[ad_1] File photo: US defense secretary Pete Hegseth (Picture credit: AP) The US department of defense has begun implementing a directive to remove transgender troops from military service, following a green light from the Supreme Court earlier this week. US defense secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo on Thursday outlining that openly identifying transgender personnel […]
[ad_1] Even before the state trial began last month for the former police officers charged with fatally beating Tyre Nichols in Memphis, the defense notched an important victory. The officers’ lawyers persuaded the judge to seat a jury from the area around Chattanooga, Tenn., hundreds of miles from where surveillance and body cameras captured the […]
[ad_1] US president Donald Trump on Thursday named Fox News hostJeanine Pirro as the interim top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C., replacing his original pick, Ed Martin Jr., whose nomination faced heavy opposition. The announcement was made on Trump’s Truth Social account, where he praised Pirro as “incredibly well qualified” and “one of the top […]
[ad_1] Pentagon on Thursday announced it will start removing openly transgender service members from the US military, following the supreme court’s recent decision allowing enforcement of the Trump administration’s long-pending ban. Defence secretary Pete Hegseth issued the directive within hours of the ruling, saying that roughly 1,000 transgender personnel who have publicly identified will now […]
[ad_1] US president Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed a trade framework with the United Kingdom that reduces tariffs on autos and metals while keeping the baseline 10% tariff as it is. The announcement followed a phone call with UK prime minister Keir Starmer. Under the plan, US tariffs on British cars will drop from 27.5% […]
[ad_1] US president Donald Trump on Thursday called for a 30-day unconditional ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine shortly after his phone call with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said, “Talks with Russia/Ukraine continue. The US. calls for, ideally, a 30-day unconditional ceasefire.” . Zelensky earlier confirmed the call […]
[ad_1] Robert Francis Prevost, who was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday and took the name Pope Leo XIV, is the first pope from the United States. The decision from the 133 voting cardinals, which arrived in a plume of white smoke at the end of their second day of […]
[ad_1] Agatha Christie is dead. But Agatha Christie also just started teaching a writing class. “I must confess,” she says, in a cut-glass English accent, “that this is all rather new to me.” The literary legend, who died in 1976, has been tapped to teach a course with BBC Maestro, an online lecture series. Christie, […]
[ad_1] The Trump administration is expected to announce a significant reduction in tariffs on Chinese imports—possibly as early as next week—just as American and Chinese trade officials gather in Switzerland for key negotiations. Sources told The Post that current tariffs of 145% on Chinese goods could be lowered to between 50% and 54%, a rate […]
[ad_1] US president Donald Trump on Thursday congratulated Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on becoming Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Posting on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump described the event as a “great honour” for the United States and added, “What excitement, and what […]
