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U.K.’s Starmer slams Trump for saying NATO stayed ‘off the front lines’ in Afghanistan

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is condemning President Trump's claim that some NATO troops stayed "a little off the front lines" during the war in Afghanistan.

DHS says family abandoned 5-year-old migrant, ICE ‘cared for him’

The 5-year-old migrant boy at the center of a dispute in Minnesota was abandoned in a vehicle by his father, and his mother refused to open the door and take him in, so ICE officers "cared for him," Homeland Security officials said Friday.

Trump hails TikTok deal, thanks U.S. investors, Xi for preserving ‘important voice’

The Trump administration is taking a victory lap over its effort to keep TikTok operating in the U.S., calling it a fulfillment of a 2024 campaign promise and hoping young Americans remember the favor.

Ignoring the TikTok divestment law remains Trump’s biggest abuse of power

One of President Donald Trump’s biggest abuses of power remains how he ignored a law signed by Congress to get a deal on TikTok. The result is a deal that does not even meet the standards that Congress set out in the first place. TikTok on Thursday announced that its U.S. operations would be controlled by a […]

Are you in danger of getting chilblains? How to avoid the cold-weather condition

Even in temperatures above freezing, the danger chilblains can still be a concern.

Michigan sues oil giants, alleging collusion to stifle renewables, EVs

The state of Michigan is suing major oil companies and an industry association, alleging that they colluded to hamper the adoption of renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs). In a lawsuit announced Friday, Michigan sued BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute. It alleged they acted as a “cartel” as part of an effort to...

California becomes first state to join WHO disease network after US exit

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, in a seeming rebuke of the Trump administration's withdrawal from international collaborations. Newsom traveled this week to the...

Coal by decree is not an energy strategy

Coal’s decline was not a policy accident.

US targets 9 vessels in Iran shadow fleet with sanctions

The Treasury Department announced its Office of Foreign Assets Control will target and place sanctions on nine Iranian shadow fleet vessels and their owners who allegedly transported hundreds of millions in Iranian oil and petroleum to foreign markets. “Today’s sanctions target a critical component of how Iran generates the funds used to repress its own...

5 arrested in shooting of Indiana judge, wife

Police officials in Lafayette, Ind., said they have arrested five people in the nonfatal shooting of an Indiana judge and his wife at their home that prompted concerns about escalating threats against the judiciary. Tippecanoe Superior Court Judge Steven Meyer was shot in the arm, and his wife, Kimberly, was struck in the hip on Sunday. The...

Senate Democrat calls for investigation into TikTok deal

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called for an investigation Friday into a deal that saw TikTok's American business spun off into a separate entity in order to allow the app to continue operating in the U.S. The deal was finalized Thursday, with TikTok announcing it had officially established the new U.S. venture. “After over a year...

Vance, Trump tout administration’s record on abortion at March for Life rally

President Trump and Vice President Vance each addressed the annual March for Life rally in Washington on Friday, touting the administration’s record in the anti-abortion movement. “In my first term, I was honored to appoint judges and justices who believed in interpreting the Constitution as written,” Trump said in a video address to attendees. “And...

America should withdraw from NATO immediately

NATO has drifted from its original purpose of preventing Soviet expansion in Europe to a moralizing, expansive alliance that has been involved in numerous interventions and proxy wars, making it an unaccountable and ineffective force for peace.

Trump rages at NYT survey, says ‘fake’ polling should be criminal offense? 

When a president threatens pollsters instead of grappling with what voters are actually saying, that’s a problem.  

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