Month, according to the…
3 MIN READDemocracy came to the cradle of Voodoo religion in 1991, when Benin's military dictator Mathieu Kérékou surprisingly lost an election he had organized. Kérékou had amassed power partly by banning the practice of so-called sorcerers, whose…
4 MIN READThe Kennedy Center ordered its staff Thursday to remove all references to President Donald Trump from the center by June 12, the first sign the institution is complying with a federal judge's ruling that the board overstepped its authority…
3 MIN READSen. Ron Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, has demanded transparency over a proposed first-of-its-kind family and child detention center in Alexandria, Louisiana, citing conflicts of interest, environmental…
3 MIN READTechnology Secretary Peter Kyle warned Thursday that Labour is repeating the Conservatives' pattern of turning to leadership changes as a default response to political problems, as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer continues to resist calls…
3 MIN READSomalia's military and opposition militias clashed Thursday in Mogadishu after parliament extended President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's term by one year, with gunfire and fighting that prompted residents to flee their homes.
3 MIN READDonald Trump alleged without evidence that Democrats are cheating in California's primary elections, claiming in a late-night social media post that the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles was investigating. The president's unfounded…
4 MIN READZach Lahn, a businessman and farmer, defeated U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra in Iowa's Republican primary for governor on Tuesday, a rare defeat for a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump in a state Trump has won in all three of his…
3 MIN READSir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6, has died aged 62 after being treated for cancer, his family said. Younger led the Secret Intelligence Service from 2014 to 2020, a career that spanned three decades in British intelligence.
3 MIN READSenate Republicans voted Tuesday to proceed with debate on a $72 billion reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement agencies through fiscal year 2029, resuming the effort after a delay sparked by concerns over a Trump…
3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump said Wednesday that even though he works well with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he was 'a little bit perturbed' by Israel's frequent fighting with Lebanon, and acknowledged calling Netanyahu…
3 MIN READBen Black, the Senate-confirmed head of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), had years of personal and business interactions with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to emails released by the…
4 MIN READRepublican Steve Hilton on Tuesday expressed optimism that he will advance to the general election in California's governor race, even as vote counting continued and the Associated Press had not called the winner of the primary. Hilton,…
4 MIN READPresident Donald Trump said Wednesday that he expects acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to become his permanent choice for the nation's top law enforcement officer, according to an interview broadcast on Pod Force One.
3 MIN READJill Biden recalled the intense pressure that led Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, saying he told her "Jilly, I had no choice," during a Tuesday book event in New York City for her new memoir *View from the East Wing*.…
4 MIN READMichael Stansfield, a 50-year-old tech support worker and former seminary student, took out a home equity loan to pay the $17,000 filing fee to run as a Republican in a Sacramento-area congressional district. On Wednesday, the day after…
4 MIN READVoters in Monterey Park, California, on Tuesday approved a ballot measure that permanently bans data centers in the city, making it the first US municipality to enact such a ban through a direct vote. With 86.3% of more than 7,000 votes…
3 MIN READFormer victims minister Alex Davies-Jones told the House of Commons on Wednesday that survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been treated as a “footnote” in the row over Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to…
4 MIN READPresident Trump is personally intervening in regulatory decisions that once were the purview of independent agencies, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation, prompting a 70% surge in White House lobbying disclosures in 2025 as…
3 MIN READDemocrats across several states selected nominees on Tuesday in primaries that will shape the battle for control of Congress and governor’s mansions in November. The winners included a navy veteran in New Jersey, a Paralympic gold medalist…
3 MIN READScottish Secretary Douglas Alexander met with Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm Global Counsel within weeks of becoming a minister in July 2024 but did not publicly declare the meeting for about 20 months, newly released government documents…
3 MIN READThe United States on Tuesday sanctioned Iran's largest digital asset platform, Nobitex, along with three other exchanges, the Treasury Department announced, accusing the platforms of processing more than half of Iran's digital asset…
3 MIN READDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked the appointment of nine Air Force colonels to one-star general and delayed the promotion of at least two dozen more senior officers, according to current and former U.S. officials. The moves have…
4 MIN READU.S. Senate candidates Ken Paxton, a Texas Republican, and Graham Platner, a Maine Democrat, made parallel pilgrimages to the nation's capital on Tuesday to rally party support, each facing skepticism from within their own coalitions about…
4 MIN READTwo supporters of President Donald Trump who were wounded during an assassination attempt at his July 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, sued the federal government Monday, alleging the Secret Service failed to properly secure…
3 MIN READThe Pentagon has appointed Elias Irizarry, a man convicted for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol, to a sensitive counter-terrorism position within the Department of Defense's special operations office, according to…
3 MIN READSecretary of State Marco Rubio testified before Congress on Tuesday in his first public appearance since the U.S. war with Iran began, requesting more than $35 billion for the State Department's 2027 budget and fielding questions on peace…
3 MIN READRep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) responded to President Donald Trump calling her "crooked as hell" by pointing to his record of pardoning convicted fraudsters, including those tied to some of the largest health care and financial fraud schemes in…
3 MIN READThe Trump administration has threatened Oman with sanctions and military action, pressing the historically neutral sultanate to cut diplomatic ties with Iran during the ongoing U.S.-Iran war. Washington cited an intelligence assessment…
3 MIN READThe White House Correspondents’ Association has rescheduled its annual dinner for July 24, 2026, nearly seven weeks after a shooting during the April 25 gala forced its cancellation, WHCA President Weijia Jiang announced Tuesday. President…
3 MIN READNew York and five other states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over a nearly $1bn deal to pay French energy company TotalEnergies to abandon an offshore wind project off the coast of New York, arguing the agreement is unlawful.
