The U.S. State Department and Department of the Treasury reimposed what they describe as ‘maximum pressure’ sanctions on Iran’s ‘shadowy’ oil trade on Monday as tensions between Tehran and Washington remain high after President Donald Trump took office last month. The State Department designated 16 entities
Former Vice President Kamala Harris took veiled jabs at President Donald Trump and Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk during her first major speech since her election loss in November. After several months out of the public spotlight, Harris stepped onto the stage at the
Editor’s Note: This article contains distressing details from the outset. The numbers involved in France’s largest child abuse trial are staggering: 299 alleged victims, sexually abused in 10 hospitals and
Early on October 18, 2024, police in Wales police received a phone call from a member of the public. It was the start of a mystery that remains unsolved four months later.
China and Russia “cannot be moved away” from one another, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday, in their first phone call since US President Donald Trump upended American
The Israeli military this weekend deployed tanks to the occupied West Bank for the first time in two decades.
Elon Musk, who is leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), warned federal workers on Monday morning that those who fail to return to the office will be placed on administrative leave. ‘Those who ignored President Trump’s executive order to return to work have now received
The policy agenda of President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans is keeping Democrats up at night. Literally. If you snooze, you lose. Or at least you might have missed the recent nocturnal front mounted by Democrats to oppose the GOP’s budget package. It was the second overnight session in three
A massive piece of legislation that House Republicans hope will advance a broad swath of President Donald Trump’s agenda is facing its final hurdle on Monday before a chamber-wide vote. The House Rules Committee, the final gatekeepers for most bills before a House floor vote, is
French President Emmanuel Macron is meeting with President Donald Trump Monday morning at the White House. The meeting comes after Macron called for an emergency gathering of world leaders after the Trump administration excluded Europe from sitting at the negotiating table to settle the war between