CNN  —  The Supreme Court on Friday dashed President Donald Trump’s plan to immediately fire the head of an independent agency that investigates whistleblower claims, allowing Hampton Dellinger to remain in the job through at least the middle of next week. By declining to back Trump’s emergency appeal, the conservative court nominally sided with Dellinger,

Get The Facts: Examining claims President Trump made about Ukraine-Russia war Updated: 5:11 PM EST Feb 21, 2025 95 IN 101 DELAY FREE. WE’RE GETTING THE FACTS ON A RECENT COMMENT BY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ABOUT THE WAR IN UKRAINE. WHILE ANSWERING REPORTERS QUESTIONS ABOUT U.S. AND RUSSIA REPRESENTATIVES MEETING IN SAUDI ARABIA WITHOUT ANYBODY

Blue Origin is targeting next Tuesday (Feb. 25) for its 10th space tourism mission, which will send six people to the final frontier. If all goes according to plan, Blue Origin‘s suborbital New Shepard vehicle will lift off from the company’s West Texas site on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. EST (1630 GMT; 9:30 a.m. local

Many celebrities are known for taking risks – whether it’s in the roles they take on, the music they produce, or the opportunities they pursue outside their fields. When this is in the realm of their careers, the rewards are often worth the gamble. However, not all risk-takers are as lucky when it comes to

On February 21, the world celebrates International Mother Language Day, established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1999 to recognize the importance of preserving native and mother languages across all cultures. In the United States, a country known for its linguistic diversity, this date holds particular significance in a political

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of social media platform X, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Feb. 20, 2025. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images For X owner Elon Musk, the solution to monitoring misinformation online has been

Taylor Swift‘s involvement in the production of the film adaptation of It Ends With Us seems to run deeper than previously disclosed. In a resurfaced interview with Access Hollywood, director Justin Baldoni revealed that the global superstar played a pivotal role in approving Isabela Ferrer’s casting as the younger version of Blake Lively‘s character, Lily.

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Vladimir Putin has ordered his cabinet to prepare for the return of western companies, a sign of a potential corporate renaissance from the unfolding US-Russia rapprochement. Russia’s president said on Friday he wanted

The world of superheroes is highly captivating. They represent an idealised version of human potential — whether through super strength, intelligence or reality-defying abilities. They embody fantasies of power and control, allowing people to imagine overcoming obstacles that seem insurmountable in real life.Even in their fictional realms, superheroes possess extraordinary resources that enable them to

Europe needs to spend around €250 billion (US$261.6 billion) annually in defence investments to secure itself without US support, a sum the bloc could bear given its economic strength, according to a study published on Friday. This spending, equivalent to 1.5 per cent of the EU’s gross domestic product, would allow Europe to mobilise some

United States President Donald Trump has made a series of claims about Ukraine and its leader as he seeks to end the country’s three-year war with Russia. Trump’s relationship with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy soured publicly as Trump called Zelenskyy a “dictator” and said he “started” the war with Russia, a claim PolitiFact rated pants-on-fire false.

It’s been quite a week for US foreign policy. Following a phone call last week between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, US and Russian delegates met in Saudi Arabia to smooth relations between the two countries and discuss possible paths to ending the war in Ukraine. Ukraine was not invited to the talks. Quite reasonably,

Healy: That’s how Trump thinks, too. The world is there for the carving. Gessen: I think that Trump is likely to find this irresistible. From Trump’s own newly expansionist rhetoric — his demands for Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal, Ukraine’s natural resources — we can see that he is groping for this same sort of

Mariya Lesiv and Yuliia Veretennyk, two Ukrainians living in Newfoundland and Labrador, say they were shocked and disgusted by comments made by U.S. President Donald Trump about Ukraine. (Submitted by Mariya Lesiv, Henrike Wilhelm/CBC) Two Ukrainians living in Newfoundland and Labrador say U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments about their country are dangerous, harmful and show a lack

Reid Hoffman has invested in AI for years. The LinkedIn co-founder said he used AI to vet his new book, Superagency, written with Greg Beato, which makes an optimistic case for an AI-powered future. In today’s episode, Hoffman joins NPR’s Steve Inskeep for a conversation about the book that touches on his decision to back

Ren, the face of China’s resilience against US hostilities in technology, told Xi that concerns had eased over China’s lack of home-grown chips and operating systems – the “heart and soul” of modern technology – according to a report from the People’s Daily on Friday. “I firmly believe that a stronger China is rising at

This article is an on-site version of our Europe Express newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday and Saturday morning. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Good morning. More bad news for Ukraine: Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is skipping a virtual

Chinese President Xi Jinping in Brasília, November 20, 2024. ADRIANO MACHADO / REUTERS They were all there, but it was Jack who stole the show again. On Monday, February 17, the Chinese president was in Beijing to welcome the top bosses of the country’s private companies. The CEOs and founders of BYD, Huawei, Meituan, Tencent

Amazon.com Inc.’s AMZN MGM Studios, which the e-commerce giant acquired for $8.5 billion, has taken over the creative direction of the legendary James Bond series.  What Happened: On Thursday, Amazon MGM Studios announced it had reached a deal with Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, forming a joint venture that grants Amazon creative control over