Air Canada flight attendants went on strike Saturday after failing to reach a contract agreement regarding an increase in wages. Flights across the Great White North were canceled as 10,000 attendants represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) chose not to work, halting some operations for the country’s largest airline. Attendants started walking off...
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – When a door swung open to the small room where President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were holding an historic sit-down meeting, I had barely caught my breath. I had just run from a van about 100 yards away to the building where Trump and Putin were set to...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on Friday criticized President Trump for walking away from his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin without a ceasefire agreement. The lawmaker, a vocal critic of the president, suggested that the lack of a deal shows the Trump administration may be "being soft" on Russia — especially after the threat of...
European leaders on Saturday said they welcomed President Trump's efforts to bring peace to Ukraine but pushed for more "ironclad security guarantees" after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump called NATO and European leaders following the summit in Anchorage, Alaska — which did not include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — to debrief them...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with President Trump on Monday at the White House in the aftermath of Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Trump spoke with Zelensky and European leaders while on Air Force One returning home from his first face-to-face meeting with Putin since his first term in office....
Texas House Democrats who fled the state to stall a Republican redistricting plan have signaled they’re ready to return to the Lone Star State in the coming days. The Texas state legislature wrapped up its first special session on Friday, one of the conditions the Democrats gave for ending their quorum break. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R)...
Lawmakers and activists in Europe and the United States are scrambling to stop the State Department from destroying nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contraceptives have been sitting in a warehouse in Belgium for months after President Trump froze all U.S foreign aid and...
White House efforts to tighten its grip on the Washington, D.C., police force are prompting pushback from the city’s leaders, escalating tensions as the Trump administration sought to compel Washington’s help with immigration enforcement. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday sought to install an “emergency police commissioner” to approve any new Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) policies, while also demanding...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Friday predicted that the Russia-Ukraine war could end before Christmas — if there’s a trilateral meeting between President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Make no mistake, this war is a war of aggression by Putin against Ukraine. However, I have always said Ukraine will not...
Democrats on Friday released a proposed new California congressional map as they aim to counter Republican-led redistricting efforts in Texas. The proposal was submitted to the state legislature by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and comes as the latest development in an intensifying redistricting fight. “Earlier today, the DCCC submitted a proposed congressional map to the...
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin left the world guessing on Friday after a historic summit that yielded no details about what was discussed, what was agreed to and what remaining sticking points remain to ending the war with Ukraine. The two leaders holed up behind closed doors for around three hours at Joint...
