If Donald Trump was bent on ruining South Africa’s Group of 20 Summit as part of his overarching attack on the multilateral order, let it be said that he didn’t succeed — but he widened the cracks.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, beset by Trump’s false claims of White genocide in his country and a U.S. boycott, managed to get ...Read more

Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he plans to contact Donald Trump to express concern over the U.S. military buildup near Venezuela, warning that the situation could destabilize South America.

“I’m very concerned about the military apparatus the U.S. has deployed in the Caribbean Sea,” Lula told reporters at the end of the G20 ...Read more

President Donald Trump doubled down on his call for six Democrats — including two members of Congress representing Pennsylvania — to be jailed over a video directed at U.S. troops.

Writing on his Truth Social platform Saturday night, Trump once again claimed without evidence the six Democrats were traitors for telling troops to “refuse ...Read more

The Trump Administration and Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey continue to spar over the release of Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funding and soaring energy costs as the weather gets colder.

After sending the Boston Herald a written response Friday to Gov. Healey’s call for President Donald Trump to release the LIHEAP funding ...Read more

Israel said it killed Hezbollah’s military chief in a rare airstrike on Beirut as an almost year-old ceasefire deal with the Lebanese government wavers.

The Israeli army said the attack on Dahieh, on the southern outskirts of the capital, killed Hezbollah chief of general staff Abu Ali Al-Tabtabai, the militant group’s No. 2 after Secretary...Read more

Jair Bolsonaro’s efforts to avoid jail went awry Saturday, when police detained the former Brazilian president after he took a soldering iron to a court-mandated ankle monitor and sparked fears that he planned to flee.

Now the question is whether Bolsonaro just torched the Brazilian right’s efforts to find a challenger to Luiz Inacio Lula ...Read more

The controversial 28-point plan dropped suddenly by the Trump administration to Ukraine as a take-it-or-leave it proposition mere days ago was mostly the result of several weeks of negotiations behind the scenes between Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev that excluded not only Ukraine and its allies but even some key U.S. ...Read more

Israel carried out a rare airstrike on Beirut, describing the target as Hezbollah’s military chief, as an almost year-old ceasefire deal with the Lebanese government wavers.

The daylight attack on Dahieh, on the southern outskirts of the capital, was the first of its kind in months and left five people dead and 28 injured, according to ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — While SpaceX continues to test its Starship and Super Heavy rocket in Texas, Space Force officials in Florida are preparing for a first launch as early as mid-2026.

SpaceX is awaiting the completion of a pair of environmental impact statements for its plans to launch from both Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-A and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the weeks since federal investigators announced that the devastating Palisades fire was caused by a reignition of a smaller blaze, top Los Angeles Fire Department officials have insisted that they did everything they could to put out the earlier fire.

But the Los Angeles Times has obtained records that call into question the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — No one seems to know what happened to Vicente Ventura Aguilar.

A witness told his brother and attorneys that the 44-year-old Mexican immigrant, who doesn't have lawful immigration status, was taken into custody by immigration authorities on Oct. 7 in South Los Angeles and suffered a medical emergency.

But it's been more than ...Read more

NEW YORK — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided Canal St. in lower Manhattan Saturday afternoon again, arresting a West African migrant street vendor allegedly selling counterfeit goods.

The arrest, at Canal St. near Broadway around noon, came only about 15 minutes after the New York Police Department had completed its own vendor...Read more

The Trump administration is advertising for “deportation judges” in its ongoing push to fill jobs to aid its mass deportation campaign.

The call for judges by the U.S. Department of Justice marks the latest step in an enforcement strategy that has spread from border cities to major metropolitan areas. It reflects an effort to speed up every...Read more

CHICAGO — It’s a story repeating itself: Border Patrol agents flooding immigrant neighborhoods, showing dramatic force, storming Home Depot parking lots and preying on people at courthouses.

Those arrests erupted in Chicago. Then they were 750 miles away in Charlotte, North Carolina. And they will keep roving across the country.

But no ...Read more

Russia and Ukraine are fighting an increasingly intense energy war as they attempt to gain a meaningful advantage after months of stalemate on the front-lines and ahead of potential new peace talks.

Massive Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure are leaving businesses and households wrestling with lengthy power outages, as Moscow ...Read more

CHICAGO — As thousands gathered at Chicago’s Millennium Park Friday evening for the annual tree-lighting ceremony, social media posts advertising the latest and what would become perhaps the deadliest “teen takeover” continued to spread online.

In mere hours, the holiday cheer turned into chaos. A 14-year-old boy was killed and eight ...Read more

NEW YORK — Los Angeles police have reportedly identified a second suspect in connection with the apparent murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the runaway teen whose dismembered remains were found stuffed in the trunk of singer D4vd’s impounded Tesla in September.

Queens-born D4vd, real name David Anthony Burke, is also considered a suspect. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Roughly 300 Illinois National Guard members, activated by the Trump administration as part of the Operation Midway Blitz deportation raids and over the objections of Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, have spent more than a month housed not at a federal installation but at a state-owned National Guard training site — an arrangement that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Born in Mexico and brought to the U.S. by her parents when she was 1, Sara has lived in California nearly all her life. As an undocumented immigrant, she pays in-state tuition rates at East Los Angeles College — $619 per semester, a fraction of the $5,286 charged to out-of-state students.

Because of her immigration status, ...Read more