Named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2012 at the age of 84, Sheila Jordan continued to expand her global fan base right up to her death.
Thousands of flags and portraits of fallen Ukrainian soldiers and volunteer fighters from foreign countries at a makeshift memorial in Kyiv, Ukraine, in March.
President Trump’s description of his goals for the negotiation, the most high-stakes international meeting yet in his second term, were telling — as much for what he omitted as for what he included.
The president has railed against crime in urban, largely liberal cities for decades, but Monday’s announcement was an extraordinary exertion of federal power over an American city.
“Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people,” President Trump claimed on Monday, despite falling crime in Washington.
The National Guard troops who will move into Washington, D.C., will not perform law enforcement tasks but may be able to detain people temporarily, officials said.
President Trump has previously used the military to advance his domestic agenda by deploying around 10,000 active-duty troops to the southwest U.S. border and 5,700 National Guard troops and Marines to quell protests in Los Angeles.
With President Trump on their side, U.S. technology companies now have more leverage in Brazil, where they seek to influence new rules policing their platforms.
President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief earlier this month after a downbeat jobs report. The move has raised concerns about the credibility of economic data going forward.
The units, which respond to complaints about issues including loud music and illegal vending, will soon be in every precinct. But some worry about aggressive policing.
Al Jazeera, five of whose reporters the broadcaster said were killed by an Israeli strike, has angered governments across the region that claim it gives voice to terrorists. The outlet denies that.
A potential $500 million settlement would end a monthslong battle that pitted the nation’s wealthiest school against the Trump administration’s extraordinary crackdown on higher education.
Donald Trump was friendly for at least 15 years with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died in jail in 2019.
Officials accused Anas al-Sharif of being a Hamas operative posing as a reporter. Al Jazeera says he and the other four victims all worked for the network.
Mayor Adams cast the upswing as evidence of efforts to improve instruction, while rivals in the mayoral race argued that teachers need better training.
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