The White House invited five undecided universities to a Friday call about President Donald Trump’s higher-education compact after four of nine initial invitees rejected it and none have signed ahead of an Oct. 20 feedback deadline. The deal offers favorable access to federal funding in exchange for adopting 10 pages...
Luigi Mangione’s lawyers asked a New York federal judge to dismiss his indictment or bar the death penalty, arguing the Trump administration’s public comments have tainted the case. In a Friday letter, they cited President Donald Trump’s Fox News remarks, reposts by a White House–affiliated account and a Justice Department...
Prince Andrew said he will stop using his titles — including Duke of York and the Order of the Garter — amid scrutiny over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The move, effective immediately and agreed with the King, comes days before the posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre is released; Guardian...
China expelled its second-highest ranking general, He Weidong, and eight other senior officers from the Communist Party and the military over suspected serious corruption, the Defense Ministry said. Their cases, involving extremely large sums, were sent to military prosecutors. He, a Politburo member and vice chair of the Central Military...
A 10-year-old Palestinian, Muhammad al-Hallaq, was shot dead by Israeli forces in al-Rihiya, south of Hebron, after troops opened fire during what the army called confrontations and rock-hurling. Witnesses said the boys had been playing football and ran at the sight of military vehicles before a soldier fired from the...
China’s Communist Party expelled nine top generals in one of its biggest public military crackdowns in decades, the defence ministry said, citing suspected serious financial crimes. The group includes Politburo member He Weidong, the military’s No. 2 under Xi Jinping, whose long absence from view had stirred speculation. All nine...
Relatives in Las Cuevas, Trinidad, mourn Chad “Charpo” Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, believed among six people killed in a US airstrike on a boat allegedly trafficking drugs from Venezuela. At wakes, family accused Donald Trump of killing poor people and denying due process, and said Trinidad and Tobago’s leaders ceded...
President Donald Trump will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday, a day after a lengthy Trump-Putin call. Trump, who had recently seemed open to selling Tomahawk cruise missiles to Kyiv, now signals hesitation, saying the U.S. “can’t deplete” its own stock, after Putin warned the...
When President Volodymyr Zelenskyy returns to the White House on Friday, expectations are for a markedly different mood from February’s on-camera rebuke. After two calmer meetings since, President Trump has touted Ukraine’s chances of reclaiming all its territory, voiced disappointment in Vladimir Putin, and—after a call Thursday—announced a Budapest meeting...
As the Oct. 1 federal shutdown drags on, essential staff across agencies say they fear taking leave. A Social Security manager postponed surgery after learning missed days would be logged as furloughs and filed under “disciplinary and adverse actions,” a step union officials and experts call unprecedented; the agency says...
