US President Donald Trump has slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing the body of attacking Israel and the United States. In an executive order issued late on Thursday, Trump called the court “illegitimate” and placed financial and US visa restrictions on ICC staff and anyone assisting ICC investigations against the US and…

By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 24 Mar 202524 Mar 2025

President Donald Trump began his second term by issuing “full, complete and unconditional” pardons to about 1,500 individuals involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on the United States Capitol. He also commuted the sentences of 14 Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members who were convicted or charged with seditious conspiracy related to the violence….

The Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) has filed a lawsuit against the sport’s governing bodies, accusing them of anti-competitive practices and a disregard for player welfare. The PTPA, an independent players’ union co-founded by Novak Djokovic in 2019, said on Tuesday that after years of good-faith efforts to reform professional tennis, it had been forced…

United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to remove what he describes as “corrosive” anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum complex. In one of his latest executive orders signed on Thursday, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”, Trump placed Vice President JD Vance in charge of overseeing the…

United States President Donald Trump has announced that he is revoking former President Joe Biden’s access to intelligence briefings in his latest act of retribution against his rivals. Trump said on Friday that there was “no need” for Biden to keep his “security clearances” and that he was taking the action in response to his…