The 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, 2024
RNC panel approves new Trump-backed platform softening abortion and same-sex marriage language
July 08, 2024
Biden’s fate could come down to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries
July 08, 2024
Hamas 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, 2024
President-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, 2024
India’s Modi lands in Russia for talks with Putin in first visit since start of Ukraine war
July 08, 2024
President 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, 2024
U.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, 2024
China and Belarus conduct joint military exercises right next to NATO and EU’s border
July 08, 2024
The 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, 2024
From 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, 2024
Ukrainian 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, 2024
Several France players are already celebrating something at the European Championship — the result of the elections back home
July 08, 2024
President 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, 2024
French 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, 2024
Inside a despondent White House: Aides gripped by unease as Biden’s political future remains uncertain
July 08, 2024
Hungary'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, 2024
French 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, 2024
President 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, 2024
Several top House Democrats call on Biden to step aside during leadership call
July 07, 2024
French left-wing coalition projected to beat the far right in shock second-round result
July 07, 2024
Any 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, 2024
The newly appointed Dutch defence and foreign affairs ministers have said the Netherlands' support for Ukraine is "rock solid".
July 07, 2024
President Joe Biden and his Western counterparts are meeting in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary of NATO
July 07, 2024
Following 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, 2024
Protests 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, 2024
French voters head to polls for crucial second round of snap parliamentary election
July 07, 2024
France faced potential political deadlock after elections on Sunday threw up a hung parliament, with a leftist alliance unexpectedly
July 06, 2024
The chant is concise, but it could not be more meaningful for millions of Venezuelans in 2024: “Freedom!”
July 06, 2024
Federal judge pauses some deadlines in Trump’s classified documents case after SCOTUS ruling
July 06, 2024
Rival 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, 2024
Sonia 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, 2024
George Stephanopoulos steadily presses Biden with tough questions but got no fireworks
July 06, 2024
Britain's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday he would scrap a controversial plan to fly thousands of asylum seekers from
July 06, 2024
Hamas 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, 2024
Recent 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, 2024
CNN’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, 2024
There is no historical precedent for Biden dropping out now
July 06, 2024
Reformist 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, 2024
Reformist lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran’s presidential vote
July 06, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
Forced labor, same-sex marriage and shoplifting are among the 10 statewide ballot measures California voters will consider
July 06, 2024
Biden downplays poor debate performance, says it’s not indicative of larger issues
July 05, 2024
For years, it’s been a Republican scare tactic
July 05, 2024
New 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, 2024
Trump presses Judge Cannon to take up immunity question in classified documents case in Florida
July 05, 2024
CNN'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, 2024
Amy 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, 2024
Great Britain’s Labour Party has defeated the Conservatives in a historic parliamentary election
July 05, 2024
Israel 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, 2024
U.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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza moved to prison hospital, wife says
July 05, 2024
Spanish 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, 2024
NATO leaders plan to pledge to keep pouring arms and ammunition into Ukraine at current levels for at least another year
July 05, 2024
CNN'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, 2024
The 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, 2024
President 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, 2024
Europe's football body UEFA handed a two-match ban on Friday to Turkish soccer player Merih Demiral for his politically charged "
July 05, 2024
Rishi Sunak’s campaign to remain Britain’s prime minister showed a lack of political touch
July 05, 2024
The Labour party’s position on Gaza appears to have cost it votes in the UK election
July 05, 2024
In 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
President Emmanuel Macron has urged the mainstream parties in France's hung parliament to form a coalition able to muster a "solid" majority.
July 05, 2024
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban held talks on a potential Ukrainian peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday
July 05, 2024
Keir 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, 2024
For someone often derided as dull, Keir Starmer has delivered a sensational election result
July 05, 2024
Official 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, 2024
Biden facing intense scrutiny as campaign ramps up unscripted events
July 05, 2024
Taiwan 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, 2024
Brexit 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Veteran 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, 2024
Labour’s landslide victory is a personal triumph for Keir Starmer that once seemed impossible
July 04, 2024
Labour Party set to end 14 years of Conservative rule in UK general election landslide, exit poll projects
July 04, 2024
Brazilian 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, 2024
Hamas 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, 2024
Hungarian 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, 2024
Netanyahu authorizes negotiators to enter detailed talks for ceasefire deal with Hamas
July 04, 2024
Kylian Mbappé calls first round of French elections ‘catastrophic’ after country’s lurch to the far-right
July 04, 2024
President 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, 2024
France'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, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
Biden expected to speak with Netanyahu on Thursday
July 04, 2024
Republican Donald Trump falsely claimed to have driven Democratic President Joe Biden out of the White
July 04, 2024
Modi to visit Moscow next week as Kremlin says ‘all issues on the agenda’
July 04, 2024
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has freed at least 10 political prisoners, rights campaigners said on Thursday, including a veteran opposition figure suffering
July 04, 2024
9 out of 10 voters say there are important differences between Biden and Trump. Here’s what they see as the biggest ones
July 04, 2024
The Kremlin says Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia on July 8-9 and hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin
July 04, 2024
Conservative 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, 2024
Donald Trump's campaign and some of his allies have launched a pre-emptive political strike on Vice President Kamala
July 04, 2024
The Supreme Court gave presidents immunity. Legal experts say it won’t extend to staffers
July 04, 2024
More 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, 2024
Just 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, 2024
Pro-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, 2024
Spiralling travel and accommodation costs, French political tumult and security concerns are discouraging many sports fans and
July 04, 2024
CNN's Jake Tapper spoke with three House Democratic lawmakers as they grapple with President Joe Biden's debate fallout.
July 04, 2024
White supremacist groups must pay more than $2 million in damages to ‘Unite the Right’ victims, appeals court rules
July 04, 2024
British voters are picking a new government Thursday
July 04, 2024
ABC News interview with Biden will now air as a ‘primetime special’ on Friday
July 04, 2024
Biden family is ‘all in’ on president continuing in 2024 race, source says
July 04, 2024
UK voters head to polls for a momentous election
July 04, 2024
Behind 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, 2024
CNN Poll: Most Americans don’t expect Trump to concede if he loses election
July 03, 2024
Sen. Bob Menendez’s defense rests without him taking the stand at his corruption trial
July 03, 2024
Haitian 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, 2024
Three House Democrats describe chaos within caucus as party navigates Biden concerns
July 03, 2024
Jim Clyburn is often credited as the man who delivered the presidency to Joe Biden with a pivotal endorsement four years ago
July 03, 2024
CNN'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, 2024
How the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling can help Donald Trump fight off all the criminal charges against him
July 03, 2024
Did the media covering President Biden miss a story that was right in front of them
July 03, 2024
Judge cites new Supreme Court ruling in blocking health care anti-discrimination protections for transgender Americans
July 03, 2024
Mexican 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
For Vance and Rubio to get Trump’s VP nod, they may have to overcome their own governors
July 03, 2024
France’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, 2024
Nepalese 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
From unanimity to ‘fear mongering’: How the raucous Supreme Court term turned in Trump’s favor
July 03, 2024
When 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, 2024
Thailand'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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Former Republicans were ready to embrace Biden to beat Trump. And then came the debate.
July 03, 2024
Washington Post: Justice Department to pursue Trump prosecutions past the election, even if he wins
July 03, 2024
Biden and Netanyahu are expected to meet later this month in Washington, source says
July 03, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
A Supreme Court opinion giving broad immunity to former President Donald Trump matters in the current presidential race
July 03, 2024
A growing club led by Xi and Putin to counter the US is adding a staunchly pro-Russia member
July 03, 2024
Russia, 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, 2024
European 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, 2024
European Union countries on Monday adopted a 14th package of sanctions against Russia over its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
July 03, 2024
The 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Prime 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, 2024
United 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Former 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, 2024
Two 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Julian 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, 2024
President 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, 2024
The White House expressed deep disappointment over criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the United States on Thursday
July 03, 2024
A 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, 2024
Belarusian 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, 2024
Top 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, 2024
The death of trailblazing U.S.
July 02, 2024
The 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
Hardline conservative Republican Jim Jordan's quest to become speaker of the U.S.
