Berlin — Poland launched a large-scale security operation this week along its border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, the country’s national police chief said, and the Polish prime minister said the effort may have prevented a sabotage or provocation operation targeting the NATO member. Additional police and counterterrorism units, as well as troops from…
Havana, Cuba – Cubans are experiencing power blackouts and facing obstacles accessing medicine amid a strict U.S. embargo and sanctions that seek to put pressure on Cuba’s Communist government. The Trump administration has made it clear it wants to remove Cuba’s regime. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the economic campaign is engineered to make…
19m ago Norwegian teen sentenced in U.K. to 20 years in prison for plotting murder for Iran-linked gang A Norwegian teenager convicted of traveling to Britain to carry out a contract killing on behalf of an international crime gang linked to Iran was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison. Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 19,…
London — The head of Britain’s top domestic spy agency MI5, Sir Ken McCallum, painted a dark picture Tuesday of the changing national security threats facing the U.K. and the world. “We have entered a new era of national security, requiring a new response,” he said in his annual threat update at MI5 headquarters in…
The union representing 30,000 Bureau of Prisons employees is asking a federal judge to hold the agency in contempt, alleging that prison leadership has refused to follow the court’s order to immediately restore its collective bargaining agreement. The contempt request, filed Oct. 6, comes just one week after U.S. District Judge Vernon Oliver in Connecticut…
Three years after Hamas launched its attack on Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 others hostage, the pain felt by families of some of the youngest victims of the assault and the war it sparked in Gaza has not dulled. Ofri Bibas Levy said every Oct. 7 brings her family’s loss sharply back…
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Bureau of Prisons to reinstate a collective bargaining agreement with the agency’s union after the bureau’s director abruptly terminated the agreement over claims the union represented an “obstacle to progress.” Vernon Oliver, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, granted a motion for…
Backpack has been crowned the 2026 Fat Bear Week champion, beating out a fellow offspring of a former Fat Bear Week winner. Voters were split between bear 910 and 89 Backpack in the final round of the weeklong contest to see who is the chunkiest bear at Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska. Backpack…
Washington — The television press pool system that covers President Trump will be suspended for now after the president banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from covering the White House. Five television networks — ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC — cover the president’s travel and events for the pool on a rotating basis and…
When Lonnie G. Bunch III walks through the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., his love of history is on full display. “I just love this museum so much,” he said. One of his favorite pieces: The 1903 Wright Brothers’ flyer, the first successfully-flown powered airplane. “I was in North Carolina, Kitty…
