Senior government figures will meet Friday over a Safety Advisory Group ruling that bars Maccabi Tel-Aviv supporters from the Nov. 6 Europa League match at Aston Villa. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the decision “wrong” and said police should ensure fans can attend safely, while culture minister Ian Murray said...
Amid U.S. strikes in the Caribbean and newly authorized CIA operations in Venezuela, Sen. Tim Kaine is pushing a bipartisan resolution to bar President Trump from unilaterally declaring war on the country. Filed Thursday with Sens. Adam Schiff and Rand Paul, the measure will reach the Senate after a 10-day...
Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, known for his 1995 apology to Asian victims of Japan's wartime aggression, died Friday at 101 in a hospital in his hometown of Oita, party leader Mizuho Fukushima said. The ex-Japan Socialist Party chief led a coalition from 1994 to 1996, faced the Kobe...
In a nearly two-and-a-half-hour call timed before Donald Trump's meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, the Kremlin cast the eighth Trump-Putin conversation in eight months as "positive," while pushing to head off US talk of supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. Vladimir Putin argued the weapons would not alter the battlefield but would...
Adm. Alvin Holsey, head of U.S. Southern Command, said Thursday he will retire in mid-December after 37 years, just over a year after being promoted to lead SOUTHCOM. The announcement comes as the Trump administration carries out an anti-drug mission in the Caribbean, with six boat strikes since last month...
New York City’s three mayoral candidates traded sharp attacks in the first of two televised debates, clashing over crime, policing, affordability, housing, transit, the Trump administration and the Gaza ceasefire deal. Democrat Zohran Mamdani and independent Andrew Cuomo dominated exchanges, with Cuomo questioning Mamdani’s experience and denying past allegations, and...
A federal appeals panel refused to lift a lower court’s block on the Trump administration’s plan to deploy federalized National Guard troops in Illinois, calling the move a likely Tenth Amendment violation. The Seventh Circuit said the administration is unlikely to show a “rebellion” or that regular forces can’t execute...
Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares and Democrat Jay Jones clashed in their lone debate, dominated by Jones’s 2022 texts suggesting violence against then–House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his children. Miyares, the incumbent, said the messages make Jones unfit and untrustworthy; Jones apologized repeatedly, calling himself ashamed. With early voting underway...
President Donald Trump unveiled a plan to build a Paris-style arch just west of the Lincoln Memorial, showing donors three models at a White House dinner raising $250 million for a new ballroom. He offered no cost or timeline, saying leftover funds might help pay for the arch, which would...
A federal appeals court on Thursday kept a block on President Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops within the Chicago area amid immigration protests, while allowing the soldiers to remain under federal control. In a unanimous 18-page ruling, the 7th Circuit said the administration is unlikely to justify federalizing...
