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President Donald Trump on Friday said imports from China will face a new 100% tariff “over and above” existing import taxes on the world’s second-largest economy.

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday.

French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after he quit the job as the shortest-serving premier in France’s modern history, in a move that has deepened political turmoil across the country.

Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, best known for his dystopian and apocalyptic novel Satantango, has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy confirmed Thursday.

Authorities say Russia has attacked Ukraine’s power grid overnight into Sunday, part of what Kyiv calls an ongoing campaign to cripple the nation’s energy infrastructure before the onset of winter.

A coalition of left-leaning legal groups is attempting to block an Arkansas law that requires the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, launching yet another challenge in the broader cultural war over America’s religious heritage.

The U.S. government recorded a $316 billion budget deficit in May, the Treasury Department reported, marking a 9% year-over-year decline as rising revenues and calendar adjustments pointed to potential fiscal improvement. When accounting for timing shifts in benefit payments, the adjusted deficit narrowed to $219 billion, a 17% drop compared to May 2024.

In a striking shift after more than a decade of decline, a growing share of Americans now say religion is becoming more influential in American society, according to a new Gallup poll released Wednesday.

A federal appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners can remain in effect while legal challenges continue, handing a major procedural victory to the administration as it defends the tariffs as essential to national and economic security.

More than 1,500 protests are scheduled across the United States on Saturday, June 14, as part of the “No Kings Day of Defiance,” a nationwide demonstration aimed at opposing what organizers call the Trump administration’s growing authoritarianism. The mass movement will take place the same day President Donald Trump stages a multimillion-dollar military parade in Washington, D.C., celebrating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and his own 79th birthday.

Desperation and disorder continue to undermine humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza, where looters seized multiple aid trucks over the weekend, selling food at inflated prices amid growing hunger.

France is intensifying efforts to rally Western nations behind a coordinated recognition of a Palestinian state. It aims to make a joint announcement during a high-profile peace summit at the United Nations on June 17.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned the United States that it will bear full legal responsibility for any Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, escalating tensions amid reports that Israel is preparing for a potential strike if negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program collapse.

A suspected pro-Palestine activist is in custody Thursday after allegedly shooting dead two Israeli embassy staff members at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC, in an act of terrorism, authorities confirmed.

The Israeli military has defended its decision to fire warning shots near a large delegation of European and Arab diplomats on an official visit near the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank as they allegedly “deviated” from an agreed route.

Christians in eastern Uganda are facing a period of grief after a former Muslim couple and their adult son were reportedly burned to death for abandoning Islam and turning to faith in Christ.

The International Christian Concern persecution watchdog has released its Global Persecution Index annual report for 2025. Available for download on the ICC website, the Index provides an analysis of the causes of persecution in 20 countries, as well as testimonies of believers’ courage and resilience in the face of extreme hostility to Christianity.

An Assemblies of God (AG) evangelical church in Massachusetts has transformed its 100-year-old building into a warming center for the homeless and others battling the state’s frigid temperatures this winter, AG News reports.

Christians in Islamic-ruled Sudan were recovering from their injuries on Thursday after Muslim fighters reportedly attacked a church service in the nation’s Al Jazirah state with 14 Christians.

Christians in Pakistan’s Punjab province are mourning Suleman Masih, a 25-year-old Christian farmer, who they say was “brutally murdered” by “Muslim landlords” on New Year’s Day.