Attorneys for Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate and legal U.S. resident once detained by ICE after pro‑Palestinian activism, asked the Third Circuit to uphold his release and block renewed detention or deportation. Khalil, freed in June after more than 100 days in a Louisiana facility, remains protected by a...
Israel is barring UNRWA from Gaza and moving to de-register major international NGOs, a process aid officials say is ideological and has left groups unable to deliver supplies to Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Despite a ceasefire deal brokered this month by President Trump promising an aid surge, only...
President Donald Trump is seeking $230 million from the Department of Justice for its criminal investigations of him, The New York Times reported. Through administrative claims filed in 2023 and mid‑2024, he challenges the Russia 2016 inquiry and the FBI’s 2022 Mar-a-Lago search. A Florida indictment over retained classified records...
President Donald Trump warned of a “fast, furious, and brutal” response if Hamas violates the week-old ceasefire, saying regional allies stand ready to enter Gaza at his request—though not U.S. forces. The deal he brokered wobbled after weekend violence, including an Israeli bombardment that killed at least 28 in Gaza...
Construction has begun on President Donald Trump's $250m, 90,000 sq ft White House ballroom, even as questions mount over who is funding it. Trump says he'll cover significant costs and hinted unnamed donors could give more than $20m; a donor dinner drew executives from firms. Only YouTube's $22m contribution, part...
Plans for a Trump-Putin summit have been put on ice, a White House official said, despite Donald Trump’s claim last week that talks in Budapest were imminent. A preparatory meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Sergei Lavrov was scrapped after a “productive” call. Growing gaps over Ukraine—Kyiv...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces intensifying backlash after describing a “problem in the cityscape” solvable by deportations during a visit to Brandenburg, language critics say echoes the far right despite his pledge to distance his conservatives from the AfD. Asked to retract, he refused, invoking daughters’ safety. Activist and Greens...
With the federal shutdown in its 21st day, states are warning that SNAP benefits could halt as soon as Nov. 1. Texas says all November aid will stop if the shutdown continues past Oct. 27, while Pennsylvania officials say they cannot distribute benefits, citing a state alert that blames Republicans...
Donald Trump’s pick to lead federal whistleblower protections is faltering after reports of racist texts and GOP resistance. Paul Ingrassia, a DHS liaison, allegedly said he had “a Nazi streak” and suggested Martin Luther King Jr Day be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell,” Politico reported. Senate majority leader...
An estimated 7 million Americans joined peaceful “No Kings” protests Saturday against what the article describes as a breakdown of checks and balances. Trump answered with an AI video of himself, crowned in a fighter jet, dumping apparent feces on protesters, then labeled participants “whacked out” and “not representative.” Citing...