July 02, 2024
When Joe Biden met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet during his visit to Israel, the
July 02, 2024
Republicans, whose party infighting has paralyzed the U.S.
July 02, 2024
The 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, 2024
At 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, 2024
Democrats 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, 2024
Yusef 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, 2024
Jordan'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, 2024
The 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
President 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, 2024
Henry 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, 2024
Nikki Haley is having a moment: The 2024 Republican presidential candidate is seeing a swell in media coverage, new interest from big-
July 02, 2024
President 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, 2024
Jordan'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, 2024
Oleksii Tilnenko hoped this would be the year Ukraine drove Russian forces out of swathes of occupied land.
July 02, 2024
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday vowed to continue prosecuting people accused of storming the U.S.
July 02, 2024
Tensions between neighbors Venezuela and Guyana have ratcheted up in recent weeks over a long-running territorial dispute.
July 02, 2024
A 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, 2024
Ukrainian 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
U.S. prosecutors said on Monday they are engaged in plea negotiations with former U.S.
July 02, 2024
Several 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Finland 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Israel 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, 2024
Russia 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, 2024
President 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Mexico 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, 2024
South 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, 2024
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will defend a narrow majority in the Nov. 5 elections.
July 02, 2024
Donald Trump is looking to seal the deal. Three other Republicans are hoping to slow his march toward the Republican nomination.
July 02, 2024
President 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, 2024
Donald Trump's last remaining Republican opponent, former U.N.
July 02, 2024
Turkey 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, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
More 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview that aired on Thursday that Russia will fight for its interests but has no
July 02, 2024
Two 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, 2024
Former 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Republican 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, 2024
Nikki 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, 2024
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and his party are scrambling to contain the fallout from a conservative Alabama court ruling
July 02, 2024
Donald 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, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
Iran 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
President 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, 2024
Donald 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, 2024
Donald Trump's sway over Ohio Republicans will be tested in the state's U.S.
July 02, 2024
Nearly 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, 2024
A federal appeals court on Thursday said a U.S.
July 02, 2024
Thousands 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, 2024
Israelis 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, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
Donald Trump's political group that pays his legal bills on Saturday
July 02, 2024
Kremlin 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, 2024
Police arrested dozens of people at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan on
July 02, 2024
When Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's hush money trial began in a Manhattan courthouse on Monday, cable TV news coverage of the
July 02, 2024
The Supreme Court's conservative justices signaled support on Thursday for U.S. presidents having some level of protection from criminal charges
July 02, 2024
The 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, 2024
Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez said on Friday that President Nicolas Maduro's government would have already banned him from
July 02, 2024
Britain'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, 2024
By 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, 2024
Kim 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, 2024
Chancellor 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, 2024
British 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, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Thursday of risking a global conflict and said no one would be allowed to threaten
July 02, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attacked the Manhattan judge and prosecutor in his New York criminal trial, while hinting at a range of
July 02, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defence minister on Sunday in an attempt to gird Russia for
July 02, 2024
Georgian 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Belfast'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, 2024
The 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, 2024
China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin on Thursday pledged a "new era" of partnership between the two most
July 02, 2024
After 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, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
Spanish 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, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed without evidence on Thursday that immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere were
July 02, 2024
Britain'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, 2024
French 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, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Tuesday that NATO members in Europe were playing with fire by proposing to let Ukraine
July 02, 2024
Mexico's presidential candidates formally ended their campaigns on Wednesday, with most polls showing ruling party hopeful Claudia Sheinbaum on course to
July 02, 2024
India'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, 2024
Police 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, 2024
President Cyril Ramaphosa called on South Africa's political parties to work together for the good of the country
July 02, 2024
A 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday she would encourage broad discussions over proposed constitutional
July 02, 2024
Russia said on Wednesday that soldiers and sailors from its northern Leningrad military district bordering NATO members Norway, Finland, Poland,
July 02, 2024
British opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer put wealth creation at the heart of his pitch to voters on Thursday, vowing to
July 02, 2024
Three 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, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in North Korea on Wednesday for his first visit in 24 years, vowing to deepen trade
July 02, 2024
US government employees who resigned over Gaza policy release joint statement for first time
July 02, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F.
July 02, 2024
Netanyahu rejects report citing top Israeli generals as wanting a ceasefire in Gaza with Hamas still in power
July 02, 2024
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier denied parole for 1975 killings of 2 FBI agents
July 02, 2024
Donald 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, 2024
Portugal's minority centre-right government approved on Thursday a set of tougher measures to combat corruption, including allowing
July 02, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the NATO military alliance of creating a security threat for Russia and other nations in Asia.
July 02, 2024
The 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, 2024
Donald Trump’s campaign says it outraised President Joe Biden in the year’s second quarter, with a reported haul of $331 million
July 02, 2024
Biden has scheduled his first interview after his shaky debate performance
July 02, 2024
The 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, 2024
US to announce new $2.3 billion military aid package for Ukraine
July 02, 2024
President 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, 2024
Democratic governors seek meeting with White House after poor debate performance
July 02, 2024
The 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, 2024
Hungarian 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, 2024
Rudy 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, 2024
The Supreme Court has sidestepped a new set of Second Amendment fights
July 02, 2024
Manhattan 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, 2024
Defense 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, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
Ukraine 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, 2024
Dozens 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, 2024
Audio 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, 2024
Top leader of RNC Platform Committee entertained idea of imprisoning women who get abortions, opposes exceptions
July 02, 2024
The 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Biden campaign gets a bit of good news as it announces it hauled in $127 million in June
July 02, 2024
Russia's new defensive pact with North Korea shows increasing alignment among authoritarian powers and underscores the importance of democracies presenting a
July 02, 2024
EU 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, 2024
Riot police fired tear gas grenades and charged at stone-throwing protesters in downtown Nairobi and across Kenya on Tuesday in the
July 02, 2024
Israeli forces may have repeatedly violated the laws of war and failed to distinguish between civilians and fighters in the Gaza conflict,
July 02, 2024
The 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, 2024
Britain'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, 2024
Britain'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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Vladimir 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, 2024
Biden issues a warning about the power of the presidency – and Trump – after Supreme Court’s immunity ruling
July 01, 2024
U.S.
July 01, 2024
Rep. 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, 2024
Frustrated Democrats watch for debate fallout as Republicans pounce on Biden’s poor showing
July 01, 2024
Iran’s two presidential candidates are accusing each other of having no solution for the country’s problems ahead of Friday’s runoff
July 01, 2024
Chechen 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, 2024
Poland'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, 2024
President Biden's performance in last week's debate with Donald Trump led to some extraordinary media moments
July 01, 2024
A 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s historic decision granting Donald Trump immunity
July 01, 2024
Russia's U.N.
July 01, 2024
As 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, 2024
Huddled in the presidential situation room in February last year, senior Philippines officials faced a stark choice.
July 01, 2024
International 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, 2024
The dissenting judges argued that the Supreme Court’s decision will dramatically expand the president’s powers while in office.
July 01, 2024
House 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, 2024
New laws tackle rental security deposits, hidden fees and date rape drugs
July 01, 2024
CNN 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, 2024
Supreme Court rules Trump has limited immunity in January 6 case, jeopardizing trial before election
July 01, 2024
State social media laws aimed at protecting conservative users remain blocked, Supreme Court says
July 01, 2024
The Supreme Court has ruled for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts
July 01, 2024
The 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, 2024
Voters in five states will decide referendums on abortion rights this year, with potentially more to come
July 01, 2024
The 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
What happens if the highest court in the land loses legitimacy?
