Oil Sanctions ‘Starving Putin’s War Machine’: Treasury Department

This photograph shows the Lukoil logo on a fuel storage tank at Rosenets Port terminal on the Black Sea coast near the city of Burgas, Bulgaria, on Nov. 14, 2025. Nikolay Doychinov/AFP WASHINGTON—Sanctions imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump in October against two Russian oil companies are “having their intended effect” on the country’s oil

Trump says MBS “knew nothing” about journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing

Washington — President Trump said Tuesday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, “knew nothing” about the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, despite a 2021 intelligence report finding bin Salman ordered the killing. “You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial,” Mr. Trump said about Khashoggi in response to a question from

VA: Backlog of Veterans Waiting for VA Benefits Reduced by 57%

A homeless man stands near a Veterans Affairs medical center in Los Angeles on July 14, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced on Nov. 18 that the backlog of Veterans waiting for compensation and pension benefits has dropped by more than 57 percent since President Donald Trump took office

U.S. citizen explains why she closed her bakery amid immigration crackdown

Cristina Rojas, who became a U.S. citizen in March, says she has temporarily closed The Batchmaker, the bakery she owns in Charlotte, North Carolina, fearing for her community’s safety amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.  “I became a citizen but I don’t stop being Honduran. I don’t stop being Hispanic,” Rojas told CBS News. “The