New York City Mayor Eric Adams has appointed sanitation chief Jessica Tisch as police commissioner
November 20, 2024
European Parliament leaders have reached agreement on the members who will comprise the next European Commission, spokespeople
November 20, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to repeal President Joe Biden’s signature artificial intelligence policy when he returns to the White House for a second term
November 20, 2024
Trump announces Matthew Whitaker as his pick to be US ambassador to NATO
November 20, 2024
Republicans on the House Ethics Committee voted Wednesday against releasing a report on their long-running investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz
November 20, 2024
A human rights report says hundreds of people in Belarus who have shown solidarity with Ukraine have been arrested in a sweeping crackdown under authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko
November 20, 2024
As prosecutors push to preserve President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction, his lawyers are urging a judge to ignore them and scrap the case before he takes office in January
November 20, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump says he's chosen former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to serve as U.S. ambassador to NATO
November 20, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump chose lawyer Matthew Whitaker on Wednesday to be U.S. ambassador to NATO, selecting a loyalist with little foreign
November 20, 2024
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said in a televised speech aired on Wednesday that his group had reviewed and given feedback on a U.S.-drafted ceasefire proposal to end fighting with
November 20, 2024
The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N.
November 20, 2024
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that her administration will propose to Congress three bills to help implement a sweeping judicial reform that aims to
November 20, 2024
People acknowledging and inspecting their own political biases is one way that they can begin to reduce polarization.
November 20, 2024
The United States has vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
November 20, 2024
The Netherlands plans to temporarily enlist additional personnel and equipment from private companies to strengthen security in its part of the North Sea, the Defence Ministry
November 20, 2024
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein said he will travel to Israel on Wednesday to try to secure a ceasefire ending the war with Lebanon's Hezbollah group after declaring
November 20, 2024
President Vladimir Putin's spy chief warned the West on Wednesday that it risked disastrous consequences if the United States
November 20, 2024
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian called on Pope Francis to use his influence with Christian governments to stop war in the Middle East, semi-official Fars news agency reported on
November 20, 2024
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Wednesday threatened to seek to topple Prime Minister Michel Barnier's fragile coalition government if her National Rally (RN) party's cost-
November 20, 2024
Uruguayan center-left opposition leader Yamandu Orsi, whose political ambitions were galvanized by his experience growing up in a dictatorship, is the
November 20, 2024
Republican’s effort to block first transgender House member from using women’s bathrooms brings campaign issue to the Capitol
November 20, 2024
Rep. Nancy Mace (R) is trying to ban transgender women from using the women's restroom at the US Capitol after Rep. Sarah McBridge (D-DE) was just elected as the first openly transgender person in Congress.
November 20, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a new nuclear doctrine, lowering the threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a broader range of conventional attacks.
November 20, 2024
Russia will retaliate against NATO countries that facilitate long-range missile strikes against Russian territory by Ukraine, foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said in an
November 20, 2024
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Wednesday dismissed President Vladimir Putin's decision to lower the threshold for a nuclear strike as just "rhetoric".
November 20, 2024
This year, Russian missile attacks have knocked out about 50% of Ukraine's power generation, a major threat as winter looms
November 20, 2024
Vladimir Putin is open to discussing a Ukraine ceasefire deal with Donald Trump but rules out making any major territorial concessions and insists Kyiv abandon
November 20, 2024
Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump heaped scorn on the federal Department of Education, describing it as being infiltrated by “radicals, zealots and Marxists.”
November 20, 2024
Elon Musk has been at Trump's side at Mar-a-Lago and in Washington since the election. How great is his influence? And could he wear out his welcome? CNN's Brian Todd reports.
November 20, 2024
Biden administration approves sending anti-personnel mines to Ukraine in another major policy shift
November 20, 2024
Around 10,900 North Korean troops have been deployed to Kursk as part of Russia's airborne unit and marines, with some already participating in battles in
November 20, 2024
A special hotline in place to deflate crises between the Kremlin and the White House is not currently being used, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, as nuclear risks rise amid
November 20, 2024
Hong Kong democrat Jimmy Lai testified on Wednesday for the first time in his landmark national security trial, saying he had never tried to
November 20, 2024
Linda McMahon is Donald Trump's choice for Education secretary
November 20, 2024
President Joe Biden has approved provision of anti-personnel land mines to Ukraine, a U.S. official told Reuters, a step that could help slow Russian advances in its east, especially when
November 20, 2024
Last year, then-presidential candidate Javier Milei declared Argentina would not “make deals with communists” in China or Brazil, calling their leaders “murderers” and “thieves” in a bid to channel the populist energies of Donald Trump into a winning political message
November 20, 2024
Hegseth tells Republicans that ‘this is a battle that is just beginning’
November 20, 2024
Former Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai is testifying in his defense at his landmark national security trial
November 20, 2024
A Peruvian court on Tuesday ordered President Dina Boluarte's brother be held for up to three years as he is investigated over alleged influence peddling, bribery and
November 19, 2024
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a "sanctuary city" ordinance to protect immigrants living in the city, a policy that would prohibit
November 19, 2024
The Biden administration says a U.S.-Israel panel to look into reports of civilian harm from the war in Gaza will meet for the first time in early December
November 19, 2024
The City Council Friday formally established Los Angeles, the second-largest municipality in the nation, as a "sanctuary" for migrants, prohibiting city resources or personnel from being used to help federal enforcement of immigration laws.
November 19, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump is interviewing candidates for the role of FBI director in the clearest indication yet that the incoming administration is looking to replace Christopher Wray in the position
November 19, 2024
US recognizes Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez as president-elect
November 19, 2024
As President-elect Donald Trump digs in on his pick of Matt Gaetz for attorney general, Republican senators are divided over how much information they will demand to move his confirmation — and how much to push back on Trump as he demands that they quickly rubber stamp his Cabinet once he takes office in January
November 19, 2024
Conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East are eating into U.S. stockpiles of air defenses, the top U.S. admiral overseeing American forces in the Asia-Pacific region said on
November 19, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson signaled support for a Republican effort to ban Democrat Sarah McBride — the first transgender person to be elected to Congress — from using women’s restrooms in the Capitol once she’s sworn into office next year
November 19, 2024
Israel issues more than 1,000 arrest warrants for ultra-Orthodox draft avoiders
November 19, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration plans to target federal regulations championed by President Joe Biden
November 19, 2024
US prosecutors demand Google divest Chrome to end search monopoly
Shares in India's Adani Group plunge 20% after US bribery, fraud indictments
North Korea hackers behind 2019 $42 million Ethereum heist, South Korea police say
Former UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott dies at age 86
Hungary to install air defence system near Ukraine border
China willing to maintain communication on submarine infrastructure security
Insolvencies in Germany up 22.9% year-on-year in October
What will happen to CNBC and MSNBC when they no longer have a corporate connection to NBC News?
Has a waltz written by composer Frederic Chopin been discovered in an NYC museum?
American and Australian tourists die, raising toll to 4 in Laos alcohol poisoning incident