July 01, 2024
The 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
British 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, 2024
Bulgaria'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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Supreme Court prepares to issue ruling on Trump immunity and final cases Monday
July 01, 2024
The 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, 2024
Ukraine is expanding its military recruiting to cope with battlefield shortages more than two years into fighting Russia’s full-scale invasion
July 01, 2024
A lot of politicians have promised change to voters in Hartlepool, a wind-whipped port town in northeast England
July 01, 2024
A 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, 2024
CNN'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, 2024
Trump looks to carry debate momentum into a critical stretch before GOP convention
June 30, 2024
How the Supreme Court’s blockbuster ‘Chevron’ ruling puts countless regulations in jeopardy
June 30, 2024
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has dismissed suggestions that his party is heading to defeat in Thursday’s general election
June 30, 2024
Long-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, 2024
Nigel 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, 2024
Israel sparks international condemnation over plans to legalize West Bank settlements
June 30, 2024
The Taliban is saying the West should look past their harsh edicts on Afghan women and girls to improve relations
June 30, 2024
Zelensky 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, 2024
Ukrainian 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, 2024
Russia wants to confront NATO but dares not fight it on the battlefield – so it’s waging a hybrid war instead
June 30, 2024
Thailand 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, 2024
France 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, 2024
As 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, 2024
North 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, 2024
Marine 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, 2024
Jill 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, 2024
N.A.A.C.P. demands firing of South Florida officer accused of using racial slurs
June 29, 2024
The 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, 2024
As 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, 2024
Thailand'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, 2024
US proposes new language to revive stalled Israel-Hamas ceasefire efforts
June 29, 2024
President Joe Biden looked to recapture his mojo and reassured donors that he’s fully up to the challenge of beating Donald Trump
June 29, 2024
A federal judge ruled late Friday that the majority of a lawsuit filed by the U.S.
June 29, 2024
Here’s what voters had to say following the first 2024 debate showdown between Joe Biden and Donald Trump
June 29, 2024
Two politicians known to be on Donald Trump's vice presidential list are from Florida, where the former president also now lives
June 29, 2024
Iran’s presidential election heads to runoff after inconclusive first round
June 29, 2024
A 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, 2024
Oral dissents are back in vogue at the Supreme Court as liberals lament latest rulings
June 29, 2024
European 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, 2024
Japanese 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, 2024
Slowly 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, 2024
A research expert has told the United Nations Security Council that ballistic missile remnants found in Ukraine came from North Korea
June 29, 2024
A 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, 2024
More than 20 NATO members will meet the alliance's target of allocating at least 2% of GDP to defense this year, NATO
June 28, 2024
NYT Editorial Board calls for Biden to leave the 2024 presidential race
June 28, 2024
Detained 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, 2024
Polls 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, 2024
Donald Trump said on Friday that his supporters prosecuted for their actions in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.
June 28, 2024
Portugal'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, 2024
The Biden administration will provide Ukraine with $150 million worth of weapons and ammunition, including HAWK air defense interceptors and 155 millimeter
June 28, 2024
The 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Donald 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, 2024
Supreme 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, 2024
Supreme Court rejects Steve Bannon’s attempt to avoid prison
June 28, 2024
President 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, 2024
Those 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, 2024
The Supreme Court's move to curb federal agency powers could curtail efforts by the U.S.
June 28, 2024
Government 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, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he will sign bilateral security agreements with the United States and Japan on the sidelines of the Group
June 28, 2024
Britain'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, 2024
The 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, 2024
More 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, 2024
France'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, 2024
Former 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
When 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, 2024
Mexico'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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Nigel 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, 2024
Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine in February, 2022, has led to Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War Two.
June 28, 2024
President 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, 2024
Israeli 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, 2024
The ceasefire offer from Russian President Vladimir Putin is an ultimatum which cannot be trusted, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday.
June 28, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin is in no position to make demands on Ukraine to end the war, U.S.
June 28, 2024
Hungarian 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, 2024
Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas called on the U.S.
June 28, 2024
Spanish prosecutors handling a case against Catalan separatist leaders have defied an order to apply an amnesty law to defendants charged with embezzlement.
June 28, 2024
World leaders will join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at a summit this weekend to explore ways of ending the deadliest conflict in
June 28, 2024
Ukraine 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, 2024
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement and several of its leaders, designating them terrorists as
June 28, 2024
A 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, 2024
Mexico 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, 2024
NATO 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, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin sacked four deputy defence ministers on Monday and appointed a relative to fill one of the resulting vacancies.
June 28, 2024
Indian 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, 2024
On MSNBC, the mood turns somber following Biden’s debate performance
June 28, 2024
After 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, 2024
French 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, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia should resume production of intermediate and shorter range nuclear-capable missiles and
June 28, 2024
President 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
President Joe Biden is working to quell Democratic anxieties over his unsteady showing in his debate with ex-President Donald Trump
June 28, 2024
Supreme Court overturns 1984 Chevron precedent, curbing power of federal government
June 28, 2024
The 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, 2024
Homeless people can be ticketed for sleeping outside, Supreme Court rules
June 28, 2024
The Supreme Court will issue the final opinions of its terms on Monday
June 28, 2024
Argentina's Senate passed a sprawling bill on Wednesday that is key to libertarian President Javier Milei's economic reform plans,
June 28, 2024
By 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, 2024
Families 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, 2024
U.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, 2024
After 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, 2024
Dutch 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, 2024
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer were grilled by voters at a televised event on Wednesday, with both challenged
June 28, 2024
France'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, 2024
The 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, 2024
President 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, 2024
Mexico'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, 2024
South 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, 2024
The U.S. military on Wednesday urged a de-escalation in rising tensions between Israel and Lebanon, and said U.S.
June 28, 2024
Laughing 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, 2024
Iranians have voted in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi
June 28, 2024
Ukraine has spent years trying to build a Western-style democracy, although not without some bumps along the way
June 28, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is acknowledging that President Joe Biden had a “slow start” during his debate against Donald Trump
June 28, 2024
The 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, 2024
CNN political commentator Van Jones weighs in on President Joe Biden's performance during CNN's presidential debate.
June 28, 2024
Tensions 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, 2024
A clash over golf handicaps prompted some of the feistiest comments in the debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump
June 28, 2024
Bolivian 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, 2024
French 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, 2024
The Supreme Court conceded that it should not have taken up the case to begin with.
June 27, 2024
European 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, 2024
Former 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, 2024
French 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, 2024
The White House Correspondents' Association said on Thursday CNN has rejected multiple requests to include White House pool reporters inside
June 27, 2024
The first general election debate of the 2024 season has come to a close
June 27, 2024
House 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, 2024
Hunger, stress, trauma, inadequate sanitation and other factors are converging to create a widespread humanitarian disaster with consequences that could last for generations.
June 27, 2024
Thai courts will convene on a trio of politically charged cases next week, including one that could potentially lead to the prime
June 27, 2024
The 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, 2024
Canada 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, 2024
President 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, 2024
Zimbabwe police have used batons to break up a protest by opposition supporters outside a courthouse in the capital Harare
June 27, 2024
Russia'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, 2024
A 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
German 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, 2024
Kremlin 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, 2024
Slovakia’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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Georgia'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, 2024
France'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, 2024
British 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, 2024
President 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, 2024
As 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Hamas 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
European 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, 2024
Bolivian 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, 2024
Former 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Wisconsin'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, 2024
The 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
British 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, 2024
Armored 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, 2024
Moldova'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, 2024
Anticipation is mingling with fear across Haiti as the country welcomes the fourth major foreign intervention in its history to fight gang violence
June 26, 2024
The 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, 2024
Hungary'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, 2024
As 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on Wednesday said it has asked the Tamil Nadu state to submit a "
June 26, 2024
The 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, 2024
India has said a report by Canadian legislators alleging interference by New Delhi is politically motivated and influenced by Sikh separatist campaigners.
June 26, 2024
Dmitry 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Hunter 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, 2024
U.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, 2024
Perhaps the most famous one-liner in a presidential debate, Ronald Reagan's "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
June 26, 2024
Ukrainian 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, 2024
After Julian Assange was released by a court on the remote U.S.
