A top Romanian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by far-right politician Calin Georgescu to lift a ban on his candidacy in the presidential rerun. The ruling by the Constitutional Court in the capital Bucharest, which was unanimous, came two days after the Central Election Bureau rejected Georgescu’s candidacy for the May election. The bureau had cited in its decision on Sunday the Constitutional Court’s ruling last year to cancel the elections after allegations of electoral violations and that Russia had run a coordinated online campaign to promote Georgescu, who ran as an independent.
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The activist played a prominent role in Columbia University's pro-Palestinian protests. He is detained as President Trump has threatened deportation.
In a bipartisan letter to U.S. Department of Interior, 19 lawmakers asked the agency to halt a plan to kill 450,000 barred owls along the West Coast.
Faced by a menacing Russia and unreliable United States, the EU is pushing a mammoth plan to boost its defences that Brussels says could unlock up to 800 billion euros ($860 billion).Von der Leyen says, however, that this could generate up to 650 billion euros over the next four years, if EU countries use it to ramp up defence spending by 1.5 percent of GDP. The second key part of the plan is more concrete in terms of funding, with Brussels proposing to provide member states with EU-backed loans
A small U.S. federal agency that invests in African small businesses is expected in court on Tuesday to fight for control over its operations and existence. The U.S. African Development Foundation last week tried to keep staff from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from entering their offices in Washington. DOGE staff managed to gain entry after returning with U.S. Marshals.
Two members of an Eastern European criminal organization were “hired guns for the government of Iran” in a plot to assassinate an Iran-born journalist at her New York City residence three years ago, a prosecutor told a federal jury in an opening statement on Tuesday at the start of a trial for the men. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacob Gutwillig said the plot to assassinate Masih Alinejad was part of Iran's more than decade-long quest to silence a woman who exposed the Iranian regime for human rights abuses and for silencing political expression. The prosecutor told jurors they will hear the author and contributor to Voice of America explain why the government of Iran wanted to silence her.
US lawmakers geared up Tuesday for a crunch vote on a stopgap plan to avert a government shutdown that would pile more pain on the economic chaos marring President Donald Trump's early weeks in office.Among the most contentious is a provision surrendering congressional authority to block Trump's tariffs, which were imposed under emergency economic powers, meaning any member can force a vote to terminate them.
An environmental group in the U.K. says the North Sea tanker collision could become a "disaster in really important protected areas."
Alex Jones, the founder of Infowars, said one of his reporters, Jamie White was killed in Austin. Police later confirmed his identity.
Since Florida passed the first ban, more than a dozen states have enacted similar laws aiming to crack down on students being plugged in during school hours.
The EU's foreign affairs chief on Tuesday told the UN Security Council that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was just one of a rising number of cases where the "rule of force" has replaced international law.We see attempts to replace the rule of law by the rule of force," the former Estonian prime minister said.
Global stock markets extended losses on Tuesday after President Donald Trump doubled planned tariffs on Canadian steel, aggravating concerns his trade policies could push the United States toward recession.But Trump announced Tuesday that he was doubling the tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium to 50 percent in response to the Canadian province of Ontario imposing of a 25 percent surcharge on electricity exports to three US states.
Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists previously thought, according to a new study.
Predictability is in short supply in Washington as the Trump administration meddles in foreign nations’ domestic politics with abandon.
Measles outbreaks in West Texas and New Mexico are now up to more than 250 cases, and two unvaccinated people have died from measles-related causes. Measles is caused by a highly contagious virus that's airborne and spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes or coughs. It is preventable through vaccines, and has been considered eliminated from the U.S. since 2000.
Elon Musk commented on Social Security in a Monday interview with Fox Business' Larry Kudlow, continuing to spread unsubstantiated claims of fraud.
US President Donald Trump announced sharply higher tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum Tuesday, while threatening to "shut down" its auto industry and saying the best way to end the trade war was for Washington's ally to be absorbed into the United States.The country facing the most aggressive action is Canada, historically one of the United States' closest allies and top trading partners.
The European Union wants to increase deportations and is opening the way for “return hubs” to be set up in third countries for rejected asylum-seekers, according to a new migration proposal unveiled Tuesday. Only 20% of people with a return order are effectively removed from EU territory, according to the European Commission, which presented the “European System for Returns” as a potential solution. The proposal aims to set a standard for all 27 members of the bloc and allow national authorities from one country to enforce the deportation order issued by another.
The FBI arrested a Texas man, Asterius Rulamka, for allegedly beating one passenger, attempting to strike another, injuring a second passenger and vulgarly berating a flight attendant.
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