Nicolas Sarkozy, a French former president, last month. He was found guilty of conspiring to seek funding for a 2007 presidential campaign from the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya.
The pardons of former Trump aides, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic and cannot shield them from ongoing state-level prosecutions.
Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and lawyer for President Trump, at a commemoration ceremony on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, in September.
The visit by President Ahmed al-Shara is another step in the transformation of the former rebel leader once wanted by the United States as a terrorist.
The Senate took a crucial step toward reopening the government, when a group of Democrats broke their party’s blockade and voted with Republicans to advance legislation to end the government.
In 2019, President Trump sent U.S. commandos to to a small village in Syria to kill the leader of the terror group Islamic State. On Monday, Syria’s president, a former associate of that leader, will meet Mr. Trump in the White House.
Rashid Muhammad Kaseer, a resident of Barisha, Syria, where American commandos killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State, six years ago.
A weekend gathering in Texas drew activists, homeopaths, doctors, lawyers, parents and a Republican senator who asked, “Why isn’t Tony Fauci in prison?”
The transgressive icon of Mexican music, who died in 2016, still has millions of fans. On Saturday, more than 170,000 filled Mexico City’s central plaza to watch footage of a landmark concert.
Thousands gathered to watch the screening of a concert by the late Juan Gabriel.
Lower courts condemned the treatment of Damon Landor, a Rastafarian, but found that a federal law protecting religious rights barred him from suing prison officials for money.
Ukraine faces a major draft evasion problem, but no place is quite like Vylkove, a Danube River town where men of draft age have all but vanished, many of them trying to avoid military service.
Supporters of Abigail Spanberger, Virginia’s governor-elect, say they expect her to reverse efforts to impose conservative priorities on the state’s prestigious public university system.
The Democrat chosen by Virginia voters to be their next governor, Abigail Spanberger, will have a chance to make significant changes in the boards that oversee the state’s public universities.
Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable.
“A library is in a lot of ways a kind of civic symbol, a demonstration of a community’s commitment to itself,” said Cole Leinbach, a librarian in Tieton, Wash. “So what does it mean if that goes away?”
A Times investigation found that children are routinely deprived of birth certificates, medical care and education. Diplomats and police officers turned the mothers away.
The heated contest to become City Council speaker took shape in Puerto Rico, where the leading contenders jockeyed for votes at a beachside political gathering.
Danielle Sassoon resigned as an interim U.S. attorney rather than halt the prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams. Her new firm’s conservative principles have at times put it at odds with President Trump.
A judge found that Jonathan Braun had violated the rules of his release by sexually assaulting a nanny, swinging an IV pole at a nurse and dodging tolls in his Lamborghini and Ferrari.
Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, a daughter of Suharto, and Bambang Trihatmodjo, one of his sons, accepted the honor from President Prabowo Subianto of Indonesia in Jakarta on Monday.
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