June 26, 2024
NATO 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, 2024
NATO 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, 2024
Irish 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, 2024
Belarus 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, 2024
As 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Indian 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, 2024
A new poll finds most U.S. adults plan to watch or listen to some element of Thursday's presidential debate
June 26, 2024
After 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, 2024
Israel's Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to begin drafted ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the army
June 25, 2024
The 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Russia'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, 2024
The 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, 2024
French officials unwilling to work with a potential far right government should find a new job, the National Rally's (RN) immigration tsar
June 25, 2024
Four prominent former officials in Georgia are joining a group that says it will try to counteract efforts to make people distrust elections
June 25, 2024
Here 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Portugal'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, 2024
A 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Bulgaria'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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Flemish nationalist party N-VA (New Flemish Alliance) was on course to remain the largest party in Belgium's parliament on Sunday,
June 25, 2024
Mexico'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, 2024
Lawyers 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, 2024
Germany'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, 2024
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case indicated on Tuesday that she was unlikely to grant his lawyers' request to exclude
June 25, 2024
Iran’s supreme leader has issued a thinly veiled warning to the sole reformist candidate in the country’s upcoming presidential election
June 25, 2024
The 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, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia had no need to use nuclear weapons to secure victory in
June 25, 2024
Six 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, 2024
Civil 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, 2024
George 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, 2024
The stakes are high for Joe Biden and Donald Trump for Thursday's first presidential debate
June 25, 2024
It's debate prep time for President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump
June 25, 2024
CNN'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, 2024
The 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, 2024
After 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah are threatening all-out war
June 24, 2024
French 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, 2024
Critics 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, 2024
The Supreme Court is planning to weigh in on whether states can ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors
June 24, 2024
The 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, 2024
Planned 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, 2024
Planned 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Wisconsin 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Hungary 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, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris says “everything is at stake” with reproductive health rights in November's presidential election
June 23, 2024
North Macedonia’s center-right leader Hristijan Mickoski has secured parliamentary approval to lead a new coalition government
June 23, 2024
British 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, 2024
Russia, 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, 2024
President 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, 2024
About 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, 2024
Republicans 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, 2024
Iran'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, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) formally named him on Wednesday to lead
June 21, 2024
The 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, 2024
Dozens 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, 2024
Russia must abide by United Nations sanctions on North Korea, U.N.
June 21, 2024
The 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, 2024
This 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, 2024
The U.K. general election is nearly two weeks away
June 21, 2024
The 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, 2024
Tensions 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, 2024
Utah voters will decide whether Sen. Mitt Romney’s brand of politics can still succeed in Republican primaries
June 21, 2024
President 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, 2024
Russia 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, 2024
Taiwan 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, 2024
The European Union has agreed to start membership negotiations with embattled Ukraine and Moldova
June 21, 2024
The 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, 2024
Armenia 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, 2024
Exit 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Israel 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, 2024
Support 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, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
President Joe Biden is beginning an intense period of private debate preparations at Camp David
June 21, 2024
Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the debate over abortion access is playing out in elections and the courts
June 21, 2024
Australian 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Donald Trump’s campaign outraised President Joe Biden by more than $60 million last month
June 21, 2024
Hamas 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, 2024
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June 20, 2024
Mexico'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, 2024
Campaign 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Mark 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, 2024
Burkina 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, 2024
Ukrainian 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, 2024
Israeli 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, 2024
The Supreme Court has upheld a tax on foreign income over a challenge backed by business and anti-regulatory interests
June 20, 2024
NATO 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, 2024
Conservative 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Russia 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, 2024
Georgia'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, 2024
Over 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
New 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F.
June 20, 2024
In 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
South 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, 2024
Italy 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, 2024
Both 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Abortion rights have found an unlikely champion in swing state Pennsylvania
June 19, 2024
The 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, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
Egyptian 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, 2024
Britain'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, 2024
British 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, 2024
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is pardoning 175,000 people with cannabis convictions
June 19, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Not even a WNBA basketball game is an escape from the arguments and polarization that are so common in American life these days
June 19, 2024
The 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, 2024
Georgia'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, 2024
NATO'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, 2024
Officials 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, 2024
Serbia'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, 2024
Hungary has lifted its veto on Mark Rutte becoming the next head of NATO
June 18, 2024
Canada warned China against meddling in its elections during a rare meeting of the countries' defence chiefs, its defence minister said on Saturday.
June 18, 2024
President 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, 2024
Tin 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, 2024
Tens of thousands of Hungarians marched through downtown Budapest on Saturday in support of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who faces an unexpected
June 18, 2024
Indian 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
How the Supreme Court could decide Trump’s blockbuster fight for immunity
June 18, 2024
Mexicans 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, 2024
Georgian 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, 2024
Donald 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, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Former 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, 2024
Cyprus-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, 2024
Lawyers, 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, 2024
Chinese 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, 2024
Senior 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Now 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
In a recent discussion by the east German district council of Sonneberg about getting refugees into work, Roland Schliewe of the far-
June 17, 2024
The 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, 2024
Britain'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, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the influential war Cabinet that has overseen the fighting in Gaza
June 17, 2024
A 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
In 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, 2024
With 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, 2024
Donald Trump's allies hope to seize on dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden among Arab American voters
June 16, 2024
Anti-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, 2024
Nearly 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, 2024
Allies 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Vice 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, 2024
Supporters 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, 2024
The Supreme Court has decided to uphold federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, for now
June 14, 2024
Speaker 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
France's political parties have scrambled to form political alliances after President Emmanuel Macron's surprise move to call a parliamentary election, reshaping
June 14, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair says his country looks on track to meet NATO’s military spending guideline by 2030
June 14, 2024
The 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, 2024
Ukrainian 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, 2024
Brazilian 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, 2024
The attorneys general of more than a dozen states urged the U.S.
June 14, 2024
Russia 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, 2024
Spain'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, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron personally intervened to persuade Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to
June 14, 2024
President Emmanuel Macron will host a meeting with U.S.
June 14, 2024
The United States boycotted a United Nations tribute to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Thursday because it said he was "involved in numerous,
June 14, 2024
Switzerland will host scores of world leaders this weekend to try to map out the first steps toward peace in Ukraine
June 14, 2024
The opinion did not take on the substance of the plaintiffs’ claims against mifepristone, and the abortion pill is already facing other challenges.
June 13, 2024
A 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, 2024
Jurors 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Attorneys 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, 2024
Republican 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, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has told an influential group of CEOs that he would further cut the 21% corporate tax rate to 20%
June 13, 2024
The 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, 2024
President 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
The California Legislature has passed its own version of a state spending plan that rejects many of Gov. Gavin Newsom's budget cuts
June 13, 2024
The 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
A unanimous Supreme Court ruling means the abortion pill mifepristone remains available in the United States, even through the mail
June 13, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously to preserve access to mifepristone, the drug most commonly used in medication abortions
June 13, 2024
The 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, 2024
President 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, 2024
Fani 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, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
Recruiters are struggling to find enough men to counter a Russian invasion that has gained momentum in recent months.
June 13, 2024
There’s lots of talk of change in Britain’s election campaign, but little talk about climate change
June 13, 2024
NATO defense ministers are trying to agree on a new plan to provide long-term security assistance and military training to Ukraine
June 13, 2024
Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would make it a right nationwide for women to access in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments
June 13, 2024
The 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, 2024
Denmark'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, 2024
European 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, 2024
British 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, 2024
Algeria on Tuesday proposed a draft U.N.
June 13, 2024
When Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni took power in 2022, far-right parties across Europe hailed her victory, expecting the fiery new leader
June 13, 2024
South 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, 2024
Spain, Ireland and Norway officially recognised a Palestinian state on Tuesday, prompting an angry reaction from
June 12, 2024
Thailand's attorney-general will indict former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra for allegedly insulting the monarchy, an official said
June 12, 2024
A 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, 2024
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit of the last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre who were seeking reparations
June 12, 2024
As Britain prepares for a general election in early July, and polls indicate the opposition Labour party could return to power for
June 12, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
About 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, 2024
Hezbollah 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Independents’ 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, 2024
Merrick Garland is the third attorney general in U.S. history to be held in contempt of Congress
June 12, 2024
Hungary has agreed not to veto NATO support for Ukraine
June 12, 2024
Israel'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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Iran 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, 2024
The Supreme Court has just four undecided cases left on its docket
June 12, 2024
Spanish 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Two U.S. officials say the United States will send Ukraine another Patriot missile system
June 11, 2024
Britain'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, 2024
The Biden administration is taking credit for a sharp drop in violent crime though one expert says the declines are likely overstated
June 11, 2024
President 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, 2024
House 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Finland 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, 2024
Israel was ordered by the World Court on Friday to halt its military assault on the city of Rafah during the Gaza war.
