Thomas Mackintosh & Merlyn Thomas BBC News Getty Images Voice of America launched in 1942 with a mandate to combat Nazi and Japanese propaganda Donald Trump has signed an executive order to strip back the global, independent and federally funded news organisation Voice of America. The president’s order targets VOA’s parent company US Agency for…
Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked the Department of Justice (DoJ) to not release a special counsel’s report setting out its investigations into the US president-elect. Jack Smith led two probes into Trump, one on alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat and another on his apparent mishandling of classified documents. Both cases have…
The transport secretary has promised to make it “easier and cheaper” to buy electric cars, as the government announces £63m worth of funding to help build charging infrastructure. Heidi Alexander said on Sunday she wanted to make it more affordable to switch to electric vehicles as she announced new money for councils and other bodies…
Keir Starmer’s government is suffering from a “lack of narrative” about what it is trying to achieve and should be more fiscally bold and consider a tax on wealth, Neil Kinnock has said. The former Labour leader said too many of the government’s achievements were being overshadowed. A year after a landslide election win, the…
Two care home residents have died after a car police were chasing crashed into their building in Sunderland. Ten residents were taken to hospital after the stolen BMW collapsed a large part of a wall and part of the first storey of Highcliffe care home in Witherwack. The care home was evacuated after the crash,…
College basketball fans, rejoice! FOX Sports bracket forecaster Mike DeCourcy is here with his first edition of this season’s NCAA Tournament projections. Tennessee (Midwest), Iowa State (East), Auburn (South) and Oregon (West) are the No. 1 seeds in his first bracket forecast. Duke, Alabama, Marquette and Mississippi State are listed as the No. 2 seeds,…
Volodymyr Zelensky has given a cautious and diplomatic response to Vladimir Putin’s late-night offer of direct talks in Istanbul next Thursday. The Ukrainian leader might have been expected to slam his opposite number in Moscow for not committing to a 30-day ceasefire, as demanded by Kyiv and its Western allies on Saturday. Instead, writing on…
For more than 20 years, Marc Weisskopf has been working to understand why military veterans face twice the risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal disease with no known cause or cure, as the rest of the population. That research is now in jeopardy due to federal funding cuts, said Weisskopf, Cecil K….
A former college principal in the eastern Indian state of Odisha has been sentenced to life in prison for sending a parcel bomb that killed a newlywed man and his great aunt in 2018. A court found Punjilal Meher, 56, guilty of murder, attempted murder, and use of explosives in what became known as the…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said his administration’s efforts to secure a Russia-Ukraine peace deal were “hopefully underway,” and that he wanted to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin soon. In a highly anticipated address via videolink to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said: “I really would like to be able…
