The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a U.S.-brokered peace agreement at the White House on Friday. This deal would have been unthinkable not long ago. For three decades, the conflict has defined the South Caucasus. It was mediated and manipulated by Russian diplomats, patrolled by Russian peacekeepers, and shaped by Russian interests. Now, Washington […]
A longtime shortage of a type of sterile intravenous saline is now resolved, the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday. According to the FDA, sodium chloride 0.9% injection products have been in shortage since 2018. The shortage was exacerbated when Hurricane Helene flooded a Baxter manufacturing plant in Marion, N.C. last fall what was responsible for...
Roland Mehrez Beainy, a co-owner of Trump Burger in Texas, is facing deportation. Beainy, a 28-year-old originally from Lebanon, entered the U.S. in 2019 with a non-immigrant visitor visa and overstayed, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The restaurateur was arrested by ICE on May 16 and placed in detention. He was then granted...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has sued former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) and his political group, Powered by People, for unlawful fundraising activity after Democratic state House members fled the state to stall a GOP redistricting plan. “Democrat runaways are likely accepting Beto Bribes to underwrite their jet-setting sideshow in far-flung places and misleadingly...
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Friday lashed out against British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for urging leaders to deescalate conflict in the Gaza Strip. “So Israel is expected to surrender to Hamas & feed them even though Israeli hostages are being starved? Did UK surrender to Nazis and drop food to them?” Huckabee wrote...
After ruling the country for three decades, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko told Time in an interview that he would not seek another term. Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s right hand in Europe, has been in power since 1994 and was sworn in for his seventh term in March. His opponents deemed the January election undemocratic, but...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a lawsuit on Friday looking to vacate the seats of 13 Democratic state lawmakers who fled Texas in a bid to block Republicans from passing a new GOP-friendly House map. Paxton is asking the Texas Supreme Court to declare that the 13 lawmakers have vacated their offices after roughly 50...
President Trump said he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin soon and that swapping territories will be discussed in potential peace talks between the Kremlin and Ukraine. “I think we’re getting very close, and we’re going to be announcing later on — we’re going to have a meeting with Russia, start off with Russia,”...
A group of Texas Democrats will give remarks from California on Friday, detailing their effort to fight what they have called unfair gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The Democrats left the Lone Star State earlier this month to delay passage of a new congressional map that favors Republicans and offers the GOP an...