June 11, 2024
José 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Gun control advocates and many Democrats see fresh openings created by hard-line positions of the gun lobby
June 11, 2024
President Joe Biden says he will accept the outcome of his son's criminal case and “will continue to respect the judicial process.”
June 11, 2024
A new poll shows relatively few Americans say they’re fans of President Joe Biden’s work on the issue of student loans
June 11, 2024
A 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Jeremy 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, 2024
Two 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
Backed by Donald Trump, Republican Brian Jack is trying to power his way to the nomination in an open Georgia congressional
June 10, 2024
European 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
The U.N. Security Council has overwhelmingly approved a U.S. resolution welcoming a cease-fire proposal
June 10, 2024
Fears 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Donald Trump has urged a staunchly anti-abortion Christian group to stand up for “innocent life.”
June 10, 2024
Voters 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, 2024
Italian 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, 2024
Benny 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, 2024
Projections 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, 2024
French 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, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken office for a third consecutive term
June 09, 2024
Iran’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, 2024
President Joe Biden has suspended asylum processing at the U.S. border
June 09, 2024
Hunter 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, 2024
Judges 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, 2024
Sen. Rick Scott of Florida says he'll vote in November against a ballot amendment to legalize recreational marijuana in his state
June 08, 2024
A 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, 2024
Secretary 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, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
South Carolina lawmakers will go before voters next week in state primary elections
June 07, 2024
President 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, 2024
Are 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, 2024
While 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, 2024
Jurors have been dismissed for the day in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial and they’ll return Monday morning
June 07, 2024
Indian 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, 2024
South 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, 2024
British 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, 2024
Sweden’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, 2024
Belgian voters return to the polls on Sunday while both the far-right and the far-left are rising in the country
June 07, 2024
The 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, 2024
British 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
British 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, 2024
Keir 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, 2024
Four 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, 2024
South 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, 2024
British 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Two 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, 2024
Retired 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Russia'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, 2024
Spain says it will ask a United Nations court for permission to join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza
June 06, 2024
The 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, 2024
A 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, 2024
India’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, 2024
The 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, 2024
President 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Norway will recognise an independent Palestinian state in the hope that this will help to bring peace with Israel, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr
June 05, 2024
When President Joe Biden commemorates the 80th anniversary of D-Day in 1944, he might be thinking about some of his uncles
June 05, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson is appointing two far-right Republicans to the powerful House Intelligence Committee
June 05, 2024
German officials rejected any comparison between Hamas and Israel after the International Criminal Court's prosecutor asked judges to issue arrest warrants for
June 05, 2024
Colombian President Gustavo Petro is weighing whether to fully suspend a ceasefire with the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) rebel group, Defense Minister Ivan
June 05, 2024
Moldova 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, 2024
President 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, 2024
Diplomats say the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board has censured Iran for failing to cooperate fully with the agency
June 05, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Thousands of ultranationalist Israelis have marched through a sensitive Palestinian area of Jerusalem in an annual procession, chanting racist slogans
June 05, 2024
President 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, 2024
Major Republican campaign funders are investing millions in Missouri's GOP attorney general primary
June 05, 2024
Political observers have already placed their bets on U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, predicting the Democrat will win his third term in November
June 05, 2024
Senate Republicans have blocked legislation designed to protect women’s access to contraception
June 05, 2024
South Carolina is trading its all-male state Supreme court for an all-white one
June 05, 2024
A 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, 2024
Three 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, 2024
Western allies are taking too long to make key decisions on military support for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told
June 04, 2024
A federal judge has permanently blocked some efforts in North Carolina to restrict how abortion pills can be dispensed
June 04, 2024
The 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, 2024
The House has passed legislation that would sanction the International Criminal Court for seeking an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
June 04, 2024
The 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, 2024
Republicans 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, 2024
Yahya 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, 2024
Israel'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, 2024
South 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, 2024
Former 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, 2024
Israel 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, 2024
Russian 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, 2024
The 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, 2024
Donald 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, 2024
The Supreme Court’s approach toward religion in schools has been shifting, creating uncertainty about legislation such as Louisiana’s.
June 04, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday that exercises involving non-strategic nuclear weapons that President Vladimir Putin has ordered would be held "in the relevant timeframes" and that this
June 04, 2024
Slovenia is the latest European country to recognize a Palestinian state
June 04, 2024
Poland says neighboring Belarus and its main supporter and ally Russia are behind a recent surge in migrants from Belarus toward the European Union
June 04, 2024
The United States is urging the U.N. Security Council to support the three-phase plan announced by President Joe Biden aimed at ending the nearly eight-month war in Gaza, freeing hostages and sending massive aid into the devastated territory
June 04, 2024
The Justice Department says it's concerned that releasing audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with a special counsel about his handling of classified documents could lead to deepfakes that trick Americans
June 04, 2024
Republicans paint independent presidential candidate Robert F.
June 04, 2024
Israel called for bipartisan support on Sunday from the United States against the establishment of a Palestinian state, which it said would be a reward for Hamas and its backer
June 04, 2024
The opposition Labour Party’s lead over British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s governing Conservative Party has increased to 18 points, according to an opinion poll published on
June 04, 2024
Britain's minister for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris, will not stand for re-election to parliament, he said in a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday.
June 04, 2024
British defence minister Grant Shapps said on Sunday he was very concerned about a recent strengthening of diplomatic relations between China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir
June 04, 2024
A progressive Minnesota prosecutor who was elected on a platform of police accountability has reluctantly dropped charges against a state trooper who fatally shot a Black man after a traffic stop
June 03, 2024
Senate Democrats are making a renewed push to show their support for ensuring nationwide access to in vitro fertilization
June 03, 2024
Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval to a bill that would allow judges the option to order someone to undergo surgical castration when the person is convicted of a sex crime against a child younger than 13
June 03, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered accelerated production to strengthen the country's nuclear force more rapidly, on the same day he oversaw a test of tactical
June 03, 2024
Taiwan's next president, Lai Ching-te, will pledge to secure stability by maintaining the status quo in the island's relationship with China in his inauguration speech
June 03, 2024
The cease-fire proposal announced by President Joe Biden has placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a crossroads
June 03, 2024
Brigitte Bierlein, the former head of Austria’s Constitutional Court who became the country’s first female chancellor in an interim government in 2019, has died
June 03, 2024
Iran’s hard-line parliament speaker has registered for the country’s June 28 presidential election
June 03, 2024
The Democratic primary race for a U.S.
