Washington DC: The United States and Iran could resume negotiations in Islamabad as early as next week under a mediated, one-page 14-point memorandum of understanding intended to frame a month-long negotiating process aimed at ending the West Asia conflict, the Wall Street Journal and associated reports said on May 9,...
Washington: U.S. naval forces have maintained a blockade of Iranian ports imposed about a month ago, and this week exchanges of fire occurred in and around the Strait of Hormuz, including renewed attacks on the United Arab Emirates on Friday, as diplomats reported a tenuous ceasefire that began roughly a...
Washington, May 9 — At a US-India forum, experts urged closer US-India cooperation on artificial intelligence and defence, saying warfare has shifted to data and algorithms. Vivek Lall, chief executive of General Atomics Global Cooperation, and Lt Gen (Retd) Raj Shukla made the principal remarks in a session moderated by...
Washington — President Donald Trump announced on Friday a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine running May 9 through May 11 and posted the plan on Truth Social, saying the pause would suspend all kinetic activity and include the reciprocal exchange of 1,000 prisoners from each side. He described the...
MIAMI — Federal prosecutors this week filed a civil denaturalization complaint seeking to revoke Victor Manuel Rocha's U.S. citizenship after the former ambassador pleaded guilty in 2024 to acting as an illegal agent for Cuba. Rocha, born in Colombia, was arrested in late 2023 and later sentenced to 15 years...
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released a new batch of declassified files on unidentified anomalous phenomena on Friday after President Donald Trump publicly urged expanded disclosure in recent months. The documents include historical State Department cables, FBI records, and NASA transcripts describing varied sightings, including astronaut observations and reports of maneuvering...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that California will provide hundreds of free diapers to each newborn leaving participating hospitals, supplying roughly 400 diapers per infant in the program’s first year. The state said the initial rollout will operate at about 65 to 75 hospitals and aims to...
Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Friday a proposed three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, saying both sides agreed to suspend 'all kinetic activity' from May 9 through May 11 and to exchange 1,000 prisoners each, according to a post on his Truth Social account. The proposal followed a...
Miami: Florida entered preliminary talks this week with the Trump administration to close Alligator Alcatraz, a remote ICE detention center in the Everglades, according to a New York Times report published Thursday. State officials say the site, opened last summer, was intended as temporary; federal and state representatives are discussing...
Montgomery, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers on Friday approved legislation enabling new U.S. House primaries if courts permit the state to use different congressional districts, and the bill was sent to Republican Gov. Kay Ivey; the move followed a U.S. Supreme Court decision in a Louisiana case that changed Voting Rights...
