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President Trump on Thursday cut off talk during a press conference with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer about his desire to make Canada “the 51st state,” with Starmer insisting there is no daylight between the two leaders on top issues.
The White House quickly pushed back on any interpretation that Trump cut off Starmer, sharing on the social platform X, “Fake News. President Trump was clearly talking to the reporter trying to goad the leaders into division.”
A federal judge in San Francisco says the Trump administration's firing of thousands of probationary employees is illegal and should be stopped.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup says the U.S. Office of Personnel Management must rescind directives sent to some agencies ordering them to fire their probationary employees — typically those in their first or second year in a job.
The decision came at the end of a hearing on Thursday. His order covers the Veterans Affairs Department, the National Park Service, the Small Business Administration, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense and other agencies whose firings impact the civic groups that sued the Trump administration.e
Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa's deaths at their New Mexico home Wednesday are being described as "suspicious," according to a search warrant released Thursday.
In the filing, Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office Detective Roy Arndt says the couple were found in different rooms in their sprawling Santa Fe home, where the two-time Oscar winner, 95, retreated to for a lowkey life after leaving Hollywood.
Authorities found the actor was in a mudroom near his cane, appearing to have fallen, while wife Arakawa, 64, was found in an open bathroom near a space heater, according to the warrant.
An open prescription bottle and pills were scattered on the nearby countertop, the warrant says. A deputy observed Arakawa with "body decomposition, bloating in her face" and mummification of her hands and feet.
USAID employees clutching backpacks and wheeling suitcases full of their belongings trickled out of the now-shuttered agency's headquarters on Thursday morning after the Trump administration gave them 15 minutes to clear out.
Outside the building in downtown Washington, D.C., a line of demonstrators broke into applause and cheers as each employee left the building. Bouquets of flowers for employees stood nearby, alongside a sign reading, “You and your mission mattered!”
Ofri Bibas, sister of released hostage Yarden Bibas, slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, telling him to “shut up” after he repeatedly described the murders in captivity of Yarden’s wife Shiri and young sons Ariel and Kfir, against the wishes of the family.
She also took Israeli news outlets, social media users and public diplomats to task for what she said was a blatant violation of the wishes of the family.
Publishing such information over the family’s repeated requests was “abuse for its own sake of a family that has gone through 16 months of hell and still has the worst ahead,” wrote Ofri Bibas on Facebook, a day before the funeral of her nephews and sister-in-law.
TVNL Comment: Where in the US has Hamas' side of this tragedy been told? Where is evidence about these deaths? Why is it not possible that Israeli bombs killed them?
President Trump has shared an AI-generated video depicting his resort-like vision for the future of Gaza — featuring a gigantic golden statue of the president as well as images of him lounging topless poolside with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The 30-second clip, shared on Truth Social late Tuesday, opens by showing a blighted Gaza following 15 months of Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists — before asking, “What next?” in red, white and blue text.
Scenes of destruction morph into a sunny beach resort, as a lively dance track with the lyrics “Donald Trump will set you free, bringing the life for all to see, no more tunnels, no more fear, Trump Gaza is finally here” starts to play.
TVNL Comment: Genocide 101 explained. How ugly can these egoists get?
The US president said Washington would get “a lot of money” back from Ukraine under the deal, but warned that he would be providing minimal guarantees to Ukraine for security from future Russian aggression under any peace deal.
“I’m not going to make security guarantees beyond very much - we’re going to have Europe do that because we’re talking about Europe is their next door neighbour,” Mr Trump told reporters.
Mr Zelensky has said that a framework economic deal with the US is ready – but security guarantees that Kyiv views as vital remain to be decided.
Fired USAid employees and advocates for people with HIV staged a protest in a Capitol office building on Wednesday, warning that Donald Trump’s drive to dismantle the agency tasked with implementing Washington’s foreign aid agenda imperils the fight against the virus.
Wearing white T-shirts that read “Aids funding cuts kill” and chanting “Congress has blood on its hands, unfreeze aid now”, around three dozen protesters lay down in the rotunda of the Cannon House office building, home to the offices of representatives from both parties. Capitol police said about 20 arrests were made of demonstrators who defied their orders to disperse.
“What we are demanding of Congress is that they stop behaving like doormats in the face of this attack on humanitarian assistance that truly is highly effective and life-saving,” Asia Russell, executive director of Health Gap, a global advocacy group fighting against HIV, said prior to the protest.
The New York governor, Kathy Hochul ordered the City University of New York (Cuny) to immediately remove a job posting advertising a Palestinian studies professor role at the state university system’s Hunter College.
In the job listing, Hunter College wrote that the institution is seeking “a historically grounded scholar who takes a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine including but not limited to: settler colonialism, genocide, human rights, apartheid, migration, climate and infrastructure devastation, health, race, gender, and sexuality”.
It added that Hunter College is open to a “diverse theoretical and methodical approaches” to teaching the class.
A spokesperson for Hochul told the New York Post: “Governor Hochul has directed Cuny to immediately remove this job posting and conduct a thorough review of the position to ensure that antisemitic theories are not promoted in the classroom/”
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