Forced leaves start for thousands at USAID under a Trump plan to gut the foreign aid agency
Forced leaves began in Washington and worldwide Friday for most employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development, ...
Russia claims it’s taken another eastern Ukraine town. Kyiv officials make no comment
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed on Friday that its forces had captured the mining town of Toretsk in their latest ...
Ukraine’s Western backers will meet for arms talks as doubts over US intentions grow
The main international forum for drumming up weapons and ammunition for Ukraine will for the first time meet under the ...
Latino evangelical churches gear up to face possible immigration enforcement in churches
Bishop Ebli De La Rosa says his motto right now is “to prepare for the worst and pray for the best.” De La Rosa, who oversees ...
Japan’s Ishiba makes a whirlwind Washington trip to try to forge a personal connection with Trump
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba didn’t skimp on the legwork as he prepared for his first meeting with President Donald ...
Arab, Muslim Americans blast Trump’s ‘grotesque’ Gaza proposal
Arab American and Muslim American leaders are blasting President Trump’s proposal to take over Gaza, warning that it’s ...
US job market likely began the year strong, but faces cloudier future
The U.S. labor market probably started 2025 the way it spent most of last year: Generating decent, but unspectacular, job ...
One of the victims of Sweden’s deadliest mass shooting called his fiancee to say he loved her
Despite his gunshot wounds, sustained Tuesday in Sweden’s deadliest mass shooting, Salim Karim Iskef managed to video-call ...
Wisconsin Supreme Court says swing state’s embattled elections chief can remain in post
A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that the swing state’s nonpartisan top elections official, who has been targeted for removal by Republican lawmakers over the ...
Driverless taxi filled with passengers rear-ended by hit-and-run driver in DTLA
Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who slammed into the back of a self-driving taxi, leaving three of four passengers hospitalized, in downtown Los Angeles Thursday night. The crash ...
US aid cutoff poses new challenges to rights groups and independent media from Russia and Belarus
Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws ...
2 dead, 3 injured in weather event with ‘possible tornado,’ officials in Tennessee say
Two people were killed in eastern Tennessee when severe storms with a possible tornado moved through the region. Local officials announced Friday morning that a mother and ...