Belgium’s government summoned President Trump’s ambassador after he accused his host nation of antisemitism and criticized a Belgian official in social media posts. Bill White, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, was expected to meet on Tuesday with Belgian officials. The posts focused on an Antwerp investigation into

When Jesse Jackson ran for president in 1984 he was viewed as a protest candidate without the political infrastructure to mount a serious challenge. By 1988 he had spent years registering millions of new Black voters and built a multiracial Democratic coalition that included progressive white voters and people of

The Justice Department sued Harvard on Friday, accusing the university of failing to produce documents sought in an investigation into whether its admissions process discriminates against white applicants. The lawsuit is the second government action in two weeks after President Trump abruptly reversed his position on a potential deal with

When Boniface Mwangi had his phones returned after his arrest last July, he found one device was no longer password protected and could be opened without a code. The personal phone contained photos of family moments with his wife and children, and knowing its contents could be in government hands

President Trump promised during his campaign that he would end the war in Ukraine in one day. By most measures, the conflict has grown worse for Ukrainians since his return to the White House: more civilians were killed and injured in 2025 than the year before, city centers faced more

Carlos Roberto García, the former mayor of Mérida who fled Venezuela in 2017, has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a routine check-in at its Cincinnati office on Jan. 23. Mr. García and his family settled in the Cincinnati suburbs where he worked delivering packages and had been

The Rev. Jesse Jackson entered the national spotlight during the civil rights movement, ran for president twice and remained a controversial figure in public life. He died on Tuesday at 84. He came to wider national attention at the movement’s lowest moment: the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Dr.

Shortly after returning to office, President Trump proposed some of the steepest spending reductions in recent U.S. history, aiming to pare back core federal functions. Nearly a year later, Congress has rejected much of that vision, leaving many programs intact. Lawmakers preserved a wide set of domestic programs — in

The Rev. Jesse Jackson died on Tuesday. He was 84. His family said he "died peacefully" but did not give a cause. He had been hospitalized in November for treatment of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), the Rainbow PUSH Coalition said, and in 2017 he had announced that he

An Instagram account called "Puppet Regime" posts 90-second scripted satires that reimagine world leaders as felt puppets. One musical video opens with Vladimir Putin shirtless, wearing a silver cross and a Soviet ushanka, crooning, "Launch your special military Opa-op-op-operation! Not invasion of another sovereign nation!" Xi

Nuclear talks between the United States and Iran are set to resume Tuesday in Geneva, with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner expected to attend. President Trump said he would be involved "indirectly" and that the negotiations would be "very important." He has ordered a buildup of

President Trump said he will order the death penalty for those responsible if Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy Guthrie, is not returned alive and unharmed. During a brief chat on Monday he said Nancy’s suspected kidnappers would face "very, very severe" and "the most severe"

Families across Iran will mark the end of the traditional 40-day mourning period this week for those killed at the peak of a bloody crackdown from Jan. 8 to Jan. 10. How they observe those ceremonies will test both the reach of the state’s suppression and the opposition’s

Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles said that Casey Wasserman should resign as chairman of the 2028 Olympics after his name surfaced in the Epstein files. She told CNN that she "cannot fire him," noting only the nonprofit board that oversees the Olympics can replace him. Ms. Bass

The DHS is flooding social media companies with administrative subpoenas to identify accounts that are protesting ICE. Social media companies have pushed back but are largely complying. Our tech reporter, Sheera Frenkel, explains. United States ice, dhs, social media, administrative subpoenas, tech companies, protesters, identify accounts, pushback, compliance, sheera frenkel

In her first weeks as governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger moved quickly on several fronts, ending all cooperation agreements between state law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, signing a bill to put a proposed redistricting map to an April vote, and pressing five University of Virginia board

Judges are due to deliver a consequential verdict on insurrection charges against former president Yoon Suk Yeol, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty. The hearing will be held in courtroom 417 of Seoul central district court, the same room where the military dictator Chun Doo‑hwan was sentenced to death

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used a visit to the Munich Security Conference to press the argument that wealthy world leaders must better provide for their working classes or risk countries sliding toward authoritarianism, calling the conference "an elite place of decision makers that, frankly, are not responsive to a class-based

Many wealthy countries face a painful trade-off: more immigration would boost economies and shore up shrinking workforces, but the topic is politically charged. Spain, which has one of the lowest birthrates in Europe and a shrinking native-born workforce, said last month it would give hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants

At a City Council meeting in Frisco, Texas, speakers denounced the H-1B visa program as an “Indian takeover,” and one person said, “We must maintain our Rhodesia.” South Asian residents and city leaders pushed back; about one-third of Frisco’s population is of Asian heritage, and Mayor Jeff Cheney described

The number of children in federal immigration custody has risen sharply since family detention resumed under the Trump administration. Cases include a 7-year-old taken from a hospital emergency room and held in Texas for three weeks, a 5-year-old seized at a laundromat and flown to Texas, and a teenager who

Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised the personal ties between President Trump and Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a news conference in Budapest, saying the president was "deeply committed" to Orban's success and that "your success is our success." The meeting took place at

A federal judge on Monday ordered the administration to temporarily restore displays about George Washington’s ownership of enslaved people at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, granting a preliminary injunction to the City of Philadelphia against the Interior Department and the National Park Service. Park Service workers arrived

Senators Richard Blumenthal and Sheldon Whitehouse traveled to Kyiv to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky and press for a long-stalled sanctions bill aimed at crippling Russia’s energy-driven economy as the war enters a fifth year. Both senators expressed new confidence that the legislation could move forward, though it remained unclear

On Jan. 26, 2025, Jamieson Greer was teaching Sunday school to 9-year-olds when his phone began ringing with calls from the White House. Six days into the new administration, President Trump was threatening Colombia with tariffs, and Mr. Greer—then already advising the president—had been flying to Mar-a-Lago in