After pulling out of the World Health Organization, the Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the United States once helped build and accessed at a fraction of the cost, according to three administration officials briefed on the proposal. read more
Trump says he's considering limited military strike against Iran Trump said Thursday that he would make a decision in the next 10 to 15 days on whether to attack the Islamic Republic. read more
Years before they were convicted sex offenders, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell used his wealth to gain access to a prestigious boarding school for young artists in Michigan, using a rental lodge Epstein donated to the school as a base from which to recruit some of their earliest victims, according to Department of Justice records and former campus administrators. read more
The US president's renewed criticism of the Chagos deal is reportedly because he is being blocked from using UK bases for a strike on Iran. read more
President Trump said Thursday the U.S. is committing $10 billion to the Board of Peace, the forum that was created to reconstruct the Gaza Strip but that the president wants to see broadened to tackle other foreign conflicts. read more
Homeland Security employees working at the department's St. Elizabeths West Campus in Washington, D.C., say they are being forced to breathe in asbestos dust from demolition work ordered by Secretary Kristi Noem with no masks, no respirators and virtually no warning signs to protect them. read more
'They're real, but I haven't seen them,' Obama replied. He joked that they are not being kept at Area 51, as far as he knows. read more
James Speyer: It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is essentially acting as a massive criminal enterprise. read more
The Seoul Central District Court ruled that Yoon [Suk-yeol] was the leader of the December 3, 2024 insurrection in a case where prosecutors had sought the death penalty for the disgraced ex-president, who was impeached and removed from office over his declaration of martial law. read more
Delivering a major blow to President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that he exceeded his authority when imposing sweeping tariffs using a law reserved for a national emergency. read more
As vehicles become platforms for software and subscriptions, their longevity is increasingly tied to the survival of the companies behind their code. When those companies fail, the consequences ripple far beyond a bad app update and into the basic question of whether a car still functions as a car. read more
Donald Trump's tariffs are sharply escalating costs for midsize US companies, sparking fresh concern about the president's flagship policies as he embarks on a campaign to revive Americans' dim view of his economy. read more
Eric Trump, the son of the Chairman of the Board of Peace Donald Trump, is investing in a $1.5bn merger between Israeli drone maker Xtend and Florida-based JFB Construction Holdings. read more
Within months of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis handpicking him as Florida's new attorney general last winter, James Uthmeier landed a lucrative side gig: a $100,000-a-year teaching assignment at University of Florida's law school for just two hours of instruction per week. read more
Police are investigating a suspected arson on Tuesday night at the memorial for Renee Good in south Minneapolis. read more
For months, President Donald Trump has railed against Latin American narcoterrorists flooding the United States with "lethal poison." He has used the scourge of drug trafficking as a rationale for dozens of military strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, which have left more than 140 people dead. But when it comes to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernndez, who was tried and convicted in the U.S. in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison for taking bribes and allowing traffickers to export more than 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S., Trump has taken a decidedly softer tone. read more
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