US transfers 177 migrants held in Guantanamo to Venezuela.
Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello was at the airport when the plane landed, and boarded the aircraft to welcome the arrivals.
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Trump turns against Zelensky – and towards Russia.
President Trump has spent the day attacking Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling him a “dictator” and deepening the rift between the two leaders.
Trump blames Ukraine over war with Russia, saying it could have made a deal
Earlier on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Riyadh for the first high-level, face-to-face talks between the two countries since the invasion, and agreed to appoint teams to start negotiating the end of the war.
US hits back after China condemns Trump’s ‘tariff shocks’ at WTO
China condemned tariffs launched or threatened by US President Donald Trump at a World Trade Organisation meeting on Tuesday, saying such “tariff shocks” could upend the global trading system in a warning dismissed as hypocritical by Washington.
USDA Admits Mistakenly Firing Bird Flu Officials, working to Rehire Them
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired “several” agency employees who are working on the federal government’s response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.
US grants conditional clearance to Zoetis’ bird flu vaccine for poultry.
Zoetis, the manufacturer behind the vaccine, announced the conditional approval Friday
Musk’s DOGE Cuts $900 Million from US Education Department’s Research Office
After announcing $101m would be slashed from 29 DEI training grants on Monday, the Doge account on Twitter/X said that Musk’s team terminated 89 contracts worth a total of $881m on Tuesday.
European Union Says It Will Respond “Firmly, Immediately” To Trump’s Tariffs
The European Union is still waiting to learn the details of Trump’s proposal, for which he set an April 1 deadline. Trump cited barriers in the EU, including a value-added tax, as an example of the unfair trading rules that the US is looking to respond to
Powerful rainstorm brings mudslides, street flooding, rescues across Southern California
Around 8 inches of mud slid over the famous roadway in the Hollywood Hills, closing it, but homes above the slide were determined to be stable, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
Apple and Google allow TikTok back into their US app stores
TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance, disappeared from both stores in the United States on Jan. 18,