President Donald Trump’s newly announced tariffs on goods from Colombia could drive up the price of some items Americans buy every day. Trump said in a social media post Sunday that he would immediately impose a blanket 25% tariff on all goods coming into the U.S. from Colombia, among other sanctions. The announcement came after Colombia rebuffed a U.S....
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Qatar announced early Monday that an agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza, easing the first major crisis of the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The statement from Qatar, a mediator in ceasefire talks, said Hamas will hand...
The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat yet another term on top of his three decades in power. “Needed!” the posters proclaim beneath a photo of Lukashenko, his hands clasped together. The phrase is what groups...
Colombia has denied entry to two U.S. military deportation flights, according to officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the Defense Department. The flights, carried out on U.S. military C-17 aircraft, were carrying about 80 Colombian migrants each and had departed from California, the defense official told NBC News. Initially cleared for landing, the...
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Sunday blasted President Donald Trump for his decision to fire 18 inspectors general late Friday night and accused the president of breaking the law. “To write off this clear violation of law by saying, ‘Well,’ that ‘technically, he broke law.’ Yeah, he broke the law,” Schiff told NBC News’ “Meet...
LOS ANGELES — As the charred hills of the Pacific Palisades continue to smolder and rainstorms approach, investigators are racing to uncover the origins of the devastating Jan. 7 fire that claimed 11 lives and destroyed more than 6,800 structures. Covering up to 10 miles of terrain each day, they have amassed more than 235...
Israeli forces killed 15 people in south Lebanon on Sunday as a deadline for their withdrawal passed and thousands of people tried to return to their homes in defiance of Israeli military orders, Lebanese authorities said. Israel said Friday it would keep troops in the south beyond the Sunday deadline set out in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire...
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has asked the King of Jordan to take in more Palestinians, adding that Palestinians should leave the Gaza Strip to “clean out” the enclave. The president’s comments, which key figures from Israel’s far-right have taken as a boost, came as thousands of Palestinians waited to return to their...
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday said that he believes it was “a mistake” for President Donald Trump to pardon those who were convicted of violent crimes or pled guilty to committing violent crimes during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. “Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a...
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday urged his congressional Republican colleagues to prioritize sending more money to the Trump administration to help the president with his mass deportation plan. “Here’s the question for the Republican Party. We talk about doing this, but we don’t have the resources. We haven’t given the Trump team the resources,”...