• Trump says a Gaza ceasefire is closer than ever. The reality is more complicated
    2025-09-30

    Members of the media try to ask questions as US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at a joint press conference at the White House on Monday. Jonathan ErnstReuters President Donald Trump emerged from talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

  • 95 dead from hunger, disease in W. Sudan's refugee camp during past 40 days: volunteers
    2025-09-29

    A displaced woman and some children sit under a tent built from logs and cloth in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, Aug. 8, 2025. The UN World Food ProgrammeHandout via Xinhua KHARTOUM, Sept. 28 Xinhua -- At least 95 people have died from hunger and disease over the past 40 days in Abu Shouk displacem...

  • Jeffries says he's 'hopeful' a government shutdown can be avoided
    2025-09-29

    House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday he is "hopeful" a government shutdown can be avoided as Congress lurches toward its Tuesday deadline to reach a spending agreement. Jeffries' comments come after President Donald Trump canceled a meeting last week with Jeffries and Senate Democratic...

  • UK mandates digital ID to work
    2025-09-29

    A protester holds a Union Jack flag and a sign during a 'No to Digital ID' demonstration against the planned introduction of a government-issued digital ID for all British adults, outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, Britain, Sept 28, 2025. [PhotoAgencies] The United Kingdom will mak...

  • US citizen released by Taliban after nine-month detention
    2025-09-29

    Amir Amiry far left is photographed with US hostage envoy Adam Boehler and a Qatari diplomat on a plane from Kabul A US citizen held by the Taliban in Afghanistan for nine months has been released following negotiations led by Qatari mediators, officials say. The man, identified as Amir Amiry, i...

  • Trump confident ahead of Monday showdown, says Democrats' position makes shutdown likely: "I just don't know how we're going to solve this issue"
    2025-09-29

    Washington — President Trump said Sunday that a government shutdown is likely unless top Democrats back down from their negotiating position. "I just don't know how we are going to solve this issue," Mr. Trump said in a phone interview with CBS News. Mr. Trump also expressed confidence that the Am...

  • What we know about Michigan church shooter Thomas Sanford
    2025-09-29

    Fire and law enforcement officers stand outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025 in Grand Blanc, Mich. AP PhotoCarlos Osorio Thomas Jacob Sanford, the suspect in Sunday morning’s mass shooting at a Michigan church, was an Iraq War veteran and outdoorsman, ac...

  • How a ‘nudify’ site turned a group of friends into key figures in a fight against AI-generated porn
    2025-09-28

    In June of last year, Jessica Guistolise received a text message that would change her life. While the technology consultant was dining with colleagues on a work trip in Oregon, her phone alerted her to a text from an acquaintance named Jenny, who said she had urgent information to share about her ...

  • Iran slams US, Europe as nuclear deal sanctions set to resume
    2025-09-28

    Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a press conference after arriving at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran on September 27, 2025, upon returning from New York, where he attended the UN General Assembly. [PhotoVCG] TEHRAN -- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday the Uni...

  • Death toll climbs to 38 in stampede in southern India
    2025-09-28

    In this file photo dated June 4, 2025, fans stand next to abandonned shoes and a fallen barrier following a stampede during a cricket match celebration outside the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. PHOTO AFP NEW DELHI -- The death toll from a stampede at a political rally in southern India on...

  • Kilmar Abrego Garcia transferred to Pennsylvania detention center, attorneys say
    2025-09-28

    Kilmar Abrego Garcia was transferred to a Pennsylvania detention center on Friday, his attorneys said in a status update, explaining to a federal judge handling his human smuggling case in Tennessee why a motion wasn't promptly filed. Abrego Garcia, the 30-year-old native of El Salvador who was mis...

  • 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...