U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Trump administration said Wednesday (February 26, 2025) it is eliminating more than 90% of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall U.S. assistance around the world. The documents detail the results of a program-by-program review ordered by … Read more
A crowd watches a live feed from a funeral that is being held for former hostages whose bodies were returned to Israel from Gaza last week | Photo Credit: Getty Images Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages while it waited for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners to be released by Israel in return, … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump said that the European Union was born to cheat the United States | Photo Credit: Reuters President Donald Trump said Wednesday (February 26, 2025) that the European Union was born to “*** (expletive meaning cheat)“ the United States, laying bare his hostility to the longtime US partner as he detailed new … Read more
Candles are lit up for Pope Francis in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, where the Pontiff has been hospitalized | Photo Credit: AP Pope Francis has shown further slight improvement as he battles double pneumonia, but doctors said Wednesday (February 26, 2025) his prognosis is still guarded. A chest CT scan taken Tuesday (February … Read more
Trump says Zelenskyy will visit the White House on February 28 to sign U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal
File picture of President Donald Trump. | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump said Wednesday (February 26, 2025) that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit the White House on Friday (February 28, 2025) to sign a long-sought minerals deal that will closely tie the two countries together for years to come. Mr. Trump made the … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump. File. | Photo Credit: AP Diplomats from Russia and the United States will meet in Istanbul on Thursday (February 27, 2025) to discuss the operation of their respective embassies in Moscow and Washington, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday (February 26, 2025). The meeting … Read more
Police officers and forensics work on the site where French police killed a man holding knives in each hand after he “threw himself” at them in the northeastern Paris suburb city of Dugny on February 26, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP French police said officers killed a man holding a knife in each hand after … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump. File. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump, furious over a disparaging new tell-all book about him, threatened on Wednesday (February 26, 2025) to sue authors and media outlets that use anonymous sources. Trump has made suing people an integral part of his brand as he made his way up … Read more
Image used for representation | Photo Credit: The Hindu Five Indian-origin men were sentenced to jail terms between two and three years and caning for being part of a riot that led to the death of a former bouncer at a Singapore hotel. Sridharan Elangovan was given 36 months in jail and six strokes of … Read more