Lebanon's prime minister asks Iran to help secure a cease-fire in Israel-Hezbollah war
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, asked Iran to help secure a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah
November 15, 2024Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, asked Iran to help secure a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah
November 15, 2024Evidence in trial of man accused of killing Laken Riley will show the Georgia student ‘fought for her life,’ prosecutors say
November 15, 2024A 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, 2024Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks
November 15, 2024Russians focus on Musk as they assess incoming Trump administration
November 15, 2024Croatian Health Minister Vili Beros was fired on Friday after being arrested on suspicion of corruption, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said.
November 15, 2024Germany'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, 2024The 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, 2024Irish 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, 2024A South Korean court has handed opposition leader Lee Jae-myung a suspended prison sentence after finding him guilty of violating election law
November 15, 2024President-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, 2024After a resounding election victory, President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans say they have a mandate to govern
November 15, 2024Sen. 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, 2024RFK 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, 2024The 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, 2024China 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, 2024Donald 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, 2024Ukrainian 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, 2024U.S.
November 14, 2024Trump picks his criminal defense attorneys Todd Blanche and John Sauer for key Justice Department posts
November 14, 2024President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Tulsi Gabbard as U.S. intelligence chief has sent shockwaves through the national
November 14, 2024Eligible 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, 2024President-elect Donald Trump selected Robert F.
November 14, 2024Biden set to meet with world leaders who have already moved on to Trump
November 14, 2024The 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, 2024Trump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary
November 14, 2024President-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, 2024United 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, 2024Germany 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, 2024Nearly 90 congressional Democrats call on Biden to sanction far-right Israeli ministers
November 14, 2024Democrat Janelle Bynum has flipped Oregon’s 5th Congressional District
November 14, 2024Former 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, 2024President-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, 2024U.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, 2024Sri 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, 2024Greece 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, 2024Israel 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, 2024Marine Le Pen’s next bid for French presidency threatened as prosecutors seek political ban
November 14, 2024Romania'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, 2024Southeast 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, 2024The election proved the media is in crisis. Here’s what it needs to do to regain its relevance
November 14, 2024The Supreme Court’s approach toward religion in schools has been shifting, adding to uncertainty about legislation such as Louisiana’s.
November 14, 2024Suicides in the U.S. military increased in 2023, continuing a long-term trend that the Pentagon has struggled to abate
November 14, 2024A 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, 2024Turkey 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, 2024Russia is open to negotiations on an end to the Ukraine war if initiated by U.S.
November 14, 2024President 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, 2024Trump’s Pentagon pick aims for clash with top military leadership
November 14, 2024Dutch 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, 2024Protecting Trump in a second administration presents unprecedented security challenges
November 14, 2024Just 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, 2024Ukrainian 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, 2024More than 1 million migrants are living and working legally in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status
November 14, 2024Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of mass displacement in Gaza amounting to a war crime
November 14, 2024The 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, 2024Donald Trump has had few defenders in Congress as reliable as Matt Gaetz
November 14, 2024President-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, 2024Ice 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, 2024Republicans 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, 2024Donald 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, 2024House GOP leadership announces new rules package raising motion to vacate threshold
November 14, 2024Trump considering his lawyer Todd Blanche for deputy attorney general, sources say
November 14, 2024Sri 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, 2024A Federal Reserve official has given a lengthy defense of the central bank's political independence
November 14, 2024Democratic 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, 2024House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul says he was briefly detained by police at an airport near Washington, D
November 14, 2024Senate race in Pennsylvania heads to a recount
November 13, 2024Rep. Matt Gaetz, a firebrand from Florida who was himself investigated by the Justice Department, is Trump's choice to lead it.
