Biden says he is grateful to hear Trump is safe, has been briefed on shooting
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that he had been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania.
July 13, 2024U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that he had been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania.
July 13, 2024Donald Trump is safe and protective measures have been implemented around him after an incident at a campaign rally for the former U.S. president on Saturday in Pennsylvania, the U.S.
July 13, 2024Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, said on Saturday that tensions had subsided at his country's border with Ukraine and extra troops
July 13, 2024Republicans now have a straighter path to potential victory in what is expected to be Minnesota’s closest congressional race
July 13, 2024President Joe Biden will sit down with BET News for an interview that will air on Wednesday to discuss issues impacting the Black community, BET said in a statement on Saturday.
July 13, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was still not clear whether Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif and another senior commander were killed in an Israeli strike in
July 13, 2024‘It was a mistake’: Zelensky defends Biden’s ‘President Putin’ gaffe
July 13, 2024Thousands of supporters of a Pakistani radical political party have rallied near Islamabad, denouncing Israeli strikes in Gaza and urging the government to send more aid to the Palestinians
July 13, 2024Iranian president-elect ready to set relations with Europe ‘on the right path’
July 13, 2024Pastors see a wariness among Black men to discuss abortion restrictions, which have become a key issue in the 2024 presidential campaign
July 13, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his U.S counterpart Joe Biden accidentally referring to him as Russian President Vladimir Putin was a mistake that could be
July 13, 2024European allies in NATO are stepping up their military spending, just as Donald Trump wanted
July 13, 2024North Korea has threatened to boost its nuclear fighting capability and make the United States and South Korea pay “an unimaginably harsh price” as it slams its rivals’ new defense guidelines that it says reveal an intention to invade the North
July 13, 2024Poland will spend 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence in 2025, the foreign minister told Bloomberg Television in an interview broadcast on Friday evening.
July 13, 2024The US held off sanctioning this Israeli army unit despite evidence of abuses. Now its forces are shaping the fight in Gaza
July 13, 2024‘Pod Save America’ hosts hit back at Biden team: ‘What are you spending time on us for?’
July 12, 2024A federal appeals court panel has ruled that Tennessee does not unconstitutionally discriminate against transgender people by not allowing them to change the sex designation on their birth certificates
July 12, 2024For more than two weeks now, the Democratic Party has been mired in crisis
July 12, 2024United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain on Friday criticized Donald Trump's U.S. presidential candidacy and praised President Joe Biden without ever using
July 12, 2024Sen. Susan Collins didn’t vote for Donald Trump for president in 2016 or 2020, and the third time will not be the charm
July 12, 2024A federal judge in Kansas has refused to block the nationwide enforcement of a Biden administration rule requiring firearms dealers to do background checks of buyers at gun shows and other places outside brick-and-mortar stores
July 12, 2024Jury begins deliberations in Sen. Bob Menendez’s federal corruption trial
July 12, 2024Biden heading on a delayed mission to reassure lawmakers over his political future after meeting with Jeffries
July 12, 2024Actor Matthew McConaughey continues to tease about someday running for political office
July 12, 2024CNN's Jake Tapper sits down with United Kingdom's newly-elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss his first meeting with President Joe Biden.
July 12, 2024The International Court of Justice will deliver its opinion on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories on July 19, the ICJ said on Friday.
July 12, 2024A jury has gone home after deliberating for three hours at the trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, who is accused of taking bribes and being a foreign agent
July 12, 2024if political loyalty replaces merit as the basis of key federal appointments, Americans can expect government to be less competent – as Andrew Jackson learned during his administration
July 12, 2024Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has made a Trumpian vow to “Make Europe Great Again” during his country’s six-month presidency of the European Union
July 12, 2024Joe Biden has shown he is "a pro-Russian candidate being controlled by the Kremlin," Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman joked on Friday, after the U.S. president
July 12, 2024The press finally got its chance to question Biden, and the president emerged mostly unscathed
July 12, 2024After a shock defeat in France's legislative elections, Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) will double down on weeding out problematic
July 12, 2024The Kremlin said on Friday that it had noted some Western countries' statements at this week's NATO summit permitting Kyiv to use arms they had supplied to strike Russian territory
July 12, 2024Investors are looking at UK markets as a potential haven as political uncertainty rises in the U.S. and elsewhere in Europe, in what could mark a
July 12, 2024Republicans have nominated Donald Trump for the presidency twice before
July 12, 2024It's been two weeks since President Joe Biden's debate with Donald Trump and Democrats are torn over what to do about their predicament
July 12, 2024During a news conference at the NATO summit, President Joe Biden pushed back on reporting that he has privately suggested that he may push for earlier evening events.
July 12, 2024Takeaways from Biden’s critical NATO news conference
July 12, 2024Obama and Pelosi huddled as Democrats look to steer Biden out of 2024 race
July 12, 2024Joe Biden faced a test Thursday that he had avoided so far this year — a solo news conference with questions from the White House press corps
July 11, 2024U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday he has no reason to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin right now unless the Russian leader changes his behavior.
July 11, 2024Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday it is not possible for NATO to continue its partnership with the Israeli administration.
July 11, 2024Trump argues New York conviction ‘must be vacated’ after Supreme Court immunity decision
July 11, 2024Brazil's Abin spy agency was used to illegally monitor tax auditors who were investigating a son of former President Jair Bolsonaro in an attempt to disrupt the corruption probe,
July 11, 2024British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called on other NATO allies on Thursday to do more to increase their defence spending, saying it was needed to protect the alliance's values
July 11, 2024The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday demanded that Russia "urgently withdraw its military and other unauthorized personnel" from Ukraine's
July 11, 2024West Virginia and Idaho are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review rulings that blocked the enforcement of state laws prohibiting transgender athletes from competing in sports
July 11, 2024West Virginia and Idaho ask Supreme Court to decide whether states can enforce anti-transgender sports bans
July 11, 2024NATO allies are discussing reclaiming some Chinese-owned infrastructure in Europe
July 11, 2024Harris under pressure to outline stakes of the election as Biden faces calls to step aside
July 11, 2024Angry and stunned Democrats blame Biden’s closest advisers for shielding public from full extent of president’s decline
July 11, 2024The Israeli military published on Thursday the findings of a first probe into its own security failings during the devastating Oct.
July 11, 2024Canada will increase defense spending to the NATO target of 2% of gross domestic product by 2032, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, making a commitment
July 11, 2024US sanctions Israeli extremist organization tied to violence in the West Bank
July 11, 2024House fails to pass GOP resolution to fine Attorney General Merrick Garland
July 11, 2024Sweden and several other European Union countries will not send ministers to government meetings linked to Hungary's EU presidency this month in a protest at Victor Orban's talks
July 11, 2024Biden administration designates dangerous Venezuelan gang as a transnational criminal organization
July 11, 2024Hungary’s nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is travelling to Floridato meet with former President Donald Trump following a NATO summit in Washington
July 11, 2024Russian authorities have put the widow of deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on a list of “terrorists and extremists,” continuing a sweeping Kremlin crackdown on the opposition
July 11, 2024Foreign Ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies on Thursday denounced Israel's move to expand its settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying it was "
July 11, 2024Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with Donald Trump on Thursday and the pair discussed the "possibilities of peace", a
July 11, 2024The raised fist - used by Donald Trump as he was rushed off a stage after an assassination attempt - has been used by fascists, communists, Black Power advocates and even golfer Tiger Woods.
July 11, 2024The U.S. and other western governments criticized a controversial security bill in South Sudan that would allow the government to detain people without warrants, saying it would undermine open political and civil space ahead of the country’s elections
July 11, 2024Macron urges new mainstream coalition, appearing to rule out working with the far left
July 11, 2024Burkina Faso's military junta said it has adopted the draft of an amended family code that criminalises homosexuality.
July 11, 2024Spanish far-right party Vox has threatened to bring down coalition governments with the centre-right People's Party in several regions in protest over an agreement to transfer around
July 11, 2024Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday denounced NATO's summit promise to grant eventual membership to Ukraine and said Russia should work towards the "disappearance"
July 11, 2024Jailed human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov compared Russia's justice system to that of Nazi Germany on Thursday as a judge rejected his appeal
July 11, 2024Poland will increase its defence budget by about 10% in 2025 to a record high, a minister said on Thursday.
July 11, 2024Thai consumer confidence dropped for a fourth straight month in June to its lowest level since last September due to concerns about an economic slowdown and political uncertainty,
July 11, 2024President Joe Biden's press conference on Thursday offers him a fresh opportunity to try to prove to the American public that he’s capable of serving another four years after his big debate flop threw the future of his presidency into doubt
July 11, 2024The framers creating the U.S. Constitution knew they needed SOMEONE to be at the helm of the federal government, a president
July 11, 2024As he prepares to accept the Republican nomination for the third time, Donald Trump has promised to expand his coalition — and, in particular, to win over more of the nonwhite voters who largely rejected him during the 2020 election
July 11, 2024Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says ‘it wouldn’t hurt’ for Biden to take cognitive test
July 11, 2024Vermont’s Peter Welch becomes first Democratic senator to call for Biden to step aside
July 10, 2024President Joe Biden will hold a news conference Thursday that is the key event in a monumental week for his campaign
July 10, 2024Democratic lawmakers’ concerns hang over Joe Biden’s position as the party’s presidential nominee despite campaign’s efforts
July 10, 2024Leaders of NATO countries stressed a membership pledge for Ukraine and took a stronger stance on China's support for Russia in a
July 10, 2024Democrats face uncertainty around roll call timing amid questions about Biden’s political standing
July 10, 2024Jill Biden has taken on many roles since President Joe Biden performed poorly in a debate against Donald Trump
July 10, 2024A group of state election officials is urging the nation’s cybersecurity agency to revise a draft rule that would require election offices to disclose suspected cyberattacks to the federal government, casting the mandate as too burdensome on overworked local officials
July 10, 2024Britain's new prime minister, Keir Starmer, on Wednesday hailed the special relationship between the UK and U.S. at his first one-on-one meeting with President Joe Biden, where
July 10, 2024Biden takes on a rare challenge: a solo news conference
July 10, 2024Canada, looking to shore up its defense of the Arctic, is moving ahead to acquire up to 12 submarines and has started a formal process to meet with manufacturers,
July 10, 2024Progressives offer strategic aid to Biden as he fights for his presidency
July 10, 2024British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will tell NATO leaders on Thursday they must send a clear message to Russian President Vladimir Putin of unity in their
July 10, 2024Biden administration to allow paused shipment of 500-pound bombs to be sent to Israel
July 10, 2024The human rights organization Cristosal says at least 261 people have died in prisons in El Salvador during President Nayib Bukele’s 2 1/2-year-old crackdown on street gangs
July 10, 2024In its most serious rebuke against Beijing, NATO allies have called China a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war against Ukraine and expressed concerns over China’s nuclear arsenal and its capabilities in space
July 10, 2024NATO is expected to use the summit this week to launch a new program to provide reliable military aid to Ukraine and help it get ready to join the alliance
July 10, 2024Supporters of a ballot measure that would amend Arizona's constitution to establish a right to abortion sued Republican lawmakers on Wednesday over language in a
July 10, 2024A U.S. District Court judge in Alaska has resigned and could face impeachment after a judicial panel found he had an inappropriate relationship with a law clerk and lied about it
July 10, 2024President Joe Biden's administration will resume shipping 500-pound bombs to Israel but will continue to hold back on supplying 2,000-pound bombs over concerns
July 10, 2024New York Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado, a Democrat, said on Wednesday that President Joe Biden should end his campaign.
July 10, 2024NBC’s Lester Holt to interview President Biden on Monday
July 10, 2024Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is now expected to address former President Donald Trump’s nominating convention next week
July 10, 2024‘Political suicide mission’: Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Ritchie Torres switches tact on Biden
July 10, 2024Ex-Obama aides David Axelrod and Jon Favreau join Inside Politics with Dana Bash to discuss Democratic donor and actor George Clooney's op-ed calling on President Joe Biden to step aside.
July 10, 2024New York University settles lawsuit over antisemitism for undisclosed amount
July 10, 2024A judge says he is leaning toward throwing out Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case after lawyers for the cash-strapped former New York City mayor and his biggest creditors agreed this was the best way forward
July 10, 2024British Defence Secretary John Healey said on Wednesday other NATO members would need to go beyond the alliance's target of committing 2% of GDP to military
July 10, 2024A United Arab Emirates (UAE) court on Wednesday sentenced 43 dissidents to life in prison for operating what it said was a Muslim Brotherhood group that aimed to commit attacks in
July 10, 2024He’s calling into his favorite morning cable news show, bashing the “elites” of his party and dismissing unfavorable polls
July 10, 2024Newly elected British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is making his maiden appearance on the international stage with a strong signal of support for Ukraine as he attends the NATO summit in Washington
July 10, 2024The Alternative for Germany (AFD) joined forces with other far-right parties to form a third far-right party alliance in the European Parliament on Wednesday, a
July 10, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Ukraine is on an “irreversible” path to NATO membership
July 10, 2024Activists say a mass trial in the United Arab Emirates of dissidents that has faced widespread criticism abroad has ended with dozens of people sentenced to life in prison
July 10, 2024A deep dive into political ads on Facebook by researchers at Syracuse University has revealed a sprawling web of advertisements that contain misleading information or scams
July 10, 2024Is there a plot among journalists to push President Joe Biden out of the race? Why are so many journalists focusing on Biden’s problems and not Trump’s? A journalism scholar explains what’s going on.
July 10, 2024On issues and policies in which government has a serious role – taxes, immigration, the state of the economy and even abortion – a 2023 survey found a great deal of agreement among Americans.
July 10, 2024France's inconclusive elections have plunged it into a period of political uncertainty, with no single grouping in the national parliament having enough seats to govern.
July 10, 2024The Republican-controlled U.S.
July 10, 2024Montana's top court on Wednesday appeared open to upholding a landmark ruling that found the state violated the rights of young people to a healthy environment by barring
July 10, 2024Russia pledges to discharge Indians fighting for Moscow in Ukraine, New Delhi says
July 10, 2024Facing pressure from within his own party to abandon his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden is relying on labor unions to help make the case that his record in office matters more than his age
July 10, 2024Biden did see neurologist at the White House in January, press secretary now says
July 10, 2024North Korea's arms trade with Russia is a threat to global peace, and strength and alliances among liberal democracies are critical in safeguarding freedom from "reckless elements", South
July 09, 2024President Joe Biden bestowed the US' highest civilian honor upon the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, during highly scrutinized remarks kicking off the NATO summit in Washington, DC.
July 09, 2024Biden surprises NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
July 09, 2024Justice Department watchdog concludes yearslong probe into FBI actions after 2016 standoff with protesters in Oregon
July 09, 2024The U.S. has not seen Russia shift on its preference from previous U.S. presidential elections on who it prefers to win this year, a U.S.
