Trump joined by women athletes signs the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. The executive order prohibits transgender women from competing in women’s sports and is the third order he has signed that targets transgender people. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Trump joined by women athletes signs the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. The executive order prohibits transgender wom

US president issues latest threat to midwestern state, where protests have continued after ICE agent killed woman. An ICE agent detains a person in Minneapolis, Minnesota [Stephen Maturen/AFP] United States President Donald Trump has said that a “day of reckoning and retribution” is coming to Minnesota, as outrage and protests have continued days after an immigration agent fatally shot a woman in the state’s largest city, Minneapolis. Trump did not provide further details on

Protesters gathered in a street in Tehran on Friday, 9 January | MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images Iran has warned it will retaliate if attacked by the US, as protesters defied a deadly government crackdown on Saturday night. Videos verified by the BBC and eyewitness accounts appeared to show the government ramping up its response to the protests, which have spread to more than 100 cities and towns across every province in Iran. Medics at two hospitals have to

The president has said he will be “hitting them very hard” if Iranian leaders kill protesters amid widespread demonstrations calling for wholesale changes in the country. Demonstrators protested in Tehran on Thursday.Credit ...UGS/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images President Trump has been briefed in recent days on new options for military strikes in Iran as he considers following through on his threat to attack the country for cracking down on protesters, according to multi

The airstrikes followed an even larger attack in December to avenge the killing of three Americans last year. A view of the Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood amid fighting in Aleppo, Syria, on Jan. 10.Credit ...Adri Salido/Getty Images The United States carried out major airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria on Saturday, following up on even larger retaliatory attacks last month to avenge the deaths of two U.S. Army soldiers and a U.S. civilian interpreter killed in a terr

Renee Nicole Good was an award-winning poet/Photo Credit: BBC The woman shot dead by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis has been identified as Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had just moved to the city. She was a prize-winning poet and a hobby guitarist, who city leaders have said was there as a legal observer of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities. But the Trump administration has called her a "domestic terrorist". Good's death h

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver on Wednesday during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a shooting that federal officials said was an act of self-defense but that the mayor described as reckless and unnecessary. The 37-year-old woman was shot in front of a family member during a traffic stop in a snowy residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, ju

Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity. This piece has been updated from its original email version. Genocide scholars are sounding the alarm over what they describe as escalating attacks targeting transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans in the United States. Experts, including two former presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), warn that the nation may already be in the

In a CNN interview, the Trump aide also echoed the president’s intent to run Venezuela as he laid out a case for the United States to control weaker states by flexing its military might. Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, at the White House last year. Mr. Miller’s remarks were part of a broader rhetorical push in interviews to justify American imperialism and a vision for a new world order. | Anna Rose Layden for The New York Times Stephen Miller, a top ai

From Nagorno-Karabakh to Gaza, Trump’s approach to conflict resolution has rewarded aggression and perpetuated ethnic cleansing. U.S. President Donald Trump poses for a photo in during a summit on ending the Gaza war Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Oct. 13. [ SUZANNE PLUNKETT - POOL | GETTY IMAGES ] From Gaza to Nagorno-Karabakh, U.S. President Donald Trump claims to have resolved some of the world’s most intractable conflicts in a matter of months with his made-for-TV peace plans