US Vice President JD Vance has criticized EU leaders and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his visit to Hungary, echoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban's campaign messaging. The Kremlin chimed in from Moscow, too.
The passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz has been halted following Israel's attacks on Lebanon Read more
President Trump's new homeland security secretary has suggested he will withdraw customs officers from the airports of Democrat-run "sanctuary cities" that protect undocumented migrants. The proposal from Markwayne Mullin, who was appointed to the role last month, would affect international travellers at many of the busiest airports in the United States, including JFK in New York, Los Angeles international airport and Denver international airport. "If they're a sanctuary city, should they really be processing customs into their city?" Mullin said on Fox News in his first interview since taking up the role.
BACK IN NOVEMBER, the conservative media outlet the Blaze claimed that reporter Steve Baker had the scoop of the century: compelling evidence that the pipe bombs planted outside Republican and Democratic headquarters on January 6th were laid by a Capitol Police officer. Blaze founder Glenn Beck declared it would be "the biggest scandal of my lifetime, maybe in the last hundred years." Republican members of Congress like Anna Paulina Luna and Thomas Massie championed the story, saying it was proof the deep state was behind January 6th. The story quickly fizzled. And instead of receiving a Pulitzer, the Blaze was forced to backtrack. It retracted its story on December 4. As for Baker, he was fired on Wednesday morning, as the publication faces the possibility of a massive libel judgment over the story.
Israel's military admitted on Tuesday to "collateral damage" taken by a synagogue in Tehran after Iran accused the country of destroying the place of worship. Iranian media reported on Tuesday that heavy damage was inflicted on a Tehran synagogue in an overnight airstrike targeting an Iranian military leader. "Reports were received that a nearby synagogue was also damaged in the strike. The IDF regrets the collateral damage to the synagogue and emphasizes that the strike was directed at a senior military target within the regime's armed forces," the IDF said in a statement about the strike. The strike is still reportedly under review and the IDF said it took measures to avoid civilian casualties. Video verified by the News Corp-owned Storyful showed a Jewish leader walking amongst the rubble of the synagogue.
Typhus is a bacterial disease spread by infected fleas. Symptoms range from mild to potentially deadly. Health officials say it's so widespread, you can be at risk whether you have a pet or not. "These cases have been rising year after year. They're occurring in all areas of our county," said Medical Epidemiologist Dr. Aiman Halai with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. In 2025, 220 typhus infections were recorded in L.A. County, which is up from 187 cases in 2024. Halai said 90% of residents bitten by contaminated fleas ended up in the hospital. Read more
The U.S. will impose tariffs of 50% on "any and all" goods imported to the country from any nation "supplying military weapons to Iran", President Donald Trump said on Wednesday.
"Pete is not speaking truth to the president," one administration official said. "As a result, the president is out there repeating misleading information."
68-year-old Palestinian Sabriya Shamasneh was beaten to death by Israeli soldiers during a raid on her home in the town of Jayyous, in the northern occupied West Bank.
Israeli Atrocities Against Palestinians is Nothing New
In the midst of Vietnam, Lyndon B Johnson angrily and famously declared: I'm not going down in history as the first American President to lose a war'. But he did. And yesterday Donald Trump became the second to also lose one.
A Pew Research poll finds 60% of US adults now have an unfavorable view of Israel and increasingly negative views of ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The extended deployment of the United States Navy's largest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), is set to last a bit longer. The supercarrier departed from Split, Croatia, on Thursday after undergoing repairs during a five-day port visit, the U.S. Navy announced. It was last month that CVN-78 suffered a fire in the laundry facility that took several hours to contain and impacted operations for two days. The U.S. Navy didn't indicate the extent of the repairs, but said, "Gerald R. Ford remains poised for full mission tasking in support of national objectives in any area of operation."
Chilean President Jos Antonio Kast has thrown his weight behind Argentina's territorial claim to the Falkland Islands during his inaugural state visit to Buenos Aires. Meeting Argentine President Javier Milei at the Casa Rosada, Mr Kast endorsed Buenos Aires's position on the disputed South Atlantic archipelago, along with South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Read more
In a series of Situation Room meetings, President Trump weighed his instincts against the deep concerns of his vice president and a pessimistic intelligence assessment. Here's the inside story of how he made the fateful decision.
A group of 36 lawmakers says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has created "disappearances" on US soil, due to the "increasingly unreliable" online system used to track people detained by immigration authorities, according to a letter shared with the Guardian. The lawmakers are urging that the DHS inspector general's office open an investigation into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "online detainee locator system" (ODLS), which has been used for years by family members, attorneys and journalists to track people in the federal immigration detention system. "Since January 2025, that system has grown increasingly unreliable," the lawmakers, including Senator Ben Ray Lujn and House representatives Veronica Escobar and Lauren Underwood, say in the letter. "Without a functional locator system, DHS is effectively creating disappearances' on US soil, and we urge the DHS office of inspector general (OIG) to investigate this matter." Read more
The Guardian: Mexico is facing a "toxic crisis" and has become a "garbage sink" for the US, exposing Mexican communities to dangerous pollution, a UN expert has warned. In an interview with the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab, an investigative outlet, Marcos Orellana, an environmental specialist, said pollutants ranging from imported waste to dangerous pesticides were affecting people's right to live healthy lives. Orellana, whose title is UN special rapporteur on toxics and human rights, conducted an 11-day investigative mission in Mexico last month to learn about toxic threats facing its population. He said he found lax environmental standards and a lack of oversight, which have allowed pollution to accumulate over the years. Read more