June 03, 2024
Israel defended the military necessity of its Gaza offensive on Friday at the International Court of Justice and asked judges to throw out a request by South Africa to order it to
June 03, 2024
Ukraine's top commander warned on Friday of "heavy battles" looming on the war's new front in the northeastern Kharkiv region as Russian President
June 03, 2024
Ghana's parliament, which had been adjourned since March following a dispute between the speaker and the president over an anti-LGBT bill, reconvened on
June 03, 2024
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is likely to emerge as a big winner at the weekend's European Parliament elections even though she isn't even on the ballot
June 03, 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum’s name will go down in Mexican history
June 03, 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s next president and its first woman leader in more than 200 years of independence, captured the post by promising continuity
June 03, 2024
The world’s largest election could also be one of its most consequential
June 03, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin queried the political legitimacy of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday when asked about the absence of plans to hold a presidential
June 03, 2024
A top Russian diplomat said on Friday the United States had long since entered into a state of indirect war with Moscow and was playing with fire over Ukraine by behaving in such a
June 03, 2024
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party are increasingly making the economy a battleground of their early election
June 03, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a law allowing some convicts to join the armed forces as it battles to hold the line against Russian offensives in Ukraine's northeast, east and south,
June 03, 2024
Ukraine has imposed emergency power shutdowns in most of the country a day after Russia unleashed large-scale attacks on energy infrastructure and claimed it made gains in the eastern Donetsk province
June 02, 2024
Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered as a possible candidate for the June 28 presidential election, seeking to regain the country’s top political position after a helicopter crash killed the nation’s president and seven others
June 02, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused China of helping Russia to disrupt a Swiss-organized peace conference on the war in Ukraine
June 02, 2024
Chile has joined a group of nations supporting a genocide case against Israel filed last year at the International Court of Justice
June 01, 2024
Voters in Iceland are choosing a president and selecting from a field of 12 people including a former prime minister
June 01, 2024
An act of Congress a century ago guaranteed citizenship to wary Native Americans in an age of forced assimilation and marked the outset of a long journey to secure voting rights
June 01, 2024
The Biden administration has gone to lengths to avoid any suggestion that Israeli forces have crossed a red line set by President Joe Biden in the deepening offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah
June 01, 2024
Israel’s prime minister faces growing pressure after U.S. President Joe Biden described a proposed agreement to end the fighting in Gaza
June 01, 2024
More than seven months into the war in Gaza, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant publicly demanded a clear "day after" strategy in Gaza from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
June 01, 2024
A Turkish court sentenced former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas to more than 40 years in jail on Thursday for instigating protests in 2014
June 01, 2024
When Alvin Bragg took office as Manhattan district attorney in 2022, he stunned his own staff by pausing an investigation into Donald Trump that appeared to be heading toward an indictment
June 01, 2024
Former Rep. Denny Rehberg of Montana is pursuing an unlikely path to victory in one of America's biggest congressional districts, where ranchers and open space dominate
June 01, 2024
A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that Oregon defendants must be released from jail after seven days if they don't have an appointed defense attorney
June 01, 2024
The United States announced sanctions on Thursday on two Russian individuals and three Russian companies for facilitating arms transfers
May 31, 2024
Former President Donald Trump on Friday sought to relitigate several aspects of his hush money trial, making several false and unsupported claims after being convicted on 34 felony charges by a New York jury
May 31, 2024
Congressional leaders have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address a the U.S. Capitol
May 31, 2024
The first criminal conviction of a former American president is raising a host of legal and political questions: Will Donald Trump go to prison
May 31, 2024
Right-wing commentators and supporters of former President Donald Trump have flooded social media with images of upside-down American flags in protest of his historic guilty verdict
May 31, 2024
President Joe Biden says Donald Trump was found guilty by a unanimous jury and “it’s reckless, it’s dangerous, it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this is rigged just because they don’t like the verdict.”
May 31, 2024
Officials in Poland say that a fake news report saying that Prime Minister Donald Tusk was mobilizing 200,000 men starting on July 1 was probably the work of Russia-sponsored hackers and was designed to interfere with the upcoming European Parliament election
May 31, 2024
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has announced he has switched his registration to independent
May 31, 2024
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan appeared before the Supreme Court by video link from prison on Thursday to plead his petition against changes in
May 31, 2024
By focusing on the facts, the public can avoid being distracted by baseless allegations about the Trump verdict that undermine institutions designed to ensure – not weaponize – justice.
May 31, 2024
Democrats in the nation’s capital will get their chance to weigh in on the race for the White House as the presidential primary calendar enters its final days
May 31, 2024
New Mexico voters will be among the last to cast ballots for presidential nominees when the state holds its presidential and state primaries
May 31, 2024
South Africa is heading closer to the reality of a national coalition government for the first time as partial election results put the ruling African Nation Congress well short of a majority
May 31, 2024
NATO foreign ministers are meeting in the Czech capital to prepare for this summer’s leaders’ summit as the alliance boosts support for Ukraine and countries one-by-one remove restrictions on how Kyiv can use western-supplied weaponry to combat Russia’s invasion
May 31, 2024
The European Union urged Georgia on Wednesday to withdraw its highly contested "foreign agents" bill, saying the measure would set back the
May 31, 2024
The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament warned that Ukraine was dragging the United States and Europe into a major global war and on Thursday urged Western leaders to act
May 31, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was publicly challenged about post-war plans for the Gaza Strip on Wednesday by his own defence chief, who vowed to
May 31, 2024
Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris' Fine Gael drew level with Sinn Fein in an opinion poll for the first time in almost three years on Thursday, a further potential setback to the
May 31, 2024
Dozens of Thai cannabis advocates urged the government on Thursday to abandon its plans to re-list marijuana as an illegal narcotic, a week after it announced its dramatic policy U
May 31, 2024
Donald Trump and his allies are laying the groundwork to contest a potential loss in November, stoking doubts about the election's legitimacy even as
May 31, 2024
An unpopular government with a reputation for constant infighting
May 31, 2024
History happened in Donald Trump's criminal trial just as everyone was getting ready to leave for the day
May 30, 2024
An increasing number of foreign actors, including non-state actors, are seeking to influence U.S. elections, and Russia, China and Iran, while the most
May 30, 2024
Republican lawmakers are reacting with fury to the felony conviction of former President Donald Trump
May 30, 2024
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, are slumping before the opening bell after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial
May 30, 2024
Both sweeping immunity and overzealous prosecutions of former leaders can undermine democracy. But such prosecutions pose different risks for older democracies like the US than in younger ones.
May 30, 2024
The real politicking in South Africa may start after the election results are announced as the country faces the possibility of no outright winner
May 30, 2024
The U.N. General Assembly’s tribute to Iran’s late president Ebrahim Raisi was snubbed by Western and East European nations amid protests against honoring a leader who was reviled for his crackdown on opponents
May 30, 2024
An Oklahoma man has pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, where he also allegedly pushed an Associated Press photographer over a wall
May 30, 2024
Defense experts who've reviewed debris images from an Israeli airstrike that ignited a deadly fire in a camp for displaced Palestinians question why Israel didn't use smaller, more precise weapons when so many civilians were nearby
May 30, 2024
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot and wounded on Wednesday, becoming the latest European leader to be the target of an assassination attempt.
May 30, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put forward a new conscription law proposal on Wednesday, one day before a deadline from Israel's top court, which has been
May 30, 2024
Slovenia’s government has endorsed a motion to recognize a Palestinian state and sent it to parliament for approval
May 30, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron’s office says U.S. President Joe Biden will make his first state visit to France next week after attending D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations in Normandy
May 30, 2024
President Joe Biden has given Ukraine the go-ahead to use American weaponry to strike inside Russia for the limited purpose of defending Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv
May 30, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts in his criminal hush money trial
May 30, 2024
Spain’s lower house of parliament has given final approval to a contentious amnesty law for hundreds of Catalan separatists involved in the illegal and unsuccessful 2017 secession bid
May 30, 2024
Iran has opened a five-day registration period for hopefuls wanting to run in the June 28 presidential election
May 30, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to a sea of white-capped graduates at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation
May 30, 2024
The UN peacekeeping chief says deep divisions especially among the world’s most powerful nations have significantly undermined what the United Nations can do to help nations move from conflict to peace
May 30, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping is calling for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and promising more humanitarian aid for people in Gaza
May 30, 2024
A Thai political activist died in custody on Tuesday, the department of corrections said, and a legal aid group said she had been on a partial hunger strike during her pre-trial
May 30, 2024
Georgia's parliament on Tuesday passed the third and final reading of a "foreign agents" bill, prompting a warning from the United States that if the legislation
May 30, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to practise the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons after what Moscow said were
May 30, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russian forces were improving their positions every day along the front in Ukraine in all directions and that the
May 30, 2024
North Korea has fired a barrage of ballistic missiles toward its eastern sea, according to South Korea’s military, days after its failed spy satellite launch drew condemnation
May 29, 2024
In declining to step aside from two high-profile Supreme Court cases, Justice Samuel Alito has provided a rare window on the opaque process by which justices decide to recuse themselves
May 29, 2024
Independent presidential candidate Robert F
May 29, 2024
Britain will continue to approve arm exports to Israel, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden told Reuters on Tuesday, saying a full-scale Israeli operation in Rafah
May 29, 2024
UK political leaders have just a few short weeks − and limited campaign funds − to woo voters.
May 29, 2024
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has met with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa and leading officials from several Middle Eastern countries in Madrid a day after Spain, Ireland and Norway recognized a Palestinian state
May 29, 2024
The top-ranking Republican on a Senate committee that oversees the military is calling for a “generational investment” in America’s defense
May 29, 2024
The Washington Post says it reported on a story about a controversial flag being flown outside the home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito years ago, but chose not to write about it
May 29, 2024
Thai prosecutors say former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be indicted for defaming the monarchy, three months after he was freed on parole on other charges
May 29, 2024
For decades, Hong Kong's activists have been fighting for democracy
May 29, 2024
Independent presidential candidate Robert F
May 28, 2024
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called on voters on Monday to trust him to keep them safe in an increasingly dangerous world, listing his achievements in an unashamedly political
May 28, 2024
A federal appeals court has upheld a retired New York Police Department officer’s conviction and 10-year prison sentence for assaulting a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol
May 28, 2024
Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F.
