• Trump nominee to lead whistleblower office drops out after racist texts surface
    2025-10-22

    Report on Paul Ingrassia featured messages where he allegedly described himself as having a ‘Nazi streak’ Paul Ingrassia arrives before Trump speaks during a summer party on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington DC, on 4 June. Photograph: Alex BrandonAP Paul Ingrassia, Donald Trump’s n...

  • EU agrees to phase out Russian gas imports by January 2028
    2025-10-21

    BRUSSELS - European Union EU countries on Monday agreed their position on rules to gradually phase out imports of Russian natural gas, marking a key step in the bloc's efforts to end reliance on Moscow's fossil fuels under its REPowerEU strategy. According to the Council of the EU, the proposal wou...

  • 4 killed, 5 injured in Israeli fire east of Gaza City: civil defense
    2025-10-21

    GAZA -- Four Palestinians were killed and five others injured by Israeli fire in two separate incidents east of Gaza City on Monday, the Gaza Civil Defense Service said. Mahmoud Basal, a Civil Defense spokesperson, told Xinhua that Israeli soldiers opened fire in the Al-Shaaf neighborhood in the mo...

  • Outage at Amazon Web Services shuts down internet platforms across globe
    2025-10-21

    Internet services around the globe were disrupted on Monday as Amazon Web Services battled severe outages, affecting everything from financial and government websites to airlines and gaming platforms. The incident shows just how reliant modern societies are on just a few main providers of internet ...

  • Manhunt underway for 4 suspects after heist of 'priceless' jewelry at Louvre in Paris
    2025-10-21

    President Emmanuel Macron described the theft as an "attack" on French heritage. PARIS -- As the alarms sounded at the Louvre Museum on Sunday morning, four suspects took off on two motorbikes, winding their way through central Paris, allegedly carrying with them a haul of "priceless" jewelry once ...

  • Demolition begins to replace White House East Wing with Trump’s ballroom
    2025-10-21

    Demolition of the White House East Wing began Monday as President Donald Trump adds a $200 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom. CNN observed an excavator tearing down portions of the East Wing, and close-up video and images captured areas of the roof torn down and an excavator tearing through the ...

  • Appeals court allows Trump administration to deploy National Guard in Portland
    2025-10-21

    A man holds an American flag as law enforcement officers guard the entrance to the ICE building in Portland, Oregon, on October 3. Carlos BarriaReuters A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Monday will allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in Portland — an important leg...

  • 'No Kings' protests erupt across US
    2025-10-20

    A woman displays a "No Kings" sign during a protest outside the US embassy in Berlin on Saturday. MARKUS SCHREIBERAP WASHINGTON — Huge crowds took to the streets in all 50 US states at "No Kings" protests on Saturday, venting anger over President Donald Trump's hard-line policies, while Republica...

  • Jeffrey Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre, in her own words
    2025-10-20

    If the tragedy of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring had a face, it might've been Virginia Roberts Giuffre. At a 2019 press conference she said, "I was recruited at a very young age from Mar-a-Lago, and entrapped in a world that I didn't understand, and I've been fighting that very world to this...

  • Sen. Mark Kelly says government shutdown could wrap up this week if Republicans "sit down and have a negotiation with us"
    2025-10-20

    Washington — Sen. Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, said Sunday that lawmakers could resolve the shutdown stalemate and reopen the government as soon as this week, urging Republicans to come to the negotiating table on health care subsidies. "We should be able to wrap this up this week, if they will...

  • Trump calls Colombia’s Petro an ‘illegal drug leader’ and announces tariffs and an end to US aid
    2025-10-20

    PALM BEACH, Fla. AP — The United States will slash assistance to Colombia and enact tariffs on its exports because the country’s leader, Gustavo Petro, “does nothing to stop” drug production, President Donald Trump said Sunday, escalating the friction between Washington and one of its closest allies...

  • Thieves steal ‘priceless’ jewelry from the Louvre in 7-minute raid
    2025-10-20

    Paris — Thieves stole “priceless” jewelry from the Louvre in Paris in an audacious seven-minute raid that took place just after the world’s most-visited museum opened on Sunday. In what appeared to be a professional heist, the robbers used a truck-mounted ladder to gain access to the Apollo Gallery...

  • Israel strikes Gaza as both Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaching ceasefire
    2025-10-20

    Israel's government said Sunday it struck "dozens of Hamas terror targets" across Gaza in response to earlier attacks against its troops by Hamas militants in southern Gaza, a sudden escalation of violence that threatened to derail a fragile ceasefire that's been in effect for less than a week. Ham...

  • Trump threatens to ‘go in and kill’ Hamas if group doesn’t stop killing in Gaza
    2025-10-17

    Palestinian militants wearing the uniform of the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, monitor vehicles of the International Committee of the Red Cross as they collect the remains of Israeli hostages handed over by Hamas in Gaza City, Gaza, on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. Ahmad SalemBloo...

  • Trump says he and Putin will meet in Budapest to discuss end to Russia-Ukraine war
    2025-10-17

    Washington — President Trump says he and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Budapest to discuss how to end Russia's war in Ukraine, following what Mr. Trump described as a "lengthy" call with the Russian president Thursday. Mr. Trump didn't say when the meeting would take place. On Frid...