During his first six weeks in office, President Donald Trump has embarked on a dizzying teardown of the federal government and attacks on long-standing institutions in an attempt to increase his own authority. He has pardoned those who attacked the US Capitol to overturn his 2020 election loss, pl
Nine people were arrested during a raucous demonstration outside a New York City Tesla dealership on Saturday, protesting owner Elon Musk's role in sweeping cuts to the federal workforce at the behest of President Donald Trump. The protest, which police said involved hundreds of people, was one of
The Trump administration has pulled the plug on a team of tech-savvy civil servants that helped to build the Internal Revenue Service’s free tax-filing service and revamp websites across government, a spokesperson for the General Service Administration said on Saturday. GSA’s Director
Two passenger buses collided Saturday on a highway in southern Bolivia, leaving at least 37 people dead including eight minors, police said, in the country's worst bus accident to date this year. "So far we have 37 confirmed deaths," Colonel Wilson Flores told AFP of the crash near the city of Uyu
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday he had signed a declaration to expedite delivery of approximately $4 billion in military assistance to Israel. The Trump administration, which took office on January 20, has approved nearly $12 billion in major foreign military sales to Is
President Donald Trump signed executive orders in January targeting foreigners who espoused hateful ideology and antisemitism, specifically international students involved in university pro-Palestinian protests. For activist groups ranging from Mothers Against College Antisemitism and the Chicago
US President Donald Trump on Thursday said his proposed 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods will take effect on Mar 4 along with an extra 10% duty on Chinese imports because deadly drugs are still pouring into the US from those countries. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that the fres
US President Donald Trump’s top aides are struggling to contain disputes at the White House and across the administration following billionaire Elon Musk’s ultimatum to federal workers to list their accomplishments or lose their jobs, said three government officials familiar with the te
Torrential rains in Bolivia have claimed a total of 37 lives since November, Juan Carlos Calvimontes, the deputy minister of civil defense, said Wednesday. "The number of deaths has risen to 37, 16 of which are in the (central) department of Cochabamba. Six people are missing," the official said a
A child in West Texas has died of measles, state health officials said on Wednesday, the first reported US death from the highly contagious disease in a decade, as a Texas outbreak has grown from a handful of cases to more than 130 across two states. The child, who was not vaccinated against the d
Canada deported more people last year to hit its highest annual level of removals in about a decade, overwhelmingly deporting people whose refugee claims were rejected, data obtained by Reuters showed. By late November, Canada's removal numbers had reached their highest point since at least 2015,
The mother of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy killed in October 2023 in Illinois in a stabbing that authorities called a hate crime testified on Tuesday that her son's alleged attacker said they must die because they were Muslims. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT The trial began on Tuesday for a killing
Electricity providers across Chile scrambled to restore service Tuesday after a sweeping blackout plunged 90 per cent of the country into darkness, stranding commuters, knocking cell service offline and paralyzing businesses and daily life, reports AP. The scale of the power outage appeared
