Health officials in a growing list of countries scrambled on Thursday to track people connected to a deadly outbreak of the hantavirus on a cruise ship. The World Health Organization also predicted a “limited” spread of the virus if public health measures were implemented. “This is not Covid, this is not influenza,” Dr. Maria Van…
NewsFeed From sharks with laser beams to Russian spy whales, marine life has made the headlines for its supposed use in warfare. The latest claim is that Iran is training bomb-strapped dolphins to attack US ships. Soraya Lennie separates fact from fiction. Published On 6 May 20266 May 2026 Click here to share on social…
The United States is withdrawing 5,000 troops from NATO ally Germany, the Pentagon announced on Friday, as a rift over the Iran war widens between President Donald Trump and Europe. Trump had threatened a drawdown in forces earlier this week after sparring with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said on Monday the Iranians were humiliating…
Three Federal Reserve officials who wanted the central bank to signal more directly this week that interest rates may eventually need to rise cited concerns about resurgent inflation stemming from the war in Iran in defending their decision to dissent against Wednesday’s policy announcement. On Friday, the policymakers who contributed to the Fed’s most divisive…
As the Trump administration prepared to remove protections from deportation for more than 350,000 Haitians living in the United States, a government researcher privately complained that she was being ordered to manipulate evidence to support the move, internal emails show. Ashley Holland, who worked at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, wrote in a September 2025…
Federal authorities are investigating a note they said was written by the man being held in connection with the attack at the White House correspondents’ dinner that suggests he was angered by the actions of the Trump administration. The writing was shared with The New York Times by two law enforcement officials who asked not…
The alleged shooter at the Washington Hilton on Saturday evening had written about targeting Donald Trump and other administration officials, authorities said. US attorney-general Todd Blanche said on Sunday that federal investigators were “still looking into” the shooter’s motivations for the attack, but said they believed he had been “targeting members of the administration” and…
Since the Iran war began in late February, the United States has burned through around 1,100 of its long-range stealth cruise missiles built for a war with China, close to the total number remaining in the U.S. stockpile. The military has fired off more than 1,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles, roughly 10 times the number it…
For most of last year, Calley Means, a top aide to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was advising on changes to the American health system while running a rapidly growing wellness company poised to benefit from Trump administration health policies. Records released to The New York Times by an ethics office at the Department…
Shorouk Express “The task is clear: to swiftly and substantively work out the steps needed to end the war,” Zelenskyy said. “Ukraine continues to work with the United States in the most constructive way possible.” The Ukrainian officials are expected to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in Florida, Bloomberg reported….
