U.S. airstrikes ordered by Donald Trump on Christmas Day struck Islamic State (ISIS) camps in northwest Nigeria, with Nigerian officials confirming the operation was fully authorized at the highest levels of both governments. Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar said the strikes were conducted after direct coordination with Washington, including …

United Nations human rights experts are sounding the alarm over what they describe as a deeply troubling case in Iran: the potential execution of a 67-year-old woman accused of national security crimes for possessing a slogan associated with women’s rights and recording an unpublished message. The woman, Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, …

The U.S. Department of Justice has released its eighth tranche of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, adding nearly 30,000 pages to the public record while explicitly cautioning the public against drawing sensational conclusions. In a rare and pointed statement accompanying the release, the DOJ said …

President Donald Trump signed a late-December executive order granting federal employees additional time off around Christmas, temporarily expanding the federal holiday calendar for 2025. The order designates Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) and Dec. 26 as federal holidays—creating a four-day weekend for many government workers when combined with Christmas Day. The …

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has launched an unprecedented legal campaign against states across the political spectrum, signaling a major federal push to enforce voter roll maintenance ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. At the center of the effort is Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general overseeing the division, …