3 MIN READThe Trump administration's $1.776 billion fund to compensate people it says were victims of political "lawfare" is facing mounting legal and political challenges, with a federal judge temporarily blocking its operation and critics from…
3 MIN READThe Pentagon has redesignated its press office as a classified facility, barring credentialed journalists from entering the space where they have long worked alongside defense department officials. The decision, first reported by the…
4 MIN READNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has emerged as the Knicks' cheerleader-in-chief as the team marches toward the NBA Finals, finding one of the few sources of universal approval during a tenure that has drawn sharp criticism from the…
4 MIN READCalifornia's notoriously slow vote-counting system could delay results from Tuesday's primary elections for days or weeks in the tightest races, as elections offices face a deluge of last-minute absentee ballots. Voting experts say the…
4 MIN READBetty Brown, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, said King Charles III told her during a ceremony at Windsor Castle on Tuesday that the scandal was a "dreadful thing" that "should never have happened." The…
4 MIN READSeveral prominent New York Democrats who marched in Sunday's Israel Day parade have condemned the attendance of Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's far-right finance minister, saying they were unaware he would be present and denouncing his…
3 MIN READMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday publicly urged U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson to focus on the bilateral agenda and refrain from commenting on Mexico's domestic political affairs, citing constitutional principles of…
3 MIN READDowning Street has confirmed that UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer uses an auto-delete function on his phone, meaning his WhatsApp messages with and about Lord Peter Mandelson, the UK’s ambassador to the US, may have been lost. The…
3 MIN READJill Biden said she feared former President Joe Biden was having a stroke moments after the June 2024 presidential debate and that doctors checked him immediately, earlier than previously acknowledged by the Biden administration.
3 MIN READThe latest tranche of released Mandelson files includes an email exchange detailing a request from then-US President-elect Donald Trump for a replica ministerial red box during his state visit, Guardian columnist Marina Hyde reported June…
3 MIN READOn June 2, 1946, Italian voters chose to replace the monarchy with a republic in a national referendum, ending the House of Savoy's rule. The date also marks the Confederate surrender of the Civil War in 1865, the signing of the Indian…
3 MIN READFormer Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned Sunday that a single act of political interference in monetary policy could permanently destroy public trust in the central bank, delivering the message while accepting the 2026 John F.…
3 MIN READJune 1 marks significant historical milestones across more than 140 years, including the 2020 clearing of Lafayette Square protesters, the 1962 execution of Adolf Eichmann, and the 1968 death of Helen Keller, United Press International…
3 MIN READA Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 55% of Americans now believe President Trump's health is insufficient for him to serve effectively, nearly double the 28% who held that view three years ago. The polling shift comes as…
3 MIN READPrivate messages between Lord Mandelson and senior ministers reveal sharp criticism of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Downing Street operation and Labour backbenchers, according to approximately 1,500 pages of documents published by the UK…
3 MIN READA Chicago-based developer has reached an agreement in principle to sell a Fisher Island property to Miami-Dade county for approximately $400 million, more than double the $180 million it paid for the land less than a year ago, potentially…
3 MIN READThe UK government has published more than 1,000 pages of documents relating to Lord Mandelson's appointment as the ambassador to the United States, exposing internal messages in which he criticizes Prime Minister Keir Starmer's leadership…
3 MIN READThe UK government published a second tranche of documents on Peter Mandelson's appointment as ambassador to the United States, releasing more than 1,000 pages of internal government communications, text messages, and WhatsApp logs to…
3 MIN READPardoned supporters of Donald Trump who pleaded guilty to illegally entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are moving to claim compensation from a nearly $1.8 billion federal fund created by the administration to address what it…
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