The U.K. government has approved China’s plans to build a “mega embassy” in London. After years of delay, Prime Minister Keir Starmer endorsed the project, despite concerns that the embassy would be used for spying. The decision is a bad one from an unpopular and misguided administration, and it is sure to complicate the increasingly […]
Sen. Ted Cruz returned to Texas after a photo went viral earlier this week of him boarding a plane, sparking online scrutiny as the state braces for a potentially historic winter storm.
House Speaker Mike Johnson faces mounting pressure as Republican majority shrinks to just 218-213 after recent departures, forcing strict attendance rules.
The Navy announced an apology and a path to reinstatement for service members discharged over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate as the Pentagon moves to review and correct past separations.
EUROPEANS WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF THEY HAD LISTENED TO TRUMP. President Donald Trump is back in the United States, tending to urgent political matters, including the upcoming midterm elections. But as usual, when he travels to Europe, Trump leaves a lot of turbulence in his wake. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, many European […]
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled crown prince of Iran, on Friday called for the U.S. to take decisive action against the “instrument of repression” in Tehran to stop the brutal crackdown on anti-government protests and warned against any deals with the country’s autocratic leaders. “The United States has a choice,” Pahlavi said during an event at...
Tens of thousands gathered Friday in front of the U.S. Embassy in Havana to protest the deaths of Cuban officers killed during the U.S. operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The protesters also called for the release of Maduro, a close ally of Cuba who now faces trial on drug trafficking charges in a...
President Trump said Friday that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney should be making a trade deal with China, an economic U.S. adversary the president has been going after during his second term. “That’s OK. That’s what he should be doing. I mean, it’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you...
Norwegian Labour Party lawmaker Raymond Johansen on Thursday ripped President Trump for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize from Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. Machado presented Trump with the prize Thursday during a White House meeting after months of lauding the president in his push to oust regime leader Nicolás Maduro and for his war...
A day after her meeting with President Trump, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado expressed confidence that the U.S. is moving toward free elections in the country, but she acknowledged it would be a “process that has several phases.” During a press conference hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Friday, Machado criticized Delcy...
Millions of Americans will have a chance to view the Northern Lights on Friday and Saturday, according to an aurora forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center.
President Trump on Friday floated slapping potential tariffs on countries that oppose the U.S. acquiring the Danish territory of Greenland. Trump made the remarks after describing threatening European allies, including France and Germany, with 25 percent tariffs if they did not pay more for prescription drugs. “I went through country after country,” Trump said at...
CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday in Caracas, the same day President Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at the White House. Ratcliffe, the most senior administration official to visit Venezuela since U.S. Special Forces captured Nicolás Maduro, traveled to the Latin American country at...
Thousands of X users reported outages Friday, with the social media platform’s homepage showing an error message. Some have also reported issues with the website and server connection, according to Downdetector. As of 10:42 a.m. EST Friday, Downdetector had received 53,482 reports of outages on X. The issues on Friday follow a brief Tuesday outage...
Tyler Robinson, the alleged gunman who fatally shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk last year, is seeking to disqualify the attorneys prosecuting him in Utah. Robinson’s defense team has raised concerns with one of the deputy county attorneys whose child attended the campus event at Utah Valley University where Kirk was shot, according to The Associated...
