money Trump grants full pardon to grandmother, Alice Marie Johnson
President Trump grants full pardon to a grandmother, Alice Marie Johnson, who was serving life sentence for a non-violent drug arrest.
President Trump grants full pardon to a grandmother, Alice Marie Johnson, who was serving life sentence for a non-violent drug arrest.
A boat carrying 19 South American migrants blocked from entering the United States sank off the coast of Panama as they returned to their home countries, leaving an 8-year-old Venezuelan girl dead, authorities said Saturday.The migrants were returning home from Mexico and Central American countries after giving up on trying to enter the United States amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal entries.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked Congress to approve nearly $40 billion in aid to help the Los Angeles area recover from January's devastating wildfires, which he said could become the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Newsom sent a letter Friday asking for support from lawmakers including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the House Appropriations Committee chair. “Los Angeles is one of the most economically productive places on the globe, but it can only rebound and flourish with support from the federal government as it recovers from this unprecedented disaster,” Newsom wrote.
A man died in a hospital and a 30-year-old woman was seriously injured in the missile attacks on the central city of Kryvyi Rih, Serhiy Lysak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said on the Telegram messaging app. Three people were injured in a drone attack on the Odesa region when a private house caught fire, said Oleh Kiper, governor of the region on Ukraine's Black Sea, on Telegram.
Germany holds elections on Sunday after its three-party "traffic light" coalition collapsed last year and could soon have a "black-red" government while a "Jamaica" or "blackberry" alliance is less likely.- Colourful coalitions - Scholz's collapsed red-yellow-green coalition was dubbed the "traffic light" government.
Walter "King Tut" Johnson was sentenced to five life terms in 1997 by a judge who later released him from prison after 27 years.
German voters head to the polls on Sunday, with the conservatives the strong favourites after a campaign rocked by a far-right surge and the dramatic return of US President Donald Trump.The pivotal vote in the European Union's biggest economy comes amid tectonic upheaval in US-Europe ties sparked by Trump's direct outreach to Russian President Vladimir Putin over their heads to end the Ukraine war.
New FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to be named the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a Justice Department official said Saturday. Patel could be sworn in next week, the official said, putting Patel in charge of two of the Justice Department's largest agencies in an unusual arrangement that raises questions about the future of the bureau that has long drawn the ire of conservatives. The Justice Department official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the move before it's announced publicly.
Elon Musk, the billionaire advisor to Donald Trump, said Saturday that all US federal employees must justify their work or lose their jobs, hours after the president pushed him to be "more aggressive" in slashing government spending.- 'More aggressive' - Earlier Saturday, Trump said on his Truth Social platform that Musk was "doing a great job, but I would like to see him get more aggressive."
In a speech that amounted to an attempted post-election victory lap, Donald Trump hyped his first four weeks in office, even as much of his agenda is bogged down in court fights and has Republicans facing pushback in their districts.
One of the first places Gordon Cordeiro visited when a judge ordered him released after spending 30 years in prison for a killing he always maintained he had nothing to do with was his mother’s Hawaii gravesite. In a videoconference interview with The Associated Press on Saturday, Cordeiro reflected on his first day of freedom after new DNA evidence led to the overturning of his conviction in the 1994 shooting of Timothy Blaisdell on the island of Maui. Paulette Cordeiro died in September 1994, and her son was arrested the following month.
Dozens of mattresses wait unused in a shelter for deported Mexicans that is still largely deserted a month after US President Donald Trump returned to office vowing to expel millions of migrants.Since Trump took office on January 20, around 12,255 Mexicans and 3,344 foreigners have been deported to Mexico, according to the Latin American country's immigration authority.
Nearly a decade after activists led one of the largest anti-pipeline protests in US history, the fight shifts to court as Energy Transfer sues Greenpeace for $300 million in a case with far-reaching free speech implications.- A legal war to 'send a message' - Energy Transfer denies that it is aiming to stifle free speech.
Donald Trump's sudden shift on Ukraine has shaken the transatlantic alliance to its core.But Trump's embrace of Kremlin talking points on Ukraine -- calling President Volodymyr Zelensky a "dictator without elections" and blaming Ukraine for Russia's 2022 invasion -- has caused alarm in Europe.
The Pope received oxygen and blood transfusions on Saturday following an “asthmatic respiratory crisis of prolonged magnitude” on Saturday, the Vatican said.
The Virginia legislature ended its 45-day session Saturday with a slew of budget amendments ranging from tax cuts to child care, but some lawmakers said they would likely return to the Capitol later this year to address a mounting threat: massive federal government layoffs planned by the Trump administration. A federal judge paved the way this week for the layoffs to go forward, leaving officials in the state, which according to the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments is home to roughly 315,000 federal workers, to begin assessing the impact of the job cuts. “What we do know is that we have had 300 or fewer applications for unemployment,” Virginia Secretary of Labor George ‘Bryan’ Slater said.
Israel will delay Saturday’s expected release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners until the release of the next hostages is guaranteed and “and without the humiliating ceremonies,” according to a statement from the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office.
Human remains returned by Hamas to Israel on Friday are those of hostage Shiri Bibas, her family said Saturday, two days after the Palestinian militant group returned the wrong body.
The body of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas was said to have been returned earlier this week, but Israeli forces said it was the body of an unidentified Gazan woman.
LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass on Friday ousted Fire Chief Kristin Crowley amid tensions between the two over the way this year's deadly fires were handled.
"DEI is dead under the Trump Administration," said a post shared by the White House.