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In a reversal, the Haven City Council voted Monday night to allow the logo, “In God We Trust,” on city vehicles.
In a reversal, the Haven City Council voted Monday night to allow the logo, “In God We Trust,” on city vehicles.
Europe's leaders will hold emergency talks in Paris to align positions after the Trump administration excluded Europe from talks with Russia on the Ukraine war.
Top US and Russian diplomats will meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting the countries' fractured relations and possibly paving the way to ending the Ukraine war.The meeting in Saudi Arabia will be the first between senior representatives of Russia and the United States since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet US President Donald Trump in Washington next week to discuss a "wide range of issues", a British government spokesperson confirmed on Monday."The prime minister will travel to Washington DC next week," the spokesperson said.
Donald Trump is the president, but billionaire Elon Musk is the focus for thousands of Democratic activists launching a protest campaign this week to fight the Trump administration's push to gut federal health, education and human services agencies. Hundreds of protests are scheduled outside congressional offices and Tesla dealerships, with organizers hoping to send a pointed message to members of Congress who are on recess this week. The backlash still hasn't approached the intensity of protests during and after Trump's first inauguration eight years ago.
Natasha Nelson, a 35-year old entrepreneur in Stone Mountain, Georgia, didn't have an innate sense of social norms. Then, a few years ago, she was diagnosed with autism, just after her youngest daughter received the same. Common signs of autism include trouble with social communication and a fixation on certain routines or topics — Nelson says “people have become my special interest now” — and may go unnoticed during someone’s childhood.
Germany entered the final week of election campaigning Monday, with the debate more heated than ever after the Trump administration weighed in with backing for the anti-immigration far-right AfD party.US Vice President JD Vance and tech billionaire Elon Musk, a Trump ally, have voiced support for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which is polling at a record 20 percent.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Monday against what he called "soft war" tactics employed by enemies in a bid to sow discord within the Islamic republic.He said Iran's "enemies" -- referring to Israel and the United States -- sought to create problems through "soft war threats" aimed at "manipulating public opinion, creating discord and casting doubt over the foundations of the Islamic Revolution".
Donald Trump has leaned into his unofficial role as the “ crypto president ” in ways that can both help the crypto industry and enrich himself and his family. Once a skeptic of cryptocurrencies, Trump has made a complete reversal and embraced digital currencies in a way no other elected official has done. The cryptocurrency industry, which spent heavily to help Trump win last year’s election, has expressed mixed feelings about some of his crypto ventures.
When the Trump administration’s crypto czar, David Sacks, recently held a news conference to announce a new congressional working group to advance cryptocurrency regulation, many digital asset enthusiasts were unimpressed and underwhelmed. “There were a lot of people on X who felt like this wasn’t, you know, a mind-blowing announcement,” Sacks said on a podcast a few days later, referring to the social media outlet formerly known as Twitter. “Time is critical,” Ji Hun Kim, president and acting CEO at the Crypto Council for Innovation said at a recent House committee hearing titled: “A Golden Age of Digital Assets: Charting a Path Forward.”
The Elon Musk-run effort wants to study a system that includes tax returns, Social Security numbers and other information.
A new museum showcasing thousands of ancient archaeological artefacts found at sea will open next year at the Greek port of Piraeus near Athens, officials said on Monday.In antiquity Piraeus was the principal port of ancient Athens, from which its distinctive trireme ships would sail across the Mediterranean Sea.
European leaders were due to meet in Paris on Monday to address Washington's shock policy shift on the war in Ukraine, as top US and Russian diplomats geared up for their first talks aimed at ending the three-year conflict.US President Donald Trump sidelined Kyiv and its European backers last week when he called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to talk about starting negotiations to end the conflict.
Families of some Israeli hostages in Gaza have received signs of life from their loved ones for the first time in more than a year via captives who have been freed over the past weeks in the ceasefire deal with Hamas. The messages, along with reports of their harsh conditions in captivity, have been carried by some of the 19 Israeli hostages freed so far in the ceasefire that took effect on January 19. The emaciated appearance of three of the hostages freed on February 8 have only added to their fears.
The steel mill in a partially occupied region of Ukraine is a dystopian maze of flames, chutes and tentacled pipes, vast enough to be a small city. The Zaporizhstal Iron and Steelworks, one of Ukraine’s largest steel plants, lies in the country’s industrial east, where Russia's 3-year invasion of its neighbor threatens to throttle production at any moment. Last week, though, a second war came to the doorstep of the hulking factory complex: the possible trade war that U.S. President Donald Trump has provoked since returning to office four weeks ago.
Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.
Mordechai Brafman was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder after police say he opened fire on two men, according to reports.
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, said in a statement. The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told the Associated Press.
Pope Francis has a “polymicrobial infection” of his respiratory tract that will require his treatment in hospital to be changed, the Vatican said Monday, with tests indicating a “complex clinical picture.”
China accused the United States of a “serious regression” in its position on Taiwan, after the State Department updated the Taiwan section of its website.
Evelyn Seabrook was able to buy a home even though she had only a high school diploma. Glenn Flood worked his way up the career ladder to become a public affairs officer for former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Now in their late 70s and early 80s, the three retirees are part of a generation of Black Americans who used the military and federal civil service to pursue the American dream.