President-elect Donald Trump said during his New York sentencing on Friday that the case has been a "terrible experience." Justice Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to unconditional discharge for 34 counts of falsifying business records. Appearing virtually from Florida, Trump said he was innocent and did nothing wrong. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said…

Four massive wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force. L.A. County fire chief Anthony Marrone says the Eaton Fire has killed at least 2 people and injured many more. The Palisades Fire has burned over 5,000 acres and is 0% contained. The cause of the fire is unknown. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland does not plan to pu…

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $20 billion new investment to build data centers across the United State. At a news conference at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said the investor is Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani, chairman of DAMAC properties. Social media giant Meta scrapped its U.S. fact-checking program for a com…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday that he will step down as leader of the ruling Liberals after nine years in office but will stay on in his post until the party chooses a replacement. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump asked a New York judge to delay his Jan. 10 sentencing on his criminal conviction on charges in the campai…

President Joe Biden on Friday followed through on his pledge to block Nippon Steel's $14.9 billion bid for U.S. Steel, citing concerns the deal could hurt national security. A Manhattan federal judge will consider a request by two Georgia election workers to hold former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in civil contempt for refusing to turn over p…

The New Orleans truck attack “was an act of terrorism,” Christopher Raia, deputy assistant director of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, said at a news conference on Thursday. He said the suspect had no known accomplices and that no definitive link between the New Orleans attack and the Las Vegas attack has yet been found. Meanwhile, the FBI con…

The FBI said that the suspect who drove a truck into a large crowd in New Orleans' French Quarter early on Wednesday has been confirmed dead. At least 10 people were killed and 26 injured in the incident. Ukraine has halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network after a prewar transit deal expired at the end of 2024…

Sydney welcomed 2025 with the city’s biggest-ever fireworks display, which featured a golden waterfall effect falling from the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge. A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early on Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate New Year’s Eve, leaving more than 1.3 million customers in the dark. Officials said it coul…

Jan. 9, 2025, will be a national day of mourning for former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The White House issued this proclamation following Carter's death on Sunday. President Joe Biden called on the American people to gather in places of worship on Jan. 9 to honor Carter. A federal appeals court has upheld a $5 million verdict that E. Jean Carroll…

The man accused of burning a woman to death inside a New York City subway train has been indicted on state charges, a prosecutor said on Friday, as authorities continue working to confirm the victim's identity. Azerbaijan Airlines said on Friday that preliminary results have shown that its plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day experienc…

Fourteen members of the Syrian police were killed in an "ambush" by forces loyal to the ousted Assad regime in the Tartous countryside, the transitional administration said early on Thursday. Elsewhere, demonstrations and an overnight curfew marked the most widespread unrest since Bashar al-Assad's removal more than two weeks ago. U.S. President-el…

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…