July 09, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has proven to be an adept navigator of international relations in defense of his country, publicly cajoling to get the military assistance Ukraine needs to defend itself against Russia
July 09, 2024NATO has placed an order for Stinger anti-aircraft missiles worth almost $700 million in the name of several member states, the alliance's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said
July 09, 2024The mood on Capitol Hill turned grim as Democrats wrestled over President Joe Biden’s re-election
July 09, 2024White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan outlined a series of measures to strengthen U.S. and NATO support for Ukraine on Tuesday, as leaders of the military alliance
July 09, 2024NATO has signed a nearly $700 million contract to have member countries produce more Stinger missiles
July 09, 2024A Russian internet propaganda campaign backed by the Kremlin that spread disinformation in the United States and relied on artificial intelligence has been disrupted
July 09, 2024Ex-Sen. Jim Inhofe has died, McConnell says
July 09, 2024Germany and eight other countries on the Baltic Sea aim to jointly procure naval mines, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday, as Russia is taking an
July 09, 2024A lawyer for Sen. Bob Menendez at the Democrat's bribery trial has urged jurors to acquit him of every charge, saying prosecutors had failed to prove a single count beyond a reasonable doubt
July 09, 2024Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe, a mainstay of the ideological right in the U.S.
July 09, 2024Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant approved a plan on Tuesday to start drafting ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military, a move likely to further strain relations within Prime
July 09, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he could not predict what Donald Trump would do if he regains the U.S. presidency in
July 09, 2024Political ad transparency – who’s paying for ads and whether candidates stand behind them – is well-regulated for TV and radio. Online, not so much.
July 09, 2024Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, seeking to deepen the two nuclear powers’ relationship as NATO leaders gathered in Washington and Russia and launched deadly missile strikes in Ukraine that destroyed a children's hospital
July 09, 2024France's left has a Jean-Luc Mélenchon problem.
July 09, 2024Indonesia's incoming President Prabowo Subianto is exploring ways to remove the fiscal deficit and debt-to-GDP ratio ceilings, aiming to fund his campaign pledges, investigative
July 09, 2024‘Huge disappointment:’ Zelensky blasts Modi meeting with Putin the same day Russian attack devastates Ukraine hospital
July 09, 2024President Joe Biden heartily welcomed NATO leaders to Washington, celebrating the transatlantic alliance's stout unity against Russia's Ukraine aggression and underscoring America’s ironclad commitment to the alliance under his watch
July 09, 2024A new poll finds that a solid majority of Americans oppose a federal abortion ban and that a rising number appear to support access to abortions for any reason
July 09, 2024What we know about the White nationalist group Patriot Front
July 08, 2024Biden pitches himself to top donors as Democrats’ best bet against Trump
July 08, 2024Moldova's Socialists, the ex-Soviet state's largest opposition party, put forward a dismissed prosecutor general as a "unified opposition" candidate on Monday
July 08, 2024Louisiana plaintiffs ask court to temporarily block law that requires public schools to display Ten Commandments
July 08, 2024The Republican Party released its platform on Monday that denies anti-abortion activists within the party the far-reaching language they sought
July 08, 2024The three-day meeting is touted as a time to celebrate the alliance’s 75th anniversary. But gathered leaders face serious questions that will affect NATO’s future.
July 08, 2024RNC panel approves new Trump-backed platform softening abortion and same-sex marriage language
July 08, 2024Biden’s fate could come down to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries
July 08, 2024Hamas accused Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday of putting obstacles in front of ceasefire negotiations amid talks aimed at reaching a deal to end the war in Gaza.
July 08, 2024President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian reaffirmed Iran's anti-Israel stance on Monday, saying resistance movements across the region will not allow Israel’s "criminal policies" towards the
July 08, 2024India’s Modi lands in Russia for talks with Putin in first visit since start of Ukraine war
July 08, 2024President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban could not mediate between Russia and Ukraine to end the 28-month war, a task he said could only be
July 08, 2024U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to stay in the presidential race on Monday, saying he is confident the average voter still wants him on the Democratic ticket.
July 08, 2024China and Belarus conduct joint military exercises right next to NATO and EU’s border
July 08, 2024The head of Israel's biggest opposition party said on Monday he would lend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his support in parliament to keep him in office if members of the
July 08, 2024From one perspective, Nevada’s political history is balanced. From another, it’s s pendulum swinging back and forth as people split their votes across party lines.
July 08, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he expects the upcoming NATO summit to provide specific steps to strengthen his country’s air defenses against Russia
July 08, 2024Several France players are already celebrating something at the European Championship — the result of the elections back home
July 08, 2024President Joe Biden vowed to push on with his re-election bid on Monday, dismissing the concerns of some fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill and
July 08, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal Monday, in the wake of a chaotic election result that left neither left, right, nor center with a majority in the National Assembly
July 08, 2024Inside a despondent White House: Aides gripped by unease as Biden’s political future remains uncertain
July 08, 2024Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday he would go to Washington after discussing a Chinese peace plan for Ukraine in Beijing.
July 08, 2024French voters split their parliament into left, center and far-right, leaving the country with the stunning prospect of a deadlocked parliament and political paralysis
July 08, 2024President Joe Biden is standing firm against calls for him to drop his reelection candidacy and calling for an end to the intraparty drama that has torn apart Democrats since his dismal debate performance
July 08, 2024Several top House Democrats call on Biden to step aside during leadership call
July 07, 2024French left-wing coalition projected to beat the far right in shock second-round result
July 07, 2024Any Gaza ceasefire deal must allow for Israel to keep fighting until it achieves its war objectives, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
July 07, 2024The newly appointed Dutch defence and foreign affairs ministers have said the Netherlands' support for Ukraine is "rock solid".
July 07, 2024President Joe Biden and his Western counterparts are meeting in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary of NATO
July 07, 2024Following are some views of some voters as France voted in a parliamentary election on Sunday that could see the far-right National Rally(RN
July 07, 2024Protests aimed at pressuring the Israeli government to reach a hostage deal with Hamas began across the country on Sunday, with demonstrators blocking roads and picketing at the
July 07, 2024French voters head to polls for crucial second round of snap parliamentary election
July 07, 2024France faced potential political deadlock after elections on Sunday threw up a hung parliament, with a leftist alliance unexpectedly
July 06, 2024The chant is concise, but it could not be more meaningful for millions of Venezuelans in 2024: “Freedom!”
July 06, 2024Federal judge pauses some deadlines in Trump’s classified documents case after SCOTUS ruling
July 06, 2024Rival Sudanese political factions formally attended reconciliation talks in Cairo on Saturday, the first since a conflict in the country began almost 15 months ago,
July 06, 2024Sonia Dahmani, a prominent Tunisian lawyer known for her criticism of President Kais Saied, has been sentenced to one year in prison, her legal representative said on Saturday.
July 06, 2024George Stephanopoulos steadily presses Biden with tough questions but got no fireworks
July 06, 2024Britain's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday he would scrap a controversial plan to fly thousands of asylum seekers from
July 06, 2024Hamas has given initial approval for a U.S.-backed proposal for a phased cease-fire deal in Gaza, dropping a key demand that Israel give an up-front commitment for a complete end to the war, a Hamas and an Egyptian official said Saturday
July 06, 2024Recent suicide bombings in northeastern Nigeria have raised questions about the country's claim that it has degraded the Islamic extremists whose insurgency since 2009 has killed more than 35,000 people directly and displaced more than 2 million
July 06, 2024CNN’s Brian Todd explains the process for picking a new Democratic presidential nominee, should President Biden decide to end his bid for reelection
July 06, 2024There is no historical precedent for Biden dropping out now
July 06, 2024Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has won Iran’s presidential election, defeating his hardline rival in a pivotal vote amid heightened domestic and international tensions. CNN's political and national security analyst David Sanger explains why Pezeshkian will face difficulty bringing the country out of isolation.
July 06, 2024Reformist lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran’s presidential vote
July 06, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin's message to NATO was simple and stark: Don’t go too far in providing military support for Ukraine, or you’ll risk a conflict that could quickly turn into a nuclear one
July 06, 2024Forced labor, same-sex marriage and shoplifting are among the 10 statewide ballot measures California voters will consider
July 06, 2024Biden downplays poor debate performance, says it’s not indicative of larger issues
July 05, 2024For years, it’s been a Republican scare tactic
July 05, 2024New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that London would keep providing support for Kyiv in its war against Russia and the Ukrainian
July 05, 2024Trump presses Judge Cannon to take up immunity question in classified documents case in Florida
July 05, 2024CNN's Boris Sanchez speaks to Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) about President Biden's political future, and who he thinks should replace Biden on the ticket if he drops out.
July 05, 2024Amy Coney Barrett has been a firm member of the conservative Supreme Court supermajority she cemented four years ago on issues ranging from abortion to guns, but her latest opinions reflect an increasing willingness to occasionally step away from that bloc
July 05, 2024Great Britain’s Labour Party has defeated the Conservatives in a historic parliamentary election
July 05, 2024Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades and advanced plans to build thousands of new settlement homes
July 05, 2024U.S. President Joe Biden, struggling to move on from his shaky debate performance, said on Friday he can still beat Donald Trump in November's election.
July 05, 2024The Federal Reserve is highlighting the importance of its political independence at a time when Donald Trump, who frequently attacked the Fed’s policymaking in the past, edges closer to formally becoming the Republican nominee for president again
July 05, 2024Jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza moved to prison hospital, wife says
July 05, 2024Spanish far-right party Vox said on Friday it would leave the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament to join a new alliance led by Hungarian
July 05, 2024NATO leaders plan to pledge to keep pouring arms and ammunition into Ukraine at current levels for at least another year
July 05, 2024CNN's Christiane Amanpour asks Marine Le Pen, from France's National Rally party, about the rise of the far-right in Europe and beyond.
July 05, 2024The U.K. has its first change in government in 14 years after the Labour Party won a resounding victory in a general election
July 05, 2024President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday he wanted to double Ukraine's air defence capacity over the summer after receiving the country's third German-supplied Patriot system in
July 05, 2024Europe's football body UEFA handed a two-match ban on Friday to Turkish soccer player Merih Demiral for his politically charged "
July 05, 2024Rishi Sunak’s campaign to remain Britain’s prime minister showed a lack of political touch
July 05, 2024The Labour party’s position on Gaza appears to have cost it votes in the UK election
July 05, 2024In the southern French town where Tunisian doctor Tasnime Labiedh works, the far-right National Rally (RN) came top with 41% in the first round of France's election.
July 05, 2024The recriminations and jostling for top positions among Britain's Conservative lawmakers began long before Thursday's crushing election defeat to Labour that some
July 05, 2024President Emmanuel Macron has urged the mainstream parties in France's hung parliament to form a coalition able to muster a "solid" majority.
July 05, 2024Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban held talks on a potential Ukrainian peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday
July 05, 2024Keir Starmer is ideologically more aligned with the Democrats. But history shows that isn’t the only key to good US-UK political relations.
July 05, 2024For someone often derided as dull, Keir Starmer has delivered a sensational election result
July 05, 2024Official results show that Britain’s Labour Party has swept to power after more than a decade in opposition, as a jaded electorate appeared to hand the party a landslide victory but also a mammoth task of reinvigorating a stagnant economy and dispirited nation
July 05, 2024Biden facing intense scrutiny as campaign ramps up unscripted events
July 05, 2024Taiwan on Friday reported renewed Chinese military activity nearby with another "combat patrol" as the government called on Beijing not to escalate tensions after the seizure of a
July 05, 2024Brexit kingpin Nigel Farage has finally won a seat in Britain's parliament at the eighth attempt and is as determined to be as much of a "
July 05, 2024The low-profile moderate Masoud Pezeshkian, who has pledged to open Iran to the world and deliver freedoms its people have yearned for, has won the country's run-off
July 05, 2024Veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn won his parliamentary seat, beating the candidate of the Labour Party he used to lead and promising to be a thorn in the side of Keir Starmer's
July 05, 2024Labour’s landslide victory is a personal triumph for Keir Starmer that once seemed impossible
July 04, 2024Labour Party set to end 14 years of Conservative rule in UK general election landslide, exit poll projects
July 04, 2024Brazilian police have indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds the far-right leader received from Saudi Arabia during his time in office, according to a source with knowledge of the accusations
July 04, 2024Hamas made a pretty significant adjustment in its position over a potential hostage release deal with Israel, a senior U.S. administration official said on Thursday, expressing
July 04, 2024Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday, Radio Free Europe and the Financial Times reported on
July 04, 2024Netanyahu authorizes negotiators to enter detailed talks for ceasefire deal with Hamas
July 04, 2024Kylian Mbappé calls first round of French elections ‘catastrophic’ after country’s lurch to the far-right
July 04, 2024President Joe Biden is opening a critical stretch in his effort to salvage his imperiled reelection campaign
July 04, 2024‘Chaos is our friend.’ How Trump is quietly planning around Biden’s uncertain future
July 04, 2024France's far-right National Rally party is set to fall short of an absolute majority in Sunday's parliamentary election run-off, an opinion poll showed on Thursday, suggesting efforts
July 04, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he believed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was sincere about wanting to end the war in Ukraine, but that he did not
July 04, 2024Biden expected to speak with Netanyahu on Thursday
July 04, 2024Republican Donald Trump falsely claimed to have driven Democratic President Joe Biden out of the White
July 04, 2024Modi to visit Moscow next week as Kremlin says ‘all issues on the agenda’
July 04, 2024Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has freed at least 10 political prisoners, rights campaigners said on Thursday, including a veteran opposition figure suffering
July 04, 20249 out of 10 voters say there are important differences between Biden and Trump. Here’s what they see as the biggest ones
July 04, 2024The Kremlin says Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia on July 8-9 and hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin
July 04, 2024Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a March public appearance alongside liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that one way to promote compromise on the U.S.
July 04, 2024Donald Trump's campaign and some of his allies have launched a pre-emptive political strike on Vice President Kamala
July 04, 2024The Supreme Court gave presidents immunity. Legal experts say it won’t extend to staffers
July 04, 2024More than 136,000 people have fled Sudan's southeastern Sennar state since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began a series of attacks on towns, the United Nations said on
July 04, 2024Just three weeks before the Olympics, the excitement that was building up in the host city is now mingled with anxiety about France’s political future
July 04, 2024Pro-Palestinian protesters have breached security at Australia’s Parliament House to unfurl banners from the roof as a senator quit the government over its direction on the Gaza war
July 04, 2024Spiralling travel and accommodation costs, French political tumult and security concerns are discouraging many sports fans and
July 04, 2024CNN's Jake Tapper spoke with three House Democratic lawmakers as they grapple with President Joe Biden's debate fallout.
July 04, 2024White supremacist groups must pay more than $2 million in damages to ‘Unite the Right’ victims, appeals court rules
July 04, 2024British voters are picking a new government Thursday
July 04, 2024ABC News interview with Biden will now air as a ‘primetime special’ on Friday
July 04, 2024Biden family is ‘all in’ on president continuing in 2024 race, source says
July 04, 2024UK voters head to polls for a momentous election
July 04, 2024Behind closed doors, in the Oval Office, on Air Force One or in meetings around the world, many people describe President Joe Biden in the same dual way
July 03, 2024CNN Poll: Most Americans don’t expect Trump to concede if he loses election
July 03, 2024Sen. Bob Menendez’s defense rests without him taking the stand at his corruption trial
July 03, 2024Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council that recently-deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping control the country’s gangs and moving toward democratic elections
July 03, 2024Three House Democrats describe chaos within caucus as party navigates Biden concerns
July 03, 2024Jim Clyburn is often credited as the man who delivered the presidency to Joe Biden with a pivotal endorsement four years ago
July 03, 2024CNN's Kaitlan Collins talks to Will Scharf, an attorney for former President Donald Trump in his presidential immunity case, about how Trump's lawyers in his hush money trial are using the historic Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity to their advantage and challenging the verdict in his hush money trial.
