Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the US and Ukraine are planning to build a drone factory in the US as part of a new defense partnership that would combine US manufacturing with Ukraine’s battlefield-tested drone technology. Speaking in an interview with far-right influential Laura Zimmer, Zelensky said the agreement would expand on an initial drone…
Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as massive wildfires rage across southwestern Europe. More than 250,000 people have been evacuated in France and Spain, according to officials in both countries. There have been no deaths from these fires, but the strong winds and extreme heat have left thousands of…
Israeli forces detained more than 70 people in the occupied West Bank on Friday night and Saturday after violence in a northern Palestinian village left two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinians dead. According to the Associated Press, the Israeli military said in a statement that troops searched more than 300 locations and arrested the people…
Dangerously hot temperatures spread across much of Central America on Saturday, creating a massive heat dome, in which a high-pressure atmospheric system traps warm air over a large area, keeping temperatures high, as it settles over the region that could last into next week. Heat advisories were issued for about 80 million people after the…
President Trump was given a second opportunity on Friday evening to deliver a speech before the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner – his first opportunity to address the crowd as president. Three months after the first incident was derailed by an assassination attempt, Trump took the stage at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Washington…
Hawaii Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke (D) was indicted on bribery charges on Friday following a months-long state investigation into a campaign finance scandal. Luke was accused of accepting campaign finance contributions in 2022 while she was a state legislator and in return securing funding for COVID-19 testing sites. Hawaii grand jury returned 12-count… Source link
The Trump administration this week renewed strikes on Iranian military targets for two weeks, keeping tensions in the region high on Sunday. Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia on Saturday, in apparent retaliation for Saudi attacks on a coastal city in Yemen. This was the latest… Source link
A federal appeals court on Saturday ruled against the Trump administration’s efforts to impose stricter mail-in voting rules ahead of the midterm elections in the coming months, which include control of both the House and Senate. The First U.S. Circuit of Appeals declined to lift a lower court injunction from June that had ruled parts…
President Trump’s newly announced tariffs could put Republican candidates at risk heading into the midterms as Democrats look to go on the offensive over the economic impact of Trump’s trade agenda. The Trump administration announced Thursday it will impose double-digit tariffs on imports from 60 trading partners over forced labor violations. Went into those duties……
As cases of Cyclospora continue to rise, Michigan is facing a large-scale outbreak of the disease that causes gastrointestinal illness in those affected. The CDC said it is aware of at least 7,400 more cases reported by state and local health departments that have not yet been laboratory confirmed and still require analysis, many of…
