Hamas and President Trump have threatened to upend the cease-fire. Analysts say those comments could prove hollow, but the deal still may not last beyond early March.
Deterring Russia from re-invading Ukraine, once this war ends, could require 150,000 troops and American help with air cover, intelligence and missile defense, experts say.
A burned trail at Topanga State Park after the Palisades fire in Los Angeles last month. Forecasters have warned that intense rainfall this week could set off debris flows around recently burned areas in Southern California.
King Abdullah II, a close U.S. ally dependent on aid from Washington, is confronting the president’s demands that he take in Palestinians from Gaza, a step the king’s domestic politics will not allow.
King Abdullah II of Jordan, right, and President Trump at the White House in 2018. Mr. Trump has said he would pressure Jordan and Egypt to take in the estimated 1.9 million Palestinians he would expel from the Gaza Strip as part of his plan for the United States to “own” the territory.
A Cleveland-Cliffs steel mill in Burns Harbor, Ind. The company’s shares rose on Monday in anticipation of President Trump’s announcement of stiff tariffs on steel and aluminum.
Jerome H. Powell is set to testify as inflation risks are resurfacing, regulatory changes are in flux and the Federal Reserve’s policy independence is in the spotlight.
Nicole Okundaye and Jonathan Vocke played music for patients at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. They are bedside musicians affiliated with the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore.
New research suggests that bariatric surgery could benefit patients with cirrhosis, an advanced form of a liver disease that is often driven by obesity.
Amid the turmoil and controversies of President Trump’s opening weeks, Democrats see an opening with working-class voters wooed by Mr. Trump’s movement.
With the event returning to Midtown Manhattan for the first time since 2020, thousands of dogs flooded the city with a single goal in mind: best in show.
What did Tonic, a Pomeranian, need before competing in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show? A crisp high-five from his owner and handler, Sonya Ratliff.
Danny Kruger says those who backed the bill did so under false premise after change to safeguards announced
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) budget for England and Wales will be 14% lower in real terms in 2024/25 than it was in 2007/08, an analysis has found.
The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) said that, due to population growth, the day-to-day spending by the MoJ is set to be 24% lower per head of population than in 2007/08.
Looking ahead, further cuts could be on the horizon, given the tightness of the government’s spending plans heading into the June spending review. Reconciling that with Labour’s ambitions and manifesto promises of improvements to prisons and courts could be challenging, to say the least.
The dire consequences of the lack of investment are plain for all to see with massive court backlogs, overcrowded prisons and a chronic lack of legal aid lawyers.
After inheriting a justice system on the brink of collapse, the government has taken initial positive steps to increase criminal and civil legal aid. Reviews of sentencing and the criminal courts are also taking place designed to tackle the unacceptable delays faced by victims and defendants.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ending the "procurement and forced use of paper straws," fulfilling a promise the president made last week.
After Hamas said it would postpone the next release of Israeli hostages, President Trump demanded that all hostages be released Saturday or “all hell is going to break out.”
US vice president takes aim at digital services act and GDPR laws, and says America ‘will not accept’ EU policing of US tech giants at Paris AI summit
JD Vance continues, talking about “revolutionary applications” of AI and the need to deregulate to allow for its fast development and its roll out.
Our administration, the Trump administration, believes that AI will have countless revolutionary applications and economic innovation, job creation, national security, health care, free expression and beyond, and to restrict its development now will not only unfairly benefit incumbents in the space, it would mean paralysing one of the most promising technologies we have seen in generations.
I’m not here this morning to talk about AI safety, which was the title of the conference a couple of years ago. I’m here to talk about AI opportunity.
When conferences like this convene to discuss a cutting edge technology, oftentimes, I think our response is to be too self conscious, too risk averse. But never have I encountered a breakthrough in tech that so clearly calls us to do precisely the opposite.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it illegal for companies that operate in the United States to pay foreign government officials to secure or keep business deals.
The Indian tycoon Gautam Adani was charged by U.S. prosecutors last year under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act after being accused of bribing Indian officials. His company has called the charges “baseless.”
Palestinians say the fatal shooting of a pregnant 23-year-old in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank signals a worrying trend toward more lethal, warlike tactics by Israel in the occupied territory
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