July 03, 2024How the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling can help Donald Trump fight off all the criminal charges against him
July 03, 2024Did the media covering President Biden miss a story that was right in front of them
July 03, 2024Judge cites new Supreme Court ruling in blocking health care anti-discrimination protections for transgender Americans
July 03, 2024Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that Mexico's Supreme Court is "not acting correctly" and that it is intruding on the powers of the other branches
July 03, 2024A U.S. judge on Wednesday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a new rule against discrimination on the basis of gender identity in healthcare while he hears a
July 03, 2024For Vance and Rubio to get Trump’s VP nod, they may have to overcome their own governors
July 03, 2024France’s renowned Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld is advising voters in Sunday’s parliamentary elections that if they’re faced with a duel between Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally and a far-left competitor, they should choose the far right
July 03, 2024Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal faced a crisis on Wednesday after a key ally in his multi-party coalition withdrew support, pushing his government into
July 03, 2024The Netherlands' new Prime Minister Dick Schoof assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during a phone call on Wednesday that his country would maintain its support for
July 03, 2024From unanimity to ‘fear mongering’: How the raucous Supreme Court term turned in Trump’s favor
July 03, 2024When either Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer take to the stage to hail victory in the British election on Friday, they will be joined at their moment of triumph by either a man with a
July 03, 2024Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday set July 17 as the next hearing date for a case seeking the dissolution of the popular opposition Move Forward party, which has 30% of
July 03, 2024A bond market crisis that rocked Britain's economy two years ago cast a long shadow over the country's election and will linger as Keir Starmer's Labour government
July 03, 2024Former Republicans were ready to embrace Biden to beat Trump. And then came the debate.
July 03, 2024Washington Post: Justice Department to pursue Trump prosecutions past the election, even if he wins
July 03, 2024Biden and Netanyahu are expected to meet later this month in Washington, source says
July 03, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Thursday for the second time in as many months as they travel to Kazakhstan for a session of an international group founded to counter Western alliances
July 03, 2024A Supreme Court opinion giving broad immunity to former President Donald Trump matters in the current presidential race
July 03, 2024A growing club led by Xi and Putin to counter the US is adding a staunchly pro-Russia member
July 03, 2024Russia, the world's biggest nuclear power, has started updating its nuclear doctrine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, citing an earlier statement by President
July 03, 2024European history shows that nationalism offers no solution to problems, Germany's defence minister said on Monday during a visit to Paris, adding that he would be happier if liberal
July 03, 2024European Union countries on Monday adopted a 14th package of sanctions against Russia over its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
July 03, 2024The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency was sued on Monday by dozens of Israelis who accused it of aiding and abetting the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
July 03, 2024The European Union will downgrade political contacts with Georgia and consider freezing financial aid to the government after it pushed through a controversial "foreign agent" law
July 03, 2024Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel remained committed to its proposed Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal, and his military chief said the remaining Hamas
July 03, 2024United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres accused Israel on Monday of spreading misinformation about him during the more than eight-month-long war between Israel and
July 03, 2024A federal judge in Texas on Monday seemed likely to stop a Biden administration rule that would extend mandatory overtime pay to 4 million U.S. workers from taking
July 03, 2024Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, a front-runner to become the next president of the European Council, said on Monday he was optimistic ahead of the bloc's summit this
July 03, 2024Two federal judges in Kansas and Missouri on Monday at the urging of several Republican-led states blocked President Joe Biden's administration from further implementing a
July 03, 2024The Kremlin said that any peace plan for Ukraine proposed by a possible future U.S. administration of Donald Trump would have to reflect the reality on the ground but that Russian
July 03, 2024Julian Assange's wife Stella said on Tuesday she was "elated" and it was "incredible" her husband was set to be freed following a 14-year legal battle.
July 03, 2024President Vladimir Putin says Russia's war in Ukraine is part of an existential struggle with the West that demands total focus - but deadly shootings in Dagestan
July 03, 2024The White House expressed deep disappointment over criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the United States on Thursday
July 03, 2024A federal judge in Kansas has blocked a federal rule expanding anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ students from being enforced in four states and a patchwork of places elsewhere across the nation
July 03, 2024Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday that he was likely to issue an amnesty to some of his jailed political opponents who had taken part in protests against his re-
July 02, 2024Top aides of Joe Biden, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan and former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, have been interviewed by Special
July 02, 2024The death of trailblazing U.S.
July 02, 2024The judge overseeing Donald Trump's civil fraud trial on Tuesday imposed a gag order - promising sanctions for any violations - on the former U.S. president and
July 02, 2024The current violence between Hamas and Israel works in Russia's favour as it distracts international attention from Moscow's aggression in Ukraine and may result in new migration
July 02, 2024Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his visit to Pyongyang, the Russian foreign ministry said on Thursday.
July 02, 2024Hardline conservative Republican Jim Jordan's quest to become speaker of the U.S.
July 02, 2024When Joe Biden met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet during his visit to Israel, the
July 02, 2024Republicans, whose party infighting has paralyzed the U.S.
July 02, 2024The White House said Wednesday it will develop a national strategy to battle Islamophobia as President Joe Biden faces skepticism from many Muslim Americans for his
July 02, 2024At a recent hog roast fundraiser for the Clark County Republican Party, Ohio Right to Life CEO Peter Range offered his audience a stark warning: The outcome
July 02, 2024Democrats and abortion rights advocates notched a string of electoral victories on Tuesday, including in conservative Ohio and Kentucky, an early signal that reproductive
July 02, 2024Yusef Salaam, one of five Black and Latino men wrongly imprisoned as teenagers in the notorious Central Park jogger rape case in 1989, won a seat on the New York City council in Tuesday's
July 02, 2024Jordan's foreign minister said on Saturday that he did not understand how Israel's goal of obliterating the Palestinian militant group Hamas it is fighting in
July 02, 2024The crown prince of Gulf Arab state Bahrain on Friday called for a "hostage trade" between Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel in order to achieve a
July 02, 2024The Israeli government voted on Wednesday to back a deal to release some of roughly 240 Israeli hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza in exchange for a multi-day truce and the freeing
July 02, 2024President Joe Biden will invoke a Cold War-era measure to boost investment in U.S. manufacturing of medicines and medical supplies that he has deemed important for national
July 02, 2024Henry Kissinger, the most powerful U.S. diplomat of the Cold War era, who helped Washington open up to China, forge arms control deals with
July 02, 2024Nikki Haley is having a moment: The 2024 Republican presidential candidate is seeing a swell in media coverage, new interest from big-
July 02, 2024President Joe Biden's name will not be on New Hampshire's primary ballot, but top Democrats are organizing a shoe-string, write-in campaign aimed at preventing an
July 02, 2024Jordan's King Abdullah said on Tuesday the world should condemn any attempt by Israel to create conditions that would forcibly displace Palestinians within the
July 02, 2024Oleksii Tilnenko hoped this would be the year Ukraine drove Russian forces out of swathes of occupied land.
July 02, 2024U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday vowed to continue prosecuting people accused of storming the U.S.
July 02, 2024Tensions between neighbors Venezuela and Guyana have ratcheted up in recent weeks over a long-running territorial dispute.
July 02, 2024A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled that New York state could bar gun owners from carrying weapons in "sensitive locations" like parks, zoos, bars and theaters, but it
July 02, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told a U.S. military audience on Monday that he hoped he can still count on the United States and urged
July 02, 2024The U.S. special counsel prosecuting Donald Trump on federal charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat asked the Supreme Court on Monday to launch a fast-track
July 02, 2024U.S. prosecutors said on Monday they are engaged in plea negotiations with former U.S.
July 02, 2024Several dozen activists calling for the United States to push for a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas briefly protested in a U.S.
July 02, 2024A declassified U.S. intelligence report assessed that the Ukraine war has cost Russia 315,000 dead and injured troops, or nearly 90% of the personnel it had
July 02, 2024Finland will on Monday Dec. 18 sign a defence cooperation agreement with the United States, the Finnish government said on Thursday, to grant the
July 02, 2024A U.S. judge said on Thursday she would sentence former FBI official Charles McGonigal to over four years in prison for working for Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch under U.S.
July 02, 2024A landmark national security trial for leading China critic Jimmy Lai will open in Hong Kong on Monday amid tight security, with the pro-
July 02, 2024Israel kept pounding the shattered Gaza Strip on Tuesday while Yemen's pro-Palestinian Houthi movement vowed to defy a U.S.-led naval
July 02, 2024Russia summoned Finland's ambassador on Tuesday to object to a new defence agreement granting the United States broad access to the vicinity of the new NATO member's long border
July 02, 2024President Joe Biden and Chief Justice John Roberts will deliver remarks on Tuesday at the funeral of Sandra Day O'Connor, the U.S.
July 02, 2024A California law that would have banned the carrying of guns in most public places as of Jan. 1 was temporarily blocked by a federal judge on Wednesday. U.S.
July 02, 2024Mexico pressed U.S. officials to reopen border crossings during a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena said on Wednesday, as U.S.
July 02, 2024South Korean and U.S. troops have conducted joint combat firing drills near the border with North Korea involving heavy weapons, as Pyongyang lambasted the allies for
July 02, 2024Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will defend a narrow majority in the Nov. 5 elections.
July 02, 2024Donald Trump is looking to seal the deal. Three other Republicans are hoping to slow his march toward the Republican nomination.
July 02, 2024President Joe Biden was meeting with House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and other congressional leaders on Wednesday afternoon to discuss immigration policy at the
July 02, 2024Donald Trump's last remaining Republican opponent, former U.N.
July 02, 2024Turkey is expected to send the final instrument of ratification for Sweden's NATO membership to Washington within days, now that President Tayyip Erdogan signed it off, in a move
July 02, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin castigated Europe on Saturday for "Russophobia" and criticized the Baltic States over human rights at the unveiling of a World War Two memorial.
July 02, 2024More than 80 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives urged President Joe Biden to nominate two candidates to open seats on the U.S.
July 02, 2024The leader of Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Tuesday that the group will further escalate if the Israeli attack on Gaza does not stop.
July 02, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview that aired on Thursday that Russia will fight for its interests but has no
July 02, 2024Two European officials criticized Donald Trump on Sunday after comments the former U.S. president made about not protecting NATO allies who aren't paying enough from a potential
July 02, 2024Former senior White House official Daleep Singh will return to his previous role as the deputy national security adviser for international economics, replacing Mike Pyle who is
July 02, 2024The U.S. prosecutor who produced a politically explosive report that raised questions about President Joe Biden's memory will testify to a Republican-controlled House of
July 02, 2024The hundreds of flowers and candles laid in Moscow on Friday to honour the memory of Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition leader, were mostly
July 02, 2024Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said on Wednesday that she believed frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) were babies, endorsing a controversial ruling
July 02, 2024Nikki Haley is pledging on the campaign trail to stand up to Russian aggression in eastern Europe, reform social security, keep trade barriers low
July 02, 2024Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and his party are scrambling to contain the fallout from a conservative Alabama court ruling
July 02, 2024Donald Trump's big primary victory on Saturday over Nikki Haley in her home state of South Carolina was the result of a ruthless and methodical
July 02, 2024Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday urged Palestinian groups holding talks in Moscow about the formation of a unified government to set aside their differences and
July 02, 2024Iran holds a parliamentary election on Friday seen as a test of the clerical establishment's popularity at a time of growing dissent over an array of political,
July 02, 2024The U.S. prosecutor who sparked a political firestorm last month with a report saying President Joe Biden had a "poor memory," on Tuesday
July 02, 2024President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are poised to win enough delegates on Tuesday to clinch their respective parties' nominations, formally kicking off the
July 02, 2024Donald Trump's lawyers are set to ask a federal judge on Thursday to dismiss the federal criminal case that accuses him of illegally holding onto
July 02, 2024Donald Trump's sway over Ohio Republicans will be tested in the state's U.S.
July 02, 2024Nearly 70 former U.S. officials, diplomats and military officers on Wednesday urged President Joe Biden to warn Israel of serious consequences if it denies civil rights and
July 02, 2024A federal appeals court on Thursday said a U.S.
July 02, 2024Thousands of reproductive rights supporters rallied on Saturday in Florida to support a voter referendum that would enshrine abortion protections into the state constitution,
July 02, 2024Israelis awaited word on how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would respond to Iran's first-ever direct attack as international pressure for restraint grew
July 02, 2024Russian paratroopers have reached the eastern edge of the Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar, which Kyiv's top commander says Moscow wants taken by May 9, the date when
July 02, 2024Donald Trump's political group that pays his legal bills on Saturday
July 02, 2024Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday that U.S. House of Representatives' approval of security aid to Ukraine would lead to more damage and deaths in the conflict there.
July 02, 2024Police arrested dozens of people at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan on
July 02, 2024When Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's hush money trial began in a Manhattan courthouse on Monday, cable TV news coverage of the
July 02, 2024The Supreme Court's conservative justices signaled support on Thursday for U.S. presidents having some level of protection from criminal charges
July 02, 2024The White House said on Monday it viewed the reported role of the Indian intelligence service in two assassination plots in Canada and the United States as a serious matter.
July 02, 2024Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez said on Friday that President Nicolas Maduro's government would have already banned him from
July 02, 2024Britain's Labour Party won mayoral polls in London and central England on Saturday, in crushing defeats for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's unpopular Conservatives
July 02, 2024By Mohammad Salem and Nidal al-Mughrabi RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO -The U.S. said negotiations on a Gaza ceasefire should be able to close the gaps between Israel and Hamas while Israeli forces seized
July 02, 2024Kim Ki Nam, one of the longest-serving North Korean officials who served all three generations of its leaders cementing their political legitimacy and heading the
July 02, 2024Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday condemned a "cowardly" act after a senior figure in his party was struck over the head in a Berlin library,
July 02, 2024British foreign minister David Cameron urged fellow NATO members on Thursday to meet pledges to spend 2% of GDP on defence, saying a tougher foreign policy is needed in a world more
July 02, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Thursday of risking a global conflict and said no one would be allowed to threaten
July 02, 2024Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attacked the Manhattan judge and prosecutor in his New York criminal trial, while hinting at a range of
July 02, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defence minister on Sunday in an attempt to gird Russia for
July 02, 2024Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze vowed on Sunday to push ahead with a law on "foreign agents" that has sparked a political crisis, after opponents of the bill rallied in
July 02, 2024A German high court on Monday ruled that domestic security services could continue to treat the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a potentially
July 02, 2024Belfast's High Court ruled on Monday that parts of the United Kingdom's flagship immigration policy should not apply in Northern Ireland as they undermine human rights protections
July 02, 2024The U.S. removed Cuba from a short list of countries the United States alleges are "not cooperating fully" in its fight against terrorism, a State Department official said
July 02, 2024China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin on Thursday pledged a "new era" of partnership between the two most
July 02, 2024After sealing pledges of a "new era" of strategic partnership with China's Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday is set to highlight the growing
July 02, 2024Russian forces have started the first stage of exercises ordered by President Vladimir Putin to simulate preparation for the launch of tactical nuclear weapons, the
July 02, 2024Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez plans to announce the recognition of an independent Palestinian state on Wednesday, a government source said, confirming a report from news
July 02, 2024Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed without evidence on Thursday that immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere were
July 02, 2024Britain's opposition leader Keir Starmer said on Friday he wanted to recognise a Palestinian state if he won power in an upcoming general election, but said that such a move would
July 02, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Germany on Sunday for a three-day state visit followed by a bilateral cabinet meeting as the European
July 02, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Tuesday that NATO members in Europe were playing with fire by proposing to let Ukraine
July 02, 2024Mexico's presidential candidates formally ended their campaigns on Wednesday, with most polls showing ruling party hopeful Claudia Sheinbaum on course to
July 02, 2024India's Narendra Modi is set to be sworn in as prime minister on Sunday for a third straight term, a rare feat that will also come with new challenges as the populist leader is forced to
July 02, 2024Police say they have thwarted a plot to detonate explosives at locations across El Salvador on Saturday, when President Nayib Bukele is set to be inaugurated for a second term.
