Facing heavy White House pressure, the University of Virginia reached a deal with the Trump administration on Wednesday, temporarily lifting the threat of a federal investigation, the Justice Department said. It is the first far-reaching agreement with a public university in the administration’s campaign to shift the ideological tilt of...
The Trump administration announced new sanctions on Russia’s oil giants Rosneft and Lukoil, citing what it called Moscow’s lack of serious commitment to a peace process to end the war in Ukraine. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged an immediate ceasefire and said the department is prepared to take further action,...
Israel’s Knesset voted 25–24 to give preliminary approval to a bill applying Israeli sovereignty to the occupied West Bank, advancing move tantamount to annexation despite opposition from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud. The measure now goes to the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, as US Vice President JD Vance...
Leaders of the No Kings movement said millions joined Saturday’s nationwide protests and pledged to turn that momentum into sustained action. Indivisible announced a “No Kings alliance” rapid-response network, while groups from the ACLU to SEIU outlined plans for boycotts, legal challenges, campus and community organizing, and targeted pressure on...
California’s Proposition 50, a redistricting measure, leads as many voters frame it as a national statement against the Trump administration and national Republicans, whom they believe treat the state worse than others. Those seeing it as a state issue tend to oppose it, citing power shifts to cities and potential...
On a visit to Oslo, Volodymyr Zelenskyy backed Donald Trump’s call to freeze the Ukraine-Russia war at current lines, calling it a “good compromise,” while noting Moscow has signaled refusal. Russia reiterated maximalist demands and rejected extended ceasefires, as Sergei Lavrov dismissed Washington’s push to “stop immediately.” Trump, who recently...
Alphabet will contribute $22 million toward a new White House State Ballroom under a legal settlement with President Donald Trump tied to his YouTube ban, as demolition images of the East Wing spark public anger. The payment, recorded in federal court in Oakland, will go to the Trust for the...
President Donald Trump rejected a request to meet with Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, saying he’ll talk only after the three-week U.S. government shutdown ends. Democrats are withholding support for a Republican stopgap funding bill unless an enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credit, expiring Dec. 31, is extended...
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted Israel alone will decide its security, dismissing any notion of being a U.S. protectorate, before talks in Tel Aviv with U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Gaza’s fragile ceasefire. Vance voiced optimism while warning of “very hard” work to disarm Hamas and rebuild Gaza;...
Donald Trump said any decision on whether his administration pays him damages for past federal probes “would have to go across my desk,” even as he pursues roughly $230 million under the Federal Tort Claims Act for the Mar-a-Lago search and the Russia investigation, as reported by the New York...
