President Donald Trump’s effort to remove the head of a federal watchdog agency was “unlawful,” a federal judge in Washington, D.C., said Saturday. The ruling sidelines Trump’s bid to remove Hampton Dellinger as the head of the Office of Special Counsel and is likely to set up a Supreme Court fight. “The Special Counsel’s job...
WASHINGTON — The Washington Commanders have acquired wide receiver Deebo Samuel from the San Francisco 49ers for a fifth-round pick, pending a physical, according to a person with knowledge of the trade. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Saturday because the trade cannot be official until the start of the...
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending more than 2,000 additional active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as President Donald Trump seeks to clamp down on illegal immigration and fulfill a central promise of his campaign, U.S. officials said Saturday. His defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has ordered elements of a Stryker brigade combat team and a general support aviation battalion for...
Immigrant rights groups sued the Trump administration on Saturday in hopes of stopping the transfer of immigrants from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay, according to the suit filed by multiple legal advocacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union. The legal groups filed the lawsuit in Washington, D.C., federal court on behalf of 10 migrants...
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, on Saturday announced that he’ll run to be the next mayor of New York City. Cuomo has been teasing a campaign launch for weeks, jumping back into politics just four years after he resigned from his role as governor following multiple allegations of sexual harrasment. “We know...
LONDON — The “wanted” posters were sent by mail, arriving at the homes of Carmen Lau’s neighbors in the town of Maidenhead. The alleged crime? Speaking out about China’s rule in Hong Kong, where Lau has not lived since 2021. Provide information about Lau to the Hong Kong Police Force, urged the poster, folded into...
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President Donald Trump said on Friday he would pardon baseball great Pete Rose, criticizing Major League Baseball for barring the all-time hit champion from the sport’s hall of fame for gambling. Rose, who died last year at 83, was banned from baseball for life. He admitted in 2004 that he had bet on games, though never against...
A FedEx cargo plane traveling from Newark to Indianapolis struck a bird during takeoff Saturday morning, according to officials. FedEx Flight 3609 struck the bird while departing, damaging one of the Boeing 767’s engines, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. Video circulating on X appeared to show the plane on fire while in...
LONDON — Volodymyr Zelenskyy was meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday, as European leaders grappled with the fallout from the Ukrainian president’s extraordinary on-air shouting match with Donald Trump. European leaders were already set to meet on Sunday at an emergency summit to discuss Russia and a peace plan for Ukraine. Britain’s...