Ontario Premier Doug Ford doubled down on a taxpayer-funded TV ad featuring Ronald Reagan opposing tariffs, hours after President Donald Trump said he was ending all trade talks with Canada and called the spot misleading. Ford linked Reagan’s 1987 remarks and said allies are stronger together; the ad will air...
The Pentagon confirmed plans to route a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump to cover service members’ pay during the shutdown, citing its gift-acceptance authority. The unusual step, outside normal congressional appropriations, spurred bipartisan inquiries and Democratic warnings it may violate the Antideficiency Act; one...
As U.S. President Donald Trump prepares for his first Asia trip since returning to office, talk has intensified about a possible encounter with Kim Jong Un in South Korea, perhaps at Panmunjom around the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 APEC meetings. Officials and analysts are split: some see rising odds, noting suspended...
Washington — The Pentagon is deploying the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group to U.S. Southern Command’s area, sharply expanding forces targeting narcotics traffickers. Spokesman Sean Parnell said the move will enhance detection and disruption of illicit actors across the Caribbean, Central and South America. The Ford will join...
Justice Department lawyers said Friday the Trump administration plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, which has agreed to accept him, with removal possible as soon as Oct. 31. In a court filing, they cited diplomatic assurances and noted Liberia was not among more than 20 countries Abrego Garcia...
After talks in Cairo, main Palestinian factions agreed to hand Gaza’s administration to a temporary committee of independent technocrats, as Hamas said mediators gave “clear guarantees” the war had effectively ended. The statement urged a meeting to set a national strategy and revive the PLO. Separately, Marwan Barghouti’s wife appealed...
DHS says Liberia has agreed to accept Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a wrongly deported Salvador native, with diplomatic assurances, and could remove him as soon as Oct. 31. A judge has barred his removal. Abrego Garcia was sent to El Salvador’s CECOT prison in March despite a 2019 order, later returned...
President Trump halted trade talks with Canada after Ontario aired a U.S. ad featuring Ronald Reagan’s 1987 warning against tariffs. Trump called the spot “fake” and accused it of trying to sway a Supreme Court case on his tariffs, though the ad uses accurate Reagan quotes, reordered. The Ronald Reagan...
Argentina heads into midterm elections that will renew half the lower house and a third of the Senate, a crucial test for President Javier Milei as the peso slides and a U.S. $20 billion swap arrives. Milei warns he needs more seats to advance his agenda; his party holds 37...
At an Urban Outreach drive in southeast Washington DC, staff partnered with Capital Area Food Bank distributed food assistance to federal employees who have gone three and a half weeks without pay, requiring worker IDs at the door. Volunteer coordinator Quinnae Higginbotham, who says she lost her own job at...
