The U.N. Security Council told Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers Monday that peace and prosperity are “unattainable” until they reverse their bans on women and girls getting an education, being employed and speaking in public. The U.N.’s most powerful body also condemned ongoing terrorist activity in Afghanistan “in the strongest terms” and called for strengthened efforts to address the country’s dire economic and humanitarian situation. The council resolution, adopted unanimously by its 15 members, extended the U.N.’s political mission in Afghanistan, known as UNAMA, until March 17, 2026.
President Donald Trump said Monday he was ending “immediately” the Secret Service protection details assigned to Democrat Joe Biden's adult children, which the former president had extended to July shortly before leaving office in January. The Republican president on social media objected to what he said were 18 agents assigned to Hunter Biden's protective detail while in South Africa this week. Former presidents and their spouses receive life-long Secret Service protection under federal law, but the protection afforded to their immediate families over the age of 16 ends when they leave office, though both Trump and Biden extended the details for their children for six months before leaving office.
President Donald Trump has hung a copy of the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office, according to images he shared on social media. The Republican president's official account on X showed two images Monday of a framed copy of the historical document hanging on the wall not far from the Resolute desk. In one image, Trump is moving aside heavy dark blue curtains hung around the document to look underneath.
El Salvador has the highest prison population rate in the world. The US administration intends to increase the number of people behind bars there.
Sudanese army forces advancing on Khartoum converged on Monday with troops in the capital's centre, a military spokesman said, increasing pressure on rival paramilitaries and inching closer to retaking the city.Army spokesman Nabil Abdullah Ali said Armoured Corps troops advancing from the south captured a key hospital from the RSF, enabling them to merge with General Command forces already in the city centre.
Employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an independent agency. The organization's CEO, George Moose, said, “DOGE has broken into our building.” The DOGE workers gained access to the building after several unsuccessful attempts Monday and after having been turned away on Friday, a senior U.S. Institute of Peace official said.
US President Donald Trump on Monday picked Michelle Bowman to be the Federal Reserve's next vice chair for supervision, tapping someone seen as favoring a lighter touch to banking regulation."We applaud President Trump's nomination of Governor Michelle Bowman to serve as the Federal Reserve's next vice chair for supervision, and we urge the Senate to quickly confirm her," ABA President Rob Nichols said in a statement.
Donald Trump is calling into question that President Joe Biden authorized pardons because of an autopen. Here's who Biden pardoned in January.
Here are the latest updates on what's known about Sudiksha Konanki, a University of Pittsburgh student who went missing in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
A jury in North Dakota began deliberating Monday in a trial that has broad free speech implications, over a US oil pipeline operator's lawsuit seeking millions of dollars from Greenpeace for allegedly orchestrating a campaign of violence and defamation.But its operator, Energy Transfer, has continued pursuing legal action against Greenpeace -- first in a federal lawsuit seeking $300 million, which was dismissed, and then in the three-week trial in a state court in Mandan, North Dakota.
A midwife in Texas has been arrested and charged on allegations that she performed illegal abortions, Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a news release.
Harvard University said on Monday it would make tuition free for undergraduate students from families earning less than $200,000 a year and would also cover health insurance, housing and other expenses for those earning less than $100,000. The Ivy League school, which in the past offered free tuition to undergraduates from families earning less than $85,000 a year, said it wanted to make the educational institution affordable to more students, especially those who came from middle-income families. Tuition and fees, including housing and food, at Harvard College, the university's undergraduate program, cost more than $82,000 in the 2024-25 academic year, according to the school's website.
Europe's ESO astrophysics agency said Monday that a giant green energy project billed for Chile's Atacama desert -- home to the world's darkest skies -- will spoil its view of the stars and threaten its science mission. AES Andes, a subsidiary of US energy company AES Corporation, has submitted proposals for the construction of a 3,000-hectare (7,400-acre) project in the desert to generate solar and wind energy and green hydrogen.
Donald Trump said his administration would be releasing Tuesday remaining government files on the assassination of president John F. Kennedy -- a case that still fuels conspiracy theories more than 60 years after his death.On January 23, Trump signed an executive order calling for the declassification of the JFK assassination documents, a case that still fuels conspiracy theories more than 60 years after his death.
A Department of Defense webpage celebrating an Army general awarded the Medal of Honor was temporarily removed over the weekend.
Trump appeared to openly defy multiple court orders over the weekend
Karoline Leavitt gave conflicting explanations on the deportations.
The top federal prosecutor for the nation's capital, who promoted President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was rigged, has formed a “special unit” to investigate election offenses, according to an email sent to lawyers in his office on Monday. Interim District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Ed Martin said the “Special Unit: Election Accountability" has already opened one investigation and “will continue to make sure that all the election laws of our nation are obeyed,” according to the email reviewed by The Associated Press. Martin, who is awaiting Senate confirmation to permanently take the position, was involved in the “Stop the Steal" movement, which was animated by lies about fraud after Trump lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden.
Starbucks has been ordered to pay $50 million to a customer who was burned when hot tea spilled on his lap at a California drive-through.The case is redolent of a 1994 landmark legal action against McDonald's in New Mexico, when 79-year-old Stella Liebeck was awarded over $2.8 million after spilling hot coffee on herself.
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