President Biden will remove Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, US officials announced Tuesday, as part of a deal that is expected to free protesters jailed during a sweeping crackdown on dissent by the communist government in…
Pete Hegseth’s four-hour hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday was extremely contentious. Democrats derided him as unqualified to oversee the Defense Department’s three million employees and $849 billion budget. Republicans acknowledged that he was an unconventional choice,…
Donald Trump has set some grandiose foreign policy goals for his second term, from buying Greenland to ending the war in Ukraine “in one day.” Here is a goal that is overdue and morally right and in the interest of…
The 2017 sexual assault allegation in Monterey, California, which surfaced shortly after Trump nominated him for the Pentagon role, has surfaced repeatedly. According to the police report, the unnamed woman said Hegseth took her phone and blocked the door when…
A divided House of Representatives on Tuesday approved legislation aimed at banning transgender women and girls from participating in school sports programs aimed at female students, as Republicans sought to extract political opportunity from a social issue that helped them…
Sanabel, who lives with her family in their partially destroyed home, told the BBC’s OS program that everyone in northern Gaza “feels happy, cheerful, optimistic to see their best friends, to see their families who have been displaced to the…
Criminal investigators armed with a court warrant began a second, long-awaited operation early Wednesday to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning on sedition charges stemming from his short-lived imposition of martial law last month. Police buses started gathering…
“This decision puts an end to specific coercive measures that, among many others, are causing serious damage to the Cuban economy, with a heavy impact on the population,” the country’s foreign ministry said. The immediate hope is that the move…
Michelle Obama, the former first lady, will not attend the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump, her office said in a statement Tuesday. “Former President Barack Obama has been confirmed to attend the 60th Inaugural Ceremony,” the statement said. Former…
A notable moment of the extremely depressing Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, the Fox News personality who is Donald Trump’s choice for Secretary of Defense, occurred right at the beginning, when he was introduced by former Republican Senator Norm…
