The logo of the Russian Sberbank Europe AG bank is seen on their headquarters in Vienna on Feb. 28, 2022. Leonhard Foeger/Reuters The United States has lifted sanctions on Alexandra Buriko, the former chief financial officer of Russia’s state-owned Sberbank, after her resignation in 2022 and demonstration that she no longer poses a threat as
The Department of Health and Human Services building in Washington on July 21, 2007. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that it is halting all funding for child care to Minnesota as federal investigations into alleged systemwide fraud continue to grow this week. “We have frozen all
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks in Tehran, Iran, on Sept. 16, 2024. Majid Saeedi/Getty Images The United States sanctioned 10 “entities and individuals” in Iran and Venezuela on Tuesday that support Iran’s drone trade and ballistic missile program, which threaten the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East, the Department of State announced. State
A special police member monitors a protest, while inside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) building in Washington on Feb. 8, 2025. Nathan Howard/File Photo/Reuters A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the White House cannot lapse its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a watchdog that has long drawn the ire of congressional
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attends a House Homeland Security hearing entitled “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland,” on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 11, 2025. Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security is seeking an emergency demolition of historic buildings in the nation’s capital. The Washington Post first reported this development, citing documents
U.S. Airmen prepare to load GBU-31 munitions onto F-15E Strike Eagles in support of Operation Hawkeye Strike, on Dec. 18, 2025. U.S. Air Force The United States and its partner forces have captured or killed nearly 25 operatives of the ISIS terrorist group since a large-scale strike in mid-December, the U.S. military said on Dec.
The University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Va., on Oct. 12, 2022. Daxia Rojas/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) is challenging a Virginia law that allows in-state college tuition rates for students regardless of their immigration status, marking the latest in a series of federal lawsuits targeting similar college access policies. At