No gas leak found at Hackman home, cause of death under investigation

The sheriff's office applied for a search warrant on Wednesday evening, telling the judge the deaths were "suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation." Tap for the f...

Mattis, other former defense secretaries warn purge of top brass is reckless

Five former U.S. defense secretaries on Thursday condemned President Donald Trump's "reckless" firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior officers and called on Congress t...

Senators ask Air Force nominee to respond to allegations of favoring Musk's SpaceX

Two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday asked President Donald Trump's Air Force secretary nominee whether he unfairly favored Elon Musk in a classified, multibillion-dollar ...

SDF chief says PKK disarmament call “not related to us in Syria”

The commander of the Kurdish-led forces that control northeastern Syria said that a call by the leader of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey for the PKK to dissolve did not apply ...

Bosnian Serb region bars national authorities from territory in separatist move

Bosnia's autonomous Serb region passed legislation barring the national police and judiciary from its territory after a court banned its separatist leader Milorad Dodik from politics for six years ...

Suicide bombing at Pakistan Islamic seminary kills six, including Taliban-linked cleric

A suicide bomber killed six worshippers during Friday prayers at an Islamic seminary in northwestern Pakistan known as a historic training ground for the Afghan Taliban, police and a government spo...

Romania investigates mercenary linked to presidential candidate after guns and cash haul

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US judge halts White House calls for mass firings at federal agencies

A California federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ordering the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal agencies to carry out the mass firings of thousands of recentl...

Israel lobbies US to keep Russian bases in a “weak” Syria, sources say

Israel is lobbying the United States to keep Syria weak and decentralized, including by letting Russia keep its military bases there — to counter Turkey's growing influence in the country, four sou...

Analysis: POTUS wants to deport foreign students involved in pro-Palestine protests

In January, President Trump signed executive orders targeting foreign students involved in pro-Palestinian campus protests, citing antisemitism, a move welcomed by Zionist groups. Tap for the full ...

Jailed Kurdish PKK militant leader calls for end to conflict with Turkey

Turkey's jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to disarm and disband Thursday — a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Ankara and have politica...

Hamas says it's ready for more ceasefire talks after releasing hostage remains

Militant group Hamas said on Thursday it was ready to begin talks on the second phase of a ceasefire in Gaza after several hundred Palestinians were released from Israeli jails overnight in return ...

Over 1,000 Syrians died in airport prison under Assad, report says

More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or maltreatment at a site that was widely feared, according to a report to...

White House confirms Zelenskiy visit to sign Ukraine minerals deal

U.S. President Donald Trump said Volodymyr Zelenskiy would visit Washington on Friday to sign an agreement on rare earth minerals, while the Ukrainian leader said the success of the deal would hing...

Transgender US service members to be removed from military, Pentagon memo shows

Transgender service members will be separated from the U.S. military unless they receive an exemption, according to a Pentagon memo filed in court on Wednesday, essentially banning them from joinin...