November 13, 2024Protests have erupted in Paris against a controversial gala organized by far-right figures in support of Israel
November 13, 2024Elise Stefanik, Trump’s pick for UN ambassador, declines to stand by previous support for Ukraine joining NATO
November 13, 2024Israel says it has expanded its military ground operation in Lebanon
November 13, 2024Choosing 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, 2024European 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, 2024The Republican-led Ohio Senate has approved a bill banning transgender students from using bathrooms that fit their gender identities
November 13, 2024President-elect Donald Trump's selection of Pete Hegseth as U.S. defense secretary was met on Wednesday with surprise at the
November 13, 2024President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to be the next director of national intelligence
November 13, 2024Trump picks Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general
November 13, 2024President-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, 2024Theodore Olson, Attorney Who Helped Overturn CA Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Dies
November 13, 2024Pennsylvania district attorney suing to allow medical marijuana users to buy, own guns
November 13, 2024President-elect Donald Trump has named Sen. Marco Rubio as his choice for secretary of state
November 13, 2024A 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, 2024Donald 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, 2024The United Nations and other international organizations are looking at new uncertainties with Donald Trump returning to the White House
November 13, 2024The 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, 2024Republican majorities in both chambers of the U.S.
November 13, 2024Republicans will retain House majority, CNN projects, completing GOP’s dominance of Washington
November 13, 2024Israeli 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, 2024President-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, 2024European 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, 2024President Joe Biden will hold talks this week with China’s Xi Jinping on the sidelines of an international summit in Peru
November 13, 2024President 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, 2024German 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, 2024U.S. Representative-elect Kelly Morrison, an OB-GYN, readies for first term in Congress
November 13, 2024Tracking Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and administration
November 13, 2024The US says Israel is doing enough to bring aid into Gaza. On the ground it is a different story
November 13, 2024President-elect Donald Trump has tasked billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk with setting up a panel to streamline the U.S. government.
November 13, 2024A 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, 2024Israel 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, 2024After election loss, GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde refuses to concede
November 13, 2024CNN 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, 2024UN sounds alarm at Israel’s ‘severe violations’ at key buffer zone with Syria
November 13, 2024Democratic governors and attorneys general are set to reprise their roles in battling President-elect Trump's policies
November 13, 2024Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is expected to join President-elect Donald Trump at the meeting of U.S.
November 13, 2024CNN 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, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024German 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, 2024Special counsel Jack Smith looking at stepping down before Trump takes office and is discussing how to end prosecutions
November 13, 2024Advocates of Jewish settlement in the West Bank believe they have reason to celebrate after Donald Trump's election win
November 13, 2024US defense contractor to pay former Iraqi detainees $42 million for its role in torture at notorious Abu Ghraib prison
November 13, 2024By 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, 2024India'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, 2024World leaders are heading to South America for twin summits this month, with one major theme dominating: Donald Trump 2.0.
November 13, 2024U.S.
November 13, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration intends to bolster its military support to Ukraine
November 13, 2024U.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, 2024Germany'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, 2024The 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, 2024Rep. 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, 2024Sen. John Thune has won an internal election among Republican senators to become the chamber’s next majority leader
November 13, 2024African leaders may have been quick to congratulate Donald Trump on his election, professing a desire for mutually beneficial partnerships
November 13, 2024The 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, 2024Former 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, 2024U.S.
November 13, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024A pregnant woman has filed a lawsuit seeking the right to an abortion in Kentucky
November 12, 2024Jailed 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, 2024North Korean troops have begun engaging in combat operations alongside Russian forces, the U.S.
