Shorouk Express
JFK’s killing has fascinated America for 60 years. But are we about to find out anything new?
But should the world expect much from them?
The answer is murky, at best.
Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 08:50
Amid backlash from funding bill vote, Chuck Schumer delays book tour over ‘security concerns’
Schumer was scheduled to appear in New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore this week to promote his new book titled Antisemitism in America: A Warning, but now the events have been postponed.
Rhian Lubin has the latest.
Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 08:20
Gold ‘everywhere’: How Trump has completely transformed the Oval Office
Donald Trump’s first eight weeks back in the White House have been a whirlwind but the president has still found time for one of his passions: interior decoration.
Not content with firing out executive orders, raising and lowering tariffs and unnerving the stock markets and America’s allies alike, the president has been busy redesigning the Oval Office, ensuring its furnishings, fixtures and ornaments are more in keeping with his personal taste.
And for Trump, that means gold. And plenty of it.
Joe Sommerlad has the story.
Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 07:50
He voted for Trump. Now his Peruvian wife is stuck in ICE custody
A Wisconsin man who voted for President Donald Trump is devastated after his Peruvian wife was detained by Immigration Customs and Enforcement.
Newlyweds Bradley Bartell and Camila Muñoz were on their way home after honeymooning in Puerto Rico last month when they were pulled aside by an immigration agent at the airport.
Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 07:20
French official calls for US to give back Statue of Liberty
Raphaël Glucksmann, a member of the European Parliament, made the remarks at a convention of the Place Publique center-left movement Sunday.
Michelle Del Rey has the story.
Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 06:20
MAGA is obsessed with the Epstein files — Why?
As we await the release of supposedly unredacted files relating to the assassination of President John F Kennedy, due Tuesday afternoon, Rhian Lubin takes a look at the last rollout of supposedly bombshell government files.
Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 05:20
A former Proud Boys leader was freed from a 17-year prison sentence by Trump. Then his problems began
On the day Joe Biggs found out he was being released from a lengthy jail sentence by the newly inaugurated Donald Trump, a prison officer was on hand to dampen his mood.
“You’re still gonna get screwed,” Biggs recalls the guard warning him. “You’re not getting pardoned. You’re only getting your sentence commuted, so you’re still a terrorist.”
It would turn out to be a prescient parting shot.
Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 04:20
National Institutes of Health officials reportedly told scientists to erase mRNA vaccine references on grants
One vaccine scientist based in New York funded by the agency was warned that references to mRNA vaccines should not appear in any future applications after referring to them in previous ones.
Rhian Lubin has the details.
Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 03:20
After Trump dismantles Voice of America, journalists sound off on ‘betrayal’
In what is being described as “Bloody Saturday,” over 1,300 employees at Voice of America were placed on indefinite suspension this weekend after President Donald Trump issued a Friday night edict ordering the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the network’s parent agency, to eliminate its workforce and activities not required by law.
With the state-funded broadcaster — which has been seen as a vital part of America’s soft diplomacy — going largely silent after more than 80 years on the air, VOA journalists and executives are sounding off over what they see as a “betrayal of the ideals” that drove the organization, adding that it will only be “celebrated” by America’s adversaries.
Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 02:20
Green card-holding German national arrested at Boston airport
The family of a German national who has been in the U.S. on a green card for 17 years and was arrested at Boston Logan International Airport has no idea why he is being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 01:20