UK lifts restrictions on Ukraine’s use of weapons against Russia

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron announced that Britain has given Ukraine permission to strike targets on Russian territory with the weapons in a new $3 billion multiyear aid package it is providing.

Democratic US Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife are indicted over ties to Azerbaijan

Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife were indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges and taken into custody Friday in connection with a U.S. Department of Justice probe into the couple’s ties to the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.

Houthis threaten to try to attack ships in Mediterranean Sea

The Houthi group based in Yemen threatened to start trying to attack ships in the eastern Mediterranean as it steps up a campaign of anti-Israeli assaults.

RFK Jr. could be a spoiler in November. But will it help Biden or Trump?

A combination of voter apathy about President Biden and former President Trump and the Kennedy campaign’s successful targeting of ballot qualification rules across the nation has prompted growing alarm among Democrats and Republicans alike.

Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19

President Biden on Friday gave the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 19 people - with recipients covering nearly every corner of American life.

Google, Justice Department make final arguments about whether search engine is a monopoly

Google’s preeminence as an internet search engine is an illegal monopoly propped up by more than $20 billion spent each year by the tech giant to lock out competition, Justice Department lawyers argued at the closings of a high-stakes antitrust lawsuit.

Hope Hicks, ex-Trump adviser, recounts fear in 2016 campaign over impact of ‘Access Hollywood’ tape

Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was seized with worry about the potential political damage from a tape that showed Trump bragging about grabbing women sexually without their permission, longtime Trump adviser Hope Hicks testified Friday at his hush money trial.

Zelenskyy urges UK’s Cameron to speed up weapons deliveries

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the UK to speed up weapons deliveries during a visit by Foreign Secretary David Cameron as ammunition shortages undercut Kyiv’s ability to hold the frontline.

Ex-government employee charged with falsely accusing co-workers of joining Capitol riot

A former government employee has been charged with repeatedly submitting fake tips to the FBI reporting that several of his co-workers in the intelligence community were part of a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to court filings unsealed Friday.

UN official warns that famine in northern Gaza is already ‘full-blown’

A top U.N. official said that hard-hit northern Gaza was now in “full-blown famine” after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory.

Trump lurches into vacuum created by Biden’s days of silence on campus protests

Protests on college campuses that turned violent this week handed President Joe Biden a political headache and former President Donald Trump a new attack line. It was not until late Thursday morning that Biden broke his silence on the matter, which lasted for more than a week.

Judge in Trump’s hush money case clarifies gag order doesn’t prevent ex-president from testifying

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money trial has clarified that the gag order pertaining to the former president doesn’t prohibit him from testifying on his own behalf.

Ukrainian men abroad voice anger over pressure to return home to fight

Ukrainian men abroad are under pressure as Kyiv prepares to enforce a mobilization law aimed at conscripting desperately needed soldiers.

German foreign minister says Russia will face consequences for monthslong cyber espionage

Germany on Friday accused Russian military agents of hacking the top echelons of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party and other sensitive government and industrial targets, and was joined by NATO and fellow European countries in warning that Russia’s cyberespionage would have consequences.

Tories drop bid to oust Sunak after he avoids election wipeout

Rishi Sunak looks likely to lead the Conservative Party into the UK general election due this year after internal critics called off a planned effort to depose him after the local elections.

DODEA school in Bahrain reopens following damage from historic storm

Students at the Department of Defense Education Activity’s school in Bahrain are set to return to classrooms Sunday, nearly three weeks after water damage caused by torrential rainfall forced the campus in Juffair to close. 

Israel-Hamas war lifts profile of Erdogan opponent in Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is coming under pressure over his tricky balancing act regarding Israel, with an increasingly popular and vocal opponent calling for the closing of a NATO defense system allegedly used to support the Jewish State.

The Kremlin brands comments on Ukraine by France’s Macron and Britain’s Cameron as ‘dangerous’

Recent statements by France’s president and Britain’s foreign secretary about the war in Ukraine are “dangerous” and will deepen international tension around the conflict, the Kremlin’s spokesman said Friday.

Michael Cohen hasn’t taken the stand in Trump’s hush money trial. But jurors are hearing his words

The prosecution’s star witness has yet to take the stand in Donald Trump’s hush money trial. But jurors are already hearing Michael Cohen’s words as prosecutors work to directly tie Trump to payments to silence women with damaging claims about him before the 2016 election.