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...
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...
Hundreds gathered in St Petersburg for a rare anti-Putin protest, singing banned anti-war songs in Kazanskaya Square, including Noize MC's 'Swan Lake Collective.' Police detained 18-year-old singer Diana Loginova (Naoko), accused of performing songs by foreign agents; local media said permits were lacking. The demonstration came as the UK announced...
More than three weeks after winning a special election, Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva still awaits her oath as Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear her in during the government shutdown. The Arizona Democrat sits in a near-empty office with no staff, phones, or email, while critics accuse Johnson of stalling to...
Multiple GOP congressional offices received American flags bearing an "optical illusion" swastika, two Republican sources told NBC News. One office discarded the flag after recognizing the symbol at its center. The GOP-led House Administration Committee and the U.S. Capitol Police are investigating; the USCP did not immediately comment. It remains...
A fragile ceasefire in Gaza has paused fighting but left a power vacuum. Israeli troops hold over half the territory, while Hamas police reemerge—directing traffic and, in a shared video, executing eight men accused of collaborating. Egypt says there is a list of 15 technocrats, approved by Hamas and Israel,...
Rep. Dave Taylor, R-Ohio, condemned an image discovered in his Washington office, calling it “vile and deeply inappropriate.” While he did not specify the symbol, Politico published a photo of an American flag altered to include a swastika, pinned to a bulletin board. Taylor said the content does not reflect...
