SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — President Trump is the true heir to Ronald Reagan when it comes to championing the former president’s policy of “peace through strength,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday. Mr. Hegseth, in a major speech to the Reagan National Defense Forum, also defended the Trump administration’s deadly missile strikes on alleged drug-trafficking […]
Waymo, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, is recalling the software of its self-driving vehicles after officials in Austin said the vehicles did not stop for school buses. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent a letter to Waymo Wednesday saying that its Office of Defects Investigation was starting a preliminary evaluation to “investigate […]
The Trump administration is bringing back dozens of Education Department staffers who were slated to be laid off, saying their help is needed to tackle a mounting backlog of discrimination complaints from students and families. The staffers had been on administrative leave while the department faced lawsuits challenging layoffs in the agency’s Office for Civil […]
A 3-year-old Indian boy is officially the 1,572nd-ranked player of rapid chess in the world, making him the youngest player ever ranked by the International Chess Federation. Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha has a 6-23 record in rapid chess games, according to the International Chess Federation website. Moves in rapid chess must be completed within 10 minutes […]
A U.S. Geological Survey alert system sent out an alert Thursday for a 5.9 earthquake in Nevada that didn’t actually occur. The fake earthquake was located near Carson City and Reno, near the state’s western border with California. Alerts were delivered to people in areas that would have been affected at 8:06 a.m., the Geological […]
NEW DELHI — Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday at an annual summit and agreed to diversify mutual economic ties, as the United States presses India to revise its decades-old partnership with Russia. The 23rd Russia-India Summit comes at a pivotal moment as the U.S. pushes for […]
A federal judge put a stop to the State Department’s plans to fire some employees, ruling late Thursday that the new stopgap spending law passed by Congress to end the shutdown last month prohibits any reductions in force. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, a Clinton appointee to the court in California, issued her ruling without […]
Homeland Security’s citizenship agency said Thursday it is slashing the standard validity period of work permits issued to migrants from 5 years to 18 months in many cases, saying the shorter times will give the government more opportunities to vet people. The move expands on changes ordered last summer by President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill […]
NEW YORK — The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, an icon of New York City’s holiday season, was lit up Wednesday night in midtown Manhattan as crowds of people wearing Santa hats and Christmas light necklaces cheered. This year’s towering evergreen is illuminated by more than 50,000 multicolored LED lights and topped by a Swarovski star […]
MEXICO CITY — Dozens of farmers drove their tractors in a caravan to Mexico City and blocked an entrance to Mexico’s Congress on Wednesday to protest a new national water law that imposes stricter controls on water use. The farmers amassed outside the congressional chamber to protest the General Water Law proposal, which they say […]
