May 15 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday the scheduled opening of his planned ballroom would be around September 2028. “It’s under construction, ahead of schedule, and will be the finest facility of its kind anywhere in the U.S.A.,” he said in a post on Truth Social. Last week, Trump defended the …
MOSCOW, May 15 (Reuters) – Russia and Ukraine swapped 205 prisoners of war each on Friday, part of an agreement linked to a ceasefire earlier this month brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump. The Russian Defence Ministry said its servicemen were located in Belarus, where they were being provided with necessary support. The United Arab …
NEW YORK (AP) — Democratic leaders, desperate to compete in red states where their party brand is toxic, are embracing something new this midterm season: Not backing Democrats. In states like Nebraska, Idaho and Alaska, Democratic officials are, in some cases, looking past their own party’s candidates while subtly encouraging — or even openly promoting …
A pair of Senate Democrats is demanding answers from FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford on airplane evacuation testing that’s nearly two years overdue and his agency’s decision to allow airlines to be able to reduce the number of flight attendants on some long-haul widebody flights. They say their concern is that there may be more emergency …
NEW DELHI, May 15 (Reuters) – India issued a chair’s statement on Friday at the conclusion of the annual BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi instead of a joint statement and said there were differing views among some members on the situation in the Middle East. BRICS includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, …
DAKAR, May 15 (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda are heading for a diplomatic battle over the leadership of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF), with both fielding rival candidates as fighting grinds on in eastern Congo. Friday is the deadline to submit candidacies for the position of secretary general of the …
NEW YORK (AP) — Claudine Longet, the French singer and actor who was at the center of a highly publicized manslaughter trial after she was charged with the fatal shooting of her boyfriend, Olympic skier Vladimir “Spider” Sabich, has died at age 84. Longet’s nephew, Bryan Longet, announced her death in a social media post …
After steering the Federal Reserve through a series of major economic shocks, from the pandemic to the highest inflation in 40 years, Jerome Powell will leave a legacy defined by managing crisis and an unwavering defense of the central bank’s historical independence. As Powell steps down on Friday after eight years as Fed chair, more …
The Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to withhold approval of a new skin cancer treatment fell like a hammer on doctors who treat melanoma and patients who saw that the drug had prolonged the lives of a third of the participants in a clinical trial. “It was devastating news,” said Trisha Wise-Draper, a dermatologist …
The Preakness Stakes will feature its biggest field in 15 years Saturday with 14 horses in the middle jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown. After history was made earlier this month at the Kentucky Derbywhere the winning trainer was a woman for the first time, a different trainer could accomplish a similar feat at the …