President Trump showed a video and leafed through printouts of what he said was evidence of racial persecution of white South Africans. The country’s president tried to correct the record.President Trump gestured toward a stack of papers during a tense meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wedne
After decades of conflict between two African countries, President Trump and an adviser said the two sides, with U.S. help, had created an agreement that was now being finalized.President Trump spoke of a peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo at an Oval Office meeting with S
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and President Trump at the White House on Wednesday.
The president has railed against South Africa’s seizures of land from white farmers. But during his first term, he pushed to take land for his border wall using eminent domain.Land in Donna, Texas, near the U.S. border.
A Maryland man’s deportation to El Salvador set off a fierce debate among officials in three cabinet agencies, despite agreement there had been a mistake.Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia remains locked up in El Salvador despite court rulings demanding that the United States work toward securing his rele
Lawyers for some of the eight migrants deported Tuesday said they were told they were being sent to South Sudan. People familiar with the flight said it had landed for the time being in Djibouti.An April judicial ruling ordered officials to give immigrants being deported to countries other their own
A federal court ruled that President Trump’s removals were illegal and arbitrary and ordered two board members reinstated.A judge at the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia issued a permanent injunction ordering the government to let two board members return to work immediately.
Prosecutors have long spoken only through court filings, to investigate crimes, not people. That’s changing as President Trump demands his administration target enemies, with little evidence of criminality.Ed Martin, the head of the Justice Department’s “weaponization” group, recently said he planne
The Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the president.The Boeing 747-8 from Qatar at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida after President Trump took a tour of the plane in February.
Retaliatory taxes on foreign companies operating in the U.S. could open the door for a broader economic conflict.If Congress passes the sweeping tax legislation being pushed by Republicans, it is likely to become a more prominent source of tension between the United States and other nations.
A forgotten fitness pioneer built an empire on the idea of creating a space for everyday women. Her devotees are still sweating through workouts at a faded gym in Queens.Lucille Roberts at one of her gyms in the 1990s.
Thousands of people have paid for Dale Bredesen’s unconventional program to reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms. The medical establishment says there’s little to no proof it works.After Kerry Briggs, 64, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, she told her husband that she wanted to enroll in a clinical tr
The test may make it easier to identify whether people with memory and thinking problems have Alzheimer’s or not.
Claire Shipman, the university’s acting president, noted the absence of Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate who continues to be detained by immigration authorities.Claire Shipman spoke in favor of the rights of international students during Columbia’s main graduation ceremony on Wednesday.
Amid political attacks and funding cuts, some American students are changing their college and graduate school plans and heading to other countries.Heidi Gilman, a high school senior who had once planned to attend the University of California San Diego. Instead, she is heading to Trinity College Dub
At the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which relies heavily on federal support, a crisis response is underway and a reshaping of the institution feels inevitable.The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health receives 59 percent of its operating revenue from the federal government and other outsid
OpenAI said it was buying IO, a start-up founded by Mr. Ive, the designer of the iPhone, to usher in a new era of artificial intelligence hardware.Jony Ive, a former top executive at Apple, said that the goal with OpenAI was to create “amazing products that elevate humanity.”
A Microsoft model can make accurate 10-day forecasts quickly, an analysis found. And, it’s designed to predict more than weather.A storm approached Le Portel in northern France in 2023. It was one of the weather systems used to test Microsoft’s Aurora program.
Three days after Israel said it would relax its blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza, little, if any, of the urgently needed food, fuel and medicine appeared to have reached Palestinians.Displaced people at a charity food kitchen in Gaza City on Wednesday.
The event in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, came amid rising tensions between Israel and its foreign partners.Members of a diplomatic delegation from the European Union during a visit to the city of Jenin in the West Bank on Wednesday.
Calling the hunger crisis in the war-torn territory “heart-rending,” the pope used his first general audience to highlight the issue.Children waiting for a meal on Wednesday at a charity kitchen for displaced people in Gaza City.
In an effort to present Mr. Combs as the leader of a criminal enterprise, an investigator testified about the drugs, guns and other items found in his Florida mansion.
The village of Dolton, Ill., has stepped in to buy the modest house where Pope Leo XIV spent some of his childhood. It may also use eminent domain.Pope Leo XIV spent some of his childhood in this three-bedroom home in Dolton, Ill. The village is seeking to acquire the house.
The Portland area is a hot spot for vegans, who have the most environmentally friendly diets. It has also yielded a game-changing dessert.
