Displaced Gaza residents carry food parcels as they raid trucks carrying humanitarian aid in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug. 9, 2025. AFP via Getty Food shortages in the Gaza Strip have reached the level of famine, according to a report from Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an independent group of
President Donald Trump holds a photograph he said was given to him as a gift by Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, on Aug. 22, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he will give Russia and Ukraine two weeks to hold talks aimed
Then-acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, announces charges against Ghislaine Maxwell during a press conference in New York City on July 2, 2020. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday released transcripts of interviews that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche conducted with Ghislaine Maxwell
President Donald Trump speaks during an event at the Kennedy Center in Washington, on Aug. 13, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images President Donald Trump said Friday that Chicago will be the next major U.S. city to face a crackdown on crime after deploying federal law enforcement officials and the National Guard to Washington. “After we do
Kilmar Abrego Garcia (C) leaves the Putnam County Jail in Cookeville, Tenn., on Aug, 22, 2025. AP Photo/Brett Carlsen Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a suspected gang member at the center of a high-profile deportation case, has been released from a jail in Tennessee. According to his attorney, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, Abrego Garcia has been reunited with his
A Democrat wears the donkey pin in Philadelphia on Sept. 21, 2018. Mark Makela/Getty Images Third Way—a moderate-leaning Democratic think-tank—is warning Democrats that the language they use could cost them persuadable voters, arguing that some commonly used phrases sound “extreme, divisive, and superior” rather than inclusive. In a statement, Third Way said the party cannot
A stone and brick sign at the entrance to George Mason University’s West Campus in Fairfax, Va., on Nov. 8, 2024. Shutterstock The federal government has cited another higher learning institution for Civil Rights violations. George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, illegally used race and “other immutable characteristics” in hiring and promoting employees, the Department