President Joe Biden's administration has allowed Ukraine to use U.S.-made weapons to strike deep into Russia, two U.S. officials and a source
November 17, 2024
Opposition protesters in Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia have refused to cede control of key government buildings seized during rallies on Friday during which at least 14 people were injured in clashes with police
November 17, 2024
The lawyer for Pete Hegseth says that Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault to head off the threat of a baseless lawsuit
November 17, 2024
As attorney general, Gaetz would go from being under DOJ scrutiny to leading the nation’s top law enforcement agency
November 17, 2024
Republican U.S.
November 17, 2024
Democrats fell short again in wresting away swing-state prize North Carolina from Republicans in the presidential election
November 17, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his conversation with Vladimir Putin on Friday had given no indication of a shift in the Russian President's thinking on the war
November 17, 2024
Court orders South Africa police to end standoff with illegal miners
November 17, 2024
Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s attacks in Gaza constitute genocide
November 17, 2024
Massive Russian strikes across Ukraine trigger blackouts and kill at least five people
November 17, 2024
A Ukrainian official says a Russian strike on a nine-story building in the city of Sumy killed eight people and wounded dozens, as Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack described by officials as the largest in recent months
November 17, 2024
Trump’s defense secretary nominee paid accuser but denies sexual assault, attorney says
November 17, 2024
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the conventional wisdom was that the capital, Kyiv, would soon fall and the rest of the country wouldn’t last long against a much larger enemy
November 17, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping told his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden that the issues of Taiwan, democracy, human rights and rights to development are "red lines" for China and not to
November 17, 2024
Trump is determined to see Gaetz confirmed as AG despite controversies
November 16, 2024
Former US Attorney Harry Litman discusses how officials inside the Department of Justice are reacting to President-elect Trump picking Matt Gaetz to be attorney general.
November 16, 2024
Two flash bombs were fired towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in the northern Israeli town of Caesarea on Saturday and fell into the garden, police said.
November 16, 2024
Venezuela’s government has released some of the thousands of people who were detained during and after deadly protests that followed the July presidential election
November 16, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump attended the UFC heavyweight championship clash at Madison Square Garden
November 16, 2024
DOJ opens civil rights investigation of Illinois sheriff’s office after shooting of Sonya Massey
November 16, 2024
Israeli troops make deepest incursion so far into southern Lebanon as Hezbollah considers fresh ceasefire proposal
November 16, 2024
Zelensky says Ukraine war will end ‘faster’ under Trump presidency
November 16, 2024
Trump looms over Biden’s final meeting with Xi in Peru
November 16, 2024
Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies on Saturday reiterated a pledge to keep imposing severe costs on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, through sanctions, export
November 16, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia’s war in Ukraine will end “faster” when Donald Trump takes over as US president. National security analyst Beth Sanner says Zelensky is signaling to the incoming president that he is willing to go to the negotiating table.
November 16, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Saturday to work with the incoming U.S. administration of Donald Trump
November 16, 2024
Conservative lawmakers in the Polish parliament exulted at Donald Trump’s victory
November 16, 2024
Japan’s foreign minister has arrived in Kyiv to discuss North Korea’s deepening military alliance with Russia, including the deployment of thousands of troops to support Moscow’s war in Ukraine
November 16, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine must do all it can to ensure the war with Russia ends next year through diplomacy, commenting at a decisive moment after Donald
November 16, 2024
Some families of the 101 hostages still being held in Gaza are desperately hoping that a drastically different political landscape will be able to reignite the momentum to bring their loved ones home
November 16, 2024
After one of the most chaotic and least productive U.S. House sessions in modern history, voters made a surprising choice in elections — they overwhelmingly stuck with the status quo
November 16, 2024
China’s leader Xi Jinping met for the last time with U_S_ President Joe Biden but was already looking ahead to President-elect Donald Trump and his “America first” policies, saying Beijing “is ready to work with a new administration.”
November 16, 2024
Woman told House Ethics Committee she saw Gaetz have sex with a minor, lawyer says
November 16, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in their first meeting that China hoped Japan would "properly handle" major issues such as history and
November 16, 2024
A U.S. official says Iran successfully sought a meeting with Elon Musk in a step that appeared aimed at easing tensions with President-elect Donald Trump
November 16, 2024
The usual suspects abstained from voting on a seemingly uncontroversial United Nations resolution that denounced violence against women and girls on Thursday — Iran, Russia, North Korea
November 16, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump picked Fox News host and army veteran Pete Hegseth as the U.S. Defense Secretary. CNN’s Alex Marquardt explains why this move is controversial.
November 15, 2024
A government crisis in the Netherlands was avoided in a tense emergency meeting on Friday, as a cabinet member resigned over the government's handling of violence involving fans
November 15, 2024
Israel’s war conduct in Gaza ‘consistent with the characteristics of genocide,’ UN Special Committee finds
November 15, 2024
Elon Musk's political ascendancy has some Wall Street banks hoping they may soon be able to offload $13 billion of debt that backed the billionaire's
November 15, 2024
If confirmed as Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F
November 15, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson says that he will “strongly request” that the House Ethics Committee not release the results of its investigation into ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz
November 15, 2024
A former City Hall fundraiser was sentenced for arranging a $500,000 bribe for now-imprisoned ex-Los Angeles City Councilman José Huizar.
November 15, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump said Friday that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Trump’s choice to head the Interior Department, will also head a newly created National Energy Council that will seek to establish U.S. “energy dominance” around the world
November 15, 2024
Three daughters of Malcolm X are accusing multiple law enforcement agencies in a $100 million lawsuit of playing roles in the 1965 assassination of the civil rights leader
November 15, 2024
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that a legislative subpoena cannot be used to stop an execution, putting a decisive end to a legal battle that halted the scheduled execution of Robert Roberson last month
November 15, 2024
Texas Supreme Court clears way for new execution date for Robert Roberson in 2-year-old daughter’s death
November 15, 2024
President Vladimir Putin told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday that Russia was ready to look at energy deals if Berlin was interested, the Kremlin said, in their first phone
November 15, 2024
The family of Malcolm X, a militant civil-rights leader who was assassinated almost 60 years ago, filed a $100-million federal lawsuit on Friday that accuses the FBI, CIA and
November 15, 2024
The Marshall Project reports on the evolving perception and status of the right for death penalty defendants to present mitigating evidence that could sway a jury.
November 15, 2024
A judge has scheduled a trial for April for three former Memphis police officers charged with murder in the beating of Tyre Nichols
November 15, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the German chancellor's phone call with Russia's leader on Friday opened a "Pandora's box" that undermined efforts
November 15, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin in what appeared to be the first conversation with the sitting leader of a major Western power in nearly two years
November 15, 2024
Allies of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen have accused the judiciary of a witch-hunt and undue meddling in democracy after prosecutors requested she face
November 15, 2024
Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday for the first time in nearly two years as the German leader gears up
November 15, 2024
Lebanon ceasefire talks intensify as Hezbollah considers new US-Israeli proposal
November 15, 2024
President Joe Biden praised the cooperation between South Korea, Japan and the U_S_ at countering what he described as North Korea’s “dangerous and destabilizing cooperation with Russia.”
November 15, 2024
Workers at Canada’s national postal service are on strike after failing to reach a negotiated agreement with Canada Post
November 15, 2024
Protesters opposing a measure allowing Russians to buy property in the Georgian territory of Abkhazia stormed the separatist republic’s parliament building and presidential office and clashed with police
November 15, 2024
Jared Kushner expected to be pivotal to Trump admin’s Middle East efforts without taking a formal job
November 15, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday he has selected Robert F.
November 15, 2024
Iran will support any decision taken by the Lebanese government and Lebanon's "resistance" in current talks on a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, Ali Larijani, senior
November 15, 2024
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, asked Iran to help secure a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah
November 15, 2024
Evidence in trial of man accused of killing Laken Riley will show the Georgia student ‘fought for her life,’ prosecutors say
November 15, 2024
A failed bomb attack on Brazil's Supreme Court looks set to re-unite Brasilia against far-right radicalism and scuttle a possible comeback by
November 15, 2024
Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks
November 15, 2024
Russians focus on Musk as they assess incoming Trump administration
November 15, 2024
Croatian Health Minister Vili Beros was fired on Friday after being arrested on suspicion of corruption, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said.
November 15, 2024
Germany's conservative opposition leader and possible next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said further discussions on policy must wait until after a confidence vote is held on Dec. 16,
November 15, 2024
The European Union needs to reconsider sanctions against Russia as they are keeping energy prices elevated, hindering the bloc's economic competitiveness, Hungarian Prime Minister
November 15, 2024
Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris' Fine Gael party holds a six-point lead over both its main coalition partner Fianna Fail and the main opposition party Sinn Fein, the first opinion
November 15, 2024
A South Korean court has handed opposition leader Lee Jae-myung a suspended prison sentence after finding him guilty of violating election law
November 15, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump's pick of Sen. Marco Rubio to become U.S. secretary of state is likely to jolt Latin America after decades of neglect from Washington
November 15, 2024
After a resounding election victory, President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans say they have a mandate to govern
November 15, 2024
Sen. John Thune speaks after winning a Senate leadership race to become the first new GOP leader in 18 years. Thune, who won a vote 29-24 in the second round of voting, will officially become majority leader when the new Senate is sworn in on January 3.
November 15, 2024
RFK Jr.'s sister, Kerry Kennedy, explains why she doesn't trust her brother to run a health agency in the US and issues a warning about President-elect Donald Trump.
November 15, 2024
The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a two-thirds majority in parliament, according to official election results, providing a strong mandate for his program for economic revival
November 15, 2024
China said on Friday the Philippines had sent supplies to a warship grounded on Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed atoll in the South China Sea.
November 15, 2024
Donald Trump has met at his Mar-a-Lago club with Argentine President Javier Milei, the first foreign leader to meet with the president-elect since his victory in last week’s election
November 15, 2024
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on Thursday said he hoped Marco Rubio, the nominee for U.S. secretary of state, would pursue a policy of "peace through strength" amid questions of
November 14, 2024
U.S.
November 14, 2024
Trump picks his criminal defense attorneys Todd Blanche and John Sauer for key Justice Department posts
November 14, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Tulsi Gabbard as U.S. intelligence chief has sent shockwaves through the national
November 14, 2024
Eligible homeowners in California may receive tax rebates of up to $8,000 to install heat pumps in their residences, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday.
November 14, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump selected Robert F.
November 14, 2024
Biden set to meet with world leaders who have already moved on to Trump
November 14, 2024
The Palm Springs city council on Thursday unanimously approved a $5.9 million reparations settlement with former residents of a largely Black neighborhood that was leveled in
November 14, 2024
Trump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary
November 14, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump is considering recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for some of the most powerful positions in the U.S. government
November 14, 2024
United Nations special rapporteur for torture Alice Edwards said on Thursday she is alarmed over allegations that Ecuador's former Vice President Jorge Glas was suffering torture
November 14, 2024
Germany needs to step up its role in defence if the U.S. is to focus less on Europe, defence minister Boris Pistorius said on Thursday, adding it will take a modification of the
November 14, 2024
Nearly 90 congressional Democrats call on Biden to sanction far-right Israeli ministers
November 14, 2024
Democrat Janelle Bynum has flipped Oregon’s 5th Congressional District
November 14, 2024
Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz's nomination for attorney general is being met with a variety of reactions from Republicans, including cautious reservation, praise and pointed criticism
November 14, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is planning to kill the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of
November 14, 2024
U.S. Justice Department officials said jail officials in Georgia’s most populous county violate the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence, using excessive force and holding them in filthy and unsafe conditions
November 14, 2024
Sri Lanka's president's coalition, the National People's Power (NPP) posted an early lead in a parliamentary election, local television channel Ada Derana said on Thursday.
November 14, 2024
Greece is in talks with Israel to develop a 2 billion euro ($2.11 billion) anti-aircraft and missile defence dome, part of a wider push to modernise its armed
November 14, 2024
Israel expects the incoming Trump administration to take a hard line against Iran and its nuclear ambitions, which will create an opportunity for more peace deals with Arab
November 14, 2024
Marine Le Pen’s next bid for French presidency threatened as prosecutors seek political ban
November 14, 2024
Romania's leftist Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and the head of an opposition far-right party are in the lead ahead of a presidential election this month and so would face each
November 14, 2024
Southeast Asia’s most populous nation is seeking a role as a regional leader − it may look more to Beijing than Washington to help that happen.
November 14, 2024
The election proved the media is in crisis. Here’s what it needs to do to regain its relevance
November 14, 2024
The Supreme Court’s approach toward religion in schools has been shifting, adding to uncertainty about legislation such as Louisiana’s.
November 14, 2024
Suicides in the U.S. military increased in 2023, continuing a long-term trend that the Pentagon has struggled to abate
November 14, 2024
A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers ejected Thursday amid debate over a controversial proposed law redefining the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown
November 14, 2024
Turkey and Qatar signed a series of agreements on Thursday ranging from trade facilitation to military and technical cooperation during Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al
November 14, 2024
Russia is open to negotiations on an end to the Ukraine war if initiated by U.S.
November 14, 2024
President Joe Biden heads to South America on Thursday for a curtain call with global leaders after over 50 years in U.S. politics, but the man he tried and
November 14, 2024
Trump’s Pentagon pick aims for clash with top military leadership
November 14, 2024
Dutch authorities on Thursday said they were investigating reports of police violence against pro-Palestinian protesters after a banned rally on Wednesday evening had been broken
November 14, 2024
Protecting Trump in a second administration presents unprecedented security challenges
November 14, 2024
Just hours after Republican Sen. John Thune was elected as the incoming Senate majority leader, President-elect Donald Trump presented him with one of his first tests — an announcement that he intends to nominate House Republican Matt Gaetz as attorney general
November 14, 2024
Ukrainian soldiers on the front know that the reelection of Donald Trump will change their lives, but most say that they can't afford to lose focus on their more urgent mission: holding back Russian forces
November 14, 2024
More than 1 million migrants are living and working legally in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status
November 14, 2024
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of mass displacement in Gaza amounting to a war crime
November 14, 2024
The Human Rights Watch published a 154-page report claiming Israel has overseen the forced mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, which the Israeli military denies, saying it is “committed to international law and operates accordingly.” CNN International Correspondent Jeremy Diamond reports.
November 14, 2024
Donald Trump has had few defenders in Congress as reliable as Matt Gaetz
November 14, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump is likely to pick Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as his secretary of state, two people familiar with his thinking told CNN, as he rounds out his national security team in a second term. CNN's Kaitlan Collins discusses with chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto.
November 14, 2024
Ice cream brand Ben & Jerry's said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that parent company Unilever has silenced its attempts to express support for Palestinian
November 14, 2024
Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party’s sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-elect Donald Trump
November 14, 2024
Donald Trump’s return to the White House has made many countries anxious and recalculating where they stand with the U.S., but India appears to be welcoming the change that may embolden nationalist leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi
November 14, 2024
House GOP leadership announces new rules package raising motion to vacate threshold
November 14, 2024
Trump considering his lawyer Todd Blanche for deputy attorney general, sources say
November 14, 2024
Sri Lankans have voted in a parliamentary election that's key for their new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his party’s power and follow through on promises of economic recovery
November 14, 2024
A Federal Reserve official has given a lengthy defense of the central bank's political independence
November 14, 2024
Democratic lawmakers who wield control of the Virginia Legislature are hoping to make good on promises made on the campaign trail, including becoming the first Southern state to expand constitutional protections for abortion access
November 14, 2024
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul says he was briefly detained by police at an airport near Washington, D
November 14, 2024
Senate race in Pennsylvania heads to a recount
November 13, 2024
Rep. Matt Gaetz, a firebrand from Florida who was himself investigated by the Justice Department, is Trump's choice to lead it.
November 13, 2024
Protests have erupted in Paris against a controversial gala organized by far-right figures in support of Israel
November 13, 2024
Elise Stefanik, Trump’s pick for UN ambassador, declines to stand by previous support for Ukraine joining NATO
November 13, 2024
Israel says it has expanded its military ground operation in Lebanon
November 13, 2024
Choosing billionaire Elon Musk to be what President-elect Donald Trump calls “our cost cutter” for the U.S. government, is not the first time an American president has empowered a business tycoon to look for ways to dramatically cut federal regulations
November 13, 2024
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has proposed that the bloc suspend a political dialogue with Israel, citing possible human rights violations in
November 13, 2024
The Republican-led Ohio Senate has approved a bill banning transgender students from using bathrooms that fit their gender identities
November 13, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump's selection of Pete Hegseth as U.S. defense secretary was met on Wednesday with surprise at the
November 13, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to be the next director of national intelligence
November 13, 2024
Trump picks Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general
November 13, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has selected Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as his attorney general. CNN's Paula Reid reports and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) joins CNN News Central to weigh in on the news.
November 13, 2024
Theodore Olson, Attorney Who Helped Overturn CA Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Dies
November 13, 2024
Pennsylvania district attorney suing to allow medical marijuana users to buy, own guns
November 13, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has named Sen. Marco Rubio as his choice for secretary of state
November 13, 2024
A federal inspector general has exonerated two U.S. Park Police officers who fatally shot a Virginia man after a highway chase seven years ago
November 13, 2024
Donald Trump returned to Washington on Wednesday as president-elect where he headed to the White House for the first time in four years
November 13, 2024
The United Nations and other international organizations are looking at new uncertainties with Donald Trump returning to the White House
November 13, 2024
The jury that convicted Robert Menendez of corruption was allowed to review improper evidence during deliberations, but the error does not justify overturning the
November 13, 2024
Republican majorities in both chambers of the U.S.
November 13, 2024
Republicans will retain House majority, CNN projects, completing GOP’s dominance of Washington
November 13, 2024
Israeli officials are insisting on maintaining a capacity to strike Lebanon at any moment as part of conditions to secure a ceasefire with Iran-backed Hezbollah, France's foreign
November 13, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and Army veteran, to serve as his secretary of defense. CNN's Kaitlan Collins and former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger discuss.
November 13, 2024
European powers are pushing for a new resolution against Iran by the U.N. atomic watchdog's board next week to pressure Tehran over its poor
November 13, 2024
President Joe Biden will hold talks this week with China’s Xi Jinping on the sidelines of an international summit in Peru
November 13, 2024
President Joe Biden met with President-elect Donald Trump and said that he looks forward to a “smooth transition” in January, adding he will “make sure” his predecessor and successor is accommodated as he retakes the White House in January.
November 13, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced he will ask for a vote of confidence in December, setting the path for an early election in February
November 13, 2024
U.S. Representative-elect Kelly Morrison, an OB-GYN, readies for first term in Congress
November 13, 2024
Tracking Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and administration
November 13, 2024
The US says Israel is doing enough to bring aid into Gaza. On the ground it is a different story
November 13, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has tasked billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk with setting up a panel to streamline the U.S. government.
