Category Archives: World

The Supreme Court won’t allow Trump to immediately fire head of whistleblower office
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily kept on the job the head of the federal agency that protects government whistleblowers, in its first word on the many legal fights over Presid...
Feb 21, 2025

Netanyahu decries release of wrong body as a ceasefire violation. Hamas pledges to investigate
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed revenge Friday for what he described as a "cruel and malicious violation" of the ceasefire agreement after authorities determined that ...
Feb 21, 2025

Woman accused of drugging and robbing older men in a deadly romance scheme
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A woman lured at least four older men on online dating apps to meet in person, drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a "sinister" romance scheme, F...
Feb 21, 2025

Top immigration enforcement official reassigned amid frustrations over mass deportation effort
WASHINGTON (AP) - The top official in charge of carrying out President Donald Trump's mass deportations agenda has been reassigned amid concerns that the deportation effort isn't moving fast enough. H...
Feb 21, 2025

Judge clears way for Trump administration to pull thousands of USAID staffers off the job
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to pull thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers off the job. U.S. District Judge Carl N...
Feb 21, 2025

LA mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Six weeks after the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the city's fire chief Friday amid a public rift over preparations for a potential ...
Feb 21, 2025

Man is seriously injured in attack at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, police say
BERLIN (AP) - An assailant seriously injured a man in an attack at Berlin's Holocaust Memorial on Friday evening, police said. German media reported that the man was stabbed. Police said they were inv...
Feb 21, 2025

Condemned South Carolina killer chooses to be executed by firing squad
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years. Sigmon is...
Feb 21, 2025

Jurors begin deliberating in the trial of a man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie
MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Jurors began deliberating Friday in the trial of a New Jersey man charged with stabbing and trying to kill Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage. The jury got the case after...
Feb 21, 2025

Pope Francis' doctor says pontiff isn't out of danger but that his condition isn't life-threatening
ROME (AP) - Pope Francis' condition isn't life-threatening, but he's not out of danger, his medical team said Friday as the 88-year-old pontiff marked his first week in a hospital with pneumonia on to...
Feb 21, 2025