House Republicans have missed another deadline to produce a massive budget package of tax cuts and slashed spending. Senate Republicans on Friday jumped ahead, unveiling a more tailored $340 billion blueprint focused on President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda and bolstered defense spending.
The latest mass wave of anti-government rallies was fueled by populist Prime Minister Robert Fico’s recent trip to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his remarks that Slovakia might leave the European Union and NATO.
A Fort Liberty Army officer convicted last year on federal gun smuggling and false statement charges will spend more than five years in prison, a federal judge in North Carolina decided
Pre-K was implemented this school year in 80 of 90 DODEA elementary schools. The free program, available for children who turn 4 on or before Sept. 1 each year, was offered at all but five of 34 primary schools in Europe — one of those five was Ramstein Elementary School.
Donald Lee Collins, 41, was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing another soldier’s 15-year-old daughter. Upon release he will be required to register as a sex offender and serve 10 years of probation.
A Navy carrier strike group that has battled Iranian-backed Houthi militants for months has left the Middle East and arrived in the Mediterranean Sea.
U.S. employers added just 143,000 jobs last month, but the unemployment rate fell to 4% to start 2025. The first monthly jobs report of Donald Trump’s second presidency points to a solid but unspectacular labor market.
The move paves the way for the Taliban to appoint their own team and is another diplomatic success for the group. Their takeover of diplomatic missions in Turkey pushes the number of overseas embassies and consulates under Taliban control to more than 40.
A federal judge in Boston on Friday considers a request from 18 state attorneys general to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally. The hearing comes after a federal judge in Seattle blocked the effort.
China lashed out Friday at what it called U.S. “coercion” after Panama declined to renew a key infrastructure agreement with Beijing following Washington’s threat to take back the Panama Canal.
In the past two weeks alone, more than 3,000 people were killed as Rwanda-backed rebels wrested control of Goma city from the Congolese army and peacekeepers deployed by the UN and the Southern African Development Community.
Sanctions include blocking International Criminal Court officials from entering the U.S. The ICC had issued an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his actions toward Palestinians in Gaza late last year. Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a member of or recognizes the court.
A federal judge on Friday ordered ordering a temporary halt to plans to pull thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers off the job and also agreed to block an order that would have given the workers just 30 days to move families and households back to the U.S. on government expense.
Japanese leader Shinzo Abe was one of the few foreign leaders to forge a real friendship with President Donald Trump in his first term, often at the ear of the unpredictable U.S. president over rounds of golf. Now, Japan’s current prime minister wants to re-create some of that chemistry.
Russia’s Defense Ministry claims its forces have captured the coal mining town of Toretsk, their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment. The potential losses coincide with uncertainty over whether the U.S. will keep providing Ukraine with military aid.
The letter urges VA Secretary Collins to instruct Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency to permanently delete any information obtained on veterans’ health services and benefits from the VA and other government agencies.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggested that “there should be no negotiations with such a government,” but stopped short of issuing a direct order not to engage with Washington. Khamenei’s remarks appeared to contradict his own earlier comments that opened the door to talks.
Defense giant Lockheed Martin has agreed to pay nearly $30 million to settle allegations that it failed to disclose accurate pricing data on contracts for its F-35 fighter jet.
A powerful congressional committee is probing a secret Navy program studying potential traumatic brain injuries suffered by the service’s aviators, which may have led to the recent suicides of at least three Super Hornet pilots.