US judge says halt of $100m in funds allotted by Congress for scholars, writers and research illegal and discriminatory
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the terminations of hundreds of humanities grants last year by the Trump administration’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) were unconstitutional and involved “blatant” discrimination. In April last year, Donald Trump’s administration terminated more than 1,400 grants, representing more than $100m in congressionally appropriated funds awarded to scholars, writers, research institutions and other humanities organizations.
The terminations were part of a cost-cutting drive that billionaire Elon Musk was leading at Doge.
No Premier League medal, no Champions League title, but Bruno Fernandes has won other trophies and many accolades, and the FWA footballer of the year is on the brink of setting a record.
Thomas Shaknovsky botched the surgery of William Bryan, 70, who died on the operating table
A Florida surgeon who is facing criminal charges after allegedly removing a patient’s liver instead of his spleen has said he is “forever traumatized” by that person’s death.
In a deposition from November that was recently obtained by NBC, 44-year-old Thomas Shaknovsky described the death of 70-year-old William Bryan as an “incredibly unfortunate event that I regret deeply”.
A PARANOID Vladimir Putin has forced his own officials to remove their wrist watches after summoning them for one-on-one meetings amid fears of an assassination attempt. Top functionaries have all been seen without watches during recent audiences with the Russian dictator. Reportedly fearing a James Bond-esque assassination or a coup from within his own regime,...
UKRAINE is set to unleash 25,000 robots as front-line "cavalry" in a dramatic boom of unmanned warfare. Kyiv is on course to manufacture 25,000 unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in the first half of 2026 alone as commanders increasingly rely on robots. These futuristic machines are capable of laying mines, evacuating wounded troops, delivering supplies and...
Keir Starmer is under pressure to set out a timeline for his departure after a crushing defeat in elections across Britain prompted senior Labour MPs to call for him to step down within a year.
In a disastrous set of results, Labour had lost control of more than 25 councils and almost 1,000 council seats in England by Friday evening, many to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, which made large gains across the Midlands and the north as well as taking seats from the Tories in the south.
Farage said a “truly historic shift in British politics” had occurred after Reform UK won hundreds of seats and control of more councils in England. The gains included Essex where the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, has her constituency and which the Conservatives held for 25 years.
Plaid Cymru became the largest party in Wales, beating Reform into second place, after Labour admitted it was on course to lose control of the Senedd for the first time since devolution. Morgan, the first woman to lead the Welsh government, became the highest-profile casualty and called on Labour to “go back to being the party of the working class”.
The SNP leader, John Swinney, declared victory in the Holyrood elections – though was expected to fall short of an outright majority. The Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, conceded defeat saying his party had failed to counter “national dissatisfaction” with Starmer.
The Greens gained their first two directly elected mayors – in Hackney and Lewisham – although they missed out on some more ambitious targets in London, as their leader, Zack Polanski, declared Britain’s two-party politics “dead and buried”. They also won three councils: Norwich, Hastings and Waltham Forest.
The Tories were on course to lose hundreds of seats – both to Reform and the Liberal Democrats – across the south of England. However, they won back the flagship Westminster council in central London, with Badenoch announcing it meant the party was “coming back”.
Labour appeared to be struggling in its London stronghold, despite early indications that its vote was holding up, unexpectedly losing control of Brent. Party insiders were closely watching councils including Lambeth, Lewisham and Haringey.
Men were convicted in Miami federal court for plotting to kill Jovenel Moise at his Port-au-Prince home in 2021
Four south Florida men were convicted on Friday of plotting to kill Haitian president Jovenel Moise in 2021 by hiring mercenaries to assassinate him at his Port-au-Prince home, court records show.
Prosecutors argued during the nine-week trial in a Miami federal court that the men assembled two dozen former Colombian soldiers and supplied them with money, guns, ammunition and tactical vests in a conspiracy to kill Moise. The 53-year-old president was shot dead in July 2021 at his private residence in the hills above Port-au-Prince, a killing that left a gaping political vacuum in the Caribbean nation and emboldened powerful gangs.
A third British national has suspected hantavirus linked to the outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius. The patient stayed on Tristan da Cunha, a remote Atlantic island where the ship stopped in mid-April
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