• Top congressional leaders will meet Trump at the White House on Monday as shutdown looms
    2025-09-28

    The White House on September 1, 2025. Al DragoGetty Images The top four congressional leaders will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, multiple sources told CNN, as Washington works to avoid a looming government shutdown. The eleventh-hour meeting with House Speaker Mi...

  • Trump orders deployment of troops to Portland and authorises 'full force'
    2025-09-28

    Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of troops to Portland, Oregon, authorising use of "full force" if needed, to suppress protests targeting immigration detention centres. The US president claimed the move would help protect "any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and othe...

  • Archives released too much of Mikie Sherrill's military record to ally of her opponent in N.J. governor's race
    2025-09-26

    Washington — A branch of the National Archives released a mostly unredacted version of Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill's military records to Nicholas De Gregorio, an ally of Jack Ciattarelli, her GOP opponent in the New Jersey governor's race. The disclosure potentially violates the Privacy Act of 19...

  • Iran 'never sought' nuclear bomb
    2025-09-26

    President said Teheran promotes efforts to establish peace and security Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, US, September 24, 2025. [PhotoAgencies] Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday reiterated th...

  • Trump says he won't let Israel annex the West Bank
    2025-09-26

    President Trump said Thursday he will not let Israel annex the occupied West Bank, an idea that has circulated among members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government. "I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank," the president told reporters during an Oval Office event. "There'...

  • After wave of panic, impact of US visa hike still unclear
    2025-09-26

    Washington's plan to charge $100,000 fee for H-1B application rattles tech firms, foreign workers People walk pass the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City in July. US Big Tech companies employ a large number of foreign workers holding H-1B visas. MICHAEL NAGLEGETTY IMAGES The United States' snap ...

  • Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX will be main investors in TikTok U.S., sources say
    2025-09-26

    Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi’s MGX will be main investors in TikTok’s U.S. business, sources told CNBC’s David Faber on Thursday. Those three entities will control roughly 45% of TikTok USA, Faber reported. ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent, will own 19.9%, with the remaining 35% in the hands...

  • Former FBI Director James Comey indicted
    2025-09-26

    Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a federal grand jury, an extraordinary escalation in President Donald Trump’s effort to prosecute his political enemies. Comey, a longtime adversary of the president, is now the first senior government official to face federal charges in one of T...

  • Italy set to freeze its retirement age
    2025-09-25

    In a move that could please workers but worry investors, Italy's requirement to constantly review and push back its retirement age could be scrapped, thanks to pressure from the far-right League party. The party, which is part of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's coalition government, believes the cu...

  • Russia to begin trials of mRNA cancer vaccine against melanoma
    2025-09-25

    MOSCOW - Russian scientists are ready to launch clinical trials of personalized mRNA cancer vaccines targeting melanoma within the next six weeks, according to media reports on Tuesday. Alexander Gintsburg, head of the Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology, told TASS news agency...

  • UK facing highest inflation among G7
    2025-09-25

    The United Kingdom will face the highest inflation rate among G7 nations this year, piling more pressure on household budgets, according to a warning from the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD. Alongside slowing growth, the OECD projects UK inflation will r...

  • Trump alleges "triple sabotage" at U.N. after escalator and teleprompter freeze up, as U.N. blames Trump's videographer
    2025-09-25

    President Trump accused the United Nations of "sabotage" and demanded an investigation Wednesday after an escalator and teleprompter malfunctioned during his visit to U.N. headquarters — though the U.N. says a videographer from Mr. Trump's delegation may have triggered the escalator's safety shutoff...

  • Newly appointed US attorney will attempt to charge James Comey despite prosecutors finding no probable cause: Sources
    2025-09-25

    Trump appointed longtime aide Lindsey Halligan to lead the case. Donald Trump’s handpicked U.S. attorney in Virginia is planning to ask a grand jury in the coming days to indict former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress, despite prosecutors and investigators determining there ...

  • Gunman kills 1 detainee, wounds 2 more at Dallas ICE facility, officials say
    2025-09-25

    Gunman kills 1 detainee, wounds 2 more at Dallas ICE facility, officials say Police block off the street close to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office after a reported shooting, in Dallas on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. AP PhotoJulio Cortez | AP An Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

  • Trump administration puts hunger researchers on leave after canceling food insecurity report
    2025-09-24

    The sun flares behind the sign marking the headquarters building for the US Department of Agriculture on April 18, 2024, in Washington, DC. J. David AkeGetty Images Days after announcing it was ending the government’s annual food insecurity report, the US Department of Agriculture placed about a ...