The high court has declined to hear a bid to block a project that Indigenous groups say would destroy a site of religious significance. The United States Supreme Court has declined to weigh a bid from a Native American advocacy group to block the construction of a large copper mine on land that many Apache […]
Paul Glynn Culture reporter Getty Images There were big wins for Billie Eilish, Beyoncé, Eminem and Sir Rod Stewart at the American Music Awards (AMAs). Monday’s event in Las Vegas was hosted – and in some ways dominated – by the evening’s host, singer and actress Jennifer Lopez. There were also peformances from stars including […]
The BBC has been given rare access to an operation by French troops, part of the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon known as Unifil, as they search for positions that were used by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah to carry out attacks against Israel. Under a ceasefire reached six months ago that ended more than […]
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building […]
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has urged doctors in England to “vote no” in a ballot on industrial action which gets under way on Tuesday. In a BBC interview, he urged resident doctors, the new name for junior doctors, to “work with the government” and warned strikes risked hampering the progress being made in the NHS. […]
Iraq war veteran Irving Webb moves his belongings as sanitation workers clear the sidewalk, where he spent some nights in April, outside the Los Angeles VA campus. Quil Lawrence/Newsportu hide caption toggle caption Quil Lawrence/Newsportu On a cool weekday morning last month, just steps away from some of California’s fanciest boutiques and bistros, Irving Webb […]
US president continues to fuel global economic uncertainty with erratic trade policy. United States President Donald Trump has backed away from launching a trade war with the European Union, two days after threatening to impose punishing tariffs. Trump said on Sunday that he has agreed to extend trade negotiations with the EU to July 9 […]
Joseph Neumeyer, who is also a German citizen, approached the building on May 19 with Molotov cocktails, officials say. A dual United States and German citizen has been arrested on charges that he travelled to Israel and attempted to firebomb the branch office of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, federal prosecutors in New York […]
Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington DC Getty Images Thousands of civilians have been killed by armed militias in recent years, the UN says A man slept outside in a car park overnight in Kenya with his wife and infant son in January, consumed by confusion and disbelief. The family, refugees from the Democratic Republic of […]
PSNI Bernadette ‘Bernie’ Cranley died as the result of a crash close to the entrance of the Ulster American Folk Park on Saturday An 82-year-old woman has died after a crash on the A5 in County Tyrone. She was Bernadette Cranley, known as Bernie, from Lifford in County Donegal. The car she was driving was […]