November 12, 2024President Joe Biden's administration has concluded that Israel is not currently impeding assistance to Gaza and therefore is not violating
November 12, 2024Ghana’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, 2024Trump picks Mike Huckabee to serve as US ambassador to Israel
November 12, 2024President-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, 2024President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was nominating former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel,
November 12, 2024U.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, 2024Control of the U.S. House rests on just over a dozen races where winners have not yet been determined
November 12, 2024Israeli 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, 2024Georgia House Republicans will keep their leadership team for the next two years
November 12, 2024The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog will travel to Iran this week to meet with officials including its new president
November 12, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024Russia has deployed up to 200 military instructors to Equatorial Guinea in recent weeks to protect the presidency, sources told
November 12, 2024Russia'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, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024Supreme Court rejects Mark Meadows’ request to move Georgia election subversion case to federal court
November 12, 2024Donald 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, 2024Secretary 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, 2024A 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, 2024The outgoing Biden administration's top diplomat, Antony Blinken, heads to Brussels on Tuesday for talks with European allies concerned that President-elect
November 12, 2024Blinken heads to Brussels as European diplomats brace for four more years of Trump
November 12, 2024As 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, 2024Mauritius' 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, 2024Trump’s Cabinet picks could be complicated by GOP math in the House
November 12, 2024Moldova 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, 2024Saudi crown prince accuses Israel of committing ‘collective genocide’ in Gaza
November 12, 2024The 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, 2024A 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, 2024Trump looms large as Congress faces shutdown threat and ‘dizzying’ to-do list
November 12, 2024Protests 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, 2024South Korean president takes up golf again to prepare for Trump’s second term
November 12, 2024Former 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, 2024China is stepping up pressure on the Philippines to concede its sovereign rights in the South China Sea, Manila's Defense Secretary Gilberto
November 12, 2024The 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, 2024First on CNN: Trump picks Kristi Noem to serve as his Homeland Security secretary
November 12, 2024House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that Republicans are “ready to deliver” on President-elect Donald Trump’s mandate
November 12, 2024Democrat Ruben Gallego has been elected Arizona’s first Latino U.S. senator
November 12, 2024Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto met with U.S.
November 12, 2024North Korea says it has ratified a major defense treaty with Russia stipulating mutual military aid
November 12, 2024Vietnam'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, 2024Japanese 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, 2024President-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, 2024Data 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, 2024President-elect Donald Trump has picked Republican Representative Mike Waltz to be his national security adviser, two sources
November 11, 2024Trump asks Mike Waltz to serve as his national security adviser
November 11, 2024North 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, 2024Trump searches for his attorney general as Justice Department officials worry about chaos and retribution
November 11, 2024Melania Trump expected to skip Wednesday White House meeting with Jill Biden
November 11, 2024Supreme 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, 2024Democrats will face headwinds in final push to confirm Biden judges
November 11, 2024An attorney helping President-elect Donald Trump assemble his new administration warned career employees at the U.S.
November 11, 2024President Joe Biden has laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery to mark Veterans Day
November 11, 2024As advisers and allies of Republican President-elect Donald Trump search for personnel to staff his coming administration, one
November 11, 2024President 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, 2024Congress 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, 2024A Rome court on Monday asked EU judges to weigh in on the detention of sea migrants in Albania, again frustrating the Italian right-wing government's efforts to
November 11, 2024Saudi Arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler condemned what he called the "genocide" committed by Israel against Palestinians when he spoke at a summit of Muslim and Arab leaders
November 11, 2024President-elect Donald Trump has named former New York congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency as he continues to build out his future administration with loyal supporters
November 11, 2024Old Soviet tanks have been borrowed from museums to help train Ukrainian troops on what a commander of the EU training mission for Kyiv says are booby-trap tactics
November 11, 2024Forcing neutrality onto Ukraine will not bring about a peaceful solution to the crisis with Russia, Finland's foreign minister said on Monday, adding
November 11, 2024Trump expected to announce Stephen Miller as deputy chief of staff for policy
November 11, 2024Brazil's currency weakened on Monday as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's administration postponed the release of long-awaited spending-containment measures, despite earlier
November 11, 2024Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda on Monday criticised the Social Democrats' decision to form a government with a party whose leader is accused of antisemitic
November 11, 2024Israel's far-right finance minister said on Monday he hoped Israel would extend sovereignty into the occupied West Bank in 2025 and that he would push the government to engage the
November 11, 2024Control over the U.S. House of Representatives still hangs in the balance, teetering between a Republican or Democratic majority with fewer than 20 races left to be called
November 11, 2024President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Elise Stefanik to serve as his ambassador to the United Nations, picking a loyal ally with little foreign policy experience to represent the U.S. at the international organization
November 11, 2024France's foreign minister said on Monday that a new round of sanctions targeting violent Israeli settlers could happen soon.
