President Trump is facing a critical moment in the war, which has failed to bring about the “unconditional surrender” he once demanded.“We’ll be hitting that area probably pretty soon,” President Trump said of Pickaxe Mountain on Tuesday. “And there’s not a thing they can do about it.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requesting as much as $70 billion in emergency military spending after nearly five months of war.“This is a new request based on new realities of a world we face, stepping up to meet that moment,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday.
Also, the Pentagon estimates the Iran war has cost $37.5 billion. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.Oleksandr Syrskyi, left, with Volodymyr Zelensky in March.
The move followed the firing of a popular defense minister, who had clashed with the general over how to fight the war.Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian commander in chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region in March.
Maj. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi speaking to journalists in Ukraine last year.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, in a video address, challenged the U.S. government to execute an international arrest warrant against the Israeli prime minister.Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that New York cannot arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, but the United States should.
Republicans managed to push through legislation to fund the government through Dec. 4. But with Democrats opposed, the stage is set for a broader battle.Speaker Mike Johnson at the Capitol on Tuesday.
The administration accused California and Minnesota of fraudulent activity in their public health insurance programs.Dr. Mehmet Oz and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., two top health officials, at a news conference on Tuesday.
Intelligence documents that the White House released to back up President Trump’s claims about China highlight Russian efforts to influence U.S. elections.President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in 2025. Mr. Trump has consistently resisted admitting U.S. findings that Russia has t
At the Mark Twain Prize ceremony, the comedian Whitney Cummings made a joke about the president that seemed to refer to Jeffrey Epstein.Whitney Cummings opened the ceremony for the Mark Twain Prize, which was awarded to Bill Maher at the Kennedy Center last month.
Federal health officials have confirmed another 2,500 cases of the parasitic infection.Farmworkers harvesting lettuce in Holtville, Ca. last year.
The large number of cases suggests that excrement entered the food system on a “surprising scale.”These cyclospora oocysts were found in a stool sample. The parasite infects the small intestine, causing frequent watery diarrhea that carries its oocysts, or eggs.
Their resolve for freedom hardened during the pandemic, when they lived through a crippling food shortage and were forced to witness frequent public executions.Kim Yu-mi, right, defected with a group that included her two children and her mother. Life in South Korea has not been quite what they imag
Users said the technology mistakenly deleted their accounts. To resolve the issue, they still had to rely on A.I.
The incident, which targeted the computer systems of another company called Hugging Face, happened while OpenAI was testing the systems.OpenAI and other companies have warned that their new A.I. systems could be powerful hacking tools.
State Democrats released a ballot for their nominating convention on Saturday that includes Mr. Jackson and two long-shot candidates with little public support from delegates.Troy Jackson appears almost certain to emerge as the winner at the Maine Democratic Party’s nominating convention on Saturday
As immigration surges in the country, activists are going to extreme lengths to expel foreign nationals, often taking the law into their own hands.
As the nation convulses with protests and violence, data and research suggest that some of the biggest arguments against foreigners don’t stand up against the facts.Supporters of the March and March movement, one of the main anti-immigrant organizations in South Africa, demonstrating in Johannesburg
New York was under a tornado watch, and forecasters warned that flash flooding was possible into the evening.
Storms set off tornado warnings all the way to New York on Tuesday. Forecasters also warned of flash flooding.
Some businesses in low-lying areas of New York City have developed routines to keep their goods and customers dry.
The stout raccoon, which has a spinal condition, is “an example to all of us that you don’t have to be perfect to be loved,” a Seattle City Council member said.
Have the “space Jews” come to get us at last?
The quick-fix fantasies of the world’s strongmen.
