Argentina’s President Javier Milei emboldened an enthusiastic crowd of conservatives gathered outside Washington to keep supporting measures to shrink the size of government, explaining his methods are similar to those started by President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk. Milei is the man behind the chainsaw waved effusively onstage by Musk becoming the most memorable part of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, this year. In a Saturday speech in Spanish, Milei expressed support for the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, saying it is out of line with the president’s agenda and claiming it was wasteful.
Billionaire Warren Buffett is viewed as one of the world's greatest investors, so his annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders are always read closely for lessons. Buffett no longer ventures much into politics or current events in his letters, so he won't offend anyone who might take it out on his many companies that include well-known ones like Geico insurance, Dairy Queen and Helzberg jewelry.
An asteroid has a slight chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Here's why the odds are a moving target, according to the astronomer who invented the scale used to measure such risks.
One person died and two police officers were seriously injured Saturday in a knife attack in eastern France that President Emmanuel Macron said was an "Islamist terror act".Macron said there was "no doubt" that the incident was "a terrorist act", specifically "an Islamist terrorist act".
A cholera outbreak in a southern Sudanese city killed nearly 60 people and sickened about 1,300 others over the last three days, health authorities said Saturday. The outbreak in the southern city of Kosti was blamed mainly on contaminated drinking water after the city’s water plant stopped due to an attack by a notorious paramilitary group, the health ministry said.
German politicians made a final scramble for votes Saturday on the eve of crucial elections in which conservatives are favoured to win despite the dramatic rise of the far right.With the conservatives heading the next government, Germany would have a "strong voice in the European Union" again at a crucial time for the continent, he said.
President Donald Trump said Friday that his new commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, “will be looking” at the U.S. Postal Service.
One person died and two police officers were seriously injured in a knife attack in eastern France on Saturday that occurred during a demonstration, the local prosecutor said.Police established a security parameter after the attack that happened shortly before 4:00 pm (1500 GMT) during a demonstration in support of Congo.
Judges, judicial employees and sympathisers marched Saturday for judicial independence in central Budapest, ending at the Justice Ministry building.The judges' association called the rally -- the first of its kind in Hungary -- months after the government made a controversial deal with a top judicial body linking pay rises to reforms.
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company's cars. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has cut a “modest” amount of positions, according to a statement from the agency. Musk has accused NHTSA of holding back progress on self-driving technology with its investigations and recalls.
The federal government has rescinded approval for the controversial congestion pricing plan.
Sporting a "Trump Was Right" T-shirt and a "Make America Great Again" cap, Carol Newton was brimming with impatience to see the US president before he addressed a conservative convention near Washington."Reagan was fantastic, too," he added, referring to the conservative president from the 1980s, "but I've never seen a president as effective as Donald Trump."
As home prices and general living costs soar across the country, more affordable states are gaining new residents. A popular destination: South Carolina.
President Donald Trump has attacked nearly every aspect of the U.S. effort to confront rising temperatures.
The contenders in Germany's election made their final appeals to voters Saturday, with opposition leader and front-runner Friedrich Merz vowing to revive the stagnant economy and defend Europe's interests in the face of a confrontational U.S. administration. Chancellor OIaf Scholz, meanwhile, insisted that he still hopes for an improbable last-minute comeback. Germans are electing a new parliament Sunday after a campaign focused on the state of Europe’s biggest economy and calls to curb migration, while uncertainty has grown rapidly about the future of Ukraine and the strength of Europe’s alliance with the United States.
Hamas released six hostages from Gaza on Saturday. Israel was due to release 620 Palestinian detainees in return, but has delayed the exchange citing further security reviews.
Last week, Leland Dudek, a mid-level career employee at the Social Security Administration, posted on LinkedIn that he was placed on administrative leave for cooperating with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and asked for help finding another job.
Family and friends of released Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov clapped, burst into tears and popped bottles of champagne as they watched him walk free on Saturday after being handed over by Hamas in Gaza.Dozens of relatives, friends and supporters of Mengistu cheered and clapped as they watched footage of his release in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.
A federal scholarship aimed at boosting students from underserved and rural areas attending historically Black colleges and universities has been put on hold. The U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended the 1890 Scholars Program, which provided recipients with full tuition and fees for students studying agriculture, food or natural resource sciences at one of 19 universities, known as the 1890 land grant institutions. A message seeking more detail was left Saturday with the Department of Agriculture.
Some didn’t even know they were being flown to another country until they actually landed in Panama, according to attorney Ali Herischi, who said “they were told they’re going to Texas.”
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