Chancellor Friedrich Merz said elements of a new U.S. national security strategy unveiled last week are unacceptable to Europe and advised President Donald Trump to avoid going it alone.

The conservative German leader said he wasn’t surprised by the strategy release given that Vice President JD Vance had made similar points advocating an “...Read more

President Donald Trump said that Russia is in a stronger military position in its war with Ukraine and chided European leaders for what he characterized as excessive dialog with scant results.

Trump made the comments in a wide-ranging interview with Politico published early Tuesday. Asked whether Ukraine has lost the war, Trump pointed to the ...Read more

The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status next year. If that happens, the country will enter an era in which outbreaks are common again.

More children would be hospitalized because of this preventable disease. Some would lose their hearing. Some would die. Measles is also expensive. A new study— not yet published in a ...Read more

ATLANTA — QR codes must be eliminated from Georgia’s ballots by July 2026, but less than a year away from midterms, the state hasn’t figured out how to comply.

State lawmakers passed the bill in 2024 to eliminate the codes, but they didn’t allocate any money to do so this year. And election officials warn it’s too late to make ...Read more

As food prices remain high, the Trump administration has made it easier for farmers to hire foreign guest workers and to pay them less. Now, other industries with large immigrant workforces also are asking for relief as they combat labor shortages and raids.

Visas for temporary foreign workers are a quick fix with bipartisan support in Congress...Read more

CHICAGO — When you look across a field of miscanthus, it’s “hypnotically beautiful,” says Emily Heaton, whose family farm has for two decades grown the first commercial field of this grass in Illinois. Dense, sun-loving and often called “giant,” it blooms in late summer to fall with a showy silver flower.

Just like cornstalks across...Read more

BAYPORT, Minn. — The B-East cell hall at Stillwater prison was once a place of echoing lockdowns and razor-edged tension.

“Some things that’ll never leave,” said Lt. Sam Marks, recalling the stabbings, self-harm and overdoses that reverberated through the four tiers of steel and concrete.

But since the Department of Corrections began ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Colorado prisons are violating the constitutional rights of the state’s adult inmates and youth detainees through excessive force, inadequate medical care and nutrition, and policies surrounding the housing of transgender offenders, the federal agency announced Monday.

The Trump ...Read more

Haiti’s corruption investigators are calling for criminal charges against former President Michel Martelly, accusing him of filing false statements about his wealth.

A review of Martelly’s asset disclosures covering the period from his election in 2011 to his financial declaration two years after leaving office in 2016 found major ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Monday evening designating two Muslim groups as “foreign terrorist organizations.”

The executive order, which was posted on DeSantis’ social media accounts, states that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Society of Muslim Brothers (Muslim Brotherhood) would be classified ...Read more

The former Eastern Kentucky sheriff caught on camera gunning down a district court judge in his office last year has admitted to the slaying but claims his actions were unintentional.

Attorneys for former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines say he “lacked the capacity to intend” to shoot and kill District Court Judge Kevin ...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened to impose an additional 5% tariff on imports from Mexico if the country did not release water that his administration says must be allowed to flow under a treaty, escalating a fight with a major trading partner.

“I have authorized documentation to impose a 5% Tariff on Mexico if this water isn’t released, ...Read more

After avoiding it for nearly two decades, wildlife officials say that the illness wiping out millions of bats may have reached Nevada.

The fungal disease is known as white-nose syndrome, and it’s considered to be the single most deadly wildlife disease outbreak in North American history. Scientists first documented the disease in New York in ...Read more

President Donald Trump granted Nvidia Corp. permission to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chip to China in exchange for a 25% surcharge, a move that lets the world’s most valuable company potentially regain billions of dollars in lost business from a key global market.

The decision was announced by Trump in a post on his Truth Social ...Read more

BOSTON — A nativity scene in Dedham with the message “ICE was here” in front of the missing Holy Family will remain up pending a conversation with Archbishop Richard Henning, a local priest said Monday, despite the Archdiocese of Boston’s statement against the display over the weekend.

“That some do not agree with our message does not...Read more

BERKELEY, Calif. — A UC Berkeley professor smelled a rat — over the years there had been $46,855 in damage from computers that failed, and nearly all of it seemed to affect one particular Ph.D. candidate at the college’s Electronic Engineer and Computer Sciences department.

The professor wondered if the student’s luck was really that ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration has endorsed the Aukus security agreement with Australia and the UK following a lengthy review of the Biden-era pact that would sell nuclear-powered submarines to Australia.

“At the direction of the president, Aukus is full-steam ahead,” Rubio said at a meeting with Defense ...Read more