Browsing Category
Politics
House Republicans advance Trump’s tax cut plan
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on the potential budget resolution vote and other issues, after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025.Tom…
U.S. judge allows Trump’s AP Oval Office ban to stand over use of Gulf of Mexico name
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing a proclamation renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, while flying over the gulf aboard Air Force One en route to New Orleans to attend the Super Bowl, February…
Musk doubles down on threat to federal workers: File list of accomplishments or get fired
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on Feb. 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland.Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesElon Musk on…
Trump says tariffs on Canada and Mexico ‘will go forward’
President Donald Trump said Monday that sweeping U.S. tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico "will go forward" when a monthlong delay on their implementation expires next week."The tariffs are going forward on time, on schedule,"…
Voters flock to political extremes in Germany as the centrist parties stumble
Tens of thousands protest advances made by the AfD on Feb. 16, 2025 in Berlin, Germany ahead of the federal election. Guy Smallman | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBERLIN — Centrist parties struggled in Germany's election on Sunday,…
Some US agencies tell workers not to reply to Musk’s ‘What did you do last week’…
WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Multiple U.S. agencies have told employees not to respond immediately to a demand by President Donald Trump's adviser Elon Musk to list their accomplishments in the past week or be fired, as a chaotic…
Germany’s conservatives win election, as far-right AfD leaps to second place, exit polls
The evening sun shines on the Reichstag building of the German Bundestag with the inscription "Dem Deutschen Volke.Fabian Sommer | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesBERLIN — The Christian Democratic Union and the allied Christian Social…
Germans head to the polls in critical election with far-right gains expected
The German parliament convenes for its last regular session before the general election.Michael Kappeler | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesGermans headed to the polls on Sunday to vote in the 2025 federal election, which is all but…
Trump revels in mass federal firings and jeers at Biden before adoring conservative crowd
President Donald Trump said Saturday that "nobody has ever seen anything" like his administration's sweeping effort to fire thousands of federal employees and shrink the size of government, congratulating himself for "dominating"…
Hamas frees all 6 hostages in the latest exchange with Israel
KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - FEBRUARY 20: An aerial view of as members of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, take precautions around the cemetery in Bani Suheila municipality before the bodies of the Bibas family (three members)…