Washington — Todd Blanche was sworn in as attorney general at the White House on Monday after the Senate narrowly voted to confirm the president’s former defense lawyer to helm the Justice Department over the weekend. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted a video of Blanche taking the oath of office in the Oval Office….
This story originally aired on Oct. 18, 2025. The investigation of Joe Shymanski‘s murder began as a missing persons case. It was Sept. 4, 2023, at 7:47 p.m. when sheriff’s deputies in Calvert County, Maryland, were called to the home of the well-known photographer. His ex-wife, Heather Snyder, met them in the driveway. She would…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Iran on Tuesday reiterated their resolve to expand bilateral trade to $10 billion, with Commerce Minister Jam calling for transforming “historic brotherly relations” with Iran into a robust economic partnership. Since March this year, both countries have rolled out a series of measures to facilitate border trade, including easing customs procedures, formalising…
Iran expressed interest in expanding trade and economic cooperation with Pakistan through the ports of Karachi and Gwadar on Tuesday, as a delegation from Tehran held a meeting with a business team from Pakistan in Islamabad, state broadcaster Radio Pakistan reported. The Radio Pakistan report said Iranian Industry, Mine and Trade Minister Mohammad Atabak led…
India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Saturday he has resigned from his position, handing a major victory to youth protesters nationwide who demanded that he quit to take responsibility for examination paper leaks. The anti-government protests represented the biggest youth challenge to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he came to power in 2014….
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted to broaden access to at least one peptide during a two-day meeting discussing whether compounding pharmacies can fill prescriptions for some unapproved peptides. The meeting comes during a surge of interest in the unapproved therapies. Peptides are short strings of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, linked by…
Vance Boelter, the man who admitted in court to shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, is set to learn his sentence Thursday morning. Boelter, who turns 59 Thursday, pleaded guilty to six federal charges against him in June. As part of his plea, he confessed to killing former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her…
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb held meetings with the senior officials of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and reviewed Pakistan’s macroeconomic performance and progress under the Fund’s programme, the finance ministry said on Thursday. In a post on social media platform X, the finance ministry said that the minister held a series of meetings with the…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed on Thursday “stringent punishment” for those involved in exam fraud that has fuelled student anger, in his first direct comments tied to major protests challenging his government. The comments came after thousands of protesters, led by the social media-driven Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement, rallied in New Delhi on…
Police baton-charged supporters of India’s youth-led “cockroach” movement on Monday as they sought to march on parliament in the capital New Delhi, despite authorities denying permission for the protest. The months-old movement and the planned protest are seen as the biggest public challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his third term in office, drawing…
