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by Valentín DÌAZ

Colombia on Monday sent two military aircraft to repatriate migrants from the United States after being forced to back down in a blazing row over deportations with President Donald Trump.

As the federal government looks at ways to cut costs and fund Trump-administration measures, a congressional committee is considering a cut that could take billions from school breakfast and lunch programs.

That cut could impact more than 280,000 students in Ohio alone, and 728 schools in the state, according to data from the Food Research & Action Center.

by Marisol RIFAI

A Frenchman is set to stand trial on Wednesday accused of fatally stabbing his former partner, who had complained of enduring years of abuse and repeatedly reported him to the authorities over his harassment.

Firefighters were desperately trying to stop a cluster of fast-moving blazes in southeast Australia on Tuesday, as thousands of acres of national park burned and a farming community was forced to evacuate.

Lightning strikes on Monday evening ignited several fires in the Grampians National Park, a forested mountain range about 300 kilometres (186 miles) west of Victoria's state capital Melbourne.

Nepali airlines have resumed rescue helicopter flights to the Everest region, an aviation industry official announced Tuesday, following weeks of suspension prompted by protests from locals citing environmental impact and loss of income from trekkers.

Helicopters are a key means of transport and crucial for emergency rescue in many remote regions around mountainous Nepal, vast stretches of which are often inaccessible by road.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen met on Tuesday in a show of unity after U.S. President Donald Trump again stressed his designs on Greenland.

Trump has signaled his desire for the Arctic island, which is believed to hold large untapped mineral and oil reserves, to become part of the United States.

by Sara HUSSEIN

Having shattered assumptions in the tech sector and beyond about the cost of artificial intelligence, Chinese startup DeepSeek's new chatbot is now roiling another industry: energy companies.

A pause to all government grants and loans – estimated to be in the trillions of dollars – sent Capitol Hill into a tizzy on Monday as confusion swirled around the order sent across federal agencies, media reports say.

In an internal memo that circulated Monday, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget Matthew J. Vaeth directed federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance,” according to the Washington Post, which obtained a copy of the two-page document.

by Léon BRUNEAU

Tariffs, just as they were during his first term from 2017 to 2021, are Trump's weapon of choice on the global stage.

Career attorneys and Justice Department staff are said to be rattled by the sea of changes upending the agency in President Donald Trump’s first week in office, as they struggle to adjust to the new reality.

The latest development affecting the department – which Trump spent four years blasting as overly political as it pursued criminal cases against him – came Monday when he fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked with special counsel Jack Smith on Trump’s charges.

President Donald Trump has ordered a halt to a decades-old program dating back to the George W. Bush administration that has saved millions of lives abroad by distributing HIV medications to low-income countries, The New York Times reported — "even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics."

The shutdown of the program, known as the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, is part of a broader directive by the Trump administration to suspend nearly all foreign aid, except for emergency food assistance and arms deals for Egypt and Israel. It also comes amid Trump's move to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, which many in the GOP have accused of being overly protective of the Chinese government during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Minnesota Senate Republicans tried to expel Sen. Nicole Mitchell, DFL-Woodbury, from the chamber Monday, arguing that her felony burglary charge restricts her from adequately representing her constituents and that the nature of the allegations is unbecoming of a Minnesota senator.

Mitchell’s trial for the burglary charge was scheduled to begin Monday, but lawyers for Mitchell successfully delayed it until after the Legislature adjourns on May 19. In their motion to delay, Mitchell’s lawyers cited a 2007 appellate ruling stating that legal proceedings involving legislators should be delayed until after the legislative session to ensure constituents still receive representation.

by Nicolas REVISE

The project at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (MJH) in New York saw 10 survivors undertake interviews on a range of topics to allow future visitors to question their virtual likenesses about their experiences.