November 13, 2024
A tribunal in Argentina has upheld a six-year sentence term and lifetime ban from holding public office sentence against former President Cristina Fernández, a dominant political leader in recent years in the South American country
November 13, 2024
Israel rejected on Wednesday accusations made by eight international aid groups, including Oxfam and Save the Children, that Israel had failed to meet U.S. demands
November 13, 2024
After election loss, GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde refuses to concede
November 13, 2024
CNN economics and political commentator Catherine Rampell and Financial Times Associate Editor Ronan Foroohar join CNN’s Kaitlin Collins to discuss President-elect Donald Trump’s declared economic policies.
November 13, 2024
UN sounds alarm at Israel’s ‘severe violations’ at key buffer zone with Syria
November 13, 2024
Democratic governors and attorneys general are set to reprise their roles in battling President-elect Trump's policies
November 13, 2024
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is expected to join President-elect Donald Trump at the meeting of U.S.
November 13, 2024
CNN political commentators Van Jones and David Urban discuss President-elect Trump's pick Pete Hegseth, a Fox News anchor and outspoken booster of the president-elect, for secretary of defense.
November 13, 2024
A CIA employee accused of leaking classified information assessing Israel’s earlier plans to attack Iran has been ordered by a federal judge to face felony charges in Virginia
November 13, 2024
The Democrats’ loss of the White House has provoked major soul-searching among party members. A scholar recommends a review of history to avoid catastrophizing.
November 13, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that he will ask for a vote of confidence on Dec. 16, paving the way forward for an early parliamentary election in February
November 13, 2024
Special counsel Jack Smith looking at stepping down before Trump takes office and is discussing how to end prosecutions
November 13, 2024
Advocates of Jewish settlement in the West Bank believe they have reason to celebrate after Donald Trump's election win
November 13, 2024
US defense contractor to pay former Iraqi detainees $42 million for its role in torture at notorious Abu Ghraib prison
November 13, 2024
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON -He's a wealthy Floridian who has taken aim at fellow Republicans while pushing to consolidate power in Washington, and his name is not Donald Trump.
November 13, 2024
India's Supreme Court on Wednesday strongly criticised states which were demolishing properties of suspected criminals, a practise critics say targets mostly minority Muslims, and
November 13, 2024
World leaders are heading to South America for twin summits this month, with one major theme dominating: Donald Trump 2.0.
November 13, 2024
U.S.
November 13, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration intends to bolster its military support to Ukraine
November 13, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration is determined in its final months to help Ukraine keep fighting its war with Russia next year
November 13, 2024
Germany's political parties agree on few things after Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition collapsed last week following months of budget wrangling, but protecting
November 13, 2024
The president of the Pacific Islands nation of Palau, Surangel Whipps Jr, was returned for a second term after a national election held last week, a final tally by the Palau Election
November 13, 2024
Rep. Mike Johnson has won the Republican nomination to remain as House speaker, on track to keep the gavel after a morning endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump ahead of a full House vote in the new year
November 13, 2024
Sen. John Thune has won an internal election among Republican senators to become the chamber’s next majority leader
November 13, 2024
African leaders may have been quick to congratulate Donald Trump on his election, professing a desire for mutually beneficial partnerships
November 13, 2024
The U.N. political chief has accused allies of Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces of “enabling the slaughter” that has killed more than 24,000 people and created the world’s worst displacement crisis
November 13, 2024
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be ambassador to Israel, has long rejected a Palestinian state in territory previously seized by Israel
November 13, 2024
U.S.
November 13, 2024
A federal judge has set an April retrial date for Sarah Palin's libel case against The New York Times, even as lawyers on both sides for the first time said they hope they can settle the case
November 12, 2024
The United States stressed at the United Nations on Tuesday that "there must be no forcible displacement, nor policy of starvation in Gaza" by Israel,
November 12, 2024
A pregnant woman has filed a lawsuit seeking the right to an abortion in Kentucky
November 12, 2024
Jailed Belarusian dissident Maria Kalesnikava, a key figure in the opposition movement to President Alexander Lukashenko, was permitted to meet her father on Tuesday, the first time any
November 12, 2024
North Korean troops have begun engaging in combat operations alongside Russian forces, the U.S.
November 12, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration has concluded that Israel is not currently impeding assistance to Gaza and therefore is not violating
November 12, 2024
Ghana’s Supreme Court has ruled that the parliamentary speaker's declaration of four seats as vacant was unconstitutional, effectively restoring the ruling party’s majority in the legislature ahead of the Dec. 7 election
November 12, 2024
Trump picks Mike Huckabee to serve as US ambassador to Israel
November 12, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump is moving to build out his national security team, announcing he is nominating Fox News host and Army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary and former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to lead the Central Intelligence Agency
November 12, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was nominating former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel,
November 12, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has decided not to change military assistance to Israel for now, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing two unnamed U.S. officials.
November 12, 2024
Control of the U.S. House rests on just over a dozen races where winners have not yet been determined
November 12, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a direct message to Iranians on Tuesday that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's government feared the
November 12, 2024
Georgia House Republicans will keep their leadership team for the next two years
November 12, 2024
The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog will travel to Iran this week to meet with officials including its new president
November 12, 2024
A writer for a conservative media outlet has pleaded guilty to joining a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol nearly years ago
November 12, 2024
A U.S. jury has awarded $42 million to three former detainees of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, holding a Virginia-based military contractor responsible for contributing to their torture and mistreatment two decades ago
November 12, 2024
A third, liberal party will join Austria's coalition talks, conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer said on Tuesday as he tries to form a government without the far-
November 12, 2024
Russia has deployed up to 200 military instructors to Equatorial Guinea in recent weeks to protect the presidency, sources told
November 12, 2024
Russia's growing economic and military cooperation with China, North Korea and Iran is threatening Europe, the Indo-Pacific and North America, NATO Secretary General
November 12, 2024
A federal judge on Tuesday declared unconstitutional a Louisiana law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public school classrooms in the state.
November 12, 2024
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money case has put off ruling on whether the president-elect's conviction should be thrown out on immunity grounds,
November 12, 2024
Supreme Court rejects Mark Meadows’ request to move Georgia election subversion case to federal court
November 12, 2024
Donald Trump has vowed to bring peace to Ukraine. But talk of a ‘deal’ has led to questions over Trump’s commitment to Kyiv.
November 12, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to Europe for urgent meetings on Ukraine with NATO and European Union officials following last week’s U.S. presidential election and the return of Donald Trump to the White House in January
November 12, 2024
A doctor accused of criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine in front of a patient was convicted of spreading false information about the military and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison
November 12, 2024
The outgoing Biden administration's top diplomat, Antony Blinken, heads to Brussels on Tuesday for talks with European allies concerned that President-elect
November 12, 2024
Blinken heads to Brussels as European diplomats brace for four more years of Trump
November 12, 2024
As U.S. Catholic bishops gather for their annual fall meeting this week in Baltimore, the specter of President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory hangs over the proceedings
November 12, 2024
Mauritius' opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam was appointed prime minister on Tuesday, returning to the post a decade on after his coalition won a near clean sweep of seats in
November 12, 2024
Trump’s Cabinet picks could be complicated by GOP math in the House
November 12, 2024
Moldova handed Russia's ambassador to Chisinau a protest note on Tuesday over alleged interference by Moscow in a presidential election and a referendum on
November 12, 2024
Saudi crown prince accuses Israel of committing ‘collective genocide’ in Gaza
November 12, 2024
The nominee for the European Union's next top diplomat says the bloc must commit to Ukraine for the long-haul even as the war's costs mount
November 12, 2024
A new government beckons in Germany after the implosion of its ruling coalition, but it will face the same question: whether to allow higher public borrowing to
November 12, 2024
Trump looms large as Congress faces shutdown threat and ‘dizzying’ to-do list
November 12, 2024
Protests that blocked bridges to the capital of the Russia-backed Georgian separatist region of Abkhazia have ended Tuesday after authorities freed five opposition supporters who were jailed the night before
November 12, 2024
South Korean president takes up golf again to prepare for Trump’s second term
November 12, 2024
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused European leaders on Tuesday of seeking to dangerously escalate the Ukraine conflict following the re-election of former U.S.
