President Donald Trump is weighing plans to hit cocaine facilities and trafficking routes inside Venezuela, while not ruling out diplomacy after ending talks with Nicolás Maduro, officials told CNN. He has authorized CIA covert operations as the Pentagon shifts major assets toward the Caribbean, ordering the Gerald R. Ford carrier...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has refused to rule out raising income tax in next month’s Budget, softening September’s insistence that Labour’s manifesto promise not to lift basic, higher or additional rates “stands.” Speaking in Leeds, she said she aims to keep taxes “as low as possible,” but faces a £22bn hole...
The United States carried out its 10th missile strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel, killing six and pushing the campaign’s known death toll to 43. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the nighttime attack on social media, saying President Donald Trump authorized the strike in international waters in the Caribbean and...
A rare fissure emerged among Republicans as lawmakers pressed for oversight of President Trump’s expanding, congressionally unauthorized campaign against drug cartels, which has conducted at least 10 lethal boat strikes since September and deployed over 10,000 troops and aircraft. The Senate may vote next week on a bipartisan measure to...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom mocked President Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops to San Francisco as “laughable,” saying he reversed course for “obvious reasons” because “there’s nothing happening.” Citing the Major Cities Chiefs Association, he said the city is tracking a 70-year low in homicides and a year-over-year drop...
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Budapest is working to circumvent new U.S. sanctions on Russian oil and gas firms, after President Donald Trump announced measures against Lukoil and Rosneft. He told Good Morning Hungary he has consulted MOL executives and insisted the battle is not over, arguing Hungary must keep...
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...
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...
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...
