Category: Breaking News

One of basketball’s biggest stars had a big shock, North Korea reopened to tourism with an unusual itinerary, and the Super Bowl’s end zone will look a little different. Test your knowledge of the week in news, and take last week’s quiz here.

USAID has been a major funder of support for Palestinians in both Gaza and the occupied West Bank. In a November news release, the agency said it had invested over $600 million in economic support funding for Palestinians since 2021. This was in addition to over $1.2 billion dedicated to humanitarian assistance for Palestinians since...

Republicans managed to flip the Virginia governorship in 2021 largely on an education platform, focusing on parents’ concerns over peak-pandemic public school closings and race-based curricula. Four years later, the party is aiming to retool its “parents’ rights” campaign in its bid to hold on to the office in the blue-leaning state in a post-Covid...

The Super Bowl is the biggest sports betting event of the year, with more than $1.3 billion expected to be legally wagered in the 38 states that offer it and Washington, D.C. While betting on the spread between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles is enticing enough, there are dozens of other options...

Share Three Israeli hostages to be released today, Hamas says Three Israeli hostages will be freed today, a spokesperson for Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, said yesterday. Abu Obeida said on Telegram that Eli Sharabi, 52, Or Levy, 34, and Ohad Ben Ami, 56, would be released in exchanged for Palestinian prisoners. Ben Ami...

President Donald Trump dismissed the head of the National Archives, a White House official said Friday night, following through on a vow last month to change the leadership atop the agency, which was involved in the criminal case that had accused Trump of mishandling classified documents. White House director of presidential personnel Sergio Gor said...

A group of demonstrators wearing black clothing, some holding Nazi flags with swastikas, quickly left a Cincinnati-area overpass when they were confronted by residents Friday, video shows. Coverage from NBC affiliate WLWT of Cincinnati includes video of people walking up to the demonstrators, with police officers between them. The group of more than a dozen...

New York Attorney General Letitia James and 18 other state attorneys general sued President Donald Trump’s administration Friday in an effort to stop Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing personal data housed in the Treasury Department. In the lawsuit, James pointed to DOGE’s access to the Treasury Department’s central payment system and sensitive...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was moving to “immediately” cut off former President Joe Biden’s access to intelligence information. “There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information,” Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social. “Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden’s Security Clearances, and...

Army officials are considering changing the name of Fort Liberty in North Carolina back to Fort Bragg, according to two people familiar with the conversations.  In 2021, Congress established a commission tasked with renaming Department of Defense properties that were named after Confederate leaders. Then-President Donald Trump vetoed the bill, arguing against changing any of the...