May 28, 2024
The Biden administration does not see it likely or possible that Israel will achieve "total victory" in defeating Hamas in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, U.S.
May 28, 2024
New Age beliefs, alternative wellness practices and political conspiracies all fall under the umbrella of stigmatized knowledge, which can be attractive to anyone, no matter their political leanings.
May 28, 2024
Greece threatened to hinder North Macedonia's bid to join the EU on Monday after newly elected president Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova called her country just "Macedonia" during a
May 28, 2024
Russia's defense minister reshuffle was a further indication of Russian President Vladimir Putin's "desperation to sustain" his invasion of Ukraine, U.S.
May 28, 2024
A former U.S. military intelligence official released a letter on Monday that explained to his colleagues at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
May 28, 2024
Britain's opposition Labour Party affirmed its "ironclad" commitment to Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv on Monday by the party's foreign and defence chiefs.
May 28, 2024
Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested six people, including a former organizer of the city’s decades-long annual vigil that commemorated China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, for allegedly publishing seditious social media posts
May 28, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has received a second $1 billion promise of military aid in as many days during a whirlwind tour of three European Union countries
May 28, 2024
Tunisia's public prosecutor extended on Monday the detention of two journalists, while lawyers began a one-day strike to protest against the arrest of a prominent critic of the
May 28, 2024
Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic expressed support for Ukraine in its war against Russia after meeting Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Monday, but stopped short of
May 28, 2024
A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by four Republican-led states that sought to block a U.S.
May 28, 2024
Attorneys in Donald Trump’s hush money trial have finished their closing arguments after a marathon day in court
May 28, 2024
Testimony in Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial is wrapped up after more than four weeks and nearly two dozen witnesses
May 27, 2024
Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is laying the groundwork for a political comeback two years after a failed and
May 27, 2024
Russian forces attacking Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region were engaged in fighting on the outskirts of the border town of Vovchansk, Kyiv's
May 27, 2024
Participants in Mali's national dialogue on Friday recommended extending the military-led transition to democracy by three years and allowing junta leader Assimi Goita to stand in
May 27, 2024
The commander of Ukraine's ground forces, in an interview published on Friday, said he expected the 26-month-old war against Russia to enter a critical phase in the next two months as
May 27, 2024
India's opposition said the nation's election commission was allowing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to continue "unchecked and brazen" violations by not taking
May 27, 2024
The Libertarian Party has nominated party activist Chase Oliver for president
May 27, 2024
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal trial on Friday urged prosecutors to tell the former U.S. president's estranged former lawyer and fixer
May 26, 2024
The aim of nuclear exercises planned by Russia is to work out the response to any attacks on Russian soil which the West has allowed Ukraine to carry out with the weapons it
May 26, 2024
Former Mexico City mayor and ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum's lead has narrowed slightly ahead of Mexico's presidential election scheduled for June 2, an
May 26, 2024
Syria's devastating civil war, now in its 14th year, remains largely frozen and so are efforts to find a viable political solution to end it
May 26, 2024
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said on Friday that the government would push ahead with the bill on "foreign agents" despite opposition from what he cast as "misled"
May 25, 2024
Opposition leaders in India's troubled Kashmir valley have accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration of denying or cancelling permissions to
May 25, 2024
The lower house of Russia's parliament voted on Friday to approve the nomination of Mikhail Mishustin to return as prime minister, a position he has held since 2020.
May 25, 2024
Malta deputy prime minister Chris Fearne resigned on Friday amid a corruption scandal over a 2015 government concession for the management of three state hospitals granted to a
May 25, 2024
Spain, Ireland and other European Union member countries plan to recognise a Palestinian state on May 21, the EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said late on Thursday ahead
May 25, 2024
A U.N. court's order that Israel halt its offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah is deepening a disconnect with the United States
May 25, 2024
The 2024 primary season is roughly halfway over and there have been few shakeups so far
May 25, 2024
Two Democratic senators are requesting a meeting with Chief Justice John Roberts after reports that two separate flags carried by rioters at the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol had flown outside of houses owned by Justice Samuel Alito
May 24, 2024
The Biden administration is poised to open up a new front in its effort to safeguard U.S.
May 24, 2024
The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the removal of 25 Estonian buoys by Russian border guards on a river separating the Baltic country from Russia was “unacceptable.”
May 24, 2024
The distributor of a popular protest song in Hong Kong has decided to remove the music from all platforms because of a court ban in the city, the group that created the song says
May 24, 2024
Political discussions on campus can be a lot more productive if the right expectations are set.
May 24, 2024
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton are looking to settle political scores within their own party in the upcoming primary runoff elections, in which voters will decide nearly three dozen unresolved races from the state’s March 5 primary
May 24, 2024
Hungary's prime minister says that he will seek to opt his country out of any NATO operations aimed at supporting Ukraine
May 24, 2024
The Philippine defense secretary says it will continue to build security alliances and stage joint combat drills in disputed waters to defend its territorial interests
May 24, 2024
An Australian judge has ruled that the social media platform X is subject to a state’s anti-discrimination law even though it does not have an office in Australia
May 24, 2024
China has sent dozens of warplanes and navy vessels off Taiwan's coast on the second day of a large exercise launched to show its anger over the island's inauguration of new leaders who refuse to accept Beijing's insistence that Taiwan is part of China
May 24, 2024
Foreign Secretary David Cameron described Britain's system and scale of arms exports to Israel as completely different from those in the United States, saying the sales it licences
May 24, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that there was nothing unusual in a planned exercise involving the practice deployment of tactical nuclear
May 24, 2024
The Slovenian government on Thursday initiated the procedure for the recognition of a Palestinian state as a form of leverage to end the conflict in Gaza, a move it announced in
May 24, 2024
The senior U.S. official for North Korea discussed the country with her Chinese counterpart in Tokyo on Thursday, and expressed concerns about the forcible repatriation of North
May 24, 2024
Manhattan prosecutors won’t be penalized for a last-minute document dump that caused former President Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial to start later than scheduled
May 23, 2024
Myanmar's military chief discussed plans to hold an election in the country with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen in talks this week, a senior official said, even as the ruling junta faces
May 23, 2024
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has designated Juneteenth as a holiday for state executive branch workers
May 23, 2024
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy in as many weeks, this time over a banner that in recent years has come to symbolize Christian nationalism and the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen
May 23, 2024
Israelis’ and Jewish people’s long-held feeling of persecution, dating back to biblical times, contributes to most Israelis’ desire to continue the war in Gaza.
May 23, 2024
The next time you hear about a Supreme Court concurrence or dissent, pay attention. You may get a window to where the law is headed in the future.
May 23, 2024
Britain’s political party leaders are crisscrossing the country on the first day of a six-week election campaign
May 23, 2024
Leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet next week in Seoul for their first trilateral talks since 2019
May 23, 2024
Ex-President Donald Trump has campaigned in one of the most Democratic counties in the nation, holding a rally in the South Bronx
May 23, 2024
Donald Trump may be stuck in a Manhattan courtroom for his hush money trial, but he knows his favorite television analysts
May 23, 2024
The Kremlin on Wednesday said it had no comment on Ukrainian assertions that Kyiv caught Russian agents plotting the assassination of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, but said that it
May 22, 2024
Russia accused Germany on Wednesday of using baseless myths about Russian hackers to escalate tensions and said Berlin's decision to recall its ambassador would lead to further
May 22, 2024
U.S. soldier Gordon Black, who has been detained the Russian city of Vladivostok until July 2, has been charged with theft causing significant damage, a Russian court said.
