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Trinidad and Tobago's government has received House of Representatives approval to extend a state of emergency for three months, as the twin-island Caribbean nation struggles with a high level of crime. The two motions to extend the measure, which grants the government additional powers, including to make arrests and conduct searches without warrants, were approved in a 26-12 vote late Friday. There were no abstentions. Trinidad and Tobago has spent roughly 10 of the last 14 months under an emergency. The state of emergency has an initial duration of

Trinidad and Tobago extends state of emergency for 3 months over crime

WNBA, players union meet for 5th straight day trying to get CBA deal to avoid any season disruptions

Burt Jones was the inevitable Republican nominee for Georgia governor. Then Rick Jackson showed up

A seat at the table, but no vote yet for a Democratic lawmaker in the Kennedy Center board showdown

A federal judge ruled on Saturday that a Democratic lawmaker is entitled to participate in a Kennedy Center board meeting to discuss President Donald Trump's plan to close the performing arts center for two years of renovations. But the judge is not forcing the board to let Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty, an ex officio member through her position in Congress, vote at Monday's session. She sued to preclude the Trump administration from excluding her from the meeting where board members are expected to decide whether to approve the Republican president's proposal to shutter

Feds move to dismiss charges against Army veteran who burned American flag near White House

Kat Abughazaleh knows how to create viral moments. Can she translate that into votes?

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What we know on the 15th day of the US and Israel’s war with Iran

Iran’s military warned Saturday it could target ports and docks in the United Arab Emirates in retaliation for a US strike on the critical Iranian oil export hub of Kharg Island, an attack that analysts cautioned further escalates the war.Plumes of smoke were later seen rising from a major oil hub in the United Arab Emirates after a drone attack and fire.The strikes on Kharg Island, which a US official said avoided hitting vital oil infrastructure, comes as the economic fallout over the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz continues to grow, the Pentagon announced it is deploying a rapi

What to know about Kharg Island, the tiny coral outcrop at the heart of Iran’s oil industry

Trump seeks to close $1.6 trillion revenue gap with raft of new tariffs

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The White House wants to build an underground center to provide security screening for visitors

The White House wants to build an underground center to provide security screening for visitors, the latest step in the Trump administration’s plan to overhaul the grounds. Plans, including renderings of the 33,000-square-foot (3,066-square-meter) center, were included in the preliminary agenda released on Friday for the April meeting of a federal commission that approves construction on federal land in Washington. The screening facility would be built beneath Sherman Park, which is located southeast of the White House and directly south of the Treasury building.

Ric Grenell took a ‘sledgehammer’ to the Kennedy Center. Trump still soured on him

President Donald Trump is replacing Richard Grenell as head of the Kennedy Center, he announced on Friday.Trump posted on Truth Social that Grenell would be replaced by Matt Floca, the arts center’s current vice president of facilities operations.The move comes as the arts and culture institution, which now bears Trump’s name on its facade, is expected to close for two years for renovations as the president seeks to remold it in his image.Grenell’s tenure as interim president of the Kennedy Center since February 2025 has been marked by tumult, plagued by high-profile performance cancella

Key inflation gauge worsened in January, before Iran war lifted gas prices

A truck rammed a Michigan synagogue with more than a hundred children inside. Here’s what we know

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Trump ally Ric Grenell stepping down as Kennedy Center president

Richard Grenell, an ally of President Donald Trump who oversaw far reaching changes at the Kennedy Center that prompted many artists to abandon the iconic performing arts venue, will step down as the institution's president. Trump announced the change in a social media post on Friday after it was first reported by Axios. The president said Matt Floca, who manages the Kennedy Center's facilities operations, will succeed Grenell. The moves are expected to be finalized at a board meeting scheduled for Monday at the White House, according to a person familiar with the matter who req

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Male shoe anxiety hits the Oval Office

Across medieval Europe, aristocrats repeatedly set off fashion fads and scandals by wearing poulaines, shoes whose flamboyantly elongated pointed toes could stretch far beyond the natural length of their feet. In President Donald Trump’s Oval Office, a different stylistic choice caught the public’s eye this week: Photos of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance show them wearing black dress shoes with visible gaps between the shoe’s collar and the wearer’s foot, leaving the ankle to dangle loose in the opening like the clapper in a bell.President Donald Trump has ta

Federal judge quashes Justice Department subpoenas of Fed Chair Jerome Powell

Case against man prosecutors say sold gun to Old Dominion shooter provides new details on the attack

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Italy ruling tells millions with Italian roots they have lost the right to citizenship

Since Italy became a country in 1861, there has been a surefire way to know who is and isn’t an Italian citizen: look at their parents.The first page of the civil code, published in 1865 as the rulebook to Europe’s newest country, declared that a child born to an Italian citizen was an Italian citizen.This founding tenet of the Bel Paese now looks set to change — ending diaspora dreams of returning to the mother country, and meaning that Italians who move abroad risk denying citizenship to their descendants.On Thursday the Constitutional Court said it would rule in favor of the governm

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Explosion rocks Amsterdam Jewish school in what mayor says is ‘targeted attack’ against Jewish community

An explosion struck overnight at a Jewish school in Amsterdam in what the city’s mayor called a “targeted attack against the Jewish community.”The blast hit the outer wall of the school, located in Buitenveldert, considered the city’s modern Jewish quarter and home to synagogues, religious schools and Jewish restaurants.Police have obtained images of the person who allegedly detonated the bomb, the City of Amsterdam told CNN in a statement.“This is a cowardly act of aggression towards the Jewish community,” Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said.Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten said “

After their synagogue is attacked, a tight-knit Jewish community vows to keep coming together

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Out of the frying pan? Noma’s Rene Redzepi resigns, and fine dining confronts 'brigade' culture

Chef Gordon Ramsay yells at people. His mentor was known for throwing pans and plates. That chef, London's Marco Pierre White, titled his own memoir “The Devil in the Kitchen” — in part for the punishments he meted out to his chefs. “If you don’t fear the boss, you’ll take shortcuts, you’ll turn up late,” White wrote, saying his kitchen staff at Harveys accepted that. “They were all pain junkies, they had to be. They couldn’t get enough of the bollockings." No more. The public downfall this week of Denmark's Rene Redzepi, arguabl

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Tehran says the US attacked it from the UAE as Iran war enters its third week

Iran issued an evacuation warning for three major ports in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday, including the busiest in the Middle East, openly threatening a neighboring country's non-U.S. assets for the first time as its war with the U.S. and Israel entered its third week. Iran said the U.S. had used “ports, docks and hideouts” in the UAE to launch strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island, without providing evidence. It urged people to evacuate areas where it said U.S. forces were sheltering. Hours after the threat, there was no sign of an attack on Dubai’s Jebel