WASHINGTON — For those who may have sided with President Donald Trump, the message is becoming clear: Retribution is imminent. The Secret Service unit tasked with protecting Trump from Iranian murder threats was lost when former White House national security adviser John Bolton wrote a book that was critical of Trump's first term. Anthony Fauci, a public health scientist who Trump referred to as a disaster for his management of the COVID-19 outbreak and who has since been the focus of far-right ire, also lost his detail. (In reaction, Fauci has enlisted his own private security detail.) The Pentagon's walls suddenly lost an image of Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who broke with Trump over a photo op at a church during the George Floyd racial justice demonstra...

Beijing It might seem like there isn't much to chuckle about these days for Chinese women. As it pushes women to adopt conventional roles as spouses and mothers, the government is cracking down on feminist advocacy as the second-largest economy in the world struggles to recover from the pandemic. However, on a recent winter evening in Beijing, ladies were still laughing as amateur entertainers made jokes about work and family life to a small but attentive crowd of around 20 people, primarily young women, at a Western restaurant. Alex Wang, the sole female performer among the about six other performers that evening, claimed that when she took the stage for the first time a few years prior, she felt strong. In an interview following her performance, she stated that while being hilarious is...

On Saturday night, "Saturday Night Live" returned to more biting satire with a history lesson after marking the November election with a smirking kiss of President Donald Trump's ring. This time, James Austin Johnson's cocky, rambling Trump shut down Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda, who played a rapping founding father in "Hamilton" in the original production. For the cold open, Miranda's Hamilton appeared alongside a group of colonial figures wearing wigs. "What matters is the nation we build," he stated. "Because all men are equal in America." America, not England. We're working on the follow-up. We will have leaders, but there won't be just one. There will never be a king in America. Trump, played by Johnson, cut in and took charge. "Never say never," he added, "I'm kidding, of course,...

South Korea's SEOUL According to state media KCNA on Sunday, North Korea tested a strategic cruise missile on Saturday. According to the article, the test was supervised by Kim Jong Un, the nation's leader, and was characterized as a test-fire of a significant weapon system. Before striking their objectives, the 1,500-kilometer (about 932-mile) underwater-to-surface strategic cruise missiles flew between 7,507 and 7,511 seconds, according to KCNA. North Korea's foreign ministry promised the strongest retaliation against the US as long as Washington rejects Pyongyang's sovereignty in a separate KCNA report on Sunday. In a statement reported by KCNA, the ministry blamed the rising tensions in the region on the military alliance and joint exercises between South Korea and the United States....

According to Hannibal Mike Ware, the head of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, who was also sacked, President Donald Trump dismissed 18 inspectors general from the federal government on Friday. At least a dozen inspectors general have been sacked, a senior White House official had previously told NBC News. Inspectors general from the Department of Labor, the State Department, the Defense Department, and the Department of Health and Human Services were among those fired. The Justice Department and Homeland Security inspectors general were unaffected by the action. The White House official responded that the president was trying to get rid of aspects of the previous Biden administration that didn't fit with the new Trump administration when asked why the insp...

Fueled by strong winds and dry weather, a series of fierce wildfires broke out on January 7 and raged across the Los Angeles area, destroying hundreds of properties and killing at least 28 people, some of whom perished attempting to stop the fires from engulfing their homes. Two of the fires were linked to an undetermined number of serious injuries, according to a Los Angeles County fire official, while a city official in Los Angeles called the night of January 7 one of the most terrible and catastrophic she had ever witnessed in her area of the city. What we know about the flames is as follows. Where are the fires? On the morning of January 7, a brush fire broke out in Pacific Palisades, a suburb in Los Angeles east of Malibu. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protecti...

According to Hannibal Mike Ware, the head of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, who was also sacked, President Donald Trump dismissed 18 inspectors general from the federal government on Friday. At least a dozen inspectors general have been sacked, a senior White House official had previously told NBC News. Inspectors general from the Department of Labor, the State Department, the Defense Department, and the Department of Health and Human Services were among those fired. The Justice Department and Homeland Security inspectors general were unaffected by the action. The White House official responded that the president was trying to get rid of aspects of the previous Biden administration that didn't fit with the new Trump administration when asked why the insp...

With her new kidney, an Alabama woman has been healthy and energetic for 61 days and counting, marking a significant milestone as the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant. As she continues her recuperation, Towana Looney told The Associated Press, "I'm superwoman," chuckling about outperforming family members on lengthy hikes throughout New York City. It's a fresh perspective on life. The fight to make animal-to-human transplants a reality is boosted by Looney's full recovery. Only four other Americans—two hearts and two kidneys—have had extremely risky gene-edited pig organ transplants, and none of them have survived for longer than two months. According to Dr. Robert Montgomery of NYU Langone Health, who oversaw Looney's transplant, if you saw her on the street, you wouldn...

Fueled by strong winds and dry weather, a series of fierce wildfires broke out on January 7 and raged across the Los Angeles area, destroying hundreds of properties and killing at least 28 people, some of whom perished attempting to stop the fires from engulfing their homes. Two of the fires were linked to an undetermined number of serious injuries, according to a Los Angeles County fire official, while a city official in Los Angeles called the night of January 7 one of the most terrible and catastrophic she had ever witnessed in her area of the city. What we know about the flames is as follows. Where are the fires? On the morning of January 7, a brush fire broke out in Pacific Palisades, a suburb in Los Angeles east of Malibu. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protecti...

A senior White House official told NBC News that President Donald Trump fired at least 12 federal inspectors general on Friday. The Justice Department and Homeland Security inspectors general were unaffected by the action. The official responded that the president was trying to get rid of aspects of the previous Biden administration that didn't fit with the new Trump administration when asked why the inspectors general were sacked. The official stated, "We're clearing out everything that doesn't work for us and moving forward." Given that Congress reinforced safeguards against arbitrary terminations for inspectors general in its 2022 amendment to the Inspector General Act, the legal basis for the firings is unclear. The statute stipulates that the White House must provide Congress 30 days'...