The Trump administration has repeatedly tried to brush off concerns that American consumers would take hits amid market chaos.
Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa hailed the start of a "new history" for his country on Thursday, signing into force a constitutional declaration regulating its five-year transitional period and laying out rights for women and freedom of expression.Interim President Sharaa on Thursday said he hoped the constitutional declaration would mark the beginning of "a new history for Syria, where we replace oppression with justice... and suffering with mercy", as he signed the document at the presidential p
Oz and his advisers said that he would not amend his returns.
The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to confirm William Pulte to serve as the next director of the regulator charged with overseeing housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. By a vote of 56 to 43, the Senate confirmed Pulte's nomination, clearing the way for him to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency, a housing finance watchdog that will play a central role in any effort to return Fannie and Freddie to private control. President Donald Trump nominated Pulte, a private equity executive whose family established one of the country's largest homebuilding companies, in January.
At least 100 people planned to be arrested as a form of protest against the detainment of Columbia University student, Mahmoud Khalil.
South Korea's foreign minister told the country's legislature Wednesday that developing nuclear weapons is not off the table
Scores of people poured into the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City on Thursday to protest the arrest and detention of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, whom the Trump administration aims to deport over his pro-Palestinian activism. The arrest of Khalil, who is in immigration custody in Louisiana after his arrest in New York on Saturday, has sparked an outcry by Democratic lawmakers, the United Nations special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories, and civil liberty advocates, among others. Jewish Voice for Peace, which describes itself as a progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization, carried out Thursday's demonstration.
Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder who was involved in last year’s pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, was detained by ICE this week. Here, an immigration lawyer helps break down the complex details of the case — and what could happen next.
The White House is urging federal agencies to refrain from laying off their cybersecurity teams, as they scramble to comply with a Thursday deadline to submit mass layoff plans to slash their budgets, according to an email seen by Reuters. Greg Barbaccia, the United States federal chief information officer, sent the message on Wednesday, in response to questions about whether cybersecurity employees' work is national security-related, and therefore exempt from layoffs. "We believe cybersecurity is national security and we encourage Department-level Chief Information Officers to consider this when reviewing their organizations," he wrote in the email to information technology employees across the federal government which has not been previously reported.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress he signed an agreement with Elon Musk's DOGE government reform team to provide assistance to the money-losing agency as it works to address "big problems." USPS, an independent government agency with 635,000 employees that lost $9.5 billion last year, has been exempt from DOGE-directed federal employee reductions. DeJoy told Congress in a letter seen by Reuters that USPS plans to reduce its workforce by 10,000 workers in the next month through a voluntary early retirement program.
New information has revealed that other people were on the beach when US college student Sudiksha Konanki went missing in the Dominican Republic, law enforcement officials assisting in the investigation told CNN, as the search goes into its seventh day.
A "Blood Moon" will bathe a large swathe of the world in red light overnight Thursday during a rare total lunar eclipse.- Solar eclipse soon - It will be the first total lunar eclipse since 2022, but there will be another one this September.
Salvage teams have boarded the two vessels involved in a crash that sparked a massive blaze in the North Sea, the UK coastguard said on Thursday.The crash triggered huge fires aboard the two ships, which required a massive high-seas firefighting effort to bring them under control.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to impose 200 percent tariffs on wine, champagne and other alcoholic beverages from European Union countries, in retaliation against the bloc's planned levies on US-produced whiskey."If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE AND OTHER E.U. REPRESENTED COUNTRIES," Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.
U.S. influencer Sam Jones will have her visa reviewed, Australian officials said.
Canada’s innovation minister says the country’s new prime minister will demand Trump’s respect — and hopefully reset trade relations.
When severe weather hits the United States, there are ways people across the country can prepare for the potential impact of hail, rain, damaging wind and more. The large areas of low atmospheric pressure that come with some storm systems can spawn tornadoes. Low pressure is associated with stormy weather, and the lower it is, the stronger a storm can be.
A powerful storm dropping drenching rain on flood-prone Southern California is raising concern among forecasters that it could produce a dangerous, widespread outbreak of tornadoes, damaging winds and fires along with a blizzard as it crosses the entire United States in the coming days.
The future of an ambitious electricity cable linking the power grids of Greece, Cyprus and Israel by the end of the decade is on track despite a series of setbacks, Greece’s Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said Thursday. The 1.9-billion-euro ($2.06 billion) project, backed by European Union funding, aims to link the power grids of the three Mediterranean nations through a submarine power cable.
Cati Blauvelt was discovered in an abandoned South Carolina farmhouse in 2016 — a broken knife blade inside her body. Almost immediately, her friends had one suspect in mind: John Blauvelt, her estranged husband, a once-respected Army recruiter.
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