President Donald Trump has backed US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after reports that military attack details were shared in a group chat that included Hegseth's wife, brother, and personal lawyer.
The controversy comes a month after a journalist (...)
Harvard University sued the Trump administration Monday in a new escalation of the fight over institutional oversight, independence and federal funding for the Ivy League school.
University President Alan M. Garber said in a letter to the Harvard (...)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed plans about a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen on a second Signal group chat, this one on his personal phone and including his wife, lawyer and brother, three people familiar with the (...)
The United Nations has taken note of Russia's announcement of a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine over the Orthodox Easter weekend, a UN spokesperson said Saturday, reiterating calls for a durable and comprehensive peace aligned with international law (...)
A haunting image of a young Gazan boy recovering from war injuries has been named World Press Photo of the Year for 2025.
The portrait, taken by Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf for the New York Times, shows nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, who (...)
An organizer of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University has been arrested by immigration officials as he attended an interview as part of his application for US citizenship, his lawyer says.
Mohsen Mahdawi, a green card holder who is due to (...)
A Palestinian paramedic who has been missing since an Israeli attack that killed 15 other emergency workers in southern Gaza three weeks ago is being detained by Israeli authorities, the International Committee of the Red Cross has said.
The ICRC (...)
NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Wasel, and his French counterpart Ambassador Jérôme Bonnafont jointly chaired the first briefing session for UN member and observer states on the (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday issued a directive ordering the military to assume control of specific federal lands along the U.S.-Mexico border, in a move aimed at intensifying efforts to curb illegal crossings.
In a memo sent to four (...)
US President Donald Trump's administration has announced that smartphones, computers, and a range of other electronic devices will be exempt from the sweeping new tariffs targeting global and Chinese imports.
The decision, published late Friday by (...)
The US Supreme Court has instructed the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a mega-jail in El Salvador.
The Trump administration has conceded that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported due to an (...)
Six people, including three children, were killed after a helicopter carrying a family of tourists crashed into the Hudson River in New York, authorities have said.
The family of five was from Spain and the sixth person was the pilot, New York City (...)
Israel's military has transformed every bit of Gazan territory within about half a mile of the Israeli border into a wasteland.
Armored bulldozers have systematically leveled one home after another. Combat engineers have laid explosives and (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France plans to recognize Palestine as a state in June this year.
Macron made the comments during an interview with a French television station while on a two-day trip to Egypt.
"Our goal is, (...)
At least 79 people have been killed and more than 150 injured after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic's capital Santo Domingo, officials have said.
A provincial governor and former Major League Baseball pitcher Octavio Dotel (...)
The UN's secretary-general says "aid has dried up [and] the floodgates of horror have re-opened" in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has blocked the entry of all goods and resumed the war against Hamas.
"Gaza is a killing field, and civilians are in an (...)
When paramedic Hassan Hosni Al-Hila felt too sick to continue his late-night assignment with the Palestine Red Crescent Society on March 23, his son gladly agreed to cover his shift.
That shift would prove to be 21-year-old Mohammad's last.
Within a (...)
At Columbia University, which has long borne witness to protests and dissent, the atmosphere has shifted under a new regime of policy changes ostensibly aimed at heightening security, according to CNN interviews with more than a dozen students and (...)
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he has arrived in West Texas after a school-aged child died at a local hospital where they were receiving treatment for measles – marking the second death of a minor in the state (...)
Australia on Sunday called for an independent investigation into the killing of 15 paramedics and civil defense workers by Israeli forces in southern Gaza last month.
"The deaths of humanitarian workers in Gaza are unacceptable," a spokesperson for (...)
A video released by The New York Times on Saturday has exposed inconsistencies in the Israeli army's justification for a March 23 airstrike in southern Gaza that killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and aid workers.
Following international condemnation, (...)
Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent pro-Palestinian activist facing deportation by the Trump administration, described his March 8 arrest by immigration authorities as an "abduction" in an op-ed published Saturday in the Columbia (...)
Global stocks have sunk, a day after President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs that are forecast to raise prices and weigh on growth in the US and abroad.
Stock markets in the Asia-Pacific region fell for a second day, hot on the heels (...)
Tesla sales have plummeted to their lowest level in three years after a backlash against its boss Elon Musk.
The electric car maker delivered almost 337,000 electric vehicles in the first three months of 2025, a 13% drop from a year ago.
Tesla (...)
