US POLITICS
Tensions escalated in Los Angeles on Sunday as thousands of protesters took to the streets in response to US President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard. They blocked a main road and set fire to unmanned vehicles, while…
“Happy Endings,” a romantic comedy about a pair of androids who fall in love, may have won the Tony Award for best new musical on Sunday. Its star, Darren Criss, had just won the award for best actor in a…
US President Donald Trump has said he does not want to repair his relationship with Elon Musk and warned that his former ally and campaign donor could face “serious consequences” if he tries to help Democrats in the upcoming election.…
Donald Trump said on Saturday there would be “serious consequences” if Elon Musk financed US Democrats running against Republicans who vote for the president’s massive tax and spending cuts bill, and that his relationship with his billionaire backer was over.…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said people in Scotland had “voted for change” after his party’s surprise by-election victory. Mr Starmer congratulated Labour’s Davie Russell on being elected as the new Member of Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Hamilton and looked…
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said his meeting with President Donald Trump had convinced him that the US administration was open to discussing key issues. Mr. Merz described his Oval Office meeting and extended lunch with Mr. Trump on Thursday as…
A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s order banning foreign students from entering the United States to study at Harvard University. Mr. Trump’s announcement on Wednesday was the latest attempt by his administration to block the nation’s oldest…
The European Central Bank cut interest rates as expected on Thursday and kept all options on the agenda for its next meeting, even as pressure grows for a summer pause in its annual easing cycle. Since June last year, the…
The National Museum of the Netherlands has a new exhibit that combines art with Amsterdam’s infamous Red Light District: a nearly 200-year-old condom decorated with erotic art. The Rijksmuseum said in a statement that the playful prophylactic, believed to have…
Search teams have been spotted draining a well and clearing areas of thick vegetation near abandoned buildings as the search for Madeleine McCann in Portugal continues. German investigators, along with Portuguese police and firefighters, are working in an undeveloped area…
Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer said Sunday he does not plan to testify at his sex crimes retrial in New York. This means that a jury will soon get a case against a former film studio executive who initiated the #MeToo movement…
Exit polls in the second round of Poland’s presidential election show the two candidates statistically tied, but the race is still too tight to draw conclusions from a deeply divided country. The results could determine the course of the country’s…