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Trump says he’s considering returning 20 per cent of DOGE savings to Americans
President Donald Trump speaks as chairman of the FII Institute Executive Committee Richard Attias listens at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute summit in Miami Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Pool via AP)
Idaho judge declines to throw out genetic evidence in University of Idaho killings
FILE - Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students, is escorted into court for a hearing in Latah County District Court, Sept. 13, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool, File)
IRS to lay off 6,700 employees on Thursday, source says
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 13: A sign for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seen outside its building on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. Members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) arrived at the Internal Revenue Service to begin examining the agency's operations. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
U.S. appeals court rejects Trump’s emergency bid to curtail birthright citizenship
FILE - President Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Tesla cited by U.S. regulators over worker’s death
FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Tesla gigafactory in Austin, Texas, U.S., February 28, 2023. REUTERS/Go Nakamura/File Photo
South Korea’s Yoon attends his first criminal trial hearing
A blue van believed to be transporting impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on February 20, 2025. Yoon is the country's first sitting head of state to stand trial in a criminal case, facing charges of insurrection for which he could be sentenced to life in prison or face the death penalty. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP) / - South Korea OUT / NO ARCHIVES - RESTRICTED TO SUBSCRIPTION USE (Photo by -/YONHAP/AFP via Getty Images)
Canada helping G20 host South Africa endure pressure as U.S. boycotts historic meetings, Joly says
Japan trade minister plans U.S. visit in March to seek tariff exemptions, Asahi reports
Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick speaks in the Oval Office of the White House after President Donald Trump signed an executive order, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Trump administration halts legal aid for migrant children, leaving some to navigate courts alone
U.S. Marines deploy along the U.S.-Mexico border near the San Ysidro Port of Entry, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in San Diego. Tijuana, Mexico in seen in the background. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
Trump calls Zelensky ‘a dictator,’ marking new low for fragile U.S.-Ukraine relationship
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy gives a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 19, 2025, amid the Russian attack on Ukraine. TETIANA DZHAFAROVA/Pool via REUTERS
Environmental groups sue to block Trump’s offshore drilling expansions
President Donald Trump speaks at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute summit in Miami Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Pool via AP)
Hundreds rally against firing of U.S. federal workers
Herb Ettel attends a rally at Health and Human Services headquarters to protest the polices of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)
U.S. judge won’t immediately rule on ‘unusual’ request to drop Eric Adams case
New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrives to court, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Israel confirms four dead hostages who will be returned from Gaza include young family
This undated photo provided by Hostages Family Forum shows Shiri Bibas, who was abducted and brought to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. (Hostages Family Forum via AP)
Sinkhole opens up on the main street of an English village
A large sinkhole appeared on Monday night is seen in Godstone, England, Tuesday Feb. 18, 2025. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)
Key NASA officials’ departure casts more uncertainty over U.S. moon program
FILE PHOTO: Jim Free, NASA associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD), speaks at a press conference to discuss progress for Artemis II mission around the Moon and back to Earth with a crew of four astronauts, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., August 8, 2023. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo/File Photo
Egypt announces first discovery of pharaoh’s tomb in more than 100 years
These handout pictures released by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities on February 19, 2025 show the entrance to the tomb of King Thutmose II in Luxor in southern Egypt. Egypt's antiquities authority says it has found the ancient tomb of King Thutmose II, the first royal burial to be found since the famed discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. The tomb, discovered near the Valley of the Kings in Luxor in southern Egypt, belonged to King Thutmose II of the 18th dynasty, who lived nearly 3,500 years ago. (Photo by Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / EGYPTIAN MINISTRY OF ANTIQUITIES" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by -/Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/AFP via Getty Images)
At least two people dead after a small plane collision in Arizona, U.S. authorities say
A member of the NTSB talks to Philadelphia Police officers near the scene where a small plane crashed in Philadelphia, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Jobs cut at U.S. Federal Aviation Administration helped support air safety, union says
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Donald Trump seeks greater control of independent regulators with new executive order
