Plans for a Chinese Port in the Black Sea Roil Georgia Politics
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Plans for a Chinese Port in the Black Sea Roil Georgia Politics

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For more than a year, pro-Western marchers in Georgia, a former Soviet republic that borders Russia, have been accusing their government of allowing Moscow to increasingly reassert its sway over their country. But driving around this nation of 3.6 million people in the…

New Yorkers Protest as White House Defends Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia
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New Yorkers Protest as White House Defends Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As hundreds of demonstrators made their way through Lower Manhattan on Tuesday to protest the detention of a prominent pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University, the White House defended the arrest and rebuked the school for what it called lack of cooperation. The activist,…

Romania Bars Ultranationalist Candidate From Presidential Race
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Romania Bars Ultranationalist Candidate From Presidential Race

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Calin Georgescu, an ultranationalist candidate who won the first round of Romania’s abruptly aborted presidential election last year, has been barred from competing in a do-over vote scheduled for May, sparking a small but violent protest by his supporters in Bucharest, the Romanian…

Trump Pulled 0 million From Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next.
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Trump Pulled $400 million From Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump Administration’s abrupt withdrawal of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University cast a pall over at least nine other campuses worried they could be next. The schools, a mix that includes both public universities and Ivy League institutions, have been…

Echoing a Roman Emperor, Croatia Tries to Cap Soaring Prices
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Echoing a Roman Emperor, Croatia Tries to Cap Soaring Prices

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In 301 AD, the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address the inflation that was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire. Prices of everything from purple thread and feathers to slaves and cattle were dictated…

Rage Against Elon Musk Turns Tesla Into a Target
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Rage Against Elon Musk Turns Tesla Into a Target

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Tesla charging stations were set ablaze near Boston on Monday. Shots were fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon after midnight on Thursday. Arrests were made at a nonviolent protest at a Tesla dealership in Lower Manhattan on Saturday. The electric car company…

Deadly Clashes Pose Test for Syria’s New Leaders
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Deadly Clashes Pose Test for Syria’s New Leaders

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At least 16 security personnel were killed on Thursday by gunmen loyal to Syria’s ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad, a war monitor said, in one of the deadliest clashes for Syria’s new leaders since the collapse of the Assad government. The attack in Latakia…

Opinion | It’s Hard Not to Protest a Speech Like Trump’s Congress Speech
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Opinion | It’s Hard Not to Protest a Speech Like Trump’s Congress Speech

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines It may not have been the best possible day for President Trump to declare to Congress that “America’s momentum is back.” Just before he spoke, the stock market fell almost into correction territory, the result of deep concerns about his bizarre decision to…

Seven Prisoners Die as New York Guard Strikes Cause Widespread Disarray
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Seven Prisoners Die as New York Guard Strikes Cause Widespread Disarray

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At Adirondack Correctional Facility near the Canadian border, the job of delivering meals to hungry inmates fell suddenly to the prison’s superintendent and its teachers and counselors. At Auburn Correctional Facility in central New York, two ailing men died after not receiving medical…

Hundreds Gather at National Parks Across U.S. to Protest Job Cuts
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Hundreds Gather at National Parks Across U.S. to Protest Job Cuts

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday at national parks from California to Maine to protest the Trump administration’s firing of at least 1,000 National Park Service employees last month. A group called Resistance Rangers — consisting of about 700 off-duty rangers, including some…