A Russian An-26 military transport plane slammed into a cliff in annexed Crimea on Tuesday, killing six crew members and 23 passengers in one of the deadliest Russian military aviation disasters in recent years. The crash adds to a growing list of incidents that raise hard questions about the readiness and maintenance of Moscow’s aging […]
Israel’s parliament voted Monday to mandate the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly acts of terrorism, a measure that passed 62-47 and drew immediate condemnation from the European Union and the United Nations, but strong backing from lawmakers who framed the bill as a direct consequence of the October 7, 2023, massacre. The legislation, […]
Rep. Susie Lee, a four-term Nevada Democrat who represents a district Donald Trump carried in 2024, posted a profanity-lraged late-night social media tirade against the president, then deleted it by morning and tried to reframe the outburst as constitutional principle. The 59-year-old lawmaker fired off her post shortly before 1 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday, reacting […]
President Donald Trump walked into the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning and took a seat in the public gallery, the first sitting president ever to attend oral arguments at the high court. He came to watch his administration defend an executive order that would curtail automatic birthright citizenship for certain children born on American soil, […]
Britain’s Labour government faces growing accusations of a cover-up after reports surfaced that Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told police his personal phone was stolen, a phone that could contain key communications with Peter Mandelson, the Epstein-linked ex-diplomat whose appointment to Washington has become a full-blown political crisis. Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s top […]
A Ugandan judge who sat on a United Nations war-crimes tribunal and once held a human rights fellowship at Columbia University was sentenced on May 2 to six years and four months in a British prison for trafficking a young woman into the United Kingdom and forcing her to work as an unpaid domestic servant. […]
Two hard-left anarchist extremists died in a Rome suburb on Thursday after the explosive device they were apparently building detonated inside a derelict farmhouse, killing them both. Police suspect the pair were assembling a fertilizer-based bomb that proved too unstable and blew up in their hands. The dead were later identified as Alessandro Mercogliano, 53, […]
Former special counsel Jack Smith’s team used grand jury subpoenas to quietly obtain more than two years of phone records, text-message logs, and financial information belonging to Kash Patel, now the director of the FBI, while Patel was a private citizen, according to documents released by Sen. Chuck Grassley ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee […]
Iran has placed at least a dozen sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow chokepoint through which roughly a fifth of the world’s oil supply moves each day, unnamed U.S. officials told CBS News. The claim, if confirmed, would mark a direct provocation against global shipping and a sharp escalation even as Washington […]
CNN is preparing to ax a few dozen more employees this week, the latest slice in a network that has shed hundreds of jobs in barely a year while its CEO insists the bleeding is actually a growth strategy. The cuts land as CEO Mark Thompson continues a sweeping push to remake the cable giant […]