July 02, 2024President Cyril Ramaphosa called on South Africa's political parties to work together for the good of the country
July 02, 2024A jury was sworn in on Monday for the trial of Hunter Biden on gun charges, a historic criminal prosecution of a sitting president's son with the potential
July 02, 2024The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned of a new response against South Korea if the South continued with loudspeaker
July 02, 2024Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday she would encourage broad discussions over proposed constitutional
July 02, 2024Russia said on Wednesday that soldiers and sailors from its northern Leningrad military district bordering NATO members Norway, Finland, Poland,
July 02, 2024British opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer put wealth creation at the heart of his pitch to voters on Thursday, vowing to
July 02, 2024Three British opinion polls released late on Saturday presented a grim picture for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party, and one pollster warned that
July 02, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in North Korea on Wednesday for his first visit in 24 years, vowing to deepen trade
July 02, 2024US government employees who resigned over Gaza policy release joint statement for first time
July 02, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia might supply weapons to North Korea in what he suggested would be a mirror response to the
July 02, 2024Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F.
July 02, 2024Netanyahu rejects report citing top Israeli generals as wanting a ceasefire in Gaza with Hamas still in power
July 02, 2024Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier denied parole for 1975 killings of 2 FBI agents
July 02, 2024Donald Trump and the conservative interests that helped him reshape the Supreme Court have gotten most of what they wanted this term — from substantial help for Trump’s political and legal prospects to sharp blows against the administrative state they revile
July 02, 2024Portugal's minority centre-right government approved on Thursday a set of tougher measures to combat corruption, including allowing
July 02, 2024President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the NATO military alliance of creating a security threat for Russia and other nations in Asia.
July 02, 2024The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider the case of a Black man on death row in Georgia who says his trial was unfair because the prosecutor improperly excluded Black jurors
July 02, 2024Donald Trump’s campaign says it outraised President Joe Biden in the year’s second quarter, with a reported haul of $331 million
July 02, 2024Biden has scheduled his first interview after his shaky debate performance
July 02, 2024The last two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are asking the Oklahoma Supreme Court to reconsider the case they dismissed last month
July 02, 2024US to announce new $2.3 billion military aid package for Ukraine
July 02, 2024President Joe Biden plans to meet with Democratic governors as he attempts to solidify support among his party’s top leaders after last week’s shaky debate performance
July 02, 2024Democratic governors seek meeting with White House after poor debate performance
July 02, 2024The deputy leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says the only definite path to a cease-fire on the Lebanon-Israel border is a full cease-fire in Gaza
July 02, 2024Hungarian prosecutors have closed an investigation into a case in which a former government insider accused aides of a cabinet member of interfering in a bribery probe, saying on
July 02, 2024Rudy Giuliani lost his New York law license on Tuesday, after a state appeals court found he had lied in arguing that the 2020
July 02, 2024The Supreme Court has sidestepped a new set of Second Amendment fights
July 02, 2024Manhattan prosecutors says they would be open to delaying Donald Trump’s sentencing in his criminal hush money case following a Supreme Court ruling that granted broad immunity protections to former presidents
July 02, 2024Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the U.S. will soon announce an additional $2.3 billion in security assistance for Ukraine, to include anti-tank weapons, interceptors and munitions for Patriot and other air defense systems
July 02, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un took turns to drive each other around in a Russian-built Aurus limousine on Wednesday after the Kremlin
July 02, 2024Ukraine is expected to get "good news" in its quest for more air defence systems at a NATO summit in Washington next week, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday.
July 02, 2024Dozens of members from Pakistan’s civil society have rallied in the southern port city of Karachi against the death sentence handed down to a Christian man on blasphemy charges, nearly a year after one of the worst mob attacks in the country on Christians
July 02, 2024Audio recordings of Ed Martin, deputy policy director for the Republican National Convention’s platform committee, show a history of pushing extreme anti-abortion positions. CNN’s KFile reviewed dozens of episodes of Martin’s radio show, “The Pro America Report,” from 2022 to 2024, to evaluate his comments. CNN's Andrew Kaczynski reports on the findings.
July 02, 2024Top leader of RNC Platform Committee entertained idea of imprisoning women who get abortions, opposes exceptions
July 02, 2024The leading figure on the French far right says her party, the National Rally, will only take the helm of government if it wins an absolute majority in Sunday’s snap legislative election
July 02, 2024The zealous anti-Westerner and the low-key moderate hoping to become Iran's next president could struggle to mobilise millions of supporters in Friday's run-off
July 02, 2024Biden campaign gets a bit of good news as it announces it hauled in $127 million in June
July 02, 2024Russia's new defensive pact with North Korea shows increasing alignment among authoritarian powers and underscores the importance of democracies presenting a
July 02, 2024EU countries failed to agree on a 14th package of sanctions on Russia as Germany remained a blocking force despite the scrapping of a clause that Berlin found
July 02, 2024Riot police fired tear gas grenades and charged at stone-throwing protesters in downtown Nairobi and across Kenya on Tuesday in the
July 02, 2024Israeli forces may have repeatedly violated the laws of war and failed to distinguish between civilians and fighters in the Gaza conflict,
July 02, 2024The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a Chinese-sponsored resolution urging wealthy and developed nations to close the widening gap with poorer developing countries and ensure they have equal opportunities to use and benefit from artificial intelligence
July 02, 2024Britain's finance minister Jeremy Hunt is fighting for his political life in affluent Godalming, south-east England, where a growing number of voters say
July 02, 2024Britain's opposition Labour Party is on track to win the most seats in the party's history at a July 4 election, according to a YouGov poll published on Wednesday.
July 02, 2024The Supreme Court ended its term by ruling for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, a decision that almost certainly means Donald Trump won’t stand trial before the November election
July 02, 2024Vladimir Putin, on his first visit to North Korea in 24 years, signed a mutual defence pledge with Kim Jong Un on Wednesday, underscoring
July 02, 2024Biden issues a warning about the power of the presidency – and Trump – after Supreme Court’s immunity ruling
July 01, 2024U.S.
July 01, 2024Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) joined "CNN This Morning" to discuss whether he thinks Joe Biden's performance at the presidential debate could jeopardize Democrats winning congressional seats.
July 01, 2024Frustrated Democrats watch for debate fallout as Republicans pounce on Biden’s poor showing
July 01, 2024Iran’s two presidential candidates are accusing each other of having no solution for the country’s problems ahead of Friday’s runoff
July 01, 2024Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said he appointed on Tuesday his 27-year-old nephew as the secretary of the Security Council of the Russian North Caucasus republic.
July 01, 2024Poland's top court backed President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday in a dispute with the government over the validity of bills passed without the presence of two convicted lawmakers.
July 01, 2024President Biden's performance in last week's debate with Donald Trump led to some extraordinary media moments
July 01, 2024A strategic partnership pact signed by the leaders of Russia and North Korea on Wednesday includes a mutual defence clause under which each country agrees to help the other repel
July 01, 2024The Supreme Court is allowing a president to become a “king above the law,” in the use of official power, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in a biting dissent that called the majority opinion on immunity for former President Donald Trump “utterly indefensible.”
July 01, 2024Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s historic decision granting Donald Trump immunity
July 01, 2024Russia's U.N.
July 01, 2024As President Joe Biden attempts to reassure supporters following his widely panned debate performance on Thursday, Democrats still worried about having him at the top of the ticket in November have few realistic options at their disposal
July 01, 2024Huddled in the presidential situation room in February last year, senior Philippines officials faced a stark choice.
July 01, 2024International envoys raised concerns about restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan during meetings with the country's ruling Taliban in Qatar, United Nations' political affairs
July 01, 2024The dissenting judges argued that the Supreme Court’s decision will dramatically expand the president’s powers while in office.
July 01, 2024House Republicans have filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Merrick Garland for the audio recording of President Joe Biden’s interview with a special counsel in his classified documents case
July 01, 2024New laws tackle rental security deposits, hidden fees and date rape drugs
July 01, 2024CNN political commentators Van Jones and Scott Jennings weigh in on the Supreme Court's ruling that Donald Trump may claim immunity from criminal prosecution for some of the actions he took in the waning days of his presidency in a decision that will likely further delay a trial on the federal election subversion charges pending against him.
July 01, 2024Supreme Court rules Trump has limited immunity in January 6 case, jeopardizing trial before election
July 01, 2024State social media laws aimed at protecting conservative users remain blocked, Supreme Court says
July 01, 2024The Supreme Court has ruled for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts
July 01, 2024The Supreme Court has opened the door to new, broad challenges to regulations long after they take effect, the third blow in a week to federal agencies
July 01, 2024Voters in five states will decide referendums on abortion rights this year, with potentially more to come
July 01, 2024The approval rating of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government was at 36% in June, slightly up from 35% in March, according to a poll released on Tuesday.
July 01, 2024The United Kingdom will hold its first national election in almost five years on Thursday, with opinion polls suggesting that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party will be punished for failing to deliver on promises made during 14 years in power
July 01, 2024A widely anticipated Supreme Court ruling will sharply limit federal agencies’ power to interpret the laws that they execute and decide how best to carry them out.
July 01, 2024What happens if the highest court in the land loses legitimacy?
July 01, 2024The U.S. Supreme Court justices have sent Donald Trump’s immunity case back to a lower court in Washington, dimming the prospect of a pre-election trial
July 01, 2024The chair and top Democrat on the House select committee on China will announce Tuesday they are launching a bipartisan working group to reduce China's
July 01, 2024British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday urged voters on the political right to stick with his Conservatives at this week’s election, saying a huge win for Labour
July 01, 2024Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev handed Rosen Zhelyazkov of the centre-right GERB party a mandate to try to form a government on Monday, after it won the most seats in a
July 01, 2024The leaders of European Union countries agree that the bloc should help finance security measures on Poland's border with Belarus, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday.
July 01, 2024Supreme Court prepares to issue ruling on Trump immunity and final cases Monday
July 01, 2024The winners of Britain's election on Thursday - which looks set to end 14 years in power for the Conservative Party - will take on
July 01, 2024Ukraine is expanding its military recruiting to cope with battlefield shortages more than two years into fighting Russia’s full-scale invasion
July 01, 2024A lot of politicians have promised change to voters in Hartlepool, a wind-whipped port town in northeast England
July 01, 2024A woman publicly branded a Chinese spy and a threat to the nation's security by Britain's intelligence agency MI5 says the "politically-motivated" decision had
July 01, 2024CNN's Anderson Cooper talks to Vice President Kamala Harris about President Biden's performance in CNN's presidential debate -- and how other democrats are reacting.
June 30, 2024Trump looks to carry debate momentum into a critical stretch before GOP convention
June 30, 2024How the Supreme Court’s blockbuster ‘Chevron’ ruling puts countless regulations in jeopardy
June 30, 2024U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has dismissed suggestions that his party is heading to defeat in Thursday’s general election
June 30, 2024Long-serving Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has urged his country to support Ukraine and international cooperation in his final address to his compatriots
June 30, 2024Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's right-wing Reform UK party, said his party was doing better than expected after a "tough" few days, as he addressed supporters at a rally with days
June 30, 2024Israel sparks international condemnation over plans to legalize West Bank settlements
June 30, 2024The Taliban is saying the West should look past their harsh edicts on Afghan women and girls to improve relations
June 30, 2024Zelensky issues fresh weapons plea after 7 killed in Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia region
June 30, 2024‘What’s going to happen for us?’ These gay military veterans wonder what Biden’s new pardon means for them
June 30, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia dropped more than 800 glide bombs in Ukraine in the past week alone and appealed to Western countries to further relax targeting restrictions inside Russia
June 30, 2024Russia wants to confront NATO but dares not fight it on the battlefield – so it’s waging a hybrid war instead
June 30, 2024Thailand weathered a critical day of court cases on Tuesday, including those involving the fate of the prime minister and the main opposition, dodging an immediate political crisis
June 30, 2024France had held an early parliamentary election that could bring the country’s first far-right government since Nazi occupation during World War II
June 30, 2024As a legal battle ensues over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of exactly how the mandate will be implemented and enforced remain unclear
June 30, 2024North Korea and Russia have ramped up diplomatic and economic exchanges in recent months, culminating in this week's visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit
June 30, 2024Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) party scored historic gains to win the first round of France's parliamentary election on Sunday,
June 29, 2024Jill Biden has been a near-constant presence at her husband's side since his disastrous debate performance against Republican Donald Trump on Thursday night
June 29, 2024N.A.A.C.P. demands firing of South Florida officer accused of using racial slurs
June 29, 2024The Bolivian general accused of leading a failed coup has been sent to a maximum-security prison as he faces charges of terrorism and starting an armed uprising
June 29, 2024As the UN comes under fire for giving the Taliban a seat at the table while excluding women, Anna Coren updates us on the dire consequences of the Taliban’s misogyny, as suicide rates among girls surge.
June 29, 2024Thailand's influential former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been formally indicted for allegedly insulting the monarchy, the attorney-general's office said on Tuesday.
June 29, 2024US proposes new language to revive stalled Israel-Hamas ceasefire efforts
June 29, 2024President Joe Biden looked to recapture his mojo and reassured donors that he’s fully up to the challenge of beating Donald Trump
June 29, 2024A federal judge ruled late Friday that the majority of a lawsuit filed by the U.S.
June 29, 2024Here’s what voters had to say following the first 2024 debate showdown between Joe Biden and Donald Trump
June 29, 2024Two politicians known to be on Donald Trump's vice presidential list are from Florida, where the former president also now lives
June 29, 2024Iran’s presidential election heads to runoff after inconclusive first round
June 29, 2024A moderate lawmaker will face Iran supreme leader's protege in a run-off presidential election on July 5 after the country's interior ministry said on Saturday that
June 29, 2024Oral dissents are back in vogue at the Supreme Court as liberals lament latest rulings
June 29, 2024European Union leaders ended a discussion on who should take the bloc's top jobs for the next five years without agreement on Monday, aiming
June 29, 2024Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is considering visiting Germany to meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz when he attends a NATO summit in the United States in early July, public
June 29, 2024Slowly but steadily this summer, Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s outgunned and undermanned defenses along the front line of the battlefield in a relentless onslaught, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv
June 29, 2024A research expert has told the United Nations Security Council that ballistic missile remnants found in Ukraine came from North Korea
June 29, 2024A federal judge has approved the Biden administration’s request to partially end a nearly three-decade-old agreement to provide court oversight of how the government cares for migrant children in its custody
June 29, 2024More than 20 NATO members will meet the alliance's target of allocating at least 2% of GDP to defense this year, NATO
June 28, 2024NYT Editorial Board calls for Biden to leave the 2024 presidential race
June 28, 2024Detained Bolivian general Juan Jose Zuniga was ordered to six months "preventive detention" for his role leading a failed coup against the government earlier in the week, a top
June 28, 2024Polls commissioned by Mexico's ruling MORENA party show support for a proposed reform of the country's judiciary, including support for the popular election of
June 28, 2024Donald Trump said on Friday that his supporters prosecuted for their actions in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.
June 28, 2024Portugal's Antonio Costa has long been building support among European peers to become the president of the European Council, hoping his skills as a pragmatic
June 28, 2024The Biden administration will provide Ukraine with $150 million worth of weapons and ammunition, including HAWK air defense interceptors and 155 millimeter
June 28, 2024The Kremlin said on Monday a remark by NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg that the military alliance was holding talks on deploying more nuclear weapons was an "escalation of tension".
June 28, 2024A federal judge in Kentucky on Monday blocked President Joe Biden's administration from implementing new protections for LGBT students from discrimination in schools and
June 28, 2024A prominent Democratic law firm has filed suit in Ohio against a ban on foreign nationals and green card holders contributing to state ballot campaigns
June 28, 2024Donald Trump's warning during his debate with Joe Biden that immigrants are taking “Black jobs" and “Hispanic jobs” prompted outrage from Democrats and Black leaders who found the language vague and racially discriminatory
June 28, 2024Supreme Court rulings indicate that the Justice Department overstepped by charging hundreds of January 6 Capitol rioters with obstruction. CNN's Elie Honig reports
June 28, 2024Supreme Court rejects Steve Bannon’s attempt to avoid prison
June 28, 2024President Joe Biden addressed concerns over his age while speaking at a rally in North Carolina the day after a shaky debate performance against former President Donald Trump.
June 28, 2024Those with an interest can find several exhaustive, independent fact checks of claims made by Joe Biden and Donald Trump during their televised debate on Thursday night
June 28, 2024The Supreme Court's move to curb federal agency powers could curtail efforts by the U.S.
June 28, 2024Government prosecutors, ruled the Supreme Court, stretched the meaning of a law that’s been used to prosecute those alleged to have participated in the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol.
June 28, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he will sign bilateral security agreements with the United States and Japan on the sidelines of the Group
June 28, 2024Britain's opposition Labour Party, which is far ahead in polls before a July 4 election, pledged on Thursday to recognise a Palestinian state as a contribution to a
June 28, 2024The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia's right to develop closer ties with North Korea should not be in doubt or a source of fear for anyone, saying the potential for the two
June 28, 2024More than two years into a war that has cost tens of thousands of lives, Ukraine is about to embark on the unprecedented task of
June 28, 2024France's far-right National Rally (RN) is negotiating with potential allies to form a team that could run the government should it win a snap election, bringing in
June 28, 2024Former President Donald Trump called Milwaukee a "horrible city" in a closed door meeting with Republican lawmakers on Thursday, one month before he is due to accept his party's
June 28, 2024The United States, France and Israel have agreed to work together to step up efforts to push forward a roadmap presented by Paris earlier this year to defuse tensions
June 28, 2024When French President Emmanuel Macron arrived at the luxury Borgo Egnazia Italian resort on Thursday for the annual Group of Seven G7 leaders summit, he
June 28, 2024Mexico's President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday that judges in the country should be elected, echoing her agreement with a controversial judicial reform proposed by
June 28, 2024The head of a Canadian political party said on Thursday that an intelligence report about some members of parliament acting as agents for other nations was concerning and that
June 28, 2024Nigel Farage's Reform UK Party overtook Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives in an opinion poll for the first time on Thursday ahead of Britain's election on July 4.
June 28, 2024Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine in February, 2022, has led to Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War Two.
June 28, 2024President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that plans by Western countries to provide Ukraine with loans using interest from Russian assets frozen abroad was theft and would not go
June 28, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right wing Likud party has reduced the gap behind the centrist party of former minister Benny Gantz, who quit the wartime unity
June 28, 2024The ceasefire offer from Russian President Vladimir Putin is an ultimatum which cannot be trusted, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday.
June 28, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin is in no position to make demands on Ukraine to end the war, U.S.
June 28, 2024Hungarian political newcomer Peter Magyar's Tisza party is welcome to join the centre-right European People's Party in the European Parliament, the EPP's leader said on Friday.
June 28, 2024Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas called on the U.S.
June 28, 2024Spanish prosecutors handling a case against Catalan separatist leaders have defied an order to apply an amnesty law to defendants charged with embezzlement.
June 28, 2024World leaders will join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at a summit this weekend to explore ways of ending the deadliest conflict in
June 28, 2024Ukraine dismissed ceasefire conditions announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday as "absurd", saying he was trying to mislead world powers and undermine
June 28, 2024The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement and several of its leaders, designating them terrorists as
June 28, 2024A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected a bid by President Joe Biden's administration to revive its directive that schools allow transgender students to use bathrooms and
June 28, 2024Mexico enacted two controversial laws on Friday that increase the president's ability to grant amnesty and limit judges' ability to suspend public projects.
June 28, 2024NATO is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons, taking them out of storage and placing them on standby, in the face of a growing threat from Russia and China, the head of the
June 28, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin sacked four deputy defence ministers on Monday and appointed a relative to fill one of the resulting vacancies.
June 28, 2024Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has chosen to represent his family bastion of Raebareli in parliament as his Congress Party seeks to build on the stronger
June 28, 2024On MSNBC, the mood turns somber following Biden’s debate performance
June 28, 2024After prosecutors finished presenting their bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez, lawyers were poised to call witnesses starting Monday to defend the Democrat and two New Jersey businessmen against multiple federal charges
June 28, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron appeared on the political stage in 2017 as a bold, young leader offering to revive France through radical pro-business, pro-European policies
June 28, 2024President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia should resume production of intermediate and shorter range nuclear-capable missiles and
June 28, 2024President Joe Biden is courting LGBTQ+ voters at a pair of events in New York City as he looks to shake off an uneven debate performance
June 28, 2024The Supreme Court's ruling in Republican former President Donald Trump's claim of immunity from prosecution for trying to undo his 2020 election loss is expected
June 28, 2024President Joe Biden is working to quell Democratic anxieties over his unsteady showing in his debate with ex-President Donald Trump
June 28, 2024Supreme Court overturns 1984 Chevron precedent, curbing power of federal government
June 28, 2024The European Union has decided to sanction six people and three companies for financing Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the EU council said on Friday.
June 28, 2024Homeless people can be ticketed for sleeping outside, Supreme Court rules
June 28, 2024The Supreme Court will issue the final opinions of its terms on Monday
June 28, 2024Argentina's Senate passed a sprawling bill on Wednesday that is key to libertarian President Javier Milei's economic reform plans,
June 28, 2024By Luc Cohen NEW YORK -Prosecutors rested their case on Friday in U.S. Senator Bob Menendez's corruption trial, paving the way for the once-powerful lawmaker to mount his defense.
June 28, 2024Families of the 21 people detained on accusations that they participated in a failed coup attempt appear visibly confused and anxious in the jail where they're being kept
June 28, 2024U.S. immigrant rights groups sued the Biden administration on Wednesday over a new policy that bars most migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally
June 28, 2024After decades as a political pariah, the far-right National Rally is projected to emerge as France's dominant political force in Sunday's decisive second round of a parliamentary
June 28, 2024Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who will be NATO's next secretary-general, was criticised by other European Union leaders at a summit for his opposition to joint EU funding of
June 28, 2024British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer were grilled by voters at a televised event on Wednesday, with both challenged
June 28, 2024France's far-right National Rally (RN) extended its lead in a poll published on the last day of campaigning before Sunday's first round of parliamentary elections,
June 28, 2024The Kremlin said on Friday that the outlook for EU-Russia ties was bad after EU leaders nominated Ursula von der Leyen for another term as European Commission president and picked
June 28, 2024President Vladimir Putin did not get up in the middle of the night to watch the U.S. presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, and Russia will not comment on internal
June 28, 2024Mexico's former foreign minister, the scion of a legendary political family, and a party boss are in contention for top energy-related jobs in President-elect
June 28, 2024South Africa's Democratic Alliance (DA) is committed to working out a deal over posts in President Cyril Ramaphosa's cabinet, a party source close to the talks
June 28, 2024The U.S. military on Wednesday urged a de-escalation in rising tensions between Israel and Lebanon, and said U.S.
June 28, 2024Laughing and joking, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un cruised around Pyongyang last week in a Russian-made Aurus limousine to
June 28, 2024Iranians have voted in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi
June 28, 2024Ukraine has spent years trying to build a Western-style democracy, although not without some bumps along the way
June 28, 2024Vice President Kamala Harris is acknowledging that President Joe Biden had a “slow start” during his debate against Donald Trump
June 28, 2024The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling that put a temporary block on the state’s strict abortion law, and is telling the lower court to let the law take effect
June 28, 2024CNN political commentator Van Jones weighs in on President Joe Biden's performance during CNN's presidential debate.
June 28, 2024Tensions over the war between Israel and Hamas have seeped into the festivities at LGBTQ+ Pride events across the U.S. They have spurred boycotts and demonstrations and exposed divisions within the movement
June 28, 2024A clash over golf handicaps prompted some of the feistiest comments in the debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump
June 28, 2024Bolivian President Luis Arce on Thursday denied any involvement or knowledge of a failed coup attempt led by General Juan Jose Zuniga a day earlier, after Zuniga told reporters that
June 27, 2024French Industry Minister Roland Lescure on Wednesday urged France's top companies to publicly criticize Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN), citing
June 27, 2024The Supreme Court conceded that it should not have taken up the case to begin with.
June 27, 2024European Union leaders have agreed on the officials who will lead the European Commission, Council, and foreign policy service after the EU Parliament elections
June 27, 2024Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, chosen to be the next president of the European Council, said on Thursday he will be fully committed to promoting the unity of the 27
June 27, 2024French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Thursday accused his main challenger for the top job, Jordan Bardella, of tolerating racist speech in the ranks of his far-right camp amid a
June 27, 2024The White House Correspondents' Association said on Thursday CNN has rejected multiple requests to include White House pool reporters inside
June 27, 2024The first general election debate of the 2024 season has come to a close
June 27, 2024House Republicans have advanced a resolution that would hold President Joe Biden’s ghostwriter in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over records related to the special counsel investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents
June 27, 2024Hunger, stress, trauma, inadequate sanitation and other factors are converging to create a widespread humanitarian disaster with consequences that could last for generations.
June 27, 2024Thai courts will convene on a trio of politically charged cases next week, including one that could potentially lead to the prime
June 27, 2024The U.S. Supreme Court did not settle the debate over whether federal law requires hospitals to stabilize pregnant patients with emergency abortions on Wednesday, despite saying Idaho hospitals can provide abortions in medical emergencies even with the state’s restrictions
June 27, 2024Canada on Thursday imposed sanctions on seven Israeli settlers it said had taken part in extremist violence in the West Bank, the second time in just over a month Ottawa has taken
June 27, 2024President Vladimir Putin will keep demoted ally Nikolai Patrushev, a Cold War warrior who crafted the Kremlin's national security strategy, on Russia's top consulting security body,
June 27, 2024Zimbabwe police have used batons to break up a protest by opposition supporters outside a courthouse in the capital Harare
June 27, 2024Russia's Human Rights Commissioner said on Tuesday she had issued a fresh appeal to senior U.N. and other officials to take action to secure the release of Russian nationals still held by
June 27, 2024A coup attempt in Bolivia that saw soldiers take over La Paz's central square and ram the presidential palace with an armored truck was put down
June 27, 2024A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that parts of Florida's ban of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender children and restrictions on gender-affirming
June 27, 2024German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday called for a fairer distribution of Ukrainian refugees in Europe, stressing how countries contributing less to the effort should receive
June 27, 2024Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, quoted by Russian news agencies, said on Tuesday he hoped to meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan next month at a regional meeting in Kazakhstan.
June 27, 2024Slovakia’s Parliament has approved a package of legislation meant to boost security for leading politicians and others following an assassination attempt on populist Prime Minister Robert Fico
June 27, 2024A jury in Delaware convicted Hunter Biden, U.S. President Joe Biden's son, on Tuesday of lying about his illegal drug use when he purchased a gun in 2018.
June 27, 2024Georgia's parliament on Thursday gave its initial approval to a set of bills containing sweeping curbs on LGBT rights, including bans on the "propaganda" of same-sex
June 27, 2024France's conservative Republicans party chairman Eric Ciotti on Tuesday called for a country-wide alliance between his party's candidates and Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally
June 27, 2024British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has portrayed himself as thorough and evidence-led throughout his relatively brief political career but there’s always been a nagging question over the keenness of his politcal antenna
June 27, 2024President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have met for their first debate of the 2024 season, and there was no shortage of false claims
June 27, 2024As the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on a major case involving former President Donald Trump, 7 in 10 Americans think its justices are more likely to shape the law to fit their own ideology, rather than serving as neutral arbiters of government authority
June 27, 2024A senior Russian diplomat, in an interview published on Thursday, urged the United States to pay attention to discussions under way on possibly altering Moscow's nuclear doctrine to suit
June 27, 2024Hamas accepts a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution and is ready to negotiate over the details, senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters on Tuesday, adding that it was
June 27, 2024The U.N. political chief who will chair the first meeting between Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and envoys from about 25 countries says women's rights will be raised at every session
June 27, 2024European Union leaders agreed to nominate Ursula von der Leyen of Germany for a second five-year term as president of the European Commission, the
June 26, 2024Bolivian authorities arrested General Juan Jose Zuniga on Wednesday afternoon, a Reuters witness saw, hours after troops stormed into the presidential palace amid a military coup
June 26, 2024Former Republican U.S. Rep. Ken Buck resigned from Congress frustrated by a flank of the GOP’s unwavering devotion to former President Donald Trump
June 26, 2024The Supreme Court formally dismissed an appeal over Idaho’s strict abortion ban, blocking enforcement of the state’s law a day after the opinion was inadvertently posted on the court’s website in an astonishing departure from its highly controlled protocols. CNN legal analyst Elie Honig weighs in.
