A passenger jet crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, with many feared dead. The Azerbaijan Airlines flight went off course and officials did not immediately explain why, but the crash came shortly after drone strikes hit southern Russia. Top world leaders, including President Joe Biden, Pope Francis, Canadian Prime Minister Ju…

American Airlines on Tuesday lifted an hour-long ground stop of all its flights in the United States due to an unspecified technical issue, a notice on the U.S. aviation regulator's website showed. A U.S. NGO said that they believe the American journalist missing in Syria, Austin Tice, “is alive and we know that as a fact.” Meanwhile, protests brok…

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, pleaded not guilty on Monday to state murder charges that describe him as a terrorist. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) filed a lawsuit against the House Ethics Committee on Monday. The Committee subsequently released a repo…

The Congress was scrambling to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday, hours after more than three dozen Republicans rejected a demand by President-elect Donald Trump to use the measure to lift the nation's debt ceiling. The White House is abandoning its plan to cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans. This is the Biden admin…

A state appeals court on Thursday removed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election case against Donald Trump and others. The new ruling means it will be up to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia to find another prosecutor to take over the case. The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO will return t…

The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Wednesday to hear a bid by TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance to block a law intended to force the sale of the app by Jan. 19 or face a ban on national security grounds. Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) reaffirmed his innocence in a statement on social media Wednesday. He responded to earlier rep…

President-elect Donald Trump is suing the Des Moines Register for alleged election interference, according to the court filing. The lawsuit names the register and top pollster J. Ann Selzer over the newspaper's final presidential election poll. Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes told CNN that investigators are looking into online posts and a possible…

Together with President-elect Donald Trump, SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son announced a $100 billion investment in the United States over the next four years during a visit to Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Monday. Syria's former President Bashar al-Assad has issued his first statement since being toppled from power, saying he was evacuated…

Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered an injury on a trip to Luxembourg and has been admitted to a hospital for evaluation, her office said in a statement on Friday. Vice President-elect JD Vance has invited Daniel Penny to Saturday's Army-Navy game as a private guest. Penny was acquitted on Monday in a New York City su…

President-elect Donald Trump has been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for the second time. Time says that since he started running for president in 2015, it's likely that no single person has played a larger role in changing the course of politics and history than Trump. President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of around 1,500 indi…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is testifying before a House committee on Wednesday on the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. 13 U.S. service members were killed during the withdrawal, when ISIS-K suicide bombers attacked Abbey gate at Kabul airport. The Supreme Court is allowing investors to proceed with a class-action lawsuit against microchi…

The suspected killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was arrested on Monday, ending a five-day manhunt. Police say Luigi Mangione was apprehended in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He was found with a ghost gun, fake IDs, and evidence linking him to the New York shooting. NTD discusses the situation with Mike Leon, an NTD contributor…

Daniel Penny, the former U.S. Marine sergeant who used a chokehold to restrain Jordan Neely, a homeless man, on a New York City subway car was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide on Monday. The White House said officials are communicating with people on the ground in Syria to seek information about Austin Tice, an American journalist …

A federal appeals court panel upheld a law on Friday that could lead to a ban on TikTok within weeks. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied TikTok's petition to overturn the law—which requires TikTok to break ties with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or be banned by mid-January 2025. The jurors in Daniel Penny…

The gunman is still at large and a manhunt is underway Thursday after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in an ambush Wednesday in New York City. The New York Police Department released photos, asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the individual pictured. The acting director of the Secret Service, Ronald Rowe, test…

The CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was shot and killed in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning in what appears to have been a targeted attack as he was about to attend the company’s annual investor conference at the New York Hilton Hotel. The gunman remains on the loose and a manhunt is underway. President-elect Donald Trump announced o…

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday, vowing to eliminate “anti-state” forces as he struggles against an opposition that controls the country’s parliament and that he accuses of sympathizing with communist North Korea. The South Korean parliament has voted to defy the president and immediately lift his martial law de…

President Joe Biden began his long-promised visit to Africa on Monday to showcase a U.S.-backed railway project in Zambia, Congo, and Angola that he has pushed as a new approach in countering some of China's influence in the region. This marks the first time a U.S. president has visited Angola. Closing arguments are set for Monday in the trial of D…

According to the National Retail Federation, a record 183 million people are expected to shop in-store and online between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday this year. Despite the convenience and ease of online shopping, about two-thirds of black friday shoppers surveyed plan to shop in stores on Friday. At least six Democratic members of Congress from …

The White House announced on Wednesday that three American citizens imprisoned for years in China have been released and are returning to the United States in a prisoner swap negotiated by the Biden administration. Mark Swidan, Kai Li, and John Leung had been designated by the U.S. State Department as wrongfully detained. The Thanksgiving holiday r…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet was scheduled to convene on Tuesday to discuss a proposed cease-fire with the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist group. Among the remaining issues was Israel's demand to reserve the right to take military action should Hezbollah violate its obligations under the emerging deal. Mexico and C…

The Israeli ambassador to the U.S. said on Monday that a ceasefire deal to end fighting between Israel and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist group could be reached “within days.” Among the issues that remain is an Israeli demand to reserve the right to act should Hezbollah violate its obligations under the emerging deal. President Joe Biden tap…

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on Friday postponed sentencing in President-elect Donald Trump’s business records case indefinitely in light of Trump's election win. Merchan also granted Trump’s request to file a motion to dismiss the case, given that his team submit paperwork by Dec. 2. A second powerful wind storm is on track to hit t…

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister Yoav Gallant, as well as top Hamas leaders, over the Israel-Hamas war. Netanyahu condemned the arrest warrant against him, saying Israel “rejects with disgust the absurd and false actions.” Ukraine claimed T…

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to serve as U.S. ambassador to NATO. In a statement, Trump said Whitaker was "a strong warrior and loyal Patriot." He said Whitaker would advance and defend the interests of the United States while strengthening existing relationships with America's NATO allies. Th…