Trump is considering buying the Chagos Islands from Mauritius ... read more
Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan arrived by car to Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, where a military band and a "jubilant crowd" eagerly awaited their arrival, according to Chinese state news outlet Xinhua. read more
A slew of workarounds is keeping crude oil below $100 a barrel, defying many of the industry's grimmest forecasts for prices as high as $200. read more
Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday in retaliation for the Israeli strike in Beirut earlier in the day, Israeli officials said. read more
Utah's two U.S. senators are questioning a new Pentagon policy that leaves "Christian" off the designation for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that the Kremlin ordered an attack on the infrastructure around the Chernobyl nuclear site ... read more
A former senior CIA official accused of stealing over US$40 million worth of gold bars from the federal government and storing them in the basement of his Virginia home was ordered to remain jailed ... read more
President Donald Trump stormed out of a Meet the Press interview Sunday -- after moderator Kristen Welker repeatedly fact-checked his claims on a variety of topics including; Jan. 6, his "anti-weaponization" fund, and election fraud. read more
Firings are part of a broader personnel purge under the leadership of director Kash Patel, a Trump loyalist read more
The D.C. Superior Court has dismissed a breach of contract lawsuit against Chuck Redd after the musician backed out of a scheduled 2025 Christmas Eve performance at the Kennedy Center. read more
Trump on Sunday defended his foreign policy stance -- and denied that he ever campaigned on the promise of "no new wars." read more
During a June 6 D-Day commemoration, Pete Hegseth complained about immigrant "invaders" and "ideologies" storming Europe. read more
Steve Bannon delivered a damning prediction for Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. read more
Since election night in California, a single theory of election fraud has taken root like no other among online conspiracy theorists, bot accounts, conservative influencers and people close to President Trump. It proved to be a simple misreading of the voting data. read more
Container shipping rates jumped over the past week amid higher fuel costs, congestion at some Asian ports and a pickup in demand heading into a peak season for booking ocean freight. read more
A series of setbacks with Republicans in Congress, the courts and drawn-out negotiations with Iran -- plus a rare loss for a candidate he backed in a Republican primary -- has plagued a president who was already struggling in polls five months from the November midterm elections. read more
