Day: February 21, 2025

Ama Sow moved to Pennsylvania to fulfill his basketball dreams. But when his school closed unexpectedly, he was left penniless and homeless. That’s when a local family opened their home to him.

President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, and announced he would replace five other high level positions in an unprecedented shake-up of U.S. military leadership.

A federal judge on Friday extended the temporary restraining order on the implementation of a Trump administration plan to cut medical research funds that the National Institutes of Health provides. Minnesota public and private institutions would be affected.

The general made an impression on the president in 2018 when he said the Islamic State could be defeated in a week, according to the president.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has vowed to purge the Pentagon of what he has called “woke” policies and personnel, and to reshape the military’s top ranks.

Pete Hegseth supports cuts of up to 8% of civilian workforce as Trump bids to institute massive government cuts

Israeli officials were furious after Hamas returned what it said was the mother’s body, but then turned out to not be her. The bodies of her two children were returned Thursday.

The Supreme Court on Friday dashed President Donald Trump’s plan to immediately fire the head of an independent agency that investigates whistleblower claims, allowing Hampton Dellinger to remain in the job through at least the middle of next week.

A study in New York City found some kids with peanut allergies may overcome it by eating peanut butter under medical supervision.

The Trump administration fired Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel, who sued to overturn the decision.