President Donald Trump is not buying former FBI Director James Comey‘s claim that he did not intend to call for violence against the president with his recent controversial social media post. Comey posted on his Instagram account a formation of seashells which spelled out “86 47,” believed to mean “86,” or get rid of, the […]
NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — Talks aimed at settling a strike between train engineers and New Jersey’s huge commuter railroad will pick up on Saturday and continue Sunday, New Jersey Transit CEO Kris Kolluri said. The locomotive engineers’ strike began Friday at the rail system with 350,000 daily riders and left commuters either working from […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A shooting inside a Las Vegas gym Friday afternoon left two people dead, including the suspect, and injured at least three others, police said. One person was killed at the Las Vegas Athletic Club on the city’s west side as gunfire erupted, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Undersheriff Andrew Walsh said. Officers […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away getting food, authorities said. Seven of the escapees, including suspects charged with murder, […]
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — Monica Truax has lived in her Portland home since 1992, on a cul-de-sac she described as a close-knit community. But since a bottle redemption center opened next door several years ago, her block has struggled with drug dealing, garbage and fights in the middle of the night, she said. “It’s just […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone hit a bus evacuating civilians from a front-line area in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region Saturday, killing nine people, Ukrainian officials said, hours after Moscow and Kyiv had held their first direct peace talks in years that failed to yield a ceasefire. Seven people were also injured in the attack […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has launched a major operation in the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas to release remaining hostages, the defense minister said Saturday, following days of intensive strikes across the territory that killed hundreds of people. Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Operation Gideon Chariots was being led with “great force” by Israel’s […]
President Donald Trump is relying on his relationships and reputation to deliver his foreign policy, from the Middle East to the Russia–Ukraine war. But although those relationships and that reputation helped him during his Middle East trip, his first major foreign trip of his second administration, they create political risk for him should Russian President […]
The contrasts in presidential leadership were fully on display this week, with President Donald Trump logging his most consequential seven-day span yet and former President Joe Biden’s four-year fog finally confirmed as an undeniable fact. Trump started the week by announcing a trade and tariff truce with China and a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, […]
When dozens of refugees from Africa arrived this week at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., they were greeted warmly by a pair of Trump appointees — and shunned by the political Left. This was not a typical group of refugees from the continent. The color of their skin — white, due to their European […]
