WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson vows to 'drastically' slash the size of government as Republicans take power in Congress.
Trump claims that the Ukrainian leader decided he ‘wanted to fight’ when it was actually Russia who started hostilities between the two countries
Hours after Donald Trump’s chilly inauguration in Washington, Taiwan’s parliament voted to freeze billions of dollars in defense spending, in a move some worry could frustrate the famously transactional president, who has already demanded Taipei pay “more” for US protection.
Marriage equality laws come into force, with hundreds of couples tying the knot in special wedding events
Trump hailed the crown prince American intelligence accused of ordering the assassination of a Washington Post journalist, and said he’s going to press Saudia Arabia to invest $1 trillion in the U.S.
President has wanted the U.S. to obtain Greenland since his first term
US President Donald Trump visited disaster zones in North Carolina and California on Friday, using the first trip since his return to office to turn emergency aid into a political cudgel.Speaking in North Carolina earlier, where floods caused by Hurricane Helene last year killed more than 100 people in the state, he said that FEMA had "really let us down."
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Friday Dr. Anthony Fauci, a former top health official who has faced threats since leading the country's COVID-19 response, should hire his own security, the latest former U.S. official to have their protection cut off since Trump took office this week. Sources familiar with the situation confirmed that federal security protection had been canceled for Fauci, a top infectious disease official whose efforts to fight the pandemic were applauded by many public health experts even as he was vilified by Trump and many other Republicans. Trump ended federal protection for at least three other former top officials who served during his first administration since he took office for the second time on Monday.
A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and killed a bus attendant trying to protect them has been sentenced to death, according to a Japanese official.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was not sure the United States should be spending anything on NATO, telling reporters the U.S. was protecting NATO members, but they were "not protecting us." Trump repeated demands that other members of the transatlantic alliance spend 5% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defense – a huge increase from the current 2% goal and a level that no NATO country, including the United States, currently reaches. "I'm not sure we should be spending anything, but we should certainly be helping them," Trump told reporters after signing an executive order in the Oval Office.
Final female Israeli civilian held in Gaza not on list of names supplied by Hamas for next exchange
Ukrainian pilots are using skills that the West has let atrophy, a former US F-16 pilot said.
Trump claimed Americans "don't need" Canadian lumber, energy or cars.
Donald Trump’s anti-wind orders dealt the final blow, but Joe Biden’s permitting reform failure started the death spiral.
A jailed gambling tycoon fighting extradition to China received "inhumane treatment" in a Thai prison after saying he was a Chinese spy, his lawyers have told Interpol, saying they fear for his life. China-born She Zhijiang, who has Cambodian citizenship, has suffered violence that has left him unable to stand and has received unwanted visits from Chinese officials, the lawyers said in a letter to the international police organisation, seen by Reuters. The tycoon was arrested in Bangkok in 2022 on an international warrant and an Interpol red notice sought by Beijing, which accuses him of running illegal online gambling operations in Southeast Asia.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg may have donated $1 million to Donald Trump’s inaugural fund, ended Facebook’s fact-checking program, and shelved Meta’s DEI initiatives, but those close to Trump say that should be just the start of the tech billionaire’s attempts to ingratiate himself with the president. “There is a lot more ass-kissing that needs to be done,” a senior Trump administration official told Rolling Stone on Friday. “He just needs to prove himself. It’s a good start, but he can’t just snap
Afghan taekwondo star Marzieh Hamidi told AFP the death threats she has received, forcing her to live under French police protection, show how effective her stinging criticism of the Taliban has been.Last September she was granted police protection after receiving 5,000 calls, including 500 threatening to either murder or rape her.
“The largest massive deportation operation in history is well underway,” the White House press secretary wrote on social media.
President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a case that drew protests on the heels of the murder of George Floyd.
The UK is ready to take ‘the strongest possible response’ as part of its ‘homeland’ security operations
Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson appeared to make their public debut as a couple at President Donald Trump's inauguration.
