Washington, D.C. – December 18, 2025 – The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has voted to rename the iconic arts institution after President Donald Trump, a move that has sparked widespread controversy, legal questions, and outrage from the late president’s family. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the

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London, United Kingdom – December 18, 2025 – A group of six British prisoners linked to the banned activist organization Palestine Action are on hunger strike in UK prisons, facing severe health risks and a potential threat to their lives, according to medical professionals and family members. The activists, detained without conviction, are protesting against

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Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, a prominent leader of Bangladesh’s 2024 student-led uprising, has died in a Singapore hospital after being shot in an assassination attempt in Dhaka. Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that Hadi succumbed to his injuries on Thursday. Assassination Attempt Hadi, 32, was shot in the head on December 12 while traveling

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House Democrats have released dozens of new photographs and documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, ahead of a Friday deadline for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release a more comprehensive set of files related to the convicted sex offender. Epstein died in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting sex-trafficking charges. New Images Include

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The Trump administration has proposed a series of new federal rules that would effectively bar hospitals and clinics across the United States from providing gender-affirming healthcare to transgender youth under 18. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that hospitals continuing such care could lose access to federal programs. A second proposed rule

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United States President Donald Trump is entering the nuclear fusion sector through a $6 billion all-stock merger between his social media firm, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), and Google-backed TAE Technologies. The deal, announced on Thursday, reflects growing concerns about the energy demands of AI data centers and marks a bold expansion of the

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BP has appointed Meg O’Neill, the current CEO of Woodside Energy, as its next chief executive officer, marking the first external hire for the role in more than a century and the first woman to lead a top-five oil major. The move signals BP’s renewed focus on fossil fuels after a period of heavy investment

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The United States has imposed a new round of sanctions against staff members of the International Criminal Court (ICC), targeting two judges involved in a ruling that rejected Israel’s attempt to halt the court’s Gaza war crimes investigation. The sanctions affect Judge Gocha Lordkipanidze of Georgia and Judge Erdenebalsuren Damdin of Mongolia. The US government

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A French anaesthetist has been sentenced to life imprisonment after a court found him guilty of poisoning 30 patients, resulting in the deaths of 12 individuals. The Doubs Assize Court delivered the verdict on Thursday, describing the crimes as among the most serious in French medical history. Details of the Case Frederic Pechier, 53, committed

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Egypt has emphasized that its natural gas agreement with Israel is a purely commercial transaction, dismissing any claims of political motivations behind the $35 billion deal. The announcement comes amid frayed relations between Cairo and Jerusalem over Israel’s ongoing conflict in Gaza. Commercial Nature of the Deal Egypt’s State Information Service (SIS) clarified on Thursday

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