The Petersburg Post

Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports days after a shooting near the White House that left one National Guard member dead and another in critical condition. Investigators continued Saturday to seek a motive in the shooting, in which the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, now faces charges including first-degree ...

Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 - President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking  and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison. The president explained his decision on social media by posting that "according to many people that I greatly respect," Hernandez was "treated very harshly and unfairly." In March of ...

Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 - Global immunization efforts have led to an 88% drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2024, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). Nearly 59 million lives have been saved by the measles vaccine since 2000. However, an estimated 95 000 people, mostly children younger than 5 years of age, died due to measles in 2024. While this is among the lowest annual tolls recorded since 2000, ...

Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 - The US president claimed Joe Biden was "not involved" in signing the orders, without providing any evidence for his claims. Donald Trump has said he will cancel all executive orders that he claims were signed with an autopen by his predecessor Joe Biden. The US president alleged Mr Biden was "not involved" in signing the orders and claimed "the radical left lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk ...

Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 - Ukrainian anti-corruption units have raided the home of Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff, amid a major investigation into a $100 million energy sector corruption scandal involving top Ukrainian officials. Two national agencies fighting entrenched corruption in Ukraine said they had searched Yermak's office.  Yermak himself — a powerful figure in Ukraine and a key participant ...

Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 - Trump administration on Friday ordered US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers to stop making all asylum decisions, following the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington, DC. The pause comes after Wednesday's attack, which officials say was carried out by an Afghan man who received asylum earlier this year. One of the soldiers has died. The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the ...