Friedrich Merz got the win he needed. His Christian Democratic Union took 30.8 percent of the vote in Rhineland-Palatinate on Sunday, dislodging the Social Democrats from a state premiership they had held since 1991. The SPD pulled 26 percent — a nearly ten-point collapse from five years ago. Gordon Schnieder,
President Donald Trump announced Monday morning that the United States would postpone all planned military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days, citing what he described as productive conversations with Iranian officials toward ending the three-week-old war. The announcement came hours before his own 48-hour ultimatum
The European Union and Australia formally concluded a landmark free trade agreement on Tuesday in Canberra, wrapping up nearly a decade of talks that twice came close to collapse and finalizing a pact that covers tariffs on goods, services, critical minerals, agriculture, and a new security and defense partnership. European
France's second-round municipal elections on Sunday produced a fragmented map of gains and losses across the political spectrum, with the left holding Paris and Marseille, the far-right National Rally capturing Nice, and the mainstream conservative Les Républicains picking up a string of smaller cities — results that left every
The lines at some of the country's busiest airports have continued to get worse as the government shutdown stretches further. TSA officers are quitting. Others are simply calling off their shift. The ones who remain are working without pay. That is the condition the Transportation Security Administration finds
Cuba's deputy foreign minister said Sunday that the island's military is actively preparing for the possibility of a U.S. military attack, the most direct public acknowledgment yet that Havana is treating American threats as something more than political noise. "Our military is always prepared,
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, turned his agency's fraud investigation toward Florida this week, calling the state a long-standing hotspot for health care fraud and demanding that state leaders provide a detailed accounting of how they identify and address bad
Former FBI Director James Comey has been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Miami as part of a sweeping Justice Department investigation into Obama and Biden-era intelligence and law enforcement officials, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed Thursday. The subpoena, issued last week, makes Comey one of more than 130
The United States military is sending thousands of additional Marines and sailors to the Middle East, three U.S. officials confirmed Friday, as the war against Iran reached its three-week mark and the Trump administration weighs its next moves — including the possibility of ground operations to secure the Strait of
Three suspected suicide bombers struck the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Monday evening, killing at least 23 people and wounding 108 others in near-simultaneous attacks on two busy markets and the entrance of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. Police confirmed the toll Tuesday and said an investigation was
Joe Kent resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, becoming the first senior Trump administration official to leave his post over the war in Iran. In a public resignation letter, Kent wrote that he could not “in good conscience” continue serving while the United States remained engaged in the
North Korean operatives have embedded themselves inside American companies by posing as legitimate remote technology workers, using stolen identities, AI-generated credentials, and U.S.-based infrastructure to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars annually back to Pyongyang, according to U.S. officials and cybersecurity investigators. The scheme has expanded dramatically
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