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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two leading House Republicans are meeting with Taiwan’s Beijing-friendly opposition leader this week as she travels to Washington at a time when China is scrutinizing the Trump administration’s posture toward the self-ruled island it views as its own. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, R-Fla., and Rep. Young Kim, R-Calif., are planning to sit down with Cheng Li-wun, leader of the Kuomingtang Party, who has supported […]

June 10 (Reuters) – No U.S. warships have been struck in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, after Iran’s state media said initial reports indicated U.S. ships near the strait were targeted by missile and drones launched by Iranian armed forces. Commercial ships also continue to transit in and out of the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Central Command said in a separate post on X […]

June 10 (Reuters) – Venezuela has deployed troops to target illegal groups controlling key gold deposits, according to local residents and human rights activists, as the government seeks to attract foreign investment to the long-stalled mining sector. Troops have been deployed near Las Claritas in southern Bolivar state, according to residents and activists who monitor the area. The town is one of the main hubs of illegal gold mining in […]

By Joseph Ax June 10 (Reuters) – Florida’s Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to block a new Republican-drawn congressional map ahead of November’s midterm elections, giving the party a boost in its effort to retain a narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. The decision all but guarantees that the map, which is aimed at flipping as many as four Democratic seats, will remain in place for this fall’s […]

By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) – The Trump administration defended its sanctions on Cuba on Wednesday after the United Nations’ human rights chief warned U.S. actions were causing “widespread harm to the population and endangering lives.” “These sanctions target the leaders and entities who sustain the regime’s malicious campaign to subvert and destabilize U.S. national security,” a White House official told Reuters in response to a request for […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday the end of a ban it imposed on Lebanese imports five years ago, marking a major step in attempts to rebuild relations between Lebanon and Gulf countries. The kingdom slapped a ban on Lebanese fruits and vegetables in 2021, saying they were being used to smuggle drugs. In one notable case, Saudi Arabia announced it had seized over 5 million pills of the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump laced into Graham Platner on Wednesday, calling the Senate candidate from Maine a “thug” and a “pig” and suggesting that the Democratic Party was hypocritical for lining up behind someone with so many questions about his past personal conduct and treatment of women. That line of political attack was striking coming from a president who himself has been accused of misconduct with women, was […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday they will not seek the death penalty as part of a plea agreement with the man accused of killing the top Democrat in the Minnesota House along with her husband, as well as wounding a state senator and his wife. The defendant, Vance Boelter, was scheduled for a change-of-plea hearing Thursday morning in federal court in Minneapolis. Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Congressional candidate Brad Lander on Wednesday got the day in court that he demanded after a misdemeanor charge was lodged against him last summer after he was arrested while protesting with other elected officials outside an immigration holding facility in New York City. The Democrat testified in Manhattan federal court in his own defense that he did not try to block an elevator by sitting near […]