President-elect Donald Trump has transferred his entire stake in Trump Media & Technology Group to a revocable trust, according to a Dec. 19 regulatory filing. The document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission described the transaction as a gift, with Trump receiving no money for the transfer of his nearly 115 million Trump Media […]

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued his first public statement on Monday following the abrupt collapse of his family’s 50-year rule in Syria, saying he left the country for Russia at Moscow’s insistence. “My departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur in the final hours of the battles,” Assad said in a […]

The United States has been in direct contact with Syrian rebel groups including Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which is now the country’s dominant force following the collapse of the long-ruling Assad regime, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday. This marks the first public confirmation of direct interaction between the United States and designated terror […]

Many New Yorkers would receive checks for up to $500 next year as part of the state’s new plan to ease the burden of inflation. The one-time payments, dubbed inflation refunds, would be $500 for families earning less than $300,000 annually and $300 for individuals earning under $150,000. The program is expected to cost the […]

France’s iconic Notre-Dame Cathedral is opening its doors to the public five years after a fire devastated the medieval landmark. The April 2019 blaze tore through the church, destroying its iconic spire and most of the roof in a few hours. Yet, amid the destruction, images from inside Notre-Dame underscored the resilience of the medieval […]

California health officials have issued a new warning after another batch of unpasteurized milk was found to have been contaminated with bird flu. The bird flu virus was detected in a second retail sample of “cream top” whole raw milk from Raw Farm LLC, the California Department of Public Health said in a notice on […]

Volkswagen said on Wednesday it would sell its operations in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, citing its need to maintain business competitiveness and emphasizing that the company is primarily geared toward manufacturing traditional gas-powered cars, a focus increasingly out of step with China’s rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). Volkswagen had a joint venture assembly plant […]

A cease-fire agreement to halt the fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah terrorist group is nearly final, according to Michael Herzog, Israel’s ambassador to the United States. “We are close to a deal,” Herzog said on Monday in an interview with Israel’s Army Radio, adding that there were still points that needed to be addressed. […]

Public schools in Texas now have the option to use a new elementary school curriculum with reading materials containing biblical stories. Eight of the 15 members of the Texas State Board of Education on Friday voted to give final approval to Bluebonnet Learning, placing it on the menu of curricula schools can choose from for […]

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Jessica Rosenworcel has announced she will leave the agency on the day of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Rosenworcel, a Democrat, joined the FCC in 2012. She was named permanent chair by President Joe Biden in October 2021, becoming the first woman to hold that position. “I want to thank President […]

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her government is ready to receive and support Mexican nationals deported from the United States if the incoming Trump administration follows through on its pledge of mass deportations. “In the event of deportations, we will receive Mexicans, and we have a plan for that,” Sheinbaum said Thursday at a press […]

Alex Jones is suing to block the sale of his Infowars media company to satirical newspaper The Onion, which emerged as the winning bidder in a bankruptcy auction last week. In a complaint filed late Monday night, the broadcaster asked a federal bankruptcy court in Texas to disqualify The Onion’s bid and instead recognize First […]

President-elect Donald Trump will announce his selections for his economic team next week, with two serious contenders emerging for the top treasury job, according to Corey Lewandowski, a senior adviser to the incoming president. “Next week is when the president’s team is scheduled to roll out the economic team that includes the national economic adviser, […]

Federal product-safety regulators have issued an urgent warning about adult portable bed rails, saying that those devices are linked to 18 cases of suffocation deaths since 2021. In the alert sent out on Thursday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said Medical King, based in Brooklyn, New York, is recalling about 220,000 adult portable […]

Satirical news site The Onion has won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars franchise at a bankruptcy auction. The sale price was not disclosed when The Onion’s CEO Ben Collins announced the acquisition on Thursday. He said the deal has the support of families of victims of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary […]

A former Ohio police officer was found guilty of murder for killing an unarmed man who emerged from a darkened garage while holding a cellphone and a large set of keys. Adam Coy, a 17-year veteran of the Columbus police force, shot Andre Hill four times while responding to a neighbor’s noise complaint on Dec. […]

Eight-foot-high metal security fencing was installed around key government sites in Washington over the weekend as authorities brace for potential unrest on or after Election Day. The fencing was erected around the White House, the Treasury Department building complex, adjacent parts of Lafayette Square, as well as outside of the Naval Observatory on Massachusetts Avenue, […]

A social media post by Tesla CEO Elon Musk warning employees that they could lose stock options if they unionize constitutes protected speech and does not have to be deleted, a divided federal appellate court ruled on Oct. 25. In a 9–8 ruling, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 2021 order from the […]

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is suing to halt Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaway to swing state voters. The suit, filed Monday in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia, accused the tech billionaire and his America PAC supporting former Prwsident Donald Trump’s candidacy of “running an illegal lottery in Philadelphia, as well as throughout Pennsylvania.” The […]

The U.S. Department of Education said on Oct. 25 that a new set of rules, if finalized, would cancel student loan debts for about 8 million borrowers facing “financially devastating hardships,” even as a court order blocks its implementation. The Education Department defines hardship as an event or situation “likely to impair the borrower’s ability to […]