US president announces efforts being made to strike a deal having earlier threatened to stop island importing oil
Washington is negotiating with Havana’s leadership to strike a deal, Donald Trump has said, days after threatening Cuba’s reeling economy with a virtual oil blockade.
“Cuba is a failing nation. It has been for a long time but now it doesn’t have Venezuela to prop it up. So we’re talking to the people from Cuba, the highest people in Cuba, to see what happens,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday.
President Donald Trump shared a letter from the deceased New York Yankees team owner George Steinbrenner, urging the real estate mogul to run for office.
The New York Times found more than 5,300 files with references to Mr. Trump and related terms. They include salacious and unverified claims, as well as documents that had already been made public.
Zach Witkoff, left, and Eric Trump, speaking in Dubai in May. Eric Trump signed an agreement with an Emirati-backed investment firm days before his father’s inauguration in January 2025.
A tent provided by the government to provide heat and electricity in Kyiv last month. Russia has devastated Ukraine’s power grid this winter, the coldest in more than a decade.
Deputy US attorney general says victims ‘want to be made whole’ but that doesn’t mean ‘we can just create evidence’
The deputy US attorney general, Todd Blanche, the point person on the Trump administration’s Epstein files release, told ABC News on Sunday that prosecutors’ review of the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking case “is over”.
Separately, in comments to CNN about Epstein, Blanche said that “victims want to be made whole” after surviving the scheme attributed to the late convicted sex offender and which led to a 20-year prison sentence for Maxwell beginning in 2022.
President Donald Trump threatens to sue author Michael Wolff and the Epstein estate, claiming newly released files show the pair conspired against him.
Trump allies have called for Judge James E. Boasberg to be investigated and impeached after decisions that questioned the administration’s respect for the rule of law.
A top U.S. prosecutor signalled Sunday that authorities would not bring any more charges after the release of millions of new documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a case that has drawn in many world-famous names. Read More
The demands of Sens. Rick Scott and Mike Lee for DHS funding and SAVE America Act could extend government shutdown by forcing package back to Senate for potential rejection.
House Speaker Mike Johnson voiced confidence that Congress will agree on measures to restrain federal immigration enforcement after a national outcry over the killings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota. Read More
First lady Melania Trump's documentary "Melania" received a 11% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes despite scoring 99% with the site's "verified audience."
Melania, however, cost quite more than a typical documentary, at $40m to make and $35m to promote.
Amazon’s Melania Trumpdocumentary has reportedly beaten box office expectations and recorded the strongest start of any documentary in over a decade, taking $7m at the US box office during its lavishly-promoted opening weekend. But it also cost quite more than a typical documentary, at $40m to make and $35m to promote.
And Amazon – which recently cut 16,000 corporate jobs – has been hit with criticism that making the documentary about the first lady, and paying so highly for it, was little more than a ploy to curry favor with her husband, Donald Trump, during his second presidency.
A Kremlin official says President Trump is "really trying" to end the Ukraine war as Moscow views renewed diplomatic talks with Washington as productive.
Country is already suffering acute fuel shortage; experts say complete cutoff will be ‘catastrophic’ to its infrastructure
It’s just gone midday on Linea, one of the main roads through Havana’s Vedado neighbourhood, and Javier Peña and Ysil Ribas have been waiting since 6am outside a petrol station. They’re passing the time fixing a leak on Ribas’s 1955 gold and white Mercury.
A tanker has pulled up on the forecourt in front of them, and so the queue behind is growing fast. Although this station only takes US dollars, at a cost far out of reach of most Cubans, Peña says it’s their only choice. “There is no gas in the national pesos,” he says, shrugging.
Networks created after police killed George Floyd were reactivated to challenge Trump’s mass deportation policy
Cory never expected he’d spend hours each day driving around after immigration agents, videotaping their moves. The south Minneapolis resident is “not the type of person to do this”, he said.
The dangers of what he’s doing, even after the killings of two observers, largely stay out of his mind when he’s watching Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents – even when he’s gotten hit with pepper spray. In quieter moments, it occurs to him that agents likely know where he lives. Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old whom agents killed while he was filming them, “100% could have been me”, Cory said.
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