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May 6, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Controllers lost contact with Newark airplanes for 30 seconds

May 6, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

The application that the Trump White House has been using to collect and securely store messages sent on popular commercial encrypted apps has temporarily suspended service in the wake of a se...

May 6, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday ordered a 20% reduction in the number of four-star officers, deepening cuts at the Pentagon that have shaken the Department of...

May 6, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

ISLAMABAD/BELA NOOR SHAH, Pakistan — Pakistan carried out a second missile test in three days on Monday and India said it ordered several states to conduct security drills, as fears moun...

May 6, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

BOSTON — A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general sued on Monday in a bid to block President Donald Trump’s move to suspend leasing and permitting of new wind projects, sa...

May 6, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

PARIS — The European Union and France on Monday announced half a billion euros worth of incentives to lure scientists to the continent, seeking to profit from U.S. President Donald Trump...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education informed Harvard University on Monday that it was freezing billions of dollars in future research grants and other aid until the nation&rsqu...

May 6, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

VATICAN CITY — All of the 133 cardinals expected to take part in the secret conclave to elect a new pope have arrived in Rome, the Vatican said on Monday, with the race to succeed Pope F...

May 5, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday that he did not know whether every person on American soil was entitled to due process, despite constitutional guarantees, and com...

May 5, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

BRASILIA — Brazilian police said on Sunday that they had thwarted a bomb attack planned for Lady Gaga’s historic concert that drew over 2 million people to Copacabana Beach in Rio...

May 5, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — U.S. President Donald Trump said he would extend the June 19 deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of TikTok, the short video app used b...

May 5, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

BEN GURION AIRPORT, Israel — A missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels towards Israel on Sunday landed near the country’s main international airport, causing panic among passe...

May 5, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump “shows an openness” to work requirements for Medicaid, Jason Smith, chair of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, s...

May 5, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

CAIRO — Hamas has executed a number of alleged looters after several incidents in which heavily armed gangs attacked food stores and community kitchens in the Gaza Strip this week, sourc...

May 5, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Ukraine is getting more help in its war with Russia.

May 5, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Trump directs Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz