• (Greenville, NC) — President Trump’s pre-midterm election blitz, rallying supporters in the Carolinas in his latest push. In Greenville, North Carolina on Tuesday, Trump went after the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, accusing former Governor Roy Cooper of letting criminals loose on the streets. The president urged the crowd to support Republican Michael Whatley, who […]
  • WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he hoped for a positive outcome from US envoy Steve Witkoff’s meeting in Russia on Wednesday and that he supports talks between the leaders of Kyiv, Washington and Moscow. Zelenskiy said in an interview with Fox News that his talks with Witkoff in Oslo a day earlier were […]
  • ST PETERSBURG, Russia, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old retired US schoolteacher in Russian custody since 2022, was freed from prison on Wednesday and taken to St Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport, President Vladimir Putin said. The Kremlin chief made the announcement at a meeting with US envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg, without giving […]
  • (Corrects day in first paragraph to Wednesday, not Tuesday) TEL AVIV, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Brad Lander, an ally of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani who is running for the US Congress next month, was among 90 individuals detained by Israeli authorities in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday while accompanying Palestinian farmers harvesting olives, […]
  • By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) – The Trump administration is offering to loan up to nearly a third of the 1-million-barrel US emergency heating oil reserve, the Department of Energy said on Wednesday, in a bid to tame prices, which have surged on diesel shortages due to the wars in Iran and Ukraine.  […]