President Donald Trump's family members and technology allies secured billions in federal contracts while the White House resisted artificial intelligence regulations. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump launched American Data Centers Inc., acquiring stakes in firms like Vulcan. Companies tied to the brothers' investment funds generated significant federal business, led...
U.S. President Donald Trump cut short his weekend stay at Camp David and returned to the White House on Saturday amid escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. The administration altered the presidential schedule, which previously scheduled his return for Sunday, as Marine One landed near the White House on...
Police across New South Wales arrested three men and charged them with murder following three separate domestic violence-related killings over the weekend. In Wagga Wagga, a 23-year-old woman was fatally stabbed in Kooringal on Saturday morning, leading to the arrest of a 31-year-old man known to the victim. At Bondi...
North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile off its eastern coast into the sea, according to announcements from South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff and reports by the Yonhap News Agency. The launch prompted immediate tracking and data analysis by South Korean and allied intelligence authorities to determine the flight...
Hong Kong held a rare state funeral on Sunday for Tung Chee-hwa, the city's first chief executive following the 1997 handover from Britain to China. Tung, a former shipping tycoon who passed away on September 8 at the age of 89, was accorded the territory's third post-handover state funeral, reflecting...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democratic Union face severe political pressure following damaging regional election results in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The vote follows a steep defeat in Saxony-Anhalt where the far-right Alternative for Germany achieved major gains. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, CDU support neared the five percent electoral...
Malaysia’s King Sultan Ibrahim granted former Prime Minister Najib Razak a conditional pardon, permitting him to serve the remainder of his corruption sentence under house arrest until August 23, 2028. Announced by the Prime Minister's Department, the decision stems from the 64th meeting of the Federal Territories Pardons Board. However,...
President Donald Trump instructed budget leadership to draft an executive order placing federal health-research funding under direct White House control. The directive follows an Oval Office meeting with National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, where Trump requested reduced or terminated research grants for Harvard University [cite: 1.1.1]. Bhattacharya resisted...
U.S. Southern Command forces executed a kinetic strike targeting a suspected drug-smuggling vessel operating in international waters of the Caribbean Sea, killing four individuals. Authorities published aerial surveillance footage showing movement followed by an explosion flash, lacking independent proof of active narcotics cargo at impact. President Donald Trump defended the...
The United States Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee scheduled a confirmation hearing for Dr. Heidi Overton, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration. Set for September 24, the hearing addresses leadership stability at the agency following the departure of former commissioner Marty Makary in...
