Emergency order allows extension of temporary protected status that has been repeatedly granted A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from forcing about 3,000 Yemeni refugees to leave the US, ruling that temporary protected status repeatedly granted to them and due to expire Monday should be extended again. Judge Dale E Ho in … Read more
A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the mailing of the abortion pill mifepristone under current Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules, a move the court acknowledged would “as a practical matter, have a nationwide effect,” and one that sets up a likely Supreme Court battle over abortion access. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of … Read more
The Pentagon will withdraw roughly 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany, a move that comes amid President Trump’s growing clash with European allies over Iran and NATO tensions. NBC News’ Courtney Kube reports.
President Donald Trump turned a microphone problem into a comic riff during remarks at The Villages in Florida, asking staff to “turn the mic up please” before joking he was “screaming my a– off because the mic is no good.” The moment came during a wide-ranging, joke-heavy speech before the Florida retirement community, where Trump … Read more
Trump is withdrawing 5,000 of the 36,400 US personnel based in Germany. But why are they there in the first place? US withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany after Merz says US ‘humiliated’ by Iran The US is withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany, days after the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, suggested Washington was being outplayed and … Read more
President Donald Trump informed Congress Friday that a ceasefire with Iran has ended hostilities and reset the clock on congressional war powers limits, but legal experts say ongoing military operations complicate that claim. “For War Powers Resolution purposes, the hostilities that began on Saturday, February 28 have terminated,” a senior administration official told Fox News … Read more
President seemed to suggest that legislative deadline to approve war no longer applies as Democrats push back US politics live – latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Donald Trump said in a letter sent to congressional leaders on Friday that hostilities with Iran have “terminated”, suggesting that the 60-day deadline … Read more
Thousands of people take to the streets to protest the Trump administration, the Iran war, immigration and social injustice Continue reading…
A large Roman Catholic diocese pushed back at criticism Friday after Pope Leo XIV appointed a former illegal immigrant as a bishop amid heightened tensions between the Vatican and Washington over refugees and ICE enforcement. Leo nominated Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala as bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, which covers all of West Virginia. Menjivar-Ayala originally … Read more
Tahrohon Wayne (T.W.) Shannon, who was Oklahoma’s first African American speaker of the House, is pushing back on President Barack Obama’s pessimistic outlook for minority voters following the Supreme Court’s Wednesday ruling reshaping the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. Where Obama saw the court “abandoning” principles of equal participation, Shannon believes the ruling further pushes … Read more