June 26, 2024Wisconsin's highest court is expected to agree to hear a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood asking it to recognize a right to abortion in the state, news site Wisconsin Watch
June 26, 2024The U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to release an opinion that will allow doctors in Idaho to perform abortions to stabilize patients at least for now, despite the state's strict abortion ban
June 26, 2024The Biden administration will lift its ban on allowing a controversial Ukrainian military unit to use U.S. weapons, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing State Department
June 26, 2024British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer struggled to get their messages across as protesters drowned out the early stages of their final televised debate of the U.K. election campaign
June 26, 2024Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia’s government palace Wednesday as President Luis Arce said the country faced an attempted coup and urged people to mobilize
June 26, 2024Moldova's pro-European president signed into law on Monday changes to the criminal code expanding provisions on treason denounced by her opponents and Amnesty
June 26, 2024Anticipation is mingling with fear across Haiti as the country welcomes the fourth major foreign intervention in its history to fight gang violence
June 26, 2024The Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho when a pregnant patient’s health is at serious risk, as a legal case plays out
June 26, 2024Hungary's President Tamas Sulyok will not attend the summit of the Bucharest Nine, a group of European countries on the eastern edge of NATO in Riga on Tuesday,
June 26, 2024As President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump prepare to face off in the first of the 2024 presidential debates, the gulf between Americans'
June 26, 2024The Supreme Court said the White House and federal agencies such as the FBI may continue to urge social media platforms to take down content the government views as misinformation.
June 26, 2024Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on Wednesday said it has asked the Tamil Nadu state to submit a "
June 26, 2024The Supreme Court has overturned the bribery conviction of a former Indiana mayor, the latest in a series of decisions narrowing the scope of federal public corruption law
June 26, 2024India has said a report by Canadian legislators alleging interference by New Delhi is politically motivated and influenced by Sikh separatist campaigners.
June 26, 2024Dmitry Pumpyansky, the billionaire former chairman of Russian steel pipe maker TMK, no longer warrants being on the EU's sanctions list related to Moscow's invasion
June 26, 2024The European Parliament took a shift to the right after a four-day election concluded on Sunday, with more eurosceptic nationalists and fewer mainstream liberals and Greens.
June 26, 2024Hunter Biden's defense attorney indicated in court on Monday that the U.S. president's son will not testify in his criminal trial on federal gun charges, CNN reported on Monday.
June 26, 2024U.S. government officials are keeping a close watch on the aftermath of the European Parliament election that saw far-right parties gain seats in France and Germany, wary of the
June 26, 2024Perhaps the most famous one-liner in a presidential debate, Ronald Reagan's "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
June 26, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his Commander in Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi have visited troops in the eastern Donetsk region who have weathered fierce Russian ground and air assaults in recent months
June 26, 2024After Julian Assange was released by a court on the remote U.S.
June 26, 2024NATO has appointed Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general, putting the outgoing Dutch prime minister in charge of the world’s biggest security organization at a critical time for European security as war rages in Ukraine
June 26, 2024NATO on Wednesday selected Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as NATO's next boss, as the war in Ukraine rages on its doorstep and uncertainty hangs over the United
June 26, 2024Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris could be tempted to call an early national election after rival Sinn Fein flopped at local council polls, upending expectations
June 26, 2024Belarus said on Monday its army was taking part in the second stage of Russian exercises ordered by President Vladimir Putin to practise the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons.
June 26, 2024As French Jews, Maury and Alain Fischler feel trapped between equally unpalatable extremes as France rushes into a snap election with the far right ahead in the
June 26, 2024The centre-right GERB party was on course to have won the most votes in Bulgaria's parliamentary election, but will have to seek coalition partners to form a government, partial
June 26, 2024The International Criminal Court has convicted an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Mali’s historic city of Timbuktu
June 26, 2024Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi passed the first big political test of his third term on Wednesday as a candidate from the ruling coalition was elected speaker of the lower house
June 26, 2024A new poll finds most U.S. adults plan to watch or listen to some element of Thursday's presidential debate
June 26, 2024After being released from a UK prison as a part of a plea deal with the US, Julian Assange is flying to Saipan, an island near Australia, where he will appear in a US court on June 26.
June 26, 2024Israel's Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to begin drafted ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the army
June 25, 2024The U.S. and Russian defense chiefs spoke by telephone on Tuesday in rare communication between the two powers and with tensions rising after Moscow blamed Washington for a
June 25, 2024A court in Ecuador on Tuesday started a trial against five people accused of murdering presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio last year, where the accused could serve up to 26
June 25, 2024Russia's top diplomat for arms control said on Tuesday that Russia had made advances in nuclear deterrence that would allow it to ensure its security for decades to
June 25, 2024The Kremlin-backed head of Dagestan on Tuesday ordered background checks to be carried out on the Russian republic's political elite to make sure nobody had links to
June 25, 2024French officials unwilling to work with a potential far right government should find a new job, the National Rally's (RN) immigration tsar
June 25, 2024Four prominent former officials in Georgia are joining a group that says it will try to counteract efforts to make people distrust elections
June 25, 2024Here are some key facts about Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, the two top Russian officials against whom the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Tuesday for alleged
June 25, 2024The D-8 group of developing nations called on Saturday for the U.S. to lift its veto on the full membership of Palestine as an independent and sovereign state in the United
June 25, 2024Portugal's far-right party Chega is facing accusations that it manipulated a video showing a migrant worker confronting its leader Andre Ventura, who went on to
June 25, 2024A majority of Thais are dissatisfied with the government of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, who took office nine months ago, as it has not been able to resolve the country's
June 25, 2024A ban on Al Jazeera's operations in Israel was extended for another 45 days by Israel's telecoms regulator on Sunday after the cabinet agreed its broadcasts
June 25, 2024The White House declined to say on Sunday whether President Joe Biden will meet Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli prime minister visits Washington next month to
June 25, 2024Bulgaria's centre-right GERB party is seen in the lead after a snap parliamentary election on Sunday, but it will have to seek a coalition partner to
June 25, 2024The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) shrugged off a string of scandals to take second place in Sunday's EU election, making gains in
June 25, 2024Flemish nationalist party N-VA (New Flemish Alliance) was on course to remain the largest party in Belgium's parliament on Sunday,
June 25, 2024Mexico's ruling Morena party and its allies have won a super-majority in the lower house of Congress but not the Senate, the party's president said on Sunday, falling just short
June 25, 2024Lawyers for Donald Trump are asking the judge presiding over his classified documents case to prevent prosecutors from using as evidence boxes of records seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate
June 25, 2024Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Tuesday announced 19 million euros ($20.3 million) in more aid to Gaza and criticised parts of the Israeli government for actions that she
June 25, 2024The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case indicated on Tuesday that she was unlikely to grant his lawyers' request to exclude
June 25, 2024Iran’s supreme leader has issued a thinly veiled warning to the sole reformist candidate in the country’s upcoming presidential election
June 25, 2024The European Union has launched membership talks with Ukraine a decade after Russian troops seized the Crimean Peninsula to deter the country from moving closer to the West, part of a chain of events that set the two neighbors on the path to war
June 25, 2024President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia had no need to use nuclear weapons to secure victory in
June 25, 2024Six candidates have been approved by Iran’s theocracy to run in Friday’s presidential election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash with several other officials in May
June 25, 2024Civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s new law mandating that the Ten Commandments must be displayed in every public school classroom
June 25, 2024George Latimer has defeated U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, of New York, in a Democratic primary that highlighted the party’s deep divisions over the war in Gaza
June 25, 2024The stakes are high for Joe Biden and Donald Trump for Thursday's first presidential debate
June 25, 2024It's debate prep time for President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump
June 25, 2024CNN's Phil Mattingly talks with Julian Assange's half-brother, Gabriel Shipton, about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's plea deal that will allow him to avoid imprisonment in the US.
June 24, 2024The European Union opened membership talks with Ukraine on Tuesday, giving the country a political boost in the midst of its war against Russia's invasion, although
June 24, 2024After months of casting President Joe Biden as a senile shell of a man incapable of putting two sentences together, Donald Trump has changed his tune
June 24, 2024A full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah would likely set the entire region on fire, involving Iran and its proxies, and could drag the US into direct confrontation with Tehran.
June 24, 2024Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah are threatening all-out war
June 24, 2024French far-right leader Jordan Bardella has sought to reassure French voters, European partners and international observers that his potential government would lead “realistic” economic policies and “not weaken” France’s voice abroad
June 24, 2024Critics are decrying the long time the Supreme Court has taken to rule in a crucial Trump case, charging that it’s politically motivated to help Trump. A scholar of the court says they’re wrong.
June 24, 2024The Supreme Court is planning to weigh in on whether states can ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors
June 24, 2024The Supreme Court has agreed to intervene for the second time in a dispute between Hungary and Holocaust survivors who want to be compensated for property confiscated from them during World War II
June 24, 2024Planned Parenthood's political and advocacy arms will spend $40 million ahead of November’s elections to bolster the campaigns of President Joe Biden and leading congressional Democrats
June 24, 2024Planned Parenthood's political and advocacy arms will spend $40 million ahead of November’s elections to bolster the campaigns of President Joe Biden and leading congressional Democrats
June 24, 2024The NAACP urged President Joe Biden on Thursday to "indefinitely" halt all weapons deliveries to Israel and pressure the U.S. ally to end its war in the
June 24, 2024The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear a series of industry legal challenges seeking to block the Biden administration's reinstatement of landmark
June 24, 2024The forced U.S. troop withdrawals from bases in Niger and Chad and the potential to shift some troops to other nations in West Africa will be key issues as the top U.S. military officer meets with his counterparts at a conference
June 24, 2024A federal prosecutor in the classified documents case of Donald Trump has clashed with the judge as he faced skeptical questioning over a request to bar the former president from making threatening comments about law enforcement agents involved in the investigation
June 24, 2024Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is pushing back against a request to let disabled people cast absentee ballots electronically from home in this November's presidential election
June 24, 2024The director of the Hamas-run Gaza government media office Ismail Al-Thawabta and a Gaza health ministry official told Reuters on Thursday 40 people were killed and 73 were wounded
June 23, 2024Hungary confirmed on Thursday it would attend a Ukraine summit on June 15 in Switzerland despite having cordial ties with Russia, which has not been invited to the gathering.
June 23, 2024Vice President Kamala Harris says “everything is at stake” with reproductive health rights in November's presidential election
June 23, 2024North Macedonia’s center-right leader Hristijan Mickoski has secured parliamentary approval to lead a new coalition government
June 23, 2024British media is reporting that the chief data officer of Britain’s Conservative Party has taken a leave of absence amid growing allegations that the governing party’s members have been using inside information to bet on the date of Britain’s July 4 national election
June 23, 2024Russia, the world's biggest nuclear power, could reduce the decision-making time stipulated in official policy for the use of nuclear weapons if
June 23, 2024President Vladimir Putin, asked about the risks of nuclear war over Ukraine, cautioned the West on Wednesday that Russia could use all available means to defend
June 22, 2024About two years after 13 children and teens sued Hawaii over the threat posed by climate change, both sides have reached a settlement that includes an ambitious requirement to decarbonize the state's transportation system over the next 21 years
June 21, 2024Republicans have shared a spate of lightly altered and out-of-context videos to fuel a narrative that President Joe Biden is mentally and physically unfit for office
June 21, 2024Iran's mission to the United Nations said the decision to pass a resolution against Iran by the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) board of governors was "hasty and unwise," the
June 21, 2024Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) formally named him on Wednesday to lead
June 21, 2024The Supreme Court has ruled against a California woman who said her rights were violated after federal officials refused to allow her husband into the country, in part, because of the way his tattoos were interpreted
June 21, 2024Dozens of Columbia University students who were arrested for occupying a campus building as part of a pro-Palestinian protest will have their criminal charges dropped
June 21, 2024Russia must abide by United Nations sanctions on North Korea, U.N.
June 21, 2024The Biden administration has thanked Romania for its president withdrawing from the race to lead NATO, saying the move would help ensure the Western military alliance stays properly focused
June 21, 2024This month's European election was not only the trigger for French President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary poll but also gives clues to the far right's
June 21, 2024The U.K. general election is nearly two weeks away
June 21, 2024The Pentagon says Ukraine’s military is allowed to use longer-range missiles provided by the U.S. to strike targets inside Russia across more than just the front lines near Kharkiv if Kyiv is acting in self-defense
June 21, 2024Tensions within the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war are playing out in a key New York primary race next week
June 21, 2024Utah voters will decide whether Sen. Mitt Romney’s brand of politics can still succeed in Republican primaries
June 21, 2024President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia would keep developing its arsenal of nuclear weapons, the world's largest, as a deterrent and would supply the army fighting in
June 21, 2024Russia sees a pressing need for security talks with the United States but they must be "comprehensive" and include the subject of Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Friday.
June 21, 2024Taiwan government said on Friday it "deeply regrets" China's move to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for what it called "diehard" Taiwan independence separatists.
June 21, 2024The European Union has agreed to start membership negotiations with embattled Ukraine and Moldova
June 21, 2024The Ukrainians call it a "barn" tank, a bizarre-looking Russian battlefield vehicle captured by Kyiv's forces that shows how troops are trying to
June 21, 2024Armenia said it would recognize a Palestinian state, prompting Israel to summon its ambassador for what the Foreign Ministry described as a “severe reprimand.”
June 21, 2024Exit polls could not accurately capture discontent among the social and economic castes that are ranked lower in India in key states, resulting in an
June 21, 2024A 25-year-old woman has been charged with the offences of assault by beating and criminal damage after throwing a milkshake over Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain's Reform Party,
June 21, 2024Israel is phasing out the use of a military-run detention camp for Palestinians captured during the Gaza war where rights groups say there has been abuse of inmates, justice
June 21, 2024Support for Britain's Reform UK party has risen to just two percentage points short of the ruling Conservatives since Nigel Farage's decision to take over leadership and stand for
June 21, 2024Russian opposition activist Ilya Yashin, imprisoned for criticising the war in Ukraine, lost a court appeal on Wednesday against being designated as a "foreign
June 21, 2024President Joe Biden is beginning an intense period of private debate preparations at Camp David
June 21, 2024Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the debate over abortion access is playing out in elections and the courts
June 21, 2024Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Friday that his country wants to restart annual dialogue with China's chief of defence to reduce
June 21, 2024A federal appeals court panel has rejected longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon’s bid to stay out of prison while he fights his conviction for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the U.S. Capitol attack
June 21, 2024Donald Trump’s campaign outraised President Joe Biden by more than $60 million last month
June 21, 2024Hamas cannot agree to any deal unless Israel makes a "clear" commitment to a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, a senior official from the Palestinian
June 20, 2024U.S.
