For the third time in three years, President Donald Trump found himself under the threat of gunfire. This time the Washington press corps was in the room. 

The suspect will be charged with three counts and will be arraigned Monday, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said.

The suspect will be charged with three counts and will be arraigned Monday, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said.

Some warned that the president’s blue-tinted resurfacing would distort the experience for visitors and make the national symbol resemble a “large lap pool.”

Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.

Top holders of Donald Trump’s meme coin got a conference at Mar-a-Lago, featuring Trump-branded swag and potential facetime, even as the coin has lost value.

The map still favors Republicans, but Trump’s declining popularity --- particularly on the economy --- makes Democrats’ once long-shot bid to retake the Senate more feasible than ever before.

The president said this week that buying the bankrupt airline would save jobs but his administration is divided.

Iran’s foreign minister arrived in Islamabad for talks with Pakistani officials. The White House said Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would leave for Islamabad on Saturday.

The White House will send Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to talks in Islamabad, Pakistan, as Tehran decides not to send its top negotiator.

After the Justice Department said a post-Watergate records law is unconstitutional, White House lawyers established a new policy that experts say weakens safeguards.

In June 2025, the European Commission published the interim evaluation of the 2021-2030 strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training to assess progress made towards developing the European education area (EEA). The evaluation has provided input into the Council's review of the strategic framework, to inform potential adjustments for its second cycle (2026-2030). The evaluation highlighted the strategic framework's EU added value, noting its role in promoting shared priorities, EU level targets, European cooperation and national reforms, thereby laying the EEA's foundation during its first cycle (2021-2025). EU level cooperation also fostered the EU's resilience by bolstering its capacity to respond to crises. Moreover, the evaluation found that the EEA promoted a European dimension of education and training, including by enabling structured cooperation and facilitating mobility. During the evaluation consultations, Member States expressed their commitment to continuing their cooperation through the strategic framework. At the same time, the evaluation highlighted opportunities for improvement and suggested issues to be considered during the Council's review. These issues included increasing efforts to address persistent and emerging challenges, such as teacher shortages and underachievement in basic skills; considering citizenship education as a new priority in the strategic framework's next cycle; improving cross-sectoral coordination and alignment with the European Semester; strengthening governance structures and processes; and fostering monitoring to promote evidence-based policymaking in education and training. Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

On 31 May, Colombia will hold presidential elections in a highly polarised political landscape, following the legislative elections of 8 March 2026, which resulted in a fragmented Congress. Since the historic peace agreement of 2016, internal armed conflict, violence, forced displacement and narco-terrorism have continued to pose a major challenge to this Latin American state. Under the administration of Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first left-wing president, coca cultivation and cocaine production have reached record-breaking levels. Petro is ineligible to run for re-election, as the Constitution does not allow it. Bilateral relations between Colombia and the United States (US) have grown tense under the second Trump administration, which prioritises combating narco-terrorism, including through military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. From the EU perspective, Colombia – Latin America's fourth-largest economy – is an important partner in the region and in multilateral fora. The comprehensive EU-Colombia Trade Agreement of 2013 governs the economic relationship between the two partners. Following recent presidential election victories of centre-right or right-wing politicians in Ecuador, Bolivia, Honduras, Chile and Costa Rica, the question is whether Colombia could become the next important country to reinforce this trend in Latin America. Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

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After the Justice Department said a post-Watergate records law is unconstitutional, White House lawyers established a new policy that experts say weakens safeguards.

The bet on the seizing of the Venezuelan leader has drawn scrutiny to insider trading within the growing prediction market industry.

The Russian leader has not yet committed to attend the annual gathering of world leaders, which is scheduled for December at the president’s Doral golf resort.

The bet on the seizing of the Venezuelan leader has drawn scrutiny to insider trading within the growing prediction market industry.

The drug company is the 17th to agree to lower its prices as part of the administration’s Most Favored Nation initiative. It will make a new gene therapy available free.

The path of the USS George H.W. Bush to the Middle East has been closely watched as President Trump demands progress in peace negotiations with Tehran.

A spate of recent ethics cases illustrates the limits of a process that is slow and prone to political calculation.

At least five officials have left Trump’s Cabinet and U.S. military leadership since the start of the war with Iran. Here’s a look at who left and why.

Republicans devised a time-consuming, two-pronged approach to reopen the Department of Homeland Security and end the longest partial government shutdown in history.

The impact assessment (IA) clearly identifies the initiative's central trade-off: the more flexibility manufacturers are granted, the lower their compliance costs – but the higher the running costs for vehicle users and society, because more non-zero-emission vehicles remain in the fleet. The IA assesses many options with different degrees of flexibility for car manufactures. It is based on a relatively rich methodology. It quantifies impacts for manufacturers, consumers, society and the environment based on a solid modelling set-up complemented by a total-cost-of-ownership approach. It captures distributional impacts and sectoral shifts. At the same time, considerable weaknesses remain. The intervention logic is weakened where problems are framed as risks relying significantly on stakeholders' perceptions, particularly on non-compliance, possible premiums and investment gaps. The objectives and monitoring framework remain largely broad, particularly at operational level, and the uncertainty analysis is limited to electricity- and battery-price sensitivities. Although the evaluations of impacts on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and on competitiveness are useful, they rely on limited and partly qualitative input, with no disaggregation by SME size class. More importantly, the final proposal departs from the IA in several respects – notably on 2035 targets, fuel and steel flexibilities, multiannual compliance, and 'made in the EU' conditionalities – without explaining the reasons or likely impacts of these differences. Finally, the IA, which usefully situates the proposal within the wider automotive package, would have benefited from an assessment of the combined effects of that package, providing clearer visibility on how its measures are expected to interact. Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

The billionaire was a significant contributor to President Donald Trump’s campaign, but officials said he clashed repeatedly with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The Trump administration is planning to move marijuana to Schedule III, similar to some painkillers. It now has the same Schedule I classification as heroin.

After a Virginia vote pushes seats toward Democrats, Republicans turn to Florida and courts to claw back an edge.

The onetime lawmaker is leaving Trump Media & Technology, which operates the social media platform Truth Social.

The Pentagon assessment, shared in a classified briefing for lawmakers, suggests gasoline and oil prices could remain elevated through the midterm elections.

The lawmaker, who had served in the chamber since 2003, was seeking a 13th term in his safely Democratic district.

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