Nick Thorpe Central Europe Correspondent Reporting fromGraz, Austria Watch: Tearful Graz residents light candles at Austrian school shooting vigil Austria has held a minute of silence for 10 people killed in a school shooting, after thousands gathered for a candlelight vigil for the victims on Tuesday evening. Police said the 21-year-old suspect, a former student, […]
Republican Senate leaders met with President Donald Trump to discuss Trump’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” on June 4. Majority Leader Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. (center), speaks alongside Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., (left) and Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, outside of the West Wing of the White House. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty […]
Soutik Biswas & Ishleen Kaur BBC Eye Investigations BBC Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead in a hail of bullets in 2022 It was a killing that shocked India: Punjabi hip-hop star Sidhu Moose Wala shot dead through the windscreen of his car by hired gunmen. Within hours, a Punjabi gangster named Goldy Brar had […]
A nighttime curfew was in force in Los Angeles as local officials sought to get a handle on protests that United States President Donald Trump claimed were an invasion by a “foreign enemy”. “I have declared a local emergency and issued a curfew for central Los Angeles to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting,” […]
A federal appeals court agreed on Tuesday to allow President Trump to maintain many of his tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners, extending a pause granted shortly after another panel of judges ruled in late May that the import taxes were illegal. The decision, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal […]
The United States and China, trying to ease economic tensions between the superpowers, agreed to a “framework” for extending a trade truce that they reached last month, officials from both countries said on Tuesday. After two days of marathon negotiations in London, top economic officials from the United States and China are now expected to […]
Newsportu’s Juana Summers talks with Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., about the protests in his state and the federal government’s decision to send in the National Guard. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Today is the fourth day of demonstrations in Los Angeles after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted raids there on Friday. Since then, there have been […]
Family photo Matthew’s father, pictured as a baby in the late 1940s Matthew’s dad had brown eyes and black hair. His grandparents had piercing blue eyes. There was a running joke in his family that “dad looked nothing like his parents”, the teacher from southern England says. It turned out there was a very good […]
Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, was surprised when a team of Newsportu journalists asked to talk. “If you told me I’d be on Newsportu and in a political leaning podcast like five years ago, I’d be like: You’re crazy,” he said during a conversation in a podcast studio near his home in Miami. […]
The NHS has warned that it continues to face a “challenging” blood shortage, as it calls for 200,000 new donors to come forward. Concern over blood stocks prompted the health service to issue an “amber alert” last year, meaning supplies were running low enough to have an impact on patient treatment. Supplies have remained low […]