The White House has hung a painting of President Donald Trump depicting a moment after an assassination attempt against him last summer — bumping the official portrait of one of his predecessors, Barack Obama. Hanging a new presidential likeness without advance notice is unusual, and Trump putting himself in that space could be seen as him breaking with norms yet again. By tradition, portraits of the two most recent former…

The death toll in a roof collapse at a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic has risen to 225 after four people hospitalised after being rescued from the rubbles died overnight, health officials said Saturday. Officials said 189 people were rescued alive from the rubble of the popular venue in the capital Santo Domingo. More than 200 were injured, with 15 of them still hospitalised, including five in critical condition.…

A convicted murderer who was mistakenly released from jail in March was apprehended and arrested in Florida on Friday, officials said. Kathan Guzman was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service without incident, per the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. The U.S. Marshals Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Guzman is being held in Florida, NBC affiliate WXIA-TV reported. Guzman was sentenced to life in prison…

The Senate has confirmed former Arkansas Governor, Mike Huckabee as the Trump administration’s ambassador to Israel, few days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s White House visit. The 53-46 vote installs a vehement supporter of Israel in the key Mideast post, which may prove critical to Trump’s unsuccessful efforts so far to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, the conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon and threats posed to Israel by…

President Donald Trump’s revealed that the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy will no longer consider race as a factor in admissions as the military schools had long done to boost enrollment of Black, Hispanic and other minorities. The changes were detailed in court filings, by the U.S. Department of Justice in federal courts in Denver, New York and Colorado related to two lawsuits filed by the…

In a bid to move ahead of the deal and dismantled key parts of its years-long currency controls and loosened its grip on the peso, Argentina sealed a $20 billion, 48-month Extended Fund Facility deal with the International Monetary Fund The IMF will disburse $12 billion by next Tuesday, while another $2 billion will become available by June. The IMF said the deal is expected to help Argentina catalyze additional…

Donald Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine has claimed that the country could be partitioned like Berlin after the Second World War as part of a peace deal – as the US president urged Russia to “get moving” on a ceasefire. Keith Kellogg told The Times that British and French troops could adopt zones of control in the west of the country, forming a “reassurance force”, while Russia’s army could remain…

Opposition politicians in Panama have accused the US of launching a “camouflaged invasion” of the country, amid simmering discontent over the government’s handling of the diplomatic crisis. After a three-day visit by the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump appeared to confirm that US military personnel had been deployed to the Central American country on Thursday, telling reporters: “We’ve moved a lot of troops to Panama.” Hegseth said that…

President Donald Trump will exempt smartphones and computers, among many tech devices and components from new tariffs imposed, according to new guidance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The guidance, issued late Friday evening, comes after Trump earlier this month imposed 145% tariffs on products from China, a move that threatened to take a toll on tech giants like Apple, which makes iPhones and most of its other products in…

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the state has used the rare execution method in the past five weeks. Mikal Mahdi gave no final statement and did not look to his right toward the nine witnesses in the room behind bulletproof glass and bars once the curtain opened. He cried out as the shots hit him, and…

The US supreme court upheld a judge’s order requiring Donald Trump’s administration to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador. US district judge Paula Xinis last week issued an order that the administration “facilitate and effectuate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, in response to a lawsuit filed by the man and his family…

Iran and the United States are set to engage in high-level talks in Oman on Saturday aimed at jump-starting negotiations over Tehran’s fast-advancing nuclear programme, with U.S. President Donald Trump threatening military action if there is no deal. Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was leading Iran’s delegation while the talks on the U.S. side were being handled by Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. In a post on X by the…