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It's good to oppose fascism, Portland mayoral candidate Sarah Iannarone tells Jesse Watters on 'Watters' World.'
It's good to oppose fascism, Portland mayoral candidate Sarah Iannarone tells Jesse Watters on 'Watters' World.'
The war in Sudan has created the world’s largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis with over 30 million people needing aid this year, 16 million of them children trying to survive in dire conditions, the head of the U.N. children’s agency said Thursday. With no end in sight to the nearly two-year conflict, Catherine Russell told the U.N. Security Council that children in Sudan are enduring "unimaginable suffering and horrific violence.”
Trump has repeatedly expressed his contention that European countries have been taking advantage of the U.S. by not spending more on defense.
A US judge on Thursday ordered six federal agencies to rehire thousands of probationary workers fired as part of Donald Trump's push to slash the size and scope of government.- 'Reduction in force' - The judgement comes after the same court last month ordered the federal government to rescind directives that resulted in thousands of staff being let go.
There's already a Congressional blame game happening with less than two days until a government shutdown.
A Utah judge ordered the release of a 66-year-old suspect in the 1977 killing of a Hawaii teenager after prosecutors in Honolulu said they weren't ready to proceed with a murder charge against him. Gideon Castro was arrested in January at a Utah nursing home on a fugitive warrant for suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara. While he was still awaiting extradition, Honolulu prosecutors told their counterparts in Utah this week that they were not proceeding with the case against Castro because of “recent complications involving a material witness in this case and the state of the evidence.”
President Donald Trump's nominee to be the U.S. ambassador in Ottawa said on Thursday he views Canada as an independent nation, pledging to respect its sovereignty amid a global trade war and hostile rhetoric that has roiled diplomatic relations. "Canada is a sovereign state, yes," Peter Hoekstra told his Senate confirmation hearing, when Democratic Senator Chris Coons of Delaware asked if he agreed Canada is a sovereign state and should not be even jokingly referred to as the 51st state. Hoekstra, a former Republican House of Representatives member from Michigan, is expected to be confirmed, as are Ronald Johnson as ambassador to Mexico and George Glass as ambassador to Japan.
The U.S. is poised to resume shipments to Ukraine of long-range bombs known as Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB), after they were upgraded to better counter Russian jamming, two people familiar with the weapon told Reuters. The munitions will arrive amid reports that Ukraine's supply of similarly-ranged Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) has been depleted. The glide-bombs were purchased under the U.S. administration of former President Joe Biden using the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.
Federal aviation investigators say a deadly 2023 Utah plane crash was likely caused by the North Dakota lawmaker piloting the aircraft who became disoriented as he took off at night without turning on the runway lights. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a new report that Larsen lost his visual reference to the horizon and flew into rocky terrain.
The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group welcomed Thursday the prospect of direct negotiations with the Congolese government to end the conflict in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.The armed group nonetheless raised several "concerns", urging Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi to "publicly and unequivocally express his commitment to direct negotiations" as an "absolute necessity".
Environmentalists warn that the Earth is running a fever and, with the latest NOAA firings, we’ve begun sacking the doctors.
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect while legal fights play out. In emergency applications filed at the high court on Thursday, the administration asked the justices to narrow court orders entered by district judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington that blocked the order President Donald Trump signed shortly after beginning his second term. Three federal appeals courts have rejected the administration's pleas, including one in Massachusetts on Tuesday.
He's been dubbed the "Trump whisperer," but NATO chief Mark Rutte struggled to get a word in Thursday as the US president mused about annexing Greenland and criticized allies over defense spending.Trump reiterated his criticisms on Thursday but seemed more keen to talk about how, in his account, he managed to get NATO countries to pay more during his first presidency.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Armed men set fire overnight to a building in Haiti's capital that had long served as headquarters for the nation's oldest radio station, as an alliance of gangs continues to grow its power despite efforts by local security forces. Videos shared on social media on Thursday showed the multi-story building in downtown Port-au-Prince charred after the attack. Radio Television Caraibes abandoned the building a year ago after gangs moved into the area.
The US government, already shaken to its core by Donald Trump's radical reforms, could begin shutting down entirely at the weekend as Democrats face the stark option of opposing the president's federal funding plans -- even if it blows up in their faces."When the government shuts down, you have government employees who are no longer paid, you have services that begin to lag.
Some of the biggest bosses on Wall Street aren't hitting the panic button on President Trump’s policies this week despite the recent gyration in markets, even as they do acknowledge some new concerns from the business world.
Trump administration officials say budget cuts are necessary to reduce federal spending, but experts warn of long-term implications for our health.
Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE's national security adviser and brother of the country's president, is expected to meet U.S. President Trump's cabinet officials as soon as next week, the report said. These officials would likely include Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, though it remains unclear if the president will participate.
Donald Trump took the fight over his attempt to restrict automatic U.S. birthright citizenship to the Supreme Court on Thursday as the Republican president's administration asked the justices to narrow a judicial block imposed on this key element of his hardline approach toward immigration. The Justice Department made the request challenging the scope of three nationwide injunctions issued against Trump's order by federal courts in Washington state, Massachusetts and Maryland. The administration said the injunctions should be scaled back from applying universally and limited to just the plaintiffs that brought the cases and are "actually within the courts' power."
Spain, which is nearing the end of a years-long drought, can expect such dry spells to become increasingly "frequent and severe" due to global warming, according to a scientific report published Thursday.While rainfall in recent years has been around average, "higher temperatures have led to greater atmospheric evaporation, causing longer and more intense droughts," said the report, which reflects scientific consensus on the topic Spain, which at the beginning of this century experienced "the hi
Republican lawmakers inserted several medical exceptions into Kentucky's near-total abortion ban on Thursday, seeking to offer clarity to doctors fearful of breaking the law for terminating pregnancies while treating expectant mothers with grave complications. Delving into potential life-or-death situations, the bill provides clear guidelines for doctors in such emergencies while maintaining Kentucky's strict prohibitions against abortion, its GOP supporters said. “It ensures women facing life-threatening situations receive timely, appropriate medical care, and gives providers the legal certainty they need to act decisively,” said Republican state Rep. Jason Nemes.