CP WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Tulsi Gabbard’s deputy, Aaron Lukas, would become the acting director of national intelligence after she leaves the administration on June 30. “Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her,” Trump said in a Truth Social post in which he …
May 22 (Reuters) – A lawyer for Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil vowed on Friday to take his case to the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court declined to reconsider a ruling that opened the door to President Donald Trump’s administration re-arresting and deporting the pro-Palestinian activist. The Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court …
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would not attend the wedding of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., to Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson, because he has to stay in Washington for government business. “While I very much wanted to be with my son, Don Jr., and the …
Judge, who was born into slavery on George Washington’s plantation, was 22 years old when she slipped away from the president’s official residence in Philadelphia on May 21, 1796. She hid on a boat that carried her to New Hampshire, where she later married and had three children. May 21st has been officially declared Ona …
By David Shepardson and David Lawder MANASSAS, Virginia, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Friday there were no imminent new U.S. tariffs expected to be imposed on semiconductors, but that it was important to protect the sector with duties to facilitate reshoring of chip production. Greer, speaking at a Micron …
May 23 (Reuters) – Uganda said on Saturday that three new Ebola cases had been confirmed there, taking the total of confirmed cases to five. The new cases include a Ugandan driver who transported the country’s first confirmed case as well as a health worker who was exposed to the virus while taking care of …
May 23 (Reuters) – The death toll from a drone strike on a student dorm in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine has risen to 10 from six, a Russian-installed official said on Saturday. Russia on Friday accused Ukraine of what it described as a deliberate drone strike in the town of Starobilsk with …
TAIPEI, May 23 (Reuters) – Hundreds of people rallied in central Taipei on Saturday in support of government plans to increase defence spending, after the opposition controlled parliament approved only two-thirds of the $40 billion President Lai Ching-te had requested. Lai wanted the supplementary defence budget approved, including money for U.S. arms but also for …
MANASSAS, Virginia, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Friday that the first round of formal negotiations to update the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement next week in Mexico City will focus on strengthening regional rules of origin and economic security provisions. He told reporters at a Micron Technology memory chip plant in …
ISTANBUL, May 23 (Reuters) – Turkish police detained 13 people under an investigation into a 2023 congress of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), state media said on Saturday, after a court ruling this week ousted the party’s leader Ozgur Ozel, inflaming a political crisis. A Turkish appeals court on Thursday annulled the congress, …