President Donald Trump departs after speaking at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (Pool via AP)
Trump administration orders halt to New York’s congestion pricing system
FILE PHOTO: A general view of the New York City skyline after heavy rains as the remnants of Tropical Storm Ophelia bring flooding across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, in New York City, U.S., September 29, 2023. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
Seven men charged in Florida with burglarizing homes of Mahomes, Burrow and other star athletes
'You should have never started it': Trump seems to blame Kyiv for war
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Netherlands to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, Dutch embassy in Abuja says
(FILES) In this file picture a sculpture with the title 'uhunmwun elao - memorial head of a queen mother' is on display next to other 'Benin Bronzes' during a press preview of the new exhibition halls ahead of their opening at the new Berlin Palace Humboldt Forum in Berlin on September 15, 2022. In December, Germany returned 22 priceless artefacts looted during the colonial era to what is now Nigeria. But five months on, questions are being asked in Germany about the wisdom of the move. (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER / AFP) (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump Media and Rumble sue Brazilian Supreme Court Justice over accusations of censorship
FILE - The download screen for Truth Social app is seen on a laptop computer, March 20, 2024, in New York. Trump Media and Technology Group, the owner of former President Donald Trump's social networking site Truth Social, lost more than $300 million last quarter, according to its first earnings report as a publicly traded company Monday, May 20. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Trump calls Zelensky a ‘dictator’ as relations sour over the war with Russia
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a press conference in Kyiv on Feb. 19.
Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia, shows ‘slight improvement,’ Vatican says
Candles with portraits of Pope Francis and Padre Pio are set at the bottom of a statue of Pope John Paul II outside the Gemelli hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalized for tests and treatment for bronchitis in Rome, on February 19, 2025. Pope Francis, who has been diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs, passed a "peaceful night", the Vatican said on February 19, 2025, amid growing concerns over the 88-year-old's condition. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)
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A weakened Congo falls prey to foreign armies
Members of the M23 armed group sit on a pickup truck during a patrol as women carrying fruits walk past a market, following the takeover of the city by the M23 movement in Bukavu on February 18, 2025. Traders and travellers packed their belongings and paid their fares early on Tuesday for the long boat journey across eastern DR Congo's Lake Kivu, the first sailing between the lake's two main ports for weeks after fighting disrupted the service. Fighting between Rwanda-backed M23 fighters and government forces has raged for months in the towns, villages and cities on the DRC side of the lake, which straddles the border with Rwanda. (Photo by Luis TATO / AFP) (Photo by LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)
A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial
A$AP Rocky arrives at court for his trial Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Massive fire at Pennsylvania aerospace plant prompts shelter-in-place order, evacuations
Firefighters battle a blaze at SPS Technologies in Jenkintown, Pa., Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Brazil’s prosecutor-general charges former president Bolsonaro over alleged coup plan
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to members of the media after accompanying his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro (2-L), to board a plane bound for the US to represent him in President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration after a Brazilian judge denied his request to travel at Brasilia airport on January 18, 2025. A Brazilian judge on Friday rejected an appeal by former president Jair Bolsonaro to have his passport returned to him so he could attend the inauguration of his hero, US President-elect Donald Trump. The right-wing former leader had his passport seized in February 2024 as part of an investigation into his role in masterminding an alleged coup attempt to remain in power after losing elections in 2022. (Photo by EVARISTO SA / AFP) (Photo by EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)
Senate confirms Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary, a key role for Trump’s trade agenda
Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick speaks in the Oval Office of the White House after President Donald Trump signed an executive order, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Trump plans 25% tariffs on autos, pharmaceuticals and semi-conductor chips
President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (Pool via AP)
Trump administration fires 1,000 workers at National Park Service, raises maintenance concerns
FILE - In this undated photo, a rainbow appears after a hike to the top of Old Rag Mountain in Shenandoah National Park near Sperryville in Madison County, Va. (Frank Green/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP, File)
A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials and what comes next
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff attend an interview after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)
U.S. judge temporarily halts firings of 11 CIA officers, lawyer says
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., February 18, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque