Moscow and Beijing declared a "no limits partnership" weeks before Putin ordered Russia's Ukraine offensive in February 2022. The expanded military and trade ties since have troubled the West.
The freeze, which is expected to impact over $1 billion annually, will target research grants and will not affect Pell Grants or student loan funding.
President Trump on Sunday ordered the Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, which has been closed since the 1960s, but many X users are against the infamous prison's revival.
Australia's prime minister said Monday he held a "warm" conversation with Donald Trump, days after storming to an election victory partly shaped by voters' distrust of the US president.
Punishing US tariffs that have reached 145 percent on many Chinese products came into force in April while Beijing has responded with fresh 125 percent duties on imports from the United States.
The resolution failed in a 49-49 vote, largely due to the absence of two senators, including one Democrat.
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Tesla boss Elon Musk could stay working for the White House as long as he wanted but understood the tycoon wanted to get back to his businesses.
The United States and Ukraine on Wednesday signed a minerals deal after a two-month delay, in what President Donald Trump's administration called a new form of US commitment to Kyiv after the end of military aid.
Prime Minister Mark Carney won Canada's election Monday, local media projected, leading his Liberal Party to a new term in power after convincing voters his experience managing economic crises prepared him to confront US President Donald Trump.
Three months into Trump's second term, two-thirds of Americans believe Elon Musk has too much influence in federal affairs.
DEA officials reported that more than 200 people were inside the underground nightclub before the arrests began shortly before 4:00 a.m. local time. Among them, at least 114 were in the U.S. illegally.
ActBlue said it will pursue all legal options to protect and defend itself.
Internal DOJ documents confirmed that 365 competitive grants—valued at $811 million when awarded and to be paid out over three years—are being terminated.
The House Armed Services Committee is set to review its part of the Republicans' large policy package next week, once lawmakers return from their break. At that time, different committees will start working on their sections of the wide-ranging domestic legislation.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is under fire after he presented a restructuring plan that will eliminate some of the State Department's human rights offices and will implement layoffs across the agency.
"Probably in the next month, my time allocation to DOGE will drop significantly," Musk said at the outset of an earnings conference call, referring to his work for the "Department of Government Efficiency."
President Donald Trump stood behind his controversial Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth Monday despite a new scandal over his reported use of messaging app Signal to discuss US strikes on Yemen with his wife and others.
The move follows last week's suspension of $2.2 billion in multiyear grants and $60 million in contract funding after Harvard refused to comply with a series of policy demands issued by the administration.
South Korea's former president Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in court Monday for the second hearing of his criminal trial to defend himself against insurrection charges over his short-lived declaration of martial law.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States was in talks with China on tariffs, adding that he was confident the world's largest economies could make a deal to end a bitter trade war.
California filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to block Trump's broad tariffs on foreign trade partners, after he announced a 10% tariff on goods from all countries and even higher tariffs for nations his administration claimed made it difficult for U.S. products to enter their markets.
The expert, Daniel Berulis, claims that DOGE may also have removed sensitive data from the board without permission. His allegations were outlined in a sworn declaration submitted to members of Congress and a federal whistleblower office.
An internal memo shows that the White House Office of Management and Budget proposed reducing the combined budget of the State Department and USAID to $28.4 billion — a $27 billion cut from the amount approved by Congress for 2025.
The move came as Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency cut funding and laid off contractors across many federal agencies, claiming it was part of a plan to reduce wasteful spending.
The US President warned Sunday that no country would be "getting off the hook" on tariffs, as his administration suggested exemptions seen as favoring China would be short-lived. The world's two largest economies have been locked in a fast-moving, high-stakes game of brinkmanship since Trump launched a global tariff assault.
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to limit federal judges' power to oppose President Donald Trump's policies with injunctions, after the White House blasted such hurdles.
Harvard's borrowing plan follows a similar move by Princeton University, which announced on April 1 that it may issue about US$320 million in taxable bonds later this month. Princeton also revealed that the US government had frozen several research grants.
China vowed on Tuesday to "fight to the end" against fresh tariffs of 50 percent threatened by US President Donald Trump, further aggravating a trade war that has already wiped trillions off global markets.
Thousands protested in the South Korean capital Saturday in support of disgraced ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol, who was removed from office a day earlier over his bungled martial law declaration.
Haugh was not involved in the controversial Signal group chat about a military operation in Yemen, but testified last week before the House Intelligence Committee about the risks of using Signal for sensitive discussions.
