4th of July: Trump hosts second “Salute to America” celebration
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily froze enforcement of Texas’ controversial immigration law that allows state law enforcement to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally. Justice Samuel Alito issued the administrative hold, which will block the law from taking effect until March 13. That temporary pause will give the court additional time…
McCarthy directed three House committees to launch a ramped-up investigation. Speaker Kevin McCarthy has announced he was ordering House Republicans to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, alleging a “culture of corruption” involving him and his family. McCarthy had signaled the impeachment inquiry for weeks, but his announcement Tuesday comes at a time…
Targets picked to induce ‘panic’ The chief of the FBI is warning that China already has “burrowed” into critical infrastructure in the United States and now is just waiting for “the right moment to deal a devastating blow.” The FBI’s Christopher Wray said in a Reuters report that an ongoing hacking campaign, known already as…
BERLIN/PARIS, Nov 18 (Reuters) – France, Germany and Spain have reached agreement on starting the next phase of development of a new fighter jet dubbed FCAS, Europe’s largest defence project at an estimated cost of more than 100 billion euros ($103.4 billion), Berlin said on Friday. Germany’s Defence Ministry said in a statement that an…
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other key oil-producing members of the wider Opec+ alliance have announced surprise production cuts totalling more than 1.1 million barrels per day, declaring their intention is to stabilise crude markets. Several nations, led by Opec kingpin Saudi Arabia, on Sunday made a coordinated move to further curtail oil…
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 2 (UPI) — A senior Hamas leader and two companions were killed Tuesday in an Israeli drone strike in Beirut’s southern suburb, the stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah, according to the militant Palestinian group. Saleh al-Arouri, 58, who served as Hamas’ deputy politburo leader and its military commander of the West Bank, died…