SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge who already questioned the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order is set to hear arguments Thursday over a longer-term pause of the directive, which aims to end citizenship for children born to parents not legally in the country. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle has

US secretary of state says he will not attend talks in South Africa amid spat over land expropriation law. United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said he will skip Group of 20 (G20) talks in South Africa amid an escalating spat between Washington and Pretoria over a controversial land expropriation law. Rubio’s announcement

Attorneys for the Justice Department have agreed to temporarily restrict staffers associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing information in the Treasury Department’s payment system. The agreement comes after a group of union members and retirees sued the Treasury Department alleging that providing DOGE access to the federal government’s massive payment and

Warning! The following contains spoilers for the Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test Season 3 finale. Stream it with a Hulu subscription and read at your own risk. It’s been a grueling five weeks for the celebrity participants of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, as the most brutal show in the 2025 TV schedule put them

Top officials at the Department of Education told staff Wednesday that if they accept the Trump administration’s deferred resignation package, the education secretary may later cancel it and employees would not have any recourse, potentially leaving them without promised pay.  The Office of Personnel Management sent notices last week to federal employees that if they

Holly Honderich, Kayla Epstein and Lily Jamali in Washington, DC, New York City and San Francisco EPA After days of speculation over the precise role the world’s richest man would play in Donald Trump’s White House – how much power he would hold, whether he is a government employee at all – he took to

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday — not even enough time to gather her personal effects — according to two people familiar with the incident. Fagan, a four-star admiral and the first woman to lead a branch of

February 5, 2025 @ 2:35 PM Netflix UK has assembled twelve top-tier British celebrities, who have subjected themselves as prey for a Bear hunt.  While it may not be a grizzly bear sniffing around for them, it may be worse. Edward Michael “Bear” Grylls, a British adventurer, TV personality and former British Special Forces soldier,

It can be hard to imagine your favourite celebrity engaging in everyday activities outside their glamorous careers. Often, we associate these stars solely with their public persona, overlooking the fact that they, too, indulge in surprisingly relatable hobbies. In reality, many celebrities embrace pastimes that reflect their personalities and interests, from playing sports, learning a

“Listen, when the process is going this fast, from extreme outsiders, the communication is bound to be a mess,” says Matthew Bartlett, a Republican operative and former State department official under Trump in his first term. Bartlett says the rest of Washington is getting their first real taste of the Silicon Valley-influenced attitudes driving much

Two Trump initiatives that unfolded on Tuesday evening seemed to capture, in the flash of a few hours, the outline of President Trump’s vision for shaping American power. Ten thousand people working around the world for U.S.A.I.D., the main American aid agency, were told to pack up and come home over the next month, eviscerating

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) is riding high, but the AI chip race is heating up fast. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates (Trades, Portfolio) praised CEO Jensen Huang’s leadership, but he didn’t sugarcoat the challenge ahead. Big Tech isn’t sitting backAmazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has committed $8 billion to Anthropic’s AI chip efforts, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) just dropped a supercomputer with

Behind every A-lister is an entourage keeping things together—or causing absolute chaos. If the zodiac signs ran the show, some would be essential to a celebrity’s success, while others would turn every red carpet into a disaster. Aries: The Bodyguard Who Starts Fights Always on high alert but for all the wrong reasons. Aries isn’t

The $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund has stopped funding the Science Based Targets (SBTi) initiative, a key organization that sets net zero standards for business. This happened amid growing attention to the fund’s influence on the organization and Bezos’ attempts to avoid conflict with Donald Trump. This was reported by the Financial Times and UNN.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B) has recently increased its stake in Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (SIRI), now owning over 35% of the satellite radio company. Between January 30 and February 3, 2025, Berkshire acquired an additional 2.3 million shares worth $54 million. This brings their total to around 119.8 million shares, despite Sirius XM’s

The US has sent the first group of migrants to Guantanamo Bay since President Donald Trump announced plans to expand migrant detention at the base, officials say. A brief statement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the detainees were part of the Tren de Aragua – a gang that originated in Venezuela’s prisons.

BEIJING (AP) — Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari said Wednesday that his country’s friendship with China has “gone through ups and downs” but it won’t be broken down by extremist attacks that have killed Chinese nationals that have killed Chinese nationals. “Pakistan and China will always be friends, all-weather friends,” he said at the opening

During a nine-day trip through Latin America in the fall, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with the leaders of Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina and inaugurated a $3-billion Chinese-funded port in Peru. Over and over, Xi stressed his interest in strengthening economic ties with the region 10,000 miles from Beijing. “True friends always feel

Mr. Musk’s recent stand against U.S.A.I.D., the federal agency responsible for administering foreign and development assistance since 1961, could have come directly from the state capture playbook — only often more brazen in intent. “U.S.A.I.D. is a criminal organization,” Mr. Musk posted over the weekend. “Time for it to die.” In that time, the agency’s

President Donald Trump has said the United States will “take over” and “own” Gaza after an ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the besieged enclave under an extraordinary plan that he claimed could turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East”. Hamas, the Palestinian group that governs Gaza, swiftly condemned the proposal as a