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Trump slaps retaliatory measures on Colombia after it turns away deportation flights
Phil Stewart and Oliver Griffin, Reuters | Updated Jan. 26 - 12:27 p.m. | Save Story
President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would impose retaliatory measures on Colombia including tariffs, sanctions and travel bans after the South American country turned away two U.S. military aircraft with migrants being deported.
Britain to tighten laws on buying knives after Southport murders
Reuters | Updated Jan. 26 - 12:12 p.m. | Save Story
Britain on Sunday said it would force retailers to implement stricter age-verification checks to stop children buying knives, in a tightening of policy days after a teenager admitted killing three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event.
Trump says Jordan, Egypt should take more Palestinians from Gaza
Nandita Bose, Kanishka Singh and Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters | Posted Jan. 26 - 9:08 a.m. | Save Story
President Donald Trump said Jordan and Egypt should take more Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza, a suggestion rejected by Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that runs the enclave.
Don't let AI 'rip off' artists, Beatles star McCartney warns UK government
Reuters | Posted Jan. 26 - 7:50 a.m. | Save Story
Beatles musician Paul McCartney has warned that artificial intelligence could be used to "rip off" artists, urging the British government to make sure upcoming copyright reforms protect its creative industries.
State Department freezes new funding for nearly all US aid programs worldwide
Ellen Knickmeyer and Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press | Updated Jan. 25 - 9:45 p.m. | Save Story
The State Department has frozen new funding for almost all U.S. aid programs worldwide, making exceptions to allow humanitarian food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt to continue.
Hamas frees 4 female Israeli soldiers in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners
Isabel Debre, Sam Mednick, Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy, Associated Press | Posted Jan. 25 - 1:27 p.m. | Save Story
Four female Israeli soldiers who were taken in the attack that sparked the war in Gaza have returned to Israel after Hamas militants paraded them before a crowd of thousands and handed them over to the Red Cross.
CIA now says COVID-19 'more likely' to have come from lab
Erin Banco, Reuters | Posted Jan. 25 - 12:38 p.m. | Save Story
The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is "more likely" to have emerged from a lab rather than from nature, an agency spokesperson said on Saturday.
Afghans stranded in Mexico under Trump immigration crackdown face bleak choices
Lizbeth Diaz, Reuters | Updated Jan. 25 - 7:41 a.m. | Save Story
Thousands of migrants who had expected to start their new lives in the U.S. this week found themselves suddenly faced with the prospect of returning to their home countries, seeking refuge elsewhere, or waiting indefinitely in Mexico.
Wall of ice the size of Rhode Island heading toward penguin-packed island off Antarctica
Seth Borenstein, Associated Press | Posted Jan. 24 - 8:37 p.m. | Save Story
The world's biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that's home to millions of penguins and seals.
Italy's top court upholds Amanda Knox slander conviction
Paolo Chiriatti, Reuters | Posted Jan. 23 - 10:01 p.m. | Save Story
Italy's highest court on Thursday upheld the conviction of American Amanda Knox for slander in a case related to the murder of her British flatmate in 2007, the final act in a legal drama lasting almost two decades.
Paris' Louvre museum, in dire state, cries for help
Geert De Clercq, Reuters | Updated Jan. 23 - 2:07 p.m. | Save Story
The Louvre, the world's most-visited museum and home to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, has requested urgent help from the French government to better protect its countless works of art from leaks and temperature swings.
Murdoch's UK tabloids apologize to Prince Harry, admit intruding on the late Princess Diana
Brian Melley and Jill Lawless, Associated Press | Posted Jan. 22 - 6:32 p.m. | Save Story
Prince Harry claimed a monumental victory Wednesday as Rupert Murdoch's U.K. tabloids made an unprecedented apology for intruding in his life over decades and agreed to pay substantial damages.
Palestinians confront a landscape of destruction in Gaza's 'ghost towns'
Abdel Kareem Hana and Tia Goldenberg, Associated Press | Posted Jan. 21 - 9:59 p.m. | Save Story
Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation after more than 15 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas.
Trump White House celebrates release of 2 Americans in prisoner swap with Taliban brokered by Biden
Zeke Miller, Jon Gambrell and Aamer Madhani, Associated Press | Posted Jan. 21 - 2:32 p.m. | Save Story
A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges.
'Like the apocalypse.' Turkish ski resort fire kills 66, forces guests to jump from windows
Mert Ozkan and Huseyin Hayatsever, Reuters | Posted Jan. 21 - 12:29 p.m. | Save Story
A fire at a ski resort hotel in Turkey's Bolu mountains killed 66 people and injured 51 others on Tuesday, forcing panicked guests to jump out of windows in the middle of the night.
Teen pleads guilty to murder in stabbings at Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England
Brian Melley, Associated Press | Posted Jan. 20 - 9:46 p.m. | Save Story
A teen has pleaded guilty to murdering three girls and wounding 10 other people in a stabbing rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England last summer.
Hamas says next hostages will be released Saturday as scheduled
Nidal Al Al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose, Reuters | Posted Jan. 20 - 6:37 p.m. | Save Story
Hamas said on Monday it would next release hostages held in Gaza on Saturday, after an official with the Palestinian militant group had said they would be released a day later than expected.
Trump rethinking next week's planned immigration raids, report says
Jonathan Landay and Eric Cox, Reuters | Updated Jan. 19 - 9:40 p.m. | Save Story
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is reconsidering plans for immigration raids in Chicago next week after details were leaked, Trump's team says.