November 11, 2024Olaf Scholz's remaining coalition partner said on Monday it was open to an earlier parliamentary vote to open the way to a snap election, joining
November 11, 2024As Donald Trump's election win brings the prospect of talks to end Russia's war in Ukraine closer, Kyiv is battling to put itself in the strongest position for any
November 11, 2024Officials say Russian glide bombs, drones and a ballistic missile have smashed into cities in southern and eastern Ukraine, killing at least six civilians and injuring about 30 others
November 11, 2024Bleeding and in pain, a woman endured a harrowing wait for miscarriage care due to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law
November 11, 2024Turkey is pressing the United States to reconsider its support for Kurdish militants in Syria, according to comments by its leaders including President Tayyip Erdogan, who has again
November 11, 2024White House races to dole out funding from key legislation before Trump takes office
November 11, 2024Hezbollah has not received any proposals on a truce for Lebanon, a spokesperson said Monday, as Israel's foreign minister said diplomatic efforts had made "progress" and amid
November 11, 2024CNN's Ed Lavandera talks with Latino voters about the issues that pushed them to vote for Donald Trump for US president over Kamala Harris.
November 11, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved pager attacks that dealt a deadly blow to the Iran-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah in September, Omer Dostri,
November 11, 2024Ukraine's allies must not prejudge how Donald Trump will handle the war there, France's foreign minister said on Monday, as French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister
November 11, 2024Many European leaders have marked the end 106 years ago of World War I with warnings that liberty should be cherished and defended as armed conflict has returned to the continent
November 11, 2024British defence minister John Healey said on Monday he expected the incoming Donald Trump administration to remain committed to NATO and to Ukraine in its conflict against Russia
November 11, 2024Indonesia said on Monday it does not recognise China's claims over the South China Sea, despite signing a maritime development deal with Beijing, as some
November 11, 2024US carries out second consecutive night of strikes in Yemen, defense official says
November 11, 2024Before he comes back for good on Inauguration Day, Donald Trump will return to the White House briefly at the invitation of President Joe Biden
November 11, 2024Ukraine’s war effort faces uncertain future as Russia mounts record drone strikes
November 11, 2024As Trump’s win tests the world order, diplomats are fretting over what it means for the planet
November 11, 2024CNN's Manu Raju speaks with CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman about what US President-elect Donald Trump is considering when picking members for his cabinet.
November 11, 2024An attorney representing a conservate prosecutor is struggling to convince Wisconsin's liberal-leaning Supreme Court to reactivate the state's 175-year-old abortion ban
November 11, 2024Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has pledged to take tougher measures against misuse of political funds after he was reelected by parliament following a major loss in the polls last month by his governing coalition
November 11, 2024President-elect Donald Trump has offered Republican Representative Elise Stefanik the job as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, CNN reported on Sunday, citing two unnamed sources.
November 11, 2024Republican Rep. David Schweikert has won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Arizona
November 11, 2024President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said late on Sunday that strength and diplomacy must work together to bring the Russian war in Ukraine to an end and to ensure that such conflict does not
November 11, 2024Days before Senate Republicans pick their new leader, President-elect Donald Trump is pressuring the candidates to change Senate rules and give him more power to appoint unconfirmed nominees
November 11, 2024British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday to discuss ways to help Ukraine, after the election of Donald Trump has
November 10, 2024Haiti will name entrepreneur and former senate candidate Alix Didier Fils-Aime to replace Prime Minister Garry Conille, who was tapped for the role in May,
November 10, 2024German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that he would be willing to call a vote of confidence in parliament before Christmas, a move that would pave the way for snap
November 10, 2024Large group of Russian and North Korean forces prepared to retake Russia’s Kursk region from Ukraine
November 10, 2024Israel’s Netanyahu acknowledges pager attack, says he sees ‘eye-to-eye’ with Trump on Iran
November 10, 2024Israel Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday that his country has defeated Hezbollah and that eliminating its leader Hassan Nasrallah was the crowning achievement.
