• US distances itself from Gaza food delivery group amid questions over its leadership, funding
    2025-05-29

    Gaza Humanitarian Foundation had faced criticism from aid groups even before this week’s chaotic rollout Palestinians open a box from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. Photograph: Abdel Kareem HanaAP After a rollout trumpeted by US officials, the ...

  • Harvard holds commencement amid Trump funding cuts, threats to international students
    2025-05-29

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. AP — Harvard University is holding its commencement Thursday at a pivotal moment, when its place as one of the world’s leading higher education institutions is under what increasingly seems like existential threats from the Trump administration. Other schools face the loss of feder...

  • Elon Musk announces exit from US government role after breaking with Trump on tax bill
    2025-05-29

    The billionaire CEO of Tesla thanked the president for the opportunity and said the Doge mission ‘will only strengthen’ Elon Musk has announced he is leaving his role in the Trump administration. Photograph: Jim WatsonAFPGetty Images Elon Musk has announced on social media that he is leaving his...

  • Todd and Julie Chrisley released from prison after pardons from Trump
    2025-05-29

    Attorney Alex Little said he supplied President Donald Trump with a binder filled with court documents and testimonials to convince him to release the couple. Disgraced reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, convicted in a scheme to swindle banks out of tens of millions of dollars, walked free f...

  • The new move to expose the insidious tactics of Australia's cults
    2025-05-29

    An inquiry will delve into the methods cults and fringe groups are using to recruit and control members. Source: Getty Andrew Merry Key Points A committee will oversee an 'inquiry into the recruitment methods and impacts of cults and organised fringe groups'. It will look at groups using techn...

  • [Insights] US efforts to block China’s AI rise are doomed to fail
    2025-05-29

    On Jan 13, just a week before leaving office, the Biden administration issued new restrictions aimed at preventing adversaries such as China from accessing cutting-edge US-developed artificial intelligence chips. The rule, originally set to take effect on May 15, was rescinded by the US Department o...

  • [Insights] Trump’s mega deals in the Middle East: A road to uncertain outcomes
    2025-05-29

    US President Donald Trump made his first major international trip of his second term from May 13 to 16, securing a series of eye-popping deals with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and theUnited ArabEmiratesworth several trillion dollars. In Saudi Arabia, Trump secured $600 billion in investment commitment, inc...

  • Apple App Store prevents over $9b in fraudulent transactions in last 5 years
    2025-05-28

    SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple said on Tuesday that App Store has protected users by preventing over 9 billion US dollars in fraudulent transactions in the last five years, including over 2 billion dollars in 2024 alone, according to its annual App Store fraud analysis. The company has an average of more...

  • Sean "Diddy" Combs' former employee Capricorn Clark alleges he kidnapped her at gunpoint
    2025-05-28

    Sean "Diddy" Combs' former employee, Capricorn Clark, was on the stand Tuesday in his sex trafficking and racketeering trial in New York City. Combs' ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, and rapper Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, both mentioned Clark in their previous testimony. Clark said...

  • Trump administration halts scheduling of new student visa appointments
    2025-05-28

    WASHINGTON, May 27 Reuters - President Donald Trump's administration has ordered its missions abroad to stop scheduling new appointments for student and exchange visitor visa applicants as the State Department prepares to expand social media vetting of foreign students, according to an internal cabl...

  • Trump administration moves to cancel remaining federal funds to Harvard
    2025-05-28

    Harvard University's campus in Cambridge, Mass., pictured on Saturday, as students prepared to graduate.Zhu ZiyuGetty Images The Trump administration is asking federal agencies to cancel their remaining federal contracts with Harvard University, worth an estimated $100 million, according to a gov...

  • What Trump's cuts to intelligence could mean for national security
    2025-05-28

    MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Richard Clarke has thought a lot about how American national security decision-making can go wrong because he's been there when it went wrong. SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING RICHARD CLARKE: To the loved ones of the victims of 911, to them who are here in...

  • Former New York Rep. Charles Rangel, who spent 4 decades in Congress, dies at 94
    2025-05-27

    Former New York Rep. Charles Rangel, a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus who spent more than four decades in the House, died on Monday, according to his family. He was 94 years old. Rangel, a Democrat, served in the House from 1971 until 2017, spending part of his tenure as the chai...

  • Trump accuses Harvard of being 'very slow' to turn over foreign student info
    2025-05-27

    President Donald Trump threatens to strip Harvard of $3B in grants over foreign student records dispute, give money to trade schools President Donald Trump has accused Harvard University of being "very slow" to turn over information on foreign students. "We are still waiting for the Foreign Studen...

  • Nearly 50 injured after car ploughs into crowd at Liverpool FC victory parade
    2025-05-27

    Man arrested after city centre collision at end of club’s Premier League title celebrations Liverpool football club’s Premier League victory parade descended into chaos on Monday evening after a car collided with pedestrians in the city centre, leaving nearly 50 people injured including children. ...