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FILE - People take photos near a John Harvard statue, left, on the Harvard University campus, Jan. 2, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Trump administration threatens further sanctions in escalating fight with Harvard

4:28 PM on Friday, September 19

The Trump administration escalated its fight with Harvard University on Friday, placing the Ivy League school under extra financial oversight and threatening sanctions if it does not provide additional data on its admissions practices

FILE - The Supreme Court Building is seen in Washington on March 28, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strip legal protections from Venezuelan migrants

3:41 PM on Friday, September 19

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court for an emergency order allowing it to strip legal protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants

Deep South mayors discuss building prosperous communities at economic growth conference

2:09 PM on Friday, September 19

Mayors of cities across the Deep South gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, this week for a conference about building prosperous communities in Southern states

Senate confirms Mike Waltz as Trump's US ambassador to the United Nations

2:07 PM on Friday, September 19

Senate confirms Mike Waltz as Trump's US ambassador to the United Nations

FILE - Chad's President General Mahamat Idriss Deby arrives at the 19th Francophonie Summit, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)

Chad's opposition leader accuses the government of crackdown on dissent

11:54 AM on Friday, September 19

A Chadian opposition leader has accused the country's government of targeting opposition figures in a crackdown, and alleged that he was mistreated during eight months he was in custody in Chad

Belarus expels Czech diplomat in tit-for-tat move after Prague makes spy ring accusations

11:54 AM on Friday, September 19

Belarus has expelled a Czech diplomat in a tit-for-tat move amid deteriorating relations between Minsk and European Union nations

FILE - U.S. passports are arranged for a photograph in Tigard, Ore., Dec. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Trump asks the Supreme Court to allow him to enforce transgender and nonbinary passport policy

11:47 AM on Friday, September 19

President Donald Trump’s administration is asking the Supreme Court to let it enforce a passport policy for transgender and nonbinary people requiring male or female sex designations based on birth certificates

In this photo released by Pakistan's Press Information Department, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, second right, Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Khalid bin Salman, left, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, second left, and Pakistan's Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, pose for photographs after signing a mutual defense pact, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (Press Information Department via AP)

Pakistan says its nuclear program can be made available to Saudi Arabia under defense pact

5:06 AM on Friday, September 19

Pakistan’s defense minister says that his nation’s nuclear program “will be made available” to Saudi Arabia if needed under the countries’ new defense pact

FILE - The Iranian flag flies in front of a U.N. building where closed-door nuclear talks take place at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, on June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

UN Security Council votes against lifting Iran 'snapback' sanctions ahead of deadline

12:10 AM on Friday, September 19

A U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at halting the reimposition of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program failed

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