Israel strikes Yemen’s port city in response to Houthi attack on Tel Aviv Airport
Israel struck back at the Houthis on Monday with strikes in Yemen a day after the terror group launched a missile that landed near Ben Gurion airport.
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Trump Meets With Freed Russian-American Ballerina
Trump welcomed a dual U.S.–Russian citizen whose freedom he secured in an exchange last month. A Russian American ballerina freed last month from a prison in Russia as part of a prisoner exchange, Ksenia Karelina, visited the White House on Monday and met with President Donald Trump. The 33-year-old dual citizen’s visit underscores the delicate
Trump bans federal funding for ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research
President Trump signs an executive order Monday banning all federal funding towards “dangerous" gain-of-function research in China, Iran and other countries, and blocking all federal funding for foreign research that could cause another pandemic.
Rwanda Has Entered Talks With US to Receive Deportees, Foreign Minister Says
The Trump administration has worked to expand its list of partner countries willing to receive illegal immigrants being deported from the United States. Rwanda has entered early talks on potentially taking in illegal immigrant deportees from the United States, Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe announced on May 4. “We are in discussions with the United
Popular GOP Gov Brian Kemp announces whether he’ll run for Senate in battleground Georgia
Two-term Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who was the GOP's top Senate recruit in battleground Georgia in next year's midterm elections, announced he is passing on launching a campaign.
‘Use a chair’: Jasmine Crockett invokes 2023 Montgomery brawl in college speech
Rep. Jasmine Crockett urged the graduating class at a historically Black college to claim their own seat at the table, while reminding students of the bystanders who rushed to defend a Black man in Montgomery in 2023 when he was attacked by a group of White boaters.
19 states sue over Trump administration’s mass HHS layoffs
Over a dozen states sued the Trump administration Monday for laying off thousands of Health and Human Services staffers, urging a court to reverse job cuts that they argue brought work at large swaths of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr.-led health agency to a “sudden halt.” The lawsuit — filed in Rhode Island federal court by