November 10, 2024We asked Americans what they’d heard about Trump and Harris throughout the campaign. Here’s what they told us
November 10, 2024Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to remain at post as some call for her to step down
November 10, 2024January 6 rioters and judges digest the impact of Trump’s victory
November 10, 2024Bitcoin hits $80,000. Why Trump is boosting crypto
November 10, 2024Trump’s 2024 victory revealed voter shifts that could reshape America’s political landscape
November 10, 2024Rivals of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have thwarted a plan by her Awami League party to hold a rally in the capital
November 10, 2024Black and Latino voters moved toward Republican Donald Trump in this year's presidential election, and some of the biggest shifts were among men under age 45, and that helped expand his margin over Democrat Kamala Harris
November 10, 2024The Future Soldier Prep Course was started as a trial program two years ago to provide additional instruction for recruits who couldn’t meet the Army’s physical and academic test standards
November 10, 2024Lithuania's Social Democrats, winners of last month's parliamentary election, defended on Saturday their decision to form a coalition government with a populist
November 10, 2024The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog says he will travel to Iran in the coming days to hold talks regarding the country’s nuclear program
November 10, 2024During his campaign for re-election, Donald Trump vowed to purge the military of so-called "woke" generals.
November 10, 2024Donald Trump's former Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said he will not seek to join the president-elect's new administration but is ready to offer advice to
November 10, 2024A British minister said on Sunday that the government is unlikely to ask the Reform party leader Nigel Farage to act as an intermediary to deal with U.S.
November 10, 2024Still-stunned Democrats begin to squint toward their future
November 10, 2024Opponents of offshore wind energy projects expect President-elect Donald Trump to kill an industry he has vowed to end on the first day he returns to the White House
November 10, 2024The Associated Press declared President-elect Donald Trump the winner in Arizona on Saturday night after vote updates in Maricopa and other counties added to his overall lead, putting the state out of reach for Vice President Kamala Harris
November 10, 2024Qatar says it suspended mediator efforts for Gaza ceasefire due to lack of good-faith negotiations
November 10, 2024President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday that former Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will not be
November 10, 2024As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, he will be accompanied by a crew of longtime friends and aides and newfound, splashy allies
November 09, 2024Voter rights groups have petitioned the Arizona Supreme Court to extend the deadline for voters to fix problems with their mail-in ballots
November 09, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his interior ministry early on Sunday to increase efforts in suppressing extremism inside the country.
November 09, 2024Ukraine's top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said on Saturday that Ukraine faced increasing difficulties in its fight against Moscow's invasion as Russian forces advance and North
November 09, 2024Trump still hasn’t signed ethics agreement required for presidential transition
November 09, 2024Biden and Trump will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday
November 09, 2024The votes for Trump added up in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Hamtramck.
November 09, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a treaty on the country's strategic partnership with North Korea which includes a mutual defence provision, according to a decree published
November 09, 2024Qatar is suspending its role in talks between Israel and Hamas
November 09, 2024Donald Trump's presidential transition effort said on Saturday that a Republican operative who outlined some potential contours of a U.S.-backed peace plan in
November 09, 2024Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu will call for an immediate ceasefire and peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestinian conflict when he attends the upcoming Arab-
November 09, 2024A prominent Iranian American human rights activist has expressed shock but also defiance about Iranian murder-for-hire plots to kill her and Donald Trump that were disclosed by the U.S. Justice Department
November 09, 2024EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell sought to reassure Ukraine of Europe's unwavering support on Saturday, days after Donald Trump's election win cast uncertainty over its war
November 09, 2024Despite the country’s stark political divide, some Pennsylvania voters in deep-red counties still genuinely vote for the representative and not the party.
November 09, 2024Democratic governors and AGs prepare for battle with Trump administration
November 09, 2024Inflation and immigration emerged as the dominant themes in this year’s presidential race
November 09, 2024Russia's deputy foreign minister says Moscow is open to hearing President-elect Donald Trump’s proposals on ending the war in Ukraine
November 09, 2024Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof will miss the COP29 climate summit after clashes in Amsterdam this week between Israeli soccer fans
November 09, 2024Russia's foreign ministry sees no grounds for talking about resuming dialogue on strategic stability and arms control with the United States at the moment, Interfax news agency
November 09, 2024Meg Kinnard, National Politics Reporter for the Associated Press speaks to CNN’s Katie Hunt about former President Donald Trump’s remarks on ‘protecting’ women at a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
November 09, 2024Donald Trump announced that his campaign manager, Susie Wiles, who has been widely credited for running what was seen as President-elect Donald Trump's most sophisticated and disciplined campaign, will be named his White House chief of staff. CNN's Randi Kaye examines her track record with Trump and other Republican politicians.
November 09, 2024U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada has won reelection
November 09, 2024A record 13 women will serve as governor next year after the election of New Hampshire Republican Kelly Ayotte, breaking the record set in 2023
November 09, 2024Anti-abortion advocates say they will quickly dismantle some of President Joe Biden's abortion policies once President-elect Donald Trump makes his return to the White House next year
November 09, 2024The United Nations Security Council has imposed sanctions on two generals in Sudan’s paramilitary force for their key roles in the war against the country’s military
November 09, 2024Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen will win reelection in Nevada, CNN projects
November 09, 2024Rep. Jared Moskowitz says authorities investigating potential plot against his life after arrest of armed man
November 09, 2024A constitutional court in Bolivia has barred former President Evo Morales from running again for office, ushering in a new phase in the country's long-running political crisis.
November 09, 2024U.S. congressman Jared Moskowitz said on Friday he was informed by police of a potential plot on his life and that a suspect was arrested not far from the Democrat's Florida home with a
November 08, 2024A federal judge has overturned Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic weapons, leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that strictly interpret the Second Amendment right to keep and bear firearms
November 08, 2024A federal judge on Friday struck down an Illinois law banning many semi-automatic firearms, saying it ran afoul of the U.S. Constitution's right to bear arms. U.S.
November 08, 2024Conservative firebrands set to chair key Senate committees in new Congress
November 08, 2024Hill Democrats say their warnings about the party’s shortfalls on the border were ignored
November 08, 2024President-elect Donald Trump put billionaire Elon Musk on the line with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy when the Ukrainian leader called to congratulate the incoming U.S. president
November 08, 2024The U.S. has told Qatar that the presence of Hamas in Doha is no longer acceptable in the weeks since the Palestinian
November 08, 2024A judge has struck down a state law that made it easier for New Yorkers to sue over electoral divisions and voting rules that weakened the political voice of minority groups, saying its special protections based on race and ethnicity are unconstitutional
November 08, 2024Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders
November 08, 2024The outgoing Biden administration pressed ahead on Friday with diplomacy aimed at reaching deals to end Israel's conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon, with Secretary of State Antony
November 08, 2024Professional wrestling magnate and former Small Business Administration director Linda McMahon is seen as the frontrunner to lead Donald Trump's Department of Commerce, three sources
November 08, 2024When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called Donald Trump to congratulate him on his presidential election victory, Tesla CEO and Trump supporter Elon
November 08, 2024Biden administration to allow American military contractors to deploy to Ukraine for first time since Russia’s invasion
November 08, 2024The Justice Department announced federal charges against three people in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump before the presidential election. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe weighs in.
November 08, 2024DOJ announces charges in Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump
November 08, 2024The United States charged an Iranian man on Friday in connection with an alleged plot ordered by Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps to assassinate President-elect Donald
November 08, 2024Donald Trump lavished Christopher Wray with praise when he named him FBI director in 2017, introducing him as an “impeccably qualified individual” and a “model of integrity.”
