MAY 2025 NEWS

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A letter to federal agencies will instruct them to end contracts, totaling about $100 million. It is meant to sever the government’s remaining ties with Harvard. 

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a Massachusetts student's challenge to his middle school’s prohibition on him wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan “There are only two genders. ”The case arose from student Liam Morrison’s dispute with Nichols Middle School in Middleborough.

King Charles III will deliver a speech to Canada's Parliament on Tuesday, which is expected to support the country's sovereignty in the face of President Trump's annexation threats. Why it matters: Charles' visit comes as American-Canadian relations have splintered because of Trump's repeated annexation threats and tariff policies.

As Washington settled in for a typically sleepy Memorial Day following the passage of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in the House, the president fired off one of his trademark furious rants on Truth Social, but the target was a surprise. Sunday evening’s rant was aimed squarely at Russian President Vladimir Putin. Despite what he called a “very good relationship” with Putin, Trump in his latest statement on the Ukraine-Russia war blasted the Russian leader as “absolutely crazy.” 

White House reporters who covered the Biden administration are speaking out about whether they were duped into thinking the president was mentally fit for office and if West Wing staffers attempted to hide the truth from Americans. CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson's "Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," was released on Tuesday and has created plenty of chatter among the White House press corps while putting the issue back at the forefront.

National Public Radio and three Colorado public radio stations are suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order to cut federal funding for public broadcasting, NPR said on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump's order against NPR and fellow public broadcaster PBS earlier this month barring the use of Congressionally appropriated funds violated the First Amendment, it said.

The CDC has removed the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women from its recommended immunization schedule, Trump Administration officials announced Tuesday in a video on X. The announcement was made by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Administrator Martin Makary. "There's no evidence that healthy kids need it today and most countries have stopped recommending it for children," Makary said in the video announcement.

As Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker positions himself as the foil to President Donald Trump, a look at his record as governor is telling. What it is telling is not good.  Gov. J.B. Pritzker is raising his national profile as he ponders becoming a candidate in the 2028 presidential primary, but his time leading Illinois offers plenty of evidence about his ability to govern effectively. 

Rep. Jasmine Crockett says it is time for Republicans to start calling out Trump and to ‘start questioning his mental acuity’ and ‘whether or not he is mentally equipped to serve.’ 

The mood in Liverpool had been jubilant. Paul O’Brien and his family had flown in from Ireland to celebrate their soccer team’s Premier League title. “Everyone’s singing all day, everyone having a good time, everyone talking to one another,” Mr. O’Brien recalled. “And then…”Standing along Water Street in the heart of Liverpool on Monday, Mr. O’Brien, his son and his parents suddenly found themselves being shoved, hard, by a surging crowd. Out of nowhere, a dark-color car was barreling down a street jammed with pedestrians.

Swedish authorities have charged a convicted terrorist over the 2015 killing of a Jordanian pilot who was burned to death in Syria. Osama Krayem, 32 - a Swedish citizen - was on Tuesday charged with war and terrorism crimes relating to the death of Moaz al-Kasasbeh. Krayem is currently in prison after being convicted for his role in the 2015 and 2016 terror attacks in Paris and Brussels respectively.

 On Sunday, French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, embarked on a state visit to Vietnam when a bizarre chain of events took place. In footage captured by the Associated Press, the couple appear caught up in a heated exchange just before Macron, as TMZ puts it, got “smacked right in the noggin” by his wife 

A controversial new aid distribution group backed by the US and Israel has begun working in Gaza. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said lorry loads of food had been delivered to secure sites on Monday and that distribution had begun. Hundreds of Palestinians collected food parcels from a site in southern city of Rafah on Tuesday.

A former top aid to Sean “Diddy” Combs testified Tuesday at his sex trafficking trial that the music mogul threatened her with death on her first day on the job and later kidnapped her at gunpoint to join him in an effort to kill rapper Kid Cudi. 

It's the last day to book a flight on Southwest Airlines without being hit with a fee to check bags after the airline abandoned a decades-long luggage policy that executives once described as key to differentiating the budget carrier from its rivals.The airline announced the change in March, saying at the time that the the new policy would start with flights booked on Wednesday. Southwest said Tuesday that it will be charging $35 for a first checked bag and $45 for a second checked bag. Weight and size limits will apply for bags.

After Kamala Harris entered the presidential race last year, she reached out to Barack Obama campaign alum Jim Messina to help lead her White House bid. But when Messina shared news of the vice president’s offer with a friend, he received a stern warning.

Psalm West’s birthday party was out of this world. In honor of her youngest turning 6, Kim Kardashian—who is also mom to kids North West, 11, Saint West, 9, and Chicago West, 9, with ex-husband Kanye West—hosted an epic Deadpool & Wolverine-themed celebration at an arcade.

Jennifer Garner has revealed that she “lost a friend” in the Los Angeles wildfires that have displaced over 130,000 and killed at least 10 people. Speaking to MSNBC while volunteering in the Pacific Palisades area with Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen, the actress said, “I did lose a friend, and for our church, it’s really tender so I don’t feel like we should talk about it yet. I did lose a friend. She didn’t get out in time.”