United States President Donald Trump has made a series of claims about Ukraine and its leader as he seeks to end the country’s three-year war with Russia. Trump’s relationship with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy soured publicly as Trump called Zelenskyy a “dictator” and said he “started” the war with Russia, a claim PolitiFact rated pants-on-fire false….
Another top federal prosecutor has resigned from the United States Department of Justice amid pressure from the administration of President Donald Trump. The Reuters news agency reported that Denise Cheung left her post on Tuesday, after leading the criminal division of the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. In her resignation letter, obtained…
European leaders have said they are ready to give Ukraine security guarantees and warned that it would be dangerous for Kyiv to agree to a ceasefire without a negotiated peace agreement in place with Moscow, officials said. The offer of a European security commitment to Ukraine was made at a meeting in Paris on Monday,…
Open this photo in gallery: A cut-out of president-elect Donald Trump is displayed on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York’s Financial District on Jan. 2.Seth Wenig/The Associated Press John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires…
OKLAHOMA CITY — The House Education Oversight Committee today passed legislation that prohibits the use of cell phones by students during the school day. The legislation is the first bill to be heard and considered in the House’s new two-tiered committee structure and is expected to be heard on the floor later this week. ×…
News of more layoffs for federal workers is prompting increased concern about the repercussions of those cuts.“There are ways to cull federal service. This is not the way to do it,” said a local federal worker who asked not to be identified.On Thursday and Friday, the federal government laid off thousands of workers as part…
Apple and Google have made the video-sharing app available again amid national security concerns from some US officials. TikTok has returned to the app stores of Apple and Google in the United States after President Donald Trump delayed the enforcement of a ban on the popular social media app, operated by Chinese technology firm ByteDance….
The United States Postal Service is looking to hire in the Tennessee Valley. As part of the 10-year-plan “Delivering for America” the USPS is looking for Rural Carrier Associates. Job fairs will be held from 10:00am to 1:00pm at the following locations: Hixson Post Office, 302 Northgate Mall Dr., Hixson, TN – Feb. 19 Ooltewah…
Members of the Tennessee Aquarium‘s Board of Trustees have chosen Andrew Wood as their new president and CEO, beginning on March 31. Wood will become the fifth person to lead the Aquarium in its history, succeeding Keith Sanford, who retired at the end of 2024. A historical look at Tennessee Aquarium leadership: Bill Flynn (1989-1993)…
The establishment of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) relied on a recruitment campaign carried out, in part, by young software engineers fanning out across online chat groups and Discord servers, according to three sources and chat logs reviewed by WIRED. Some of the engineers are associated with data analytics firm Palantir or…