(CNN) Last month, Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson penned a first-person piece about her long year as “the federal government whisperer,” receiving tips from hundreds of federal workers affected by President Donald Trump’s transformation of the government.
Early Wednesday morning, FBI agents arrived at Natanson’s home and executed a search warrant. One phone and two computers were seized, the Post reported.
“This extraordinary, aggressive action is deeply concerning and raises profound questions and concern around the...
(New York Times) Bill and Hillary Clinton refused on Tuesday to testify in the House’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation, escalating a monthslong battle with its Republican leader, Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, who quickly said he would take steps to hold them in contempt of Congress.
“Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and its people, no matter the consequences,”...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Ugandan authorities have imposed a nationwide internet blackout days before presidential elections in which President Yoweri Museveni is expected to prolong his 40-year rule.
A government regulatory body instructed mobile network operators to block public internet access starting at 6 pm (15:00 GMT) on Tuesday. Internet monitor NetBlocks later confirmed a “nation-scale disruption to internet connectivity”.
The network outage has heightened concerns about repression in the run-up to the January 15 vote, in which...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned the United States that his country is ready for war if Washington wants to “test” it, after US President Donald Trump threatened to take military action in response to Iran’s crackdown on antigovernment protests.
In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera Arabic on Monday, Araghchi said channels of communication with the US were open amid the ongoing unrest but stressed that his country was “prepared for...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran’s state media say dozens of members of the security forces have been killed during protests against an economic crisis, as the parliament speaker warns the United States and Israel of retaliatory strikes if Washington attacks the country.
State television said on Sunday that 30 members of the police and security forces were killed in Isfahan province and six others in Kermanshah in western Iran in the latest riots.
The semiofficial Tasnim news...
(New York Times) 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 terrorist attack in the country.
About 20 Air Force attack planes, including F-15Es, A-10s and AC-130J gunships, as well as MQ-9 Reaper drones and Jordanian F-16 fighter jets fired more than 90 bombs...
(New York Times) Iran’s supreme leader vowed on Friday that the government would “not back down” in the face of protests that have rocked the country in recent weeks, as the country’s leadership threatened to escalate its crackdown on demonstrators.
“There are people whose job is only about destruction,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech in Tehran, the capital, as he accused the protesters of being vandals who were trying to “please” United States President...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) SDF fighters are refusing to leave the Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud areas in Aleppo and intend to “resist” the Syrian army encircling them.
The Operations Command of the Syrian Arab Army says its forces have started a military operation in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood of Aleppo after the expiration of the deadlines granted to the SDF fighters.
At least 22 people, including civilians, have been killed since violence flared up on Tuesday.
Nearly...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) US special forces commandeered a Russian-flagged oil tanker with links to Venezuela in the North Atlantic after a weeks-long pursuit, drawing a sharp rebuke from Moscow.
The US military’s European Command said the Marinera oil tanker, originally known as the Bella-1, was seized on Wednesday “for violations of US sanctions”.
“The blockade of sanctioned and illicit Venezuelan oil remains in FULL EFFECT – anywhere in the world,” US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States has raised the prospect of using military force to take control of Greenland as leaders in Europe and Canada rallied behind the Arctic territory, saying it belongs to its people.
In a statement on Tuesday, the White House said US President Donald Trump sees acquiring Greenland – which is part of Denmark – as a national security priority necessary to “deter our adversaries in the Arctic region”.
“The president...
