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French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and US President Donald Trump (R) shake hands during the greetings ceremony at the Gaza Peace Summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, on October 13, 2025.

The U.S.-led war in Iran will dominate Trump's G7 trip to France

The gathering was originally expected to be a meeting focused on a variety of separate economic and security issues.

The top 10 countries that gave contracts and gifts to U.S. colleges and universities as of December 16, 2025.

U.S. colleges received more than $5 billion in foreign gifts, contracts in 2025

New data from the U.S. Education Department show the extent of international gifts and contracts to colleges and universities.

Poll workers sort out early and absentee ballots at the Kenosha Municipal building on Election Day in Kenosha, Wis. Hours after the polls closed around the country, there's still no winner in the presidential contest.

Results Still Unclear And 5 Other Takeaways From Election Night 2020

The election between Trump and Biden is still not settled, and it might not be for days.

The FBI started investigating former UCLA student Christian Secor shortly after the Capitol riot. This surveillance photo of Secor is cited in the government's application for a search warrant.

A former UCLA student was sentenced to over three years in prison for Capitol riot

Christian Secor, a former UCLA student and follower of the far-right racist livestreamer Nick Fuentes, was sentenced on Wednesday for obstructing congress during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Vets in LA hope, with Trump order, that they can finally come home

President Trump has ordered a Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles to house 6,000 homeless vets by 2028, but details are elusive.

House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, called Wednesday for a sales-tax cut.

Florida's House Speaker calls for nearly $5 billion sales-tax cut

House Speaker Daniel Perez said Wednesday he wants to lower the state’s sales-tax rate, trimming revenue by almost $5 billion a year.Perez, R-Miami, told House members he has directed Ways & Means Chairman Wyman Duggan, R-Jacksonville, to produce a bill next week that would lower the rate from 6 percent to 5.25 percent.

In 2015, China's GDP grew at its slowest rate in a quarter of a century, feeding expectations that new stimulus policies will be enacted. On Tuesday, containers were transported at a port in eastern China's Jiangsu province.

China Reports Slowest Economic Growth In 25 Years

Not since the fallout from the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre has China's economy grown at such a slow pace: at just below 7 percent last year.

Ruben Aguilar (right), 85, spoke with his friend Bill Luna, 77, about being deported to Mexico at age 6: "I grew up when that happened. From 6 years old, all of a sudden I felt like I was 15."

Drafted To Fight For The Country That Hurt Him

Ruben Aguilar, 85, was forcibly deported with his family from the U.S. to Mexico at age 6. While his parents were not American citizens, he was, and at 18, he was drafted by the U.S. Army. Aguilar is a man who "got hurt by his country, came back to this country and is going to die in his country."

A University of Washington research coordinator holds up a swab after testing a someone for coronavirus on Oct. 23 in Seattle. The U.S. recorded a record high number of new daily cases Friday.

U.S. Records Highest Number Of Coronavirus Cases In 1 Day Since Pandemic Began

The 83,000 surpasses the previous record from mid-July by about 6,000. In addition, 943 people died from COVID-19 on Friday. Cases of the virus have been rising in the U.S. since mid-September.

Former President Donald Trump faces a single article of impeachment that accuses him of inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Graphic Video Of Capitol Insurrection Opens Trump's Impeachment Trial

The video was laden with violence and obscenities shouted by the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6.

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