A Princeton University doctoral student who was kidnapped by a militia group in Iraq in 2023 and was held for more than 900 days has been released, President Trump announced Tuesday. Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli and Russian citizen whose sister is an American citizen, is now safe at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq after she
Sen. Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, will seek to block the Pentagon from offering full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, a member of the crowd that rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. File: U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) listens during a town hall at NOAH Cholla Health Center on March 17,
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will decide whether President Trump can impose his most sweeping tariffs, setting up a major test of one of the pillars of the president’s economic agenda. The high court agreed to review lower court decisions that found Mr. Trump did not have the authority to issue many
Washington — Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily halted a lower court order that blocked the Trump administration from freezing more than $4 billion in foreign-aid funding. The chief justice issued an administrative stay, which gives the Supreme Court more time to fully consider the government’s request for emergency relief. The Justice Department asked
3:40 PM Kennedy says he plans to change how vaccine injuries are reported In response to a question on vaccine injury reporting, Kennedy didn’t specify exactly how he plans to change how they’re currently investigated, but said “we’re changing the system.” While he called injuries caused by medications “rare,” he said those who suffer
6m ago Kennedy says administration will study potential “connection between overmedicating our kids” and gun violence The report didn’t cover violence and specifically gun violence, in children’s health and safety, as one reporter noted. Kennedy said the firearms question is a “complex question,” and the Trump administration is concerned with the “violence,” not the
Washington — The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a federal criminal charge against the man accused of the deadly stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month. The Justice Department announced that the suspect in the attack, Decarlos Brown Jr., is charged with one count of committing an act causing death