June 20, 2024Mexico's incoming President Claudia Sheinbaum has begun naming her Cabinet, presenting an even gender distribution and a heavy presence from academia and her prior administration as Mexico City’s mayor
June 20, 2024Campaign groups called on the United Nations human rights chief to take more action over what they said were documented abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims in
June 20, 2024The White House says it will rush delivery of air defense interceptor missiles to Ukraine by redirecting shipments that had been planned for other allied nations
June 20, 2024Mark Rutte has gotten to know a thing or two about finding consensus among fractious coalition partners over the course of more than a dozen years at the top of Dutch politics
June 20, 2024Burkina Faso's military leader Ibrahim Traore appeared on national TV on Thursday to deny reports of mutiny within the army following an attack by al Qaeda-linked insurgents that killed
June 20, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff said on Tuesday that using Western weapons to strike inside Russia was a vital decision that would impact Moscow's tactical
June 20, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's biggest coalition partner said on Tuesday it would support a prospective deal to free hostages from Hamas captivity
June 20, 2024The Supreme Court has upheld a tax on foreign income over a challenge backed by business and anti-regulatory interests
June 20, 2024NATO member Romania’s top defense body says the country will donate a Patriot missile system to neighboring Ukraine to help Kyiv in its war against Russia as Moscow’s forces continue to bombard civilian areas and energy infrastructure
June 20, 2024Conservative Virginia Congressman Bob Good is asking for patience as he hopes the final ballot count from Tuesday’s primary will allow him to fend off a challenger endorsed by former President Donald Trump
June 20, 2024A new mutual-defense pact signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un commits each country to come to the other’s aid if attacked
June 20, 2024Russia welcomes Turkey's reported desire to become part of the BRICS group of nations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, saying the subject would be on the
June 20, 2024Georgia's parliament will shortly begin debating a wide-ranging "family values" bill that will include bans on "LGBT propaganda" and gender reassignment surgery, the speaker of
June 20, 2024Over 700 police searched properties in three German states on Tuesday associated with two suspects in the far-right "Reichsbuerger" group that plotted to overthrow the government,
June 20, 2024The U.N. human rights office called on Tuesday for an end to violence in which it said Israeli security forces and Jewish settlers have killed more than 500
June 20, 2024New Caledonia's pro-independence political party has told French President Emmanuel Macron it can't persuade protesters to remove roadblocks across the French
June 20, 2024The U.S. said on Monday it wants the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution backing the proposal outlined by President Joe Biden to end
June 20, 2024Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F.
June 20, 2024In the wake of Donald Trump's historic hush-money conviction, Democrats are wrestling with how central Trump's felonies should be to President Joe
June 20, 2024The fate of the proposed cease-fire deal for Gaza hinges in many ways on two men: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar
June 20, 2024South Korea says it will consider sending arms to Ukraine after Russia and North Korea rattled the region and beyond by signing a pact to come to each other’s defense in the event of war
June 20, 2024Italy will send a second SAMP/T air defence system to Ukraine, its foreign minister said in a radio interview on Monday, responding to Kyiv's pleas for greater help to fend off Russian
June 19, 2024Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un say a new strategic partnership is a breakthrough, but what it means for their relationship is still uncertain
June 19, 2024The far-right leader angling to become France’s prime minister after the country’s upcoming parliamentary election has backtracked on the party’s previous promise to pull out of NATO’s strategic military command
June 19, 2024Abortion rights have found an unlikely champion in swing state Pennsylvania
June 19, 2024The Philippine military chief has demanded China return several rifles and equipment seized by the Chinese coast guard in a disputed shoal and pay for damage in an assault he likened to an act of piracy in the South China Sea
June 19, 2024Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Monday the United States could face "fatal consequences" if it ignored Moscow's warnings not to let Ukraine use weapons
June 19, 2024Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reappointed Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Monday to form a new government after the latter submitted his cabinet's resignation, following
June 19, 2024Britain's Conservatives will clearly define sex as biological in the Equality Act if they win an election on July 4 to end an "ambiguity" that is putting women and girls' safety at
June 19, 2024British opposition leader Keir Starmer pledged on Monday to secure the country's armed forces and nuclear deterrent, trying to reassure voters before an election
June 19, 2024Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is pardoning 175,000 people with cannabis convictions
June 19, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have signed a new partnership that includes a vow of mutual aid if either country faces “aggression.”
June 19, 2024A court in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok has convicted a visiting American soldier of stealing and making threats of murder, and it sentenced him to three years and nine months in prison
June 19, 2024Not even a WNBA basketball game is an escape from the arguments and polarization that are so common in American life these days
June 19, 2024The Biden administration has approved a new $360 million weapons sale to Taiwan, sending the island hundreds of armed drones, missile equipment and related support material
June 19, 2024Georgia's parliamentary speaker signed into law on Monday a bill on "foreign agents" that has caused a political crisis in the South Caucasus country and drawn sharp criticism from
June 18, 2024NATO's recent move to strengthen its eastern border is aimed at deterring Russia, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday, adding that it should be clear to Moscow that the
June 18, 2024Officials from the United States, Israel and Egypt ended a meeting in Cairo on Sunday with Egypt sticking to its position that Israel must withdraw from the Palestinian side of the
June 18, 2024Serbia's ruling party defeated the opposition on Sunday in a vote for Belgrade city council and partial local elections across the country, marked by scuffles between opposition
June 18, 2024Hungary has lifted its veto on Mark Rutte becoming the next head of NATO
June 18, 2024Canada warned China against meddling in its elections during a rare meeting of the countries' defence chiefs, its defence minister said on Saturday.
June 18, 2024President Joe Biden said on Friday that it was dangerous for people to question the integrity of the guilty verdict in Donald Trump's hush
June 18, 2024Tin Oo, a towering figure in Myanmar's pro-democracy movement and close ally of detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, died on Saturday at age 97, political associates and close friends
June 18, 2024Tens of thousands of Hungarians marched through downtown Budapest on Saturday in support of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who faces an unexpected
June 18, 2024Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance is projected to win a majority in the general election that concluded on Saturday, an exit poll summary
June 18, 2024The next European Parliament should copy the current Italian model of government, drawing together all parties on the right of the political spectrum to rule
June 18, 2024How the Supreme Court could decide Trump’s blockbuster fight for immunity
June 18, 2024Mexicans head to the polls on Sunday in a historic presidential election in which the two main candidates are women, ushering in a new political era for
June 18, 2024Georgian Prime Minister Irakly Kobakhidze called on Friday for a review of relations with the United States after Washington ordered punitive measures over the passage of a law on "foreign
June 18, 2024Donald Trump's foreign allies, from Hungary's Viktor Orban to Britain's Nigel Farage, rallied to his defence saying his trial was politically motivated, while others reacted cautiously,
June 18, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in North Korea early Wednesday, after he said the two countries want to cooperate closely to overcome U.S.-led sanctions in the face of intensifying confrontations with Washington
June 17, 2024A federal judge has temporarily blocked an Iowa law that allows law enforcement in the state to file criminal charges against people with outstanding deportation orders or who previously had been denied entry to the United States
June 17, 2024Former general Benny Gantz faces a reckoning next week over his revolt against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been gaining ground in the
June 17, 2024Cyprus-U.S. relations have reached their highest level yet after the two countries embarked on a strategic dialogue on key issues including defense, security, energy, crisis management and the fight against terrorism, officials say
June 17, 2024Lawyers, advocacy groups and think tanks are soliciting historians’ expertise on the history underlying certain Supreme Court cases. Yet this history-for-hire approach raises questions.
June 17, 2024Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun and United States Defense Minister Lloyd Austin held a constructive meeting in Singapore on Friday, including talks on Taiwan, the war between
June 17, 2024Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that Russia was not bluffing when it spoke of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine and
June 17, 2024The Kremlin said on Friday that it was already aware of attempts by Ukraine to strike targets on Russian territory with weapons provided by the United States.
June 17, 2024Now that the jury in Donald Trump's criminal trial has made the historic decision to convict him, the judge overseeing the case will soon face a monumental choice:
June 17, 2024The Kremlin said on Friday that Donald Trump's guilty verdict showed that all legal and illegal means were being used in the United States to get rid of political rivals.
June 17, 2024The Kremlin said on Friday that Moscow supported China's refusal to take part in a peace summit on Ukraine next month in Switzerland because it was futile to hold such an event
June 17, 2024In a recent discussion by the east German district council of Sonneberg about getting refugees into work, Roland Schliewe of the far-
June 17, 2024The United States and its main allies on said on Friday they are "gravely concerned" by deepening cooperation between North Korea and Russia and called for an end to North
June 17, 2024Britain's opposition Labour Party said that Diane Abbott, Britain's first Black woman lawmaker, would be able to run in the July 4 election after confusion over her
June 17, 2024Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the influential war Cabinet that has overseen the fighting in Gaza
June 17, 2024A Russian court says the espionage trial in Russia of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will begin on June 26 and will be held behind closed doors
June 17, 2024A Stockholm-based watchdog says the world's nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their nuclear weapons as the countries deepened their reliance on nuclear deterrence in 2023
June 17, 2024In their opening statement at Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the prosecutors seeking to win the first-ever criminal conviction of a sitting or former U.S. president
June 17, 2024With less than three weeks to go until Britain’s election day, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is running out of time to change the tune
June 16, 2024Donald Trump's allies hope to seize on dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden among Arab American voters
June 16, 2024Anti-abortion groups and their Republican allies in state governments are using a range of strategies to counter proposed ballot initiatives that are intended to protect reproductive rights or prevent voters from having a say in the fall
June 16, 2024Nearly 80 countries have jointly called for the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine to be the basis for any peace agreement to end Russia’s two-year war
June 16, 2024Allies of the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Thursday that members of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle and wealthy oligarchs should
June 15, 2024The Slovenian government on Thursday approved a decision to recognise an independent Palestinian state, Prime Minister Robert Golob said, following in the steps of Spain, Ireland
June 15, 2024Vice President Kamala Harris is pledging America’s full support in backing Ukraine and global efforts to achieve “a just and lasting peace” in the face of Russia’s invasion
June 15, 2024Supporters of over two dozen alleged victims of civil rights violations at the hands of Phoenix police say a scathing Justice Department report is vindication
June 14, 2024The Supreme Court has decided to uphold federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, for now
June 14, 2024Speaker Mike Johnson says the House will go to court to enforce the subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland for access to President Joe Biden’s special counsel audio interview
June 14, 2024A top U.S. bishop says government officials would be infringing on religious freedom if they were to restrict the Catholic Church’s work serving migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border
June 14, 2024France's political parties have scrambled to form political alliances after President Emmanuel Macron's surprise move to call a parliamentary election, reshaping
June 14, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine and to begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO
June 14, 2024Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair says his country looks on track to meet NATO’s military spending guideline by 2030
June 14, 2024The United States on Wednesday accused China's leadership of supporting Russia's war in Ukraine and warned that Beijing could face further sanctions in response from the United
June 14, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Russia was still trying to disrupt next month's world "peace summit" devoted to the conflict with Russia and was putting
June 14, 2024Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva removed his ambassador to Israel from his post and sent him to serve as his special representative in Geneva amid a diplomatic spat
June 14, 2024The attorneys general of more than a dozen states urged the U.S.
June 14, 2024Russia may take extra steps in the area of nuclear deterrence if the United States deploys intermediate and short-range missiles in Europe and Asia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
June 14, 2024Spain's Congress on Thursday overturned an upper house veto with its final approval of a disputed amnesty for Catalan separatists that is expected to set the stage
June 14, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron personally intervened to persuade Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to
June 14, 2024President Emmanuel Macron will host a meeting with U.S.
June 14, 2024The United States boycotted a United Nations tribute to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Thursday because it said he was "involved in numerous,
June 14, 2024Switzerland will host scores of world leaders this weekend to try to map out the first steps toward peace in Ukraine
June 14, 2024The opinion did not take on the substance of the plaintiffs’ claims against mifepristone, and the abortion pill is already facing other challenges.
June 13, 2024A Texas man has been charged with allegedly threatening an FBI special agent who had been involved in an investigation into the dissemination of personal data from Hunter Biden’s laptop
June 13, 2024Jurors hearing the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president began their deliberations on Wednesday in Donald Trump's hush money case, weighing a verdict
June 13, 2024A senior member of a Russian think tank whose ideas sometimes become government policy has suggested Moscow consider a "demonstrative" nuclear explosion to cow the West
June 13, 2024The U.S. Justice Department says Phoenix police had a pattern of violating people's rights, from unjustified deadly force to discrimination against minorities and homeless populations
June 13, 2024Attorneys for the two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre say they will petition the Oklahoma Supreme Court for a rehearing in their reparations case
June 13, 2024Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan, one of former President Donald Trump’s fiercest critics in the GOP, has received Trump’s endorsement in his Maryland Senate bid
June 13, 2024Former President Donald Trump has told an influential group of CEOs that he would further cut the 21% corporate tax rate to 20%
June 13, 2024The Supreme Court unanimously upheld access to a drug used in the majority of U.S. abortions, though abortion opponents say the ruling won’t be the last word in the fight over mifepristone
June 13, 2024President Joe Biden says he will not use his presidential powers to lessen the eventual sentence that his son Hunter will receive for his federal felony conviction on gun crimes
June 13, 2024The U.N. Security Council has adopted a resolution demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force halt its siege of the only capital in the vast western region of Darfur that it doesn’t control
June 13, 2024The California Legislature has passed its own version of a state spending plan that rejects many of Gov. Gavin Newsom's budget cuts
June 13, 2024The U.S. government’s top hostage negotiator is defending prisoner swaps that free Americans wrongfully detained by foreign countries in exchange for the release of convicted criminals
June 13, 2024The Justice Department says Phoenix police discriminate against Black, Hispanic and Native American people, unlawfully detain homeless people and use excessive force, including unjustified deadly force
June 13, 2024A unanimous Supreme Court ruling means the abortion pill mifepristone remains available in the United States, even through the mail
June 13, 2024The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously to preserve access to mifepristone, the drug most commonly used in medication abortions
June 13, 2024The Supreme Court has made it harder for the federal government to win court orders when it suspects a company of interfering in unionization campaigns in a case that stemmed from a labor dispute with Starbucks
June 13, 2024President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have signed a long-term security agreement designed to bolster Ukraine’s defenses against Russia’s invasion
June 13, 2024Fani Willis called out her critics in a defiant speech Thursday at a Black church outside Atlanta, not naming names but appearing to refer to Donald Trump and others
June 13, 2024Russian officials say U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich, jailed in Russia for over a year on espionage charges, will stand trial in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg
June 13, 2024Recruiters are struggling to find enough men to counter a Russian invasion that has gained momentum in recent months.
June 13, 2024There’s lots of talk of change in Britain’s election campaign, but little talk about climate change
June 13, 2024NATO defense ministers are trying to agree on a new plan to provide long-term security assistance and military training to Ukraine
June 13, 2024Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would make it a right nationwide for women to access in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments
June 13, 2024The head of the U.N. refugee agency says he understands that the Biden administration enacted new restrictions on asylum-seekers entering the United States, but cautioned that some aspects of the executive order may violate refugee protection required under international law
June 13, 2024Denmark's parliament rejected a proposal to recognise a Palestinian state on Tuesday, backing the government's view that the necessary conditions were not in
June 13, 2024European Union defence ministers on Tuesday debated the idea of training Ukrainian forces inside the country but did not reach a common position on the sensitive issue, EU foreign
June 13, 2024British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party said it would create 100,000 more high skilled apprenticeship places per year by 2029 if it wins a national election on July
June 13, 2024Algeria on Tuesday proposed a draft U.N.
June 13, 2024When Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni took power in 2022, far-right parties across Europe hailed her victory, expecting the fiery new leader
June 13, 2024South Africans started voting on Wednesday in an election that could mark a big political shift if the governing African National Congress party loses its majority as opinion
June 12, 2024Spain, Ireland and Norway officially recognised a Palestinian state on Tuesday, prompting an angry reaction from
June 12, 2024Thailand's attorney-general will indict former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra for allegedly insulting the monarchy, an official said
June 12, 2024A Pakistani court on Wednesday postponed a ruling on an appeal by former prime minister Imran Khan and his third wife against their conviction for unlawful marriage, their lawyer
June 12, 2024The Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit of the last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre who were seeking reparations
June 12, 2024As Britain prepares for a general election in early July, and polls indicate the opposition Labour party could return to power for
June 12, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday Ukraine should hold a presidential election following the expiry of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's five-year term.
