Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Ben Shapiro turned on his fellow MAGA podcasters in a fiery display at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference, amid a growing dispute over controversial firebrand…
Vishnukant Tiwari,Bhopaland Abhishek Dey,Delhi Getty Images In India, HIV still carries strong social stigma, often leading to discrimination Parents of children with thalassemia in India say they are devastated after life-saving blood transfusions left their children HIV-positive, confronting them with illness, social stigma, and uncertainty. Thalassemia is a genetic blood disorder that requires regular transfusions…
Anbarasan Ethirajan,Global Affairs Correspondent, Toaha Faroque,BBC Bangla, Dhakaand Kelly Ng Watch: Large crowd burns rubble after death of Bangladesh youth protest leader Staff at two leading Bangladeshi newspapers say they were “gasping for air” as protesters, roused by the death of a prominent activist, set their offices alight on Thursday. Sharif Osman Hadi, who had…
WASHINGTON—President Trump signed into law new powers to screen and restrict U.S. investment in Chinese technology firms, marking the most significant effort yet to police how American capital flows into businesses that bolster Beijing’s military and surveillance state. PREMIUM Hikvision surveillance cameras in Shanghai, in 2021. Lawmakers in both parties have grown increasingly concerned that…
Overnight unrest in Bangladesh following the death of student leader Sharif Osman Hadi sparked widespread protests, street clashes, and attacks on media offices, leaving the nation on edge. Supporters chant slogans as they block Shahbagh Square demanding justice, following the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a student leader, who was undergoing treatment in Singapore after…
SARASOTA, Fla. – Sarasota police want to warn residents about a scam involving a bank and rideshare drivers. Investigators say someone withdraws a large amount of cash from a bank, then hands it over to a rideshare driver at the recommendation of the scammer. What we know: Sarasota police told FOX 13 that they are…
A Kennedy Center board member accused the White House of lying about the organization’s “unanimous” vote to change the center’s name to the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” claiming that her dissent was censored. On Thursday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the Trump-controlled board “voted unanimously” for the name change. Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), who sits on…
AP Photo/File Arnett reported on the Vietnam and Gulf Wars during his career (pictured here in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1963) Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and war correspondent Peter Arnett has died at the age of 91, US media has reported. Arnett won the international reporting prize in 1996 for his Vietnam War coverage at the Associated…
Local elections could be delayed again as merging councils lack the capacity for reorganisation, the government has announced, triggering claims from opposition parties that Labour is “scared of the voters”. Sixty-three council areas could opt to postpone elections until 2027 after some were already delayed until May 2026 as two-tier authorities are being combined into…
Mircea Barbu,Bucharestand André Rhoden-Paul Getty Images A Romanian court has sentenced Wiz Khalifa to nine months in prison for smoking cannabis on stage. The American rapper, real name Thomaz Cameron Jibril, admitted to smoking a joint during his performance at the Beach, Please! festival last year in Costinesti. A Romanian appeals court overturned an earlier…