President Donald Trump has warned that schools and universities allowing what he called “illegal protests” will lose federal funding. In a Truth Social post, he vowed to revoke funding and take tough action against demonstrators. He said foreign “agitators” would be jailed or deported, while American students could face expulsion o...
ANKARA (AA) – Two polls following President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night speech to a joint session of Congress showed broad public approval, according to the White House. A joint poll by CBS News and YouGov found that 76% of viewers approved of the president’s address, said the White House on Wednesday. Similarly, a poll by […]...
The brother of former World Uyghur Congress President Dolkun Isa is serving a 20-year sentence in the Chinese occupied East Turkestan region. The Chinese government convicted 63-year-old math professor Yalkun Isa of “inciting terrorism.” Yalkun taught at Aksu Education Institute, where more than two dozen Uyghur educators were arrested in 2017...
Elon Musk’s unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is seeking more than $4 million from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for IT modernization. A draft deal shows the White House asked OPM to fund 20 full-time positions within Musk’s team from January 20 to July 4, 2026. Salaries range from $141,000 to $189,000 annually, ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed a memorandum renaming Fort Moore in Georgia to Fort Benning. The Pentagon said the new name pays tribute to Corporal Fred Benning, for his extraordinary heroism during World War I. The base, which was originally named after Confederate Lt. Gen. Henry Benning, was renamed Fort Moore in 2023 under [&hell...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian man has been killed by Israeli army fire in the central Gaza Strip, in the latest violation of the cease-fire and prisoner exchange agreement, a medical source said. Witnesses said Israeli forces stationed east of Deir al-Balah opened fire intentionally as an unarmed Palestinian resident was simply sta...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children have joined a distance learning program in the war-torn Gaza Strip since January, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reports. “Nearly 260,000 children have enrolled in UNRWA’s distance learning program since January,” the UN agency said in a statement. Gaza’s...
BEIRUT (AA) – Israel has established a border security zone inside Lebanon, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri states. “The Israeli occupation was not limited to the five border hills, but extended to establish a border strip extending a kilometer or two inside Lebanese territory,” Berri told the Lebanese daily Addiyar. A frag...
RAMALLAH, Palestine/ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army killed a Palestinian young man in Jenin amid the ongoing offensive in the northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that the Israeli army handed over to its medical teams “a martyr in his twenties in the Eastern neighborhood of Jenin.R...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Initial work by the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the Defense Department identified $80 million in “fat,” the Pentagon spokesman has said. “We believe that these initial findings will probably save $80 million in wasteful spending,” Sean Parnell said in a video post. “Tod...
