Crowds gathered at Windsor Castle in Berkshire on June 5 for a picnic to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.
Video posted to Instagram by Jonas Persson showed revellers at the Long Walk outside Windsor Castle, which was decorated in patriotic bunting ahead of the picnic. Credit: Jonas Persson via Storyful
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President Donald Trump exuded confidence during his Super Bowl interview as the 2.0 administration sink its teeth into Washington
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s recent rules on overdraft and credit card late fees are in jeopardy, while others face an uncertain future.
The PGA Tour's Phoenix Open was held over the weekend in Scottsdale. It is typically one of the busiest times of year for the airport.
A strain of bird flu spreading among dairy cows in Nevada has infected a dairy worker in the state, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
The man who pulled out a Sudanese and Palestinian flag during Kendrick Lamar's halftime show said he felt compelled to use his moment in the Super Bowl to "highlight the human suffering."
The President says his new executive order was needed because the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act puts US firms at a competitive disadvantage overseas
Doctors and researchers across academic institutions fear that the National Institutes of Health’s decision to cut indirect research funding could stall medical progress and negatively affect patient care.
In Rio de Janeiro, children are playing again "like in the old days," and their focus in class has improved after a school cellphone ban pioneered in the city that has now gone national.A study carried out by the Rio de Janeiro municipality in September showed improvements in concentration, class participation and student performance since the school ban was implemented.
A federal judge is likely to quickly decide whether to grant Justice Department demands that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency be allowed to immediately resume accessing Treasury Department records containing personal data for millions of Americans. Judge Jeannette A. Vargas had ordered lawyers to meet and confer over any changes needed to an order issued early Saturday by another Manhattan judge that banned Musk’s team from accessing the records and to file written arguments if an agreement was not reached. Lawyers resumed filing their arguments late Monday, leaving it to the judge to rule on the federal government's request that access to the records be immediately restored on the grounds that it was unconstitutional to block Musk's work.
Federal workers across US health agencies say they are nervous and on edge after a conservative group published more than 50 of their names and photos on a website that at one point described them as "targets."The federal worker who spoke to AFP said many people featured on the website focus on issues of health equity, such as offering mobile health screenings in low-income neighborhoods.
Joseph Lynskey was quietly waiting for the New York subway on New Year's Eve when someone shoved him from behind onto the tracks as a train pulled into the station.Lynskey survived because he fell into a deeper, recessed space under the train and between the tracks, and was not hit by the wheels but rather the undercarriage.
During his campaign, Donald Trump shunned Project 2025, a radical governing blueprint that envisioned a humbled federal bureaucracy bending the knee to a nearly omnipotent White House.On national disasters Trump has also indicated that he is open to shifting response costs from the federal government to affected states -- another Project 2025 idea.
As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.AES Andes, the Chilean subsidiary of US energy company AES Corporation, has submitted proposals for a 3,000-hectare (7,400-acre) site in the Atacama desert near Paranal to harness solar and wind energy, which in turn can be used to produce green hydrogen and ammonia, a gas used in making fertilizers.
“After that, I would say, all hell is going to break out,” he threatened.
US President Donald Trump's use of tariffs as a blunt weapon to extract concessions on everything from commerce to immigration and drug trafficking could redraw global trading norms, analysts say.To McDaniel, the risk of unilateral tariffs may upend global trade.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet US Vice President JD Vance on Friday at the Munich Security Conference, the Ukrainian leader's spokesman told AFP, as Washington pushes for an end to the nearly three-year war with Russia.Zelensky's spokesman Sergiy Nikiforov told AFP the meeting with Vance would take place Friday on the sidelines of the Munich conference.
The Los Angeles area is now looking to rebuild as families mourn those who died in the wildfires.
The move comes a week after Trump promised to suspend tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
US President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned Rod Blagojevich, a former Illinois governor whose jail sentence for corruption he commuted five years ago during his first term.Back in 2020, Trump was vague about his reasoning for freeing Blagojevich, who was sentenced to 14 years.
The Department of Government Efficiency’s embed into the federal government has raised a host of concerns, transforming a debate over how to cut government waste into a confrontation over privacy rights and the nation’s financial standing in the world. DOGE, spearheaded by billionaire Donald Trump donor Elon Musk, has rapidly burrowed deep into federal agencies and taken drastic actions to cut spending. This includes trying to get rid of thousands of federal workers, shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development and accessing the Treasury Department's enormous payment systems.
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