The Supreme Court left in place Friday two Biden administration environmental regulations aimed at reducing industry emissions of planet-warming methane and toxic mercury. The justices did not detail their reasoning in the orders, which came after a flurry of emergency applications to block the rules from industry groups and Republican-leaning states. There were no noted dissents. The high court is still considering challenges to a third Environmental Protection Agency...

Albanian police fired teargas to disperse opposition protesters who gathered in the streets of the capital Tirana to call on longtime leftist Prime Minister Edi Rama to resign. Thousands of protesters took to the streets, calling out chants such as: "Down with the dictatorship." The protests, organized by the right-wing opposition, demand the replacement of the ruling government with a technocratic caretaker cabinet ahead of next year's parliamentary election.

Tech mogul Elon Musk has told American journalist Tucker Carlson that he’s “all in” on Donald Trump winning the US presidential election in November. The billionaire sat down with Carlson for a full-length interview published on Monday on Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) social media network. Carlson began the interview by theorizing what would happen if Democratic nominee Kamala Harris beats Republican rival Trump in November. “If he loses… you’re f**ked, dude!” ...

CIA Director William Burns warned Monday of the potential for simmering clashes in the Middle East to spread across the region even as, he said, the U.S. intelligence community had assessed the leaders of Iran and Israel are not looking for "all-out conflict." "[W]e face the very real danger of a further regional escalation of conflict," Burns said during a moderated question-and-answer session at the annual Cipher Brief threat conference in Sea Island, Georgia. He said Israel's...

A US federal judge has ruled that Google must allow Android apps made by rival technology firms onto its Google Play app store for three years starting next month. The change was among several remedies ordered by Judge James Donato in a case brought against Google by Epic Games, the maker of the hit video game Fortnite. Google says it will appeal against the decision and ask for a pause to the proposed remedies. In December, a jury sided with Epic, which says Google stifled competitors...

In the midst of the last major budget crisis in Washington, Democrats diverted money and the legal authority to put the nation’s disaster relief agency into the business of caring for the millions of illegal immigrants who crossed the border on the Biden-Harris administration’s watch. And now both parties seem to be trying to obfuscate the truth. White House spokeswoman Karine-Jean Pierre took the lead in trying to suggest it was a "conspiracy theory" to suggest the Federal...

There is no evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear weapon, and if it did, the U.S. and its allies would most likely be able to detect such a step soon after it was taken, CIA Director William Burns said Monday. As Israel weighs how it will retaliate against Iran after it came under an Iranian ballistic missile barrage last week, speculation has focused on whether it might choose to strike nuclear sites in Iran to try to cut off Tehran’s possible path to a nuclear weapon....

Kamala Harris has ruled out meeting one-on-one with Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine unless leaders from Kyiv were involved. In some of her most detailed comments to date about how she would try to end Russia’s war in Ukraine if elected US president, Harris said she would not meet “bilaterally” with Putin “without Ukraine”. “Ukraine must have a say in the future of Ukraine,” Harris added, in a televised interview with CBS News’...

Republican lawmakers on Monday ratcheted up the investigation into billionaire George Soros’ purchase of a wide swath of U.S. radio stations. Soros is a major donor to Democratic and liberal causes whose purchase of American radio stations just before the election raised eyebrows and drew Congressional inquiry. The deal began when the large radio company Audacy filed for bankruptcy. Via a complicated business deal, Soros gained control of the stations. Notably, House Energy and...

A Russian court on Monday sentenced a 72-year-old American in a closed trial to nearly seven years in prison for allegedly fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine. Prosecutors said Stephen Hubbard signed a contract with the Ukrainian military after Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022 and he fought alongside them until being captured two months later.