Israel attacked a target near the presidential palace in the Syrian capital, Damascus, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Friday, reiterating his vow to protect members of the Druze community. It marks the second time Israel has struck Syria in as many days, following through on a promise to defend the minority group, which was involved…
States are continuing to roll out their own versions of the Department of Government Efficiency, the outside advisory commission led by tech billionaire Elon Musk that President Donald Trump tasked with cutting federal spending and staffing. Many of the officials who launched the bodies, which take different forms in different states, say they’ve wanted to…
From a drama standpoint, the 151st Kentucky Derby has a tough act to follow after last year’s three-way photo finish. But Saturday’s edition features an intriguing handicapping puzzle, with the possibility of a wild result and a nice payday for those who can figure it out. I’d love to be one of them, and while…
WASHINGTON — A veteran activist of the Civil Rights Movement said he was notified by the Smithsonian Institution that items he loaned to the National Museum of African American History and Culture may be returned, amid a potential review of the museum’s collections ordered by President Donald Trump. Rev. Amos C. Brown, pastor of Third…
BANGKOK — State prosecutors in Thailand said Thursday that they don’t intend to press charges against an American academic arrested for royal defamation, an offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The arrest last month of Paul Chambers, a political science lecturer at Naresuan University in the northern province of Phitsanulok, had drawn…
Days after a Canadian election that hinged on who would best stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump, he is at the center of an election in another liberal democracy. Trust in the United States is plummeting in Australia, which votes Saturday amid global financial turmoil sparked by tariffs Trump has imposed on trading partners…
Heidy Sánchez was so distraught that she got on the rooftop of a house in Havana to get Wi-Fi connection and send her daughter a bedtime lullaby via WhatsApp. The Tampa-area mother was deported to Cuba last week without her 17-month-old U.S.-citizen daughter, who has a history of seizures and was still being breastfed, she…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said on Thursday attacks by Republican President Donald Trump and his allies on judges were “not random” and seemed “designed to intimidate the judiciary.” Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked Trump in March for urging the impeachment of a federal judge, laying bare tensions between the country’s executive and the judiciary as Trump’s…
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The Pittsburgh Pirates were left reeling by a fan’s scary fall onto the playing surface at PNC Park, which quickly turned a moment of joy into “devastated” concern, veteran outfielder and team leader Andrew McCutchen said Thursday. Just after McCutchen’s dramatic two-run double gave the Pirates a 4-3 lead in the seventh inning Wednesday night,…
