The U.S. is ready to back Lebanon’s army to help implement a plan to disarm militant groups, which was announced in August but has yet to make tangible progress amid a spat with the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah.

The U.S. officials, in a meeting with Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun, expressed readiness to help the war-battered country ...Read more

British Broadcasting Corp. Director-General Tim Davie is resigning from the U.K. national broadcaster amid allegations it misled viewers by editing President Donald Trump’s remarks in a Panorama documentary last year.

The program, aired in October 2024, spliced together sections of a speech Trump gave in Washington on January 6 2021, the day ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said he is nominating John Coale as a special envoy to Belarus and asked President Alexander Lukashenko to consider releasing more political prisoners.

Trump credited Coale — who is currently serving as a deputy special envoy to Ukraine and was previously one of the Trump’s lawyers — for the release of “100 ...Read more

An impassioned Mayor Brandon Johnson was in his element as he tailored his pitch to reinstate Chicago’s corporate head tax during a recent West Englewood town hall.

“There’s a reason why more of our people have left this city than any other group,” Johnson told a mostly Black audience at the Nov. 1 town hall organized by his supporters....Read more

Food stamps in New York were fully funded beginning Sunday despite a ruling from the Supreme Court late last week, Gov. Kathy Hochul said.

“While Donald Trump has fought relentlessly to keep food off New Yorkers’ tables, families who rely on SNAP can finally breathe a sigh of relief as benefits begin to arrive,” Hochul wrote on social ...Read more

Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed over 400 bills over the last four years, more than the previous six governors’ veto totals combined. The bulk of those vetoes were in the last two years, when Democrats held narrow majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly.

But power is shifting in Virginia. Come January, Democrats will enjoy a trifecta of...Read more

Fifteen years after his three young sons went missing — and more than eight months after they were declared legally dead — John Skelton is preparing to walk out of prison.

Skelton, 53, whose sons Andrew, Alexander and Tanner were last seen at his Morenci, Michigan, home on Thanksgiving Day 2010, is scheduled to be released from Bellamy ...Read more

If you were to stand on the surface of Mars in two years and look up to the night sky, you might see a bright streak flying across the heavens, followed a few minutes later by another. Rather than flecks of space stuff, they would be satellites on a mission led by UC Berkeley scientists.

This first-of-its-kind unmanned mission — Escape and ...Read more

When California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court launched in 2023, his administration projected the program could help steer up to 12,000 homeless Californians and others with severe mental illnesses into treatment.

But as of May, only about 2,000 people had been referred to the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Court, according to...Read more

Blue Origin is set to launch its New Glenn rocket with a pair of Mars-bound satellites from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon.

The heavy-lift rocket is aiming for its second ever liftoff, but was put in a weather hold for most of the launch window that runs from 2:45-4:13 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 36.

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Carlos Manzo blazed a maverick path as he battled both cartels and what he called skimpy federal support for his crusade against organized crime in his hometown of Uruapan, in western Mexico.

The "man with a hat," after his signature white sombrero, was an annoyance to the power structure in Mexico City, but beloved among many constituents for...Read more

Blue Origin was set to launch its New Glenn rocket with a pair of Mars-bound satellites from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon, but a series of issues stymied the attempt.

The heavy-lift rocket was aiming for its second ever liftoff, but was put in a weather hold for most of the launch window that ran from 2:45-4:13 p.m. from Cape Canaveral ...Read more

The Trump administration issued a memo telling states to “immediately undo” any action taken to fully fund November food-aid benefits, adding further uncertainty around the program that provides support to 42 million low-income Americans.

Amid the ongoing government shutdown, the U.S. Agriculture Department issued the directive in a ...Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Americans may receive a tariff “dividend” of at least $2,000 could come via the tax cuts passed in his signature economic policy bill earlier this year.

Bessent was asked on ABC’s "This Week" about a social media post by Trump earlier Sunday that derided ...Read more

MARTINEZ, Calif. — After the Trump administration refused to pay for SNAP during the government shutdown — an unprecedented move to cut a half-century-old food assistance program that has helped one in eight people in the U.S. pay for groceries — a federal judge ordered him to do so last week. That kicked off a back-and-forth that by ...Read more

Blue Origin is set to launch its New Glenn rocket with a pair of Mars-bound satellites from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon.

The heavy-lift rocket is aiming for its second ever liftoff, targeting launch during a window that runs from 2:45-4:13 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 36. Propellant load began after 10...Read more

As many as 200 Hamas fighters holed up in an Israeli-held area of the Gaza Strip and defying calls to surrender are casting doubts on the implementation of President Donald Trump’s peace plan.

The almost month-old ceasefire has twice been shaken by airstrikes launched by Israel in retaliation for ambushes against its troops around the ...Read more