World - Friday, May 22, 2026

President says ‘you don’t want to do it in Trump crowds’ as his speech to supporters in Rockland county, New York, disrupted twice by protesters US intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard leaving post after rocky tenure Sign up for the Breaking News US email “There’s broad recognition there are going to be eventually less US troops in Europe than historically,” Rubio says Rubio said he didn’t set the timeline for reducing the number of US troops in Europe , but “it has been an ongoing process that started from the first day of this administration.” Continue reading...

A federal judge says the Maryland man who was wrongfully deported last year is being prosecuted for political reasons.

President Trump said he would send 5,000 troops to Poland, part of a back-and-forth that has left European leaders reeling.

The launch is the 12th test flight of the mega-rocket that CEO Elon Musk is building to get people to Mars one day SpaceX launched its biggest, most powerful Starship yet on a test flight Friday, an upgraded version that Nasa is counting on to land astronauts on the moon. The redesigned mega-rocket made its debut two days after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced he’s taking the company public . It blasted off from the southern tip of Texas, carrying 20 mock Starlink satellites for release halfway around the world. Continue reading...

Alberta's decision to hold a referendum on separation has been widely criticised, including the separatists who say the question is not definitive enough.

Premier Danielle Smith announced that she would ask citizens to vote on whether they want to stay in Canada, or hold a referendum to secede.

Over 15 months, the ex-Democrat without an intelligence background took actions seemingly meant to flatter Trump Tulsi Gabbard’s tumultuous 15-month tenure as the nation’s top intelligence official ended Friday, when she submitted her resignation as director of national intelligence. Gabbard was an unconventional choice for the role: the former Democrat lacked an intelligence background and her foreign policy views at times diverged with Donald Trump, particularly on questions of overseas military intervention. And yet she also took unusual measures to ingratiate herself to the president by vowing to root out politicization across US spy agencies and embracing his agenda of election denial. Continue reading...

Change criticized by advocates marks the latest significant move by the Trump administration on immigration policy Foreigners seeking to adjust their immigration status in the United States to secure green cards will have to do so from outside the country via the state department, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said on Friday, in a move criticized by aid groups, policy analysts and immigration attorneys. USCIS announced the move in a policy memo, which directed officers to consider relevant factors and information on a case-by-case basis when determining whether extraordinary relief is warranted. Continue reading...

The detainees say they were slapped, hit, humiliated and even subjected to sexual violence, but Israel's prison service says the allegations are false.

Gabbard who has been largely out of public view during recent US operations says she is leaving due to her husband's illness.