• Brazil's former President Bolsonaro found guilty of plotting coup
    2025-09-12

    SERGIO LIMAAFP via Getty Images The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been found guilty of plotting a military coup. Four out of the five Supreme Court justices tasked with judging the former leader found him guilty. One judge voted to acquit him. The 70-year-old has been convicte...

  • 'People are scared to death': Members of Congress fear for their safety after Charlie Kirk assassination
    2025-09-12

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., at a rally in Denver on March 21.Chet Strange Getty Images file WASHINGTON — The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is sending shock waves through Capitol Hill, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressing fears for their own safety...

  • New French PM starts job amid protests
    2025-09-11

    France's newly-appointed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu reacts as he speaks at the end of the handover ceremony at the Hotel Matignon in Paris on Sept 10, 2025. [PhotoAgencies] French new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu takes office on Wednesday facing a day of protests in a show of grassroots...

  • Israel will kill Hamas leaders next time if they survived Qatar attack, Israeli official says
    2025-09-11

    A damaged building, following an Israeli attack on Hamas leaders, according to an Israeli official, in Doha, Qatar, September 9, 2025. REUTERSIbraheem Abu MustafaFile Photo If Israel failed to kill Hamas leaders in an airstrike on Qatar on Tuesday, it would succeed next time, the Israeli amba...

  • Trump is used to shaking off criticism - but the Epstein story is different
    2025-09-11

    There is no evidence of any criminal conduct on Trump's part, but his friendship with Epstein which ended in 2004 made him a central player in this dramaDavidoff Studios Photography Getty Images Donald Trump has called the Jeffrey Epstein story a "dead issue". But in a week of blockbuster new re...

  • Federal takeover of D.C. police expiring today, although National Guard will remain
    2025-09-11

    The federal government's 30-day takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., expires Wednesday, although the D.C. National Guard will remain posted throughout the district. Congress has not moved to renew the Trump administration's 30-day takeover of the district's police for...

  • Korean women target US military in landmark forced prostitution lawsuit
    2025-09-11

    This file picture taken in Dongducheon in September 2024 shows a building slated for demolition that was once a clinic for sex workers hired to serve US soldiers in South Korea © Anthony WALLACE AFPFile Historians and activists say tens of thousands of South Korean women worked for state-sanctio...

  • Harris writes Biden decision to run again shouldn't have been "left to an individual's ego"
    2025-09-11

    Former Vice President Kamala Harris writes that former President Joe Biden's decision to run again was a choice that shouldn't have "been left to an individuals' ego, an individual's ambition," according to excerpts of her upcoming book, "107 Days," published Wednesday in The Atlantic. Harris, who ...

  • ‘A lot of blood’: local reporters describe moment when Charlie Kirk was shot
    2025-09-11

    The crowd reacts after Charlie Kirk is shot during Turning Point USA's visit to Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on 10 September.Photograph: Tess CrowleyAP Charlie Kirk was being asked a question about mass shootings when he was shot in the neck in Utah. On Wednesday, the rightwing activist...

  • Venezuela's Maduro declares Christmas in October, as standoff with Trump sees him send 25,000 troops to borders
    2025-09-10

    Caracas — President Nicolas Maduro said Monday that Christmas will come early again this year, decreeing that the annual holiday — which is typically celebrated in late December in most of the world — will begin on Oct. 1 in Venezuela. The move, which he said was aimed at bringing "joy" to the Venez...

  • Man faces a federal charge in the fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte train
    2025-09-10

    Iryna Zarutska poses for a photo posted to her Instagram page on June 9. from Iryna ZarutskaInstagram The Justice Department filed federal charges Tuesday against a man with a lengthy rap sheet for the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the latest es...

  • Democrat James Walkinshaw to win Virginia House race, narrowing GOP's edge in Congress
    2025-09-10

    Democratic candidate James Walkinshaw is projected to win a special election Tuesday to represent a Northern Virginia congressional district once held by the late Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, according to The Associated Press. Walkinshaw, a Fairfax County supervisor, defeated Republican Stewart ...

  • 'It's not my signature': Trump says about alleged Epstein 'birthday book' letter
    2025-09-10

    President Donald Trump offered his first on-camera reaction to a drawing and signature in Jeffrey Epstein's 50th "birthday book" which he allegedly signed in 2003 -- denying completely that what is in the book is his signature or his "language," while speaking to reporters outside of Joe's Seafood i...

  • Thai top court orders former PM Thaksin to return to prison
    2025-09-10

    Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra left and his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra arrive at the Supreme Court in Bangkok, Thailand, on Tuesday. SAKCHAI LALITAP BANGKOK — Thailand's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was unlawfully allowed to stay...

  • Israel targets Hamas leadership in Qatar
    2025-09-10

    A man walks near a damaged building, following an Israeli attack on Hamas leaders, according to an Israeli official, in Doha, Qatar, Sept 9, 2025. [PhotoAgencies] Qatar on Tuesday condemned a "reckless" Israeli attack targeting Hamas leaders in Doha, as a Hamas delegation was discussing United St...