WASHINGTON (AP) – As President Donald Trump says he believes Iran wants to make a deal on its nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House on Wednesday with his own urgent message: Expand the talks further.
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. employers added a surprisingly strong 130,000 jobs last month, but government revisions cut 2024-2025 U.S. payrolls by hundreds of thousands. The unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, the Labor Department said Wednesday. The report included major revisions that reduced the number of jobs created last year to just 181,000.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The sudden and surprising airspace closure over El Paso, Texas, stemmed from the Pentagon’s plans to test a laser for use in shooting down drones used by Mexican drug cartels, according to three people familiar with the situation who were granted anonymity to share sensitive details.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) – Bangladeshis will cast ballots on Thursday in a crucial national election, the first since a mass uprising ended the 15-year rule of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Public expectation is running high that the vote could help reset democratic norms after more than a decade of disputed elections and shrinking political space.
LONDON (AP) – Keir Starmer fights another day. After indirect fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files sparked a dramatic day of crisis that threatened to topple him, the U.K. prime minister was saved by a pugnacious fightback and hesitation among his rivals inside the governing Labour Party about the consequences of a leadership coup.
The heads of the agencies carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda are testifying in Congress, parrying questions over how they are prosecuting immigration enforcement inside American cities. Todd Lyons was called to appear Tuesday before the House Committee on Homeland Security amid falling public support for immigration enforcement.
LONDON (AP) – In an earlier era, Britain’s royal family might have tried to bury the scandal surrounding Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Not during the reign of King Charles III. Since October, the king has stripped his younger brother of the right to be called prince and forced him to move out of the royal estate.
LONDON (AP) – Russia cannot launch an attack on NATO this year or next but is planning to increase its forces significantly along the alliance’s eastern flank, depending on the outcome of the war in Ukraine, a senior European intelligence official said.
HONG KONG (AP) – Nearly five years after Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Apple Daily shut down, its founder, Jimmy Lai, jailed, the newspaper’s former staff and readers are lamenting the loss of the city’s press freedoms. Lai, 78, was sentenced Monday under a Beijing-imposed national security law to 20 years in prison.
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