November 08, 2024Special counsel tells court he is assessing future of Trump criminal case
November 08, 2024The Justice Department has unsealed criminal charges in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump before this week’s presidential election
November 08, 2024The United Nations' peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon said on Friday that the Israeli military's "deliberate and direct destruction" of its property was a "flagrant violation"
November 08, 2024When he takes office in January, President-elect Donald Trump will inherit a raft of national security challenges, including major wars in Ukraine and the
November 08, 2024Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris on Friday announced the formal start of the country's general election campaign, hoping to retain his coalition's lead in polls
November 08, 2024In 2025, Congress will need to decide whether to extend the higher standard deduction, which has been in place since 2018.
November 08, 2024The lame-duck period in the US is longer than in other Western democracies, which tend to make the transition over a period of just days.
November 08, 2024Control over the U.S. House of Representatives still hangs in the balance, teetering between a Republican or Democratic majority with just over two dozen races left to be called
November 08, 2024South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol said the country was prepared in its alliance with the United States to strike back if North Korea attempted a nuclear attack against it, Newsweek
November 08, 2024After two presidential losses, women wonder what it will take to shatter the glass ceiling
November 08, 2024Trump could pick government’s top ethics official – after key ally blocked Biden’s choice
November 08, 2024Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant has officially stepped down in a ceremony that replaced him with Israel Katz, the former foreign minister, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Gallant earlier this week
November 08, 2024Britain on Friday named Jonathan Powell, who was chief of staff to former prime minister Tony Blair, as its national security adviser, a role that will involve
November 08, 2024Mozambique's largest hospital said on Friday that at least three people were killed and 66 injured during clashes between police and protesters the previous day over a disputed
November 08, 2024The EU must focus on setting its own house in order, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday, citing tariffs, competitiveness and defence as the most pressing issues
November 08, 2024President Tayyip Erdogan called Donald Trump a "friend" in welcoming his return to the White House, and invited him for a visit despite longstanding strains in Turkish-U.S. ties including
November 08, 2024President Tayyip Erdogan sought to reset Turkey's strained ties with the United States by inviting President-elect Donald Trump to visit,
November 08, 2024President Vladimir Putin is ready to discuss Ukraine with Donald Trump but that does not mean he is willing to alter Moscow's demands, the Kremlin said on Friday.
November 08, 2024A vital part of Democrat Kamala Harris' presidential campaign was tapping into the groundswell of women's anger and political activism unleashed by the U.S.
November 08, 2024Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed two laws reaffirming the extent of his country’s maritime territories and right to resources, including in the South China Sea, where the new laws clash with Beijing’s extensive territorial claims
November 08, 2024Hungary's prime minister is predicting that Donald Trump's new administration will abandon U.S. support for Ukraine
November 08, 2024The foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey say that recent efforts to smooth the frequently volatile ties between the neighboring countries and regional rivals are bearing fruit, although significant differences remain, notably over maritime boundaries in the Aegean
November 08, 2024Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday demanded a calm debate from Germany's squabbling factions on setting the date for a snap election to pull the
November 08, 2024A federal judge has struck down a Biden administration policy that aimed to ease a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens
November 08, 2024Israeli residents of a settlement named after Donald Trump hope his return to office will breathe new life into their tiny community in the Golan Heights
November 08, 2024As Trump grasps unprecedented power, the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity looms large
November 08, 2024Based on Donald Trump’s first term and his campaign statements, the United States will become less predictable, more chaotic, colder to allies and warmer to some strongmen, and much more transactional in picking friends globally than before
November 08, 2024Israel-France tensions deepen as Paris says consulate staff briefly detained by police in Jerusalem
November 08, 2024Indonesia's new leader Prabowo Subianto set off for China on Friday for his first international trip as president, kicking off a tour that will include stops in the United States,
November 08, 2024Zelensky confirms deadly clashes with North Korean troops as Putin says he’s willing to talk with Trump
November 08, 2024Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Admiral James Stavridis (Ret.) speaks with CNN's Jessica Dean about North Korea sending troops to fight with Russians in Ukraine.
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