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Mamdani appointee resigns after her decade-old antisemitic social media posts resurface

6:48 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

One of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s appointees has resigned over social media posts she made more than a decade ago that featured antisemitic tropes

Brazil's lower house removes Bolsonaro's son and former intelligence agency head from their seats

6:48 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

Brazil’s lower house speaker Hugo Motta has decided to remove two lawmakers close to former President Jair Bolsonaro from their seats in the latest blow to the far-right leader serving a 27-year jail sentence for leading a coup attempt

Supporters of the party LIBRE, Liberty and Refoundation, protest the general election results in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Honduras starts special count of final votes in its presidential election after pressure from the US

6:28 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

Honduras electoral officials have launched a special count of the final set of votes in the country’s November presidential election, after three weeks of uncertainty, swirling accusations and pressure from the Trump administration to wrap up the results

FILE - Barham Salih, President of Iraq addresses the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, on Sept. 23, 2021. (Timothy A. Clary/Pool Photo via AP, File)

UN elects former Iraqi President Barham Salih as head of refugee agency

6:02 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

The United Nations General Assembly has approved former Iraqi President Barham Salih as the next head of the U.N. refugee agency, its first from the Middle East since the late 1970s

TikTok signs deal to sell US unit to American investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake

5:44 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

TikTok signs deal to sell US unit to American investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake

FILE - A medical marijuana plant grows at CRC on July 23, 2024, in Pike County, Ala. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File)

What to know about Trump's order seeking to relax federal drug policies for marijuana

5:37 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

President Donald Trump has directed his administration to pursue reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug

Federal judge denies request to close Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz'

4:48 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

A federal judge has denied a request to close an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

EU delays massive free-trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur, European Commission says

4:35 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

EU delays massive free-trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur, European Commission says

Miami mayor-elect Eileen Higgins speaks at her campaign headquarters Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Democrat Eileen Higgins sworn in as Miami's first female mayor after 30 years of GOP control

4:34 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

Eileen Higgins has been sworn in as Miami's first female mayor, taking office two weeks after defeating a Trump-endorsed Republican

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., meets with reporters as Republicans struggle with a plan to address growing health care costs, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Speaker Johnson was ready to move on from ACA subsidies. But his members had other plans

4:01 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

Speaker Mike Johnson has stayed on message that a Republican health care package will help all Americans and not just those on Affordable Care Act plans

FILE - The Miami-Dade College parking lot, the area where Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing to establish President Donald Trump's presidential library, is seen next to the Freedom Tower, left, on Sept. 23, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)

Judge dismisses complaint against Miami land transfer for Trump’s presidential library

3:50 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

A judge in Miami has dismissed a complaint challenging a college’s decision to gift prime downtown real estate for President Donald Trump’s future presidential library

President Donald Trump speaks during an address to the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Trump's new $1,776 ‘Warrior Dividend’ to troops is coming from Pentagon funding, not tariffs

3:18 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

The “Warrior Dividend” that President Donald Trump announced Wednesday is not a Christmas bonus made possible by tariff revenues, as the president appeared to suggest during his televised address to the nation

President Donald Trump displays an executive order reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug

2:06 PM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug

Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children

11:11 AM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

U.S. officials are proposing new restrictions that are designed to block access to gender-affirming care for minors

FILE - The download screen for Truth Social app is seen on a laptop computer, March 20, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company that wants to power AI

7:38 AM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

The parent company of President Donald Trump’s Truth Social media platform announced Thursday it is merging with a fusion power company, an unusual pairing of the Trump name with a futuristic clean energy venture that aims to power the next wave of artificial intelligence

FILE - A worker, right, carries a bag as Syrian refugees line up at a gathering point to be checked by Lebanese security forces before they board buses to return home to Syria, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

The US move to lift sanctions on Syria could encourage refugee returns, UN official says

7:09 AM on Thursday, December 18, 2025

The U.N. refugee agency in Lebanon says the U.S. lifting of sanctions on Syria could encourage more refugees to return

President Donald Trump speaks during an address to the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

FACT FOCUS: Trump's glowing account of progress is at odds with his government's own stats

11:21 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

President Donald Trump has offered a glowing account of progress under his watch in a speech from the White House

FILE - Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen greets state senators before giving a speech on June 2, 2025, in Lincoln, Neb. (Justin Wan/Lincoln Journal Star via AP, File)

Nebraska plans to be the first state to implement Trump's new Medicaid work requirements

11:58 AM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Nebraska plans to be the first state to implement new work requirements for some Medicaid recipients

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