Less than two weeks before the start of a landmark antitrust trial against tech giant Meta, the growing relationship between President Donald Trump and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is stoking fears in Washington that the White House could pull the plug on the whole case. The trial, scheduled for April 14, is the culmination of a nearly six-year investigation and legal battle. Launched by the Federal Trade Commission during Trump’s…

Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack on the Ukrainian capital proves Russia “intends to continue the war and the killing”. Russian air strikes hit the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Sunday, killing one person and injuring three others, while the death toll from Friday’s devastating attack on Kryvyi Rih rose to 19, including nine children. The Kyiv victim was found near the epicentre of the strike in the Darnytskyi district, where fires…

Bob McManus, the wry and eminently fair voice of the New York Post for over a decade, died Saturday at NYU Langone Hospital. He was 81. McManus was a Postie for 29 years — the last 12 as the influential editorial page editor, where government waste, public and private corruption, and hypocrisy in all its forms felt the “pain of his withering gaze,” as the paper noted when he retired…

President Donald Trump will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday, several people familiar with the meeting confirmed to CBS News on Saturday. The leaders are expected to focus on the latest Israeli military operations in Gaza and new U.S. tariffs announced by Trump against Israel and other countries. Netanyahu’s office later confirmed in a statement that he had received an invitation from Trump…

…Over nation’s failure to accept repatriated citizens The Trump administration is revoking all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders over the African nation’s failure to accept repatriated citizens. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the announcement Sunday, calling the action part of the administration’s efforts to ramp up immigration enforcement. The U.S. said on Sunday it would revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders. AFP via Getty…

A powerful wave of dissent swept across the United States on Saturday as coordinated anti-Trump protests erupted in all 50 states, marking the largest nationwide demonstration of Donald Trump’s second term. The protests were a response to what organizers described as a sweeping attack on Americans’ rights, economic stability, and democratic values. More than 1,200 “Hands Off!” protests took place across cities including Washington D.C., New York, Boston, Chicago, and…

In a dramatic move that has reignited debate over public accountability in Iran, President Masoud Pezeshkian has dismissed Vice President Shahram Dabiri following a controversial private trip to Antarctica—one he called “indefensible” as the nation battles a prolonged and painful economic crisis. Dabiri, 64, a physician and political ally of the president, embarked on an extravagant holiday during the Iranian New Year (Nowruz), visiting Argentina before boarding the Plancius, a…

The Trump administration’s aggressive new tariffs are sparking serious concerns of a looming recession both in the United States and across the global economy, according to dire warnings from major financial institutions and investors. In a dramatic downgrade, JP Morgan—the United States’ largest investment bank—has slashed its U.S. growth forecast, now predicting a 0.3% contraction in GDP for 2025. This marks a sharp drop from its previous projection of 1.3%…

Trump administration has waded into Britain’s heated abortion rights debate by throwing its support behind a UK-based anti-abortion activist recently convicted for breaching protest restrictions. The U.S. intervention has triggered renewed diplomatic friction between the two countries and could complicate ongoing trade negotiations. Livia Tossici-Bolt, a 64-year-old dual UK-Italian citizen and retired NHS medical scientist, was handed a two-year conditional discharge and fined over £20,000 for violating a buffer zone…

Moscow — With the faint hope of a ceasefire in Ukraine on the horizon, Russia is preparing for what it sees as an early Christmas gift: the lifting of U.S. sanctions. Behind the scenes, Kremlin officials are already compiling wish lists of which penalties they hope Washington will remove first. The Biden-era restrictions, followed by more under Trump’s second administration, have left Russia facing the world’s most extensive sanctions regime—over…

IT IS becoming an odd tradition: America’s secretaries of state use their final days to catalogue their failings in the Middle East. John Kerry did it in 2016. Antony Blinken took his turn on January 14th. In a speech at the Atlantic Council, a think-tank, he described a litany of problems in Gaza: the misery of civilians; the failure to find an alternative to Hamas; the lack of a broader peace plan.…

President Donald Trump unleashes a new wave of tariffs and touts his renewed focus on America’s military alliances in Asia, the expectation might be that China—America’s primary strategic competitor—is on the defensive. But behind closed doors in Beijing, the sentiment is far from anxious. Instead, Trump’s return to his “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) agenda is inadvertently giving China a rare geopolitical and economic opening—one that President Xi Jinping appears…