June 12, 2024About half of U.S. adults approve of Donald Trump’s recent felony conviction, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
June 12, 2024Hezbollah has vowed to intensify its attacks along the Lebanon-Israel border to avenge the killing of its most senior military commander by Israel since the latest round of violence began eight months ago
June 12, 2024The leader of Armenia has declared his intention to pull out of a Russia-dominated security alliance of several ex-Soviet nations as tensions rise between the two allies
June 12, 2024The House has voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview in his classified documents case
June 12, 2024Independents’ political views and policy preferences reflect the economic and social conditions they see and experience every day. Democrats and Republicans have different sources for their views.
June 12, 2024Merrick Garland is the third attorney general in U.S. history to be held in contempt of Congress
June 12, 2024Hungary has agreed not to veto NATO support for Ukraine
June 12, 2024Israel's ambassador to Dublin warned on Monday that a crisis in bilateral ties over Ireland's plan to recognise a Palestinian state sends the wrong message about
June 12, 2024The Kremlin scolded NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday for suggesting alliance members should let Ukraine strike deep into Russia with Western weapons, and said it
June 12, 2024Iran is enriching uranium to close to weapons-grade at a steady pace while discussions aimed at improving its cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog are
June 12, 2024The Supreme Court has just four undecided cases left on its docket
June 12, 2024Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Monday that he will ask the other 26 European Union member states to issue official backing to the International Court of
June 12, 2024A federal appeals court has upheld California’s ban on gun shows at county fairs and other public properties, deciding the laws do not violate the rights of firearm sellers or buyers
June 11, 2024Two U.S. officials say the United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system
June 11, 2024Britain's Conservative Party will introduce mandatory national service for 18-year-olds if it wins the national election on July 4, comprising military or community
June 11, 2024The Biden administration is taking credit for a sharp drop in violent crime though one expert says the declines are likely overstated
June 11, 2024President Joe Biden kept his distance from the courtroom where his son Hunter stood trial on felony gun charges to avoid any appearance of meddling
June 11, 2024House Republicans will meet privately with Donald Trump as the former president returns to Capitol Hill for the first time since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by his supporters trying to overturn President Joe Biden’s election
June 11, 2024The resignation of a senior member of Israel’s war Cabinet was a dramatic show of distrust in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his strategy for the eight-month-old war with Hamas
June 11, 2024Finland on Tuesday made its first deployment for NATO since joining the alliance in April 2023, sending seven F-18 fighter jets to a military base in southeastern
June 11, 2024Israel was ordered by the World Court on Friday to halt its military assault on the city of Rafah during the Gaza war.
June 11, 2024José Mujica, a one-time guerrilla, prisoner and later president of Uruguay who has cemented himself as an icon of the Latin American left, maintains that he
June 11, 2024The United States is expected to lift a ban on the sale of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, potentially in the coming weeks, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
June 11, 2024A House subcommittee is holding a hearing on the troubled safety record of the Osprey aircraft and whether the program has adequate Pentagon oversight
June 11, 2024Gun control advocates and many Democrats see fresh openings created by hard-line positions of the gun lobby
June 11, 2024President Joe Biden says he will accept the outcome of his son's criminal case and “will continue to respect the judicial process.”
June 11, 2024A new poll shows relatively few Americans say they’re fans of President Joe Biden’s work on the issue of student loans
June 11, 2024A preliminary report by Iran's military said no evidence of foul play or attack had been found so far during investigations into the helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim
June 10, 2024A U.S. defense spending bill advanced by the House of Representatives this week contains a measure that would bar the use of Chinese-made lidar sensors in U.S. military
June 10, 2024Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of Britain's Labour Party, said on Friday he would stand as an independent candidate at a national election on July 4, in a move which could lead to
June 10, 2024Two pan-European umbrella groups on the furthest right of the political spectrum have no plans to merge but have plenty of room to work together in key areas, Italian Prime
June 10, 2024A Polish parliamentary commission investigating a plan to hold elections by postal vote during the COVID pandemic will tell prosecutors that crimes may have been committed by
June 10, 2024Backed by Donald Trump, Republican Brian Jack is trying to power his way to the nomination in an open Georgia congressional
June 10, 2024European Union citizens will vote on June 6-9 to choose the 720 members of the next European Parliament, who will serve for five years.
June 10, 2024The U.S. and its three top European allies are divided over whether to confront Iran at the U.N. nuclear watchdog by seeking a resolution
June 10, 2024The U.N. Security Council has overwhelmingly approved a U.S. resolution welcoming a cease-fire proposal
June 10, 2024Fears that Russia would mount an attack on any NATO member are unfounded, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, adding that the war in Ukraine that is now in its
June 10, 2024The brother of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has been ordered by a court to pay S$400,000 ($296,000) to two government ministers in a defamation
June 10, 2024Donald Trump has urged a staunchly anti-abortion Christian group to stand up for “innocent life.”
June 10, 2024Voters in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District will consider the political future of three-term Rep. Jared Golden in one of the nation’s most closely watched congressional elections
June 10, 2024Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party has won European elections in Italy with a strong 28% of the votes, boosting her leadership at home and consolidating her kingmaker role in Europe
June 10, 2024Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Israel’s three-man war Cabinet, has announced his resignation, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of mismanaging the war effort and putting his own “political survival” over the country’s security needs
June 09, 2024Projections show that Germany’s unpopular governing parties sank to feeble results and the far-right Alternative for Germany made gains in Sunday’s vote for the European Parliament, while the mainstream conservative opposition was the country’s strongest political force by a distance
June 09, 2024French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and far-right party leader Jordan Bardella clashed in a TV debate on Thursday in which they presented radically different views of the European
June 09, 2024Russian jamming has kept many of Ukraine's relatively new long-range GLSDB bombs from hitting their intended targets, three people familiar with the challenges
June 09, 2024India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken office for a third consecutive term
June 09, 2024Iran’s Guardian Council has approved the country’s hard-line speaker of parliament and five others to run in the country’s June 28 presidential election following a helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others
June 09, 2024President Joe Biden has suspended asylum processing at the U.S. border
June 09, 2024Hunter Biden’s trial on gun charges brought by his father’s Justice Department has spotlighted embarrassing details about the president’s son in full view while first lady Jill Biden has sat in a Delaware courtroom
June 08, 2024Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday rejected a demand by Mexico for emergency measures to protect its embassy in Ecuador, amid an ongoing diplomatic
June 08, 2024Sen. Rick Scott of Florida says he'll vote in November against a ballot amendment to legalize recreational marijuana in his state
June 08, 2024A New Jersey businessman who pleaded guilty and cooperated in the bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez has testified that he believed he had a deal worth $200,000 to $250,000 for the Democrat to make criminal probes of his friends and family vanish
June 07, 2024Secretary of State Antony Blinken is returning to the Middle East on his eighth diplomatic mission to the region since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza began in October
June 07, 2024Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that Moscow will retaliate with strikes on British targets if British weapons are used by Ukraine to strike
June 07, 2024South Carolina lawmakers will go before voters next week in state primary elections
June 07, 2024President Vladimir Putin says that he sees no current threat to Russia’s sovereignty that would warrant the use of nuclear weapons but has again warned that Moscow could send arms to countries or groups to strike Western targets
June 07, 2024Are concerns about Supreme Court justices’ ethics an old problem, a new one, political gamesmanship, or something more serious? Yes to all of it.
June 07, 2024While possible Republican vice presidential hopeful Doug Burgum travels the country campaigning for former President Donald Trump, the race to succeed him as North Dakota governor tops the list of contests voters will decide in statewide and local primaries
June 07, 2024Jurors have been dismissed for the day in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial and they’ll return Monday morning
June 07, 2024Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been formally elected leader of the National Democratic Alliance coalition, which won the most seats in the national election
June 07, 2024South Koreans are alert for possible new launches by North Korea of balloons carrying rubbish into the South, a day after Seoul activists flew their own balloons to scatter political leaflets in the North
June 07, 2024British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apologized for leaving D-Day commemorations in France early to fly home for an election campaign television interview
June 07, 2024Sweden’s defense chief has expressed alarm over Beijing’s repeated dangerous maneuvers against Philippine vessels in the disputed South China Sea, saying such actions threaten local and global security, undermine regional stability and underscore the need to invest “for our security and freedom.”
June 07, 2024Belgian voters return to the polls on Sunday while both the far-right and the far-left are rising in the country
June 07, 2024The start of the criminal tax trial for President Joe Biden's son was postponed until Sept. 5 from June 20, which Hunter Biden's legal team requested because of
June 07, 2024British defence minister Grant Shapps accused China on Wednesday of providing or preparing to provide Russia with lethal aid for use in its war against Ukraine.
June 07, 2024The Kremlin said on Thursday said President Vladimir Putin had not had any contact with Donald Trump, after the former U.S. president said he would use his ties with Putin to get
June 07, 2024British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party will focus on the economy as they ramp up their campaigning for a July 4 national election.
June 07, 2024Keir Starmer, the leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, said on Wednesday a national election in July would give the country an opportunity to end the "chaos" of Prime
June 06, 2024Four Russian ships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, will arrive in Havana next week, Cuban officials said Thursday, citing “historically friendly relations” between both nations and as tensions escalate over Western military support for Ukraine in its war with Russia
June 06, 2024South Africa's small Muslim political party Al Jama-ah is gaining support due to the conflict in Gaza and sees itself as a potential coalition partner for the
June 06, 2024British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a national election on Wednesday, naming July 4 as the date for a vote his governing Conservatives are
June 06, 2024The Biden administration remains concerned about Israel's possible use of heavy bombs against civilians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah and is in contact with Israel about it
June 06, 2024Two British judges have resigned from Hong Kong’s top court, deepening worries over the city’s rule of law under a Beijing-imposed national security law
June 06, 2024Retired NASCAR driver Tighe Scott, his adult son and two other Pennsylvania men are facing felony charges stemming from confrontations with police during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege on the U.S. Capitol
June 06, 2024The Supreme Court is siding with Native American tribes who said they faced increased costs after taking over management of their own health care programs from the federal government
June 06, 2024Russia's top arms control diplomat dismissed as "fake news" on Wednesday an assertion by the United States that Russia had launched a weapon into low-Earth orbit
June 06, 2024Spain says it will ask a United Nations court for permission to join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza
June 06, 2024The United Nations humanitarian chief says leaders in many conflict areas are more interested in power and political rivalries than in listening to the needs of their people, improving their lives and ending the fighting
June 06, 2024A final exit poll suggests that Geert Wilders’ far-right party and a center-left alliance are neck and neck in the Dutch election for the European Parliament
June 06, 2024India’s bruised and battered opposition was largely written off in the lead-up to its national election as too weak to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist governing party
June 06, 2024The leaders of three big U.S. oil companies will host a fundraising luncheon in Houston on Wednesday benefiting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to a copy of an invitation
June 05, 2024President Joe Biden on Monday urged Republican leaders in the House and Senate to support a revived bipartisan bill on border security, even as House Speaker Mike Johnson
June 05, 2024The Irish government is to announce the recognition of a Palestinian state on Wednesday, a move strongly opposed by Israel, a source familiar with the matter said.
June 05, 2024Norway will recognise an independent Palestinian state in the hope that this will help to bring peace with Israel, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr
June 05, 2024When President Joe Biden commemorates the 80th anniversary of D-Day in 1944, he might be thinking about some of his uncles
June 05, 2024House Speaker Mike Johnson is appointing two far-right Republicans to the powerful House Intelligence Committee
June 05, 2024German officials rejected any comparison between Hamas and Israel after the International Criminal Court's prosecutor asked judges to issue arrest warrants for
June 05, 2024Colombian President Gustavo Petro is weighing whether to fully suspend a ceasefire with the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) rebel group, Defense Minister Ivan
June 05, 2024Moldova has signed a security and defence partnership with the European Union, the first country to agree such a deal with the bloc, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on
June 05, 2024President Vladimir Putin is warning that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets elsewhere in the world in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to launch attacks on Russian territory
June 05, 2024Diplomats say the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board has censured Iran for failing to cooperate fully with the agency
June 05, 2024Russian physicist Anatoly Maslov was convicted of treason on Tuesday and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony, a Reuters reporter at the court said.
June 05, 2024The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence chief and three Hamas
June 05, 2024Thousands of ultranationalist Israelis have marched through a sensitive Palestinian area of Jerusalem in an annual procession, chanting racist slogans
June 05, 2024President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters in an exclusive interview in Kyiv on Monday that Ukraine's Western allies were taking too long to make decisions on military support for his
June 05, 2024Major Republican campaign funders are investing millions in Missouri's GOP attorney general primary
June 05, 2024Political observers have already placed their bets on U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, predicting the Democrat will win his third term in November
June 05, 2024Senate Republicans have blocked legislation designed to protect women’s access to contraception
June 05, 2024South Carolina is trading its all-male state Supreme court for an all-white one
June 05, 2024A Russian-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that called on all countries to prevent "for all time" the placement, threat or use of any
June 04, 2024Three former U.S. foreign policy officials in Donald Trump's administration met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other public figures in Israel on
June 04, 2024Western allies are taking too long to make key decisions on military support for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told
June 04, 2024A federal judge has permanently blocked some efforts in North Carolina to restrict how abortion pills can be dispensed
June 04, 2024The International Criminal Court's prosecutor said on Monday he had requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence chief and three Hamas leaders over
June 04, 2024The House has passed legislation that would sanction the International Criminal Court for seeking an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
June 04, 2024The Biden administration has launched an intense drive to persuade Hamas and Israel to accept a new cease-fire proposal in the nearly eight-month-old war in Gaza while it also presses Arab nations to get the militant group to go along with the terms
June 04, 2024Republicans who view Donald Trump's felony conviction by a Manhattan jury as politically motivated are calling on GOP prosecutors to start charging Democrats with crimes
June 04, 2024Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in Gaza who masterminded the bloodiest attack on Jews in a single day since the Holocaust, made no secret of his desire to strike hard
June 04, 2024Israel's foreign minister said on Monday a request by the International Criminal Court prosecutor for arrest warrants for Israel's prime minister and defence minister was "
June 04, 2024South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma is barred from running for parliament in this month's election, the country's top court ruled on Monday, a
June 04, 2024Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican running to flip a Senate seat that could determine control of the chamber, will once again skip the Republican National Convention
June 04, 2024Israel made a new push in central Gaza on Monday, bombarded towns in the north of the Strip and said it intended to broaden its
June 04, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin phoned Iran's new interim president on Monday as Moscow made clear its desire to preserve and build on its deepening relationship with Tehran
June 04, 2024The two main contenders to be Britain’s next prime minister have sparred over tax, the cost of living and the country’s creaking health system in an inconclusive televised debate
June 04, 2024Donald Trump’s reaction to his conviction provides a textbook case of demagoguery – which erodes democratic institutions and can prime an audience for violence. His followers went right along.
June 04, 2024The Supreme Court’s approach toward religion in schools has been shifting, creating uncertainty about legislation such as Louisiana’s.
June 04, 2024