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WASHINGTON (AP) — The day arrived when the Senate just said, No. President Donald Trump’s political revenge tour met its potential match this week as angry, upset Republican senators, pushed to a breaking point by his seemingly insatiable and outlandish demands — particularly a $1.776 billion fund for Jan. 6 rioters and others he believes were wrongly prosecuted — did the unthinkable. They simply refused, closed up shop, and went […]

DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is riding high as he heads into the final days of his Republican primary runoff against Sen. John Cornyn, now with the weight of the president’s backing behind him. “I don’t know if y’all noticed this, but Donald Trump endorsed me,” Paxton told a small rally in a town outside Austin, inciting whoops and applause from the crowd. Tuesday’s election […]

By Anna Uras, Rami Ayyub and Layli Foroudi ROME/PARIS/BRUSSELS, May 22 (Reuters) – Activists released from Israeli custody after being detained on a flotilla trying to bring aid to Gaza were subjected to abuse, organisers said on Friday, with several hospitalised with injuries and at least 15 reporting sexual assaults, including rape. Reuters was not immediately able to verify the allegations. Israel’s prison service did not immediately respond to requests […]

May 22 (Reuters) – The U.S. Defense Department on Friday released a second batch of previously classified files on alleged UFO sightings, including references to people reporting unexplained green orbs, discs and fireballs. At the order of President Donald Trump, the first batch was made public on May 8. He is the latest president to release U.S. government reports on unidentified flying objects, a disclosure process that began in the […]

By Michel Rose PARIS, May 21 (Reuters) – Former French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Friday formally launched his bid for the presidency, joining a crowded cast of centrist candidates who risk being overtaken by far-right and far-left rivals in next year’s election. The race to succeed President Emmanuel Macron — who cannot run again — is shaping up as a fragmented contest, with polls placing the far-right National Rally […]

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – A U.S. company said more than two dozen healthy baby chickens have hatched from an artificial egg platform it has developed in what it calls a pivotal step in its plan to bring back the South Island Giant Moa, a large flightless bird from New Zealand that went extinct centuries ago. The announcement was made this week by Colossal Biosciences, a company […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday there was “slight progress” during talks with Iran amid uncertainty as to whether a deal will be reached or war will resume. He spoke days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was holding off on a military strike on Iran because “serious negotiations” were underway. Trump has been threatening for weeks that the ceasefire reached in […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan hasn’t been notified of any pause in a planned $14 billion U.S. arms sale to the self-governing island, a government official said Friday, after the acting U.S. Navy secretary told a Senate committee in Washington that some foreign military sales were being delayed to ensure the American military has enough munitions for the Iran war. Days after U.S. President Donald Trump raised doubts about continuing […]

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, May 22 (Reuters) – Volunteers are going door-to-door to combat misinformation about Ebola in the area at the centre of the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Friday. The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which there is no ​approved vaccine or treatment, was declared an emergency of international concern by the […]