November 12, 2024
China is stepping up pressure on the Philippines to concede its sovereign rights in the South China Sea, Manila's Defense Secretary Gilberto
November 12, 2024
The most important task for Russia and China is to counter any attempt by the United States to contain their countries, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin told the
November 12, 2024
First on CNN: Trump picks Kristi Noem to serve as his Homeland Security secretary
November 12, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that Republicans are “ready to deliver” on President-elect Donald Trump’s mandate
November 12, 2024
Democrat Ruben Gallego has been elected Arizona’s first Latino U.S. senator
November 12, 2024
Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto met with U.S.
November 12, 2024
North Korea says it has ratified a major defense treaty with Russia stipulating mutual military aid
November 12, 2024
Vietnam's Communist Party head To Lam has congratulated Donald Trump on his U.S. presidential election victory in a phone call and the two discussed ways their countries could boost
November 12, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has survived a runoff vote against the opposition but will face turmoil ahead amid anger over the ruling party’s financial scandals
November 12, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has asked U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, a retired Army National Guard officer and war veteran, to be his national security adviser, a person familiar with the matter says
November 12, 2024
Data provider Decision Desk HQ projected on Monday that President-elect Donald Trump's Republican Party had won a majority in the U.S.
November 12, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Republican Representative Mike Waltz to be his national security adviser, two sources
November 11, 2024
Trump asks Mike Waltz to serve as his national security adviser
November 11, 2024
North Korea has ratified a mutual defence treaty with Russia signed by the two countries' leaders in June, which calls for each side to come to the other's aid in case of an armed
November 11, 2024
Trump searches for his attorney general as Justice Department officials worry about chaos and retribution
November 11, 2024
Melania Trump expected to skip Wednesday White House meeting with Jill Biden
November 11, 2024
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has made clear she has no plans to step down, according to people close to her, despite calls from some on the left that President Joe Biden should try to name a successor before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
November 11, 2024
Democrats will face headwinds in final push to confirm Biden judges
November 11, 2024
An attorney helping President-elect Donald Trump assemble his new administration warned career employees at the U.S.
November 11, 2024
President Joe Biden has laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery to mark Veterans Day
November 11, 2024
As advisers and allies of Republican President-elect Donald Trump search for personnel to staff his coming administration, one
November 11, 2024
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris honored U.S. military veterans on Monday in their first joint appearance since Harris lost Democrats' presidential
November 11, 2024
Congress has a short but important to-do list as lawmakers return to Washington this coming week for what is known as a lame-duck session
November 11, 2024
Matt Gaetz withdraws from attorney general consideration
Mother fights to get help for her son who says he was abused at a Chicago elementary school
Giannis Antetokounmpo launches venture capital fund for investments in sports and entertainment
World swim body eases rules on approved Russians competing in relays and some team events
Bolsonaro knew of plot to kill Lula, Brazil police find, CNN Brasil says
Amazon likely to face investigation under EU tech rules next year, sources say
Average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the US rises to highest level since July
Column-America's $7 trillion cash stash isn't going anywhere: McGeever
New York grid operator warns of undersupply in 2033
Simone Biles to join Snoop Dogg as a guest mentor for an episode on NBC's 'The Voice'
Teresa Weatherspoon isn't dwelling on surprising firing by Chicago Sky