May 22, 2024
Brazilian opinion polls released this week show a mixed scenario for the approval ratings of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's administration, with two surveys indicating a
May 22, 2024
Another lawmaker from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party defected to the opposition Labour Party on Wednesday, the second to do so in less than two
May 22, 2024
Hungary will not participate in NATO's long-term plan to aid Ukraine, its foreign minister said on Wednesday, calling the plan a "crazy mission".
May 22, 2024
A Russian court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov against his pre-trial detention in a bribery case in which his lawyer said he denies taking
May 22, 2024
President Joe Biden decided to hold back delivery of high payload munitions to Israel because Washington believes a possible Israeli offensive in
May 22, 2024
As Donald Trump stewed in a Manhattan courtroom during his hush money trial, voters hundreds of miles away in Indiana showed the Republican presidential
May 22, 2024
Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F.
May 22, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would do everything to avoid a clash of global powers but would not let itself be threatened, in a speech to mark the
May 22, 2024
Britain's opposition Labour Party has increased its poll lead over Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives to stand 30 points ahead, according to a YouGov poll for the Times
May 22, 2024
Florida Sen. Rick Scott says he will run for Senate Republican leader when Mitch McConnell steps down from the post, becoming the third Republican in the race
May 22, 2024
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators have sent a letter to the leader of the World Anti-Doping Agency asking for answers about the case in which 23 Chinese swimmers were cleared to compete at the Tokyo Olympics despite positive tests for a banned drug
May 22, 2024
A second flag of a type carried by rioters during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was displayed outside a house owned by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito
May 22, 2024
The New York state Senate has passed a bill to explicitly allow evidence of prior sexual offenses in sex crimes cases
May 22, 2024
The Supreme Court's decision regarding Idaho's abortion ban may hinge on whether federal spending power can protect doctors against a state's criminal code
May 22, 2024
Vladimir Putin, honoured like a Russian tsar at his swearing-in for a new six-year presidential term, had a double-edged message for the West: the Kremlin is
May 22, 2024
Britain will hold a parliamentary election on July 4 which opinion polls indicate will hand power to Keir Starmer's Labour Party and end 14 years of Conservative Party-led
May 22, 2024
Britain's Labour Party won a parliamentary election on Friday, bringing to an end 14 years of Conservative Party-led government that saw the country weather one of the
May 22, 2024
Prosecutor Karim Khan has broken new ground with his stunning announcement that he had requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defense minister and the leaders of Hamas on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity
May 22, 2024
The Senate has confirmed the 200th federal judge of President Joe Biden’s tenure
May 22, 2024
North Carolina has been an underappreciated political battleground recently and not gotten the same attention as nearby Georgia or Florida or the traditional campaign hotbeds of the Rust Belt
May 22, 2024
The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers through a combination of existing programs
May 22, 2024
Spain, Ireland and Norway have formally recognized a Palestinian state
May 22, 2024
Ukrainian state prosecutors say they have examined debris from 21 of around 50 North Korean ballistic missiles launched by Russia between
May 22, 2024
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that in order for Europe to avoid conflicts and be safe it must increase its defence capabilities, and he repeated his call for the
May 22, 2024
Israel and Hamas militants should be able to close the remaining gaps in their positions in order to reach a ceasefire-for-hostages deal in Gaza, the White House said on Tuesday
May 22, 2024
Norway, Ireland and Spain say they will recognize a Palestinian state
May 22, 2024
FIFA has been urged by international lawyers to uphold its own policy and scrutinize Saudi Arabia’s human rights record before picking the kingdom to host the men’s 2034 World Cup
May 22, 2024
As she runs to replace outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum is struggling to construct her own image, leaving many wondering whether she can escape the shadow of the larger-than-life incumbent
May 22, 2024
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas says Russia is waging a “shadow war” against the West
May 22, 2024
The New York trial of Sen. Bob Menendez grinded to a weeklong break after Manhattan federal court jurors were treated to a brick-by-brick build of the prosecution’s bribery case before getting stuck in an elevator
May 21, 2024
An adviser and two ambassadors who served in the Trump administration have met with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials from the country
May 21, 2024
A former employee is suing the city of Minneapolis, alleging ex-police Officer Derek Chauvin hauled her from her minivan and pinned her to the ground with his knee in January 2020, just as he did four months later when he killed George Floyd
May 21, 2024
Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked the judge overseeing the classified documents case against him to block prosecutors from using as evidence the boxes of records that FBI agents seized during a search of the former president’s Florida property nearly two years ago
May 21, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Oklahoma over a new state law that seeks to impose criminal penalties on those living in the state illegally
May 21, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, reaffirmed their commitment to promoting a political settlement of the Iran nuclear issue, in a joint
May 21, 2024
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday that Russia's moratorium on deployment of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles is in question because of the
May 21, 2024
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Monday it had agreed to a three-phased deal for a ceasefire and hostages-for-prisoners swap, although an Israeli official said the deal was not
May 21, 2024
An Indian city court extended on Tuesday the pre-trial detention of opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal until May 20, legal news website
May 21, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is seemingly open to supporting regulations on contraception and has said his campaign would release a policy on the issue soon, though he later walked that statement back
May 21, 2024
In 2 states with judicial elections − Georgia and Minnesota − nearly every justice steps down midterm, allowing the governor to appoint a successor instead of the state holding an open election.
May 21, 2024
Police have broken up a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Michigan less than a week after demonstrators showed up at the home of a school official and placed fake body bags on her lawn
May 21, 2024
Israeli orders to relocate Palestinians from Rafah are inhumane and risked exposing them to further danger and misery, the U.N. human rights chief said on Monday, warning that such
May 21, 2024
Britain's Liberal Democrat party said on Monday it would submit a parliamentary motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government to try to force a June general
May 21, 2024
Poland is verifying if a Polish judge who had access to confidential information and asked for political asylum in Belarus had been spying, authorities said on Monday.
May 21, 2024
Hamas agreed to the latest proposal that Israel had made on April 27 and there were no major changes since then, an official briefed on the ceasefire talks said, adding the Qatari
May 21, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he does not oppose Islam or Muslims and wants the community to think about their future growth as they vote in an
May 21, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that his war cabinet approved continuing an operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah in order to pressure Hamas to
May 21, 2024
The judge in Donald Trump's criminal trial fined him $1,000 and held him in contempt of court for a 10th time on Monday for violating a
May 21, 2024
The United Nations General Assembly could vote on Friday on a draft resolution that would recognize the Palestinians as qualified to become a full U.N.
May 21, 2024
Defence lawyers for Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who is serving a life sentence for his role in the bloody 1992-95 war in Bosnia, are seeking his urgent release to Serbia
May 21, 2024
Russia said on Monday it would practise the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons as part of a military exercise after what the Moscow said were threats from
May 21, 2024
The alleged leaders of a suspected far-right plot to topple the German government are among nine suspects have gone on trial, opening the most prominent proceedings in a case that shocked the country in late 2022
May 21, 2024
A Republican California legislator backed by former President Donald Trump has won a special election to complete the remainder of the term of deposed former U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which runs through January
May 21, 2024
A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a new rule in Texas that would require firearms dealers to run background checks on buyers at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores
May 20, 2024
New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended the police department’s response to a pro-Palestinian street demonstration in Brooklyn over the weekend, calling video of officers repeatedly punching men lying prone on the ground an “isolated incident.”
May 20, 2024
Hunter Biden is pressing for a delay in his federal gun case, asking an appeals court to pause the Delaware trial set to begin next month
May 20, 2024
Drexel University in Philadelphia is threatening to clear an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters as arrests linked to campus demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war surpassed the 3,000 mark nationwide
May 20, 2024
The Supreme Court has declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semi-automatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons
May 20, 2024
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is committing to keep U.S. weapons moving to Ukraine as Kyiv faces one of its toughest moments against a renewed assault by Russia
May 20, 2024
The United States and Israel both vehemently condemned a request by the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for Israeli leaders in connection with the seven-month war in Gaza
May 20, 2024
The prosecution in Donald Trump's hush money trial has rested its case after star witness Michael Cohen concluded his testimony
May 20, 2024
A delegation from Palestinian militant group Hamas will visit Cairo on Saturday, a Hamas official told Reuters, amid expectations
May 20, 2024
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's allies and opponents alike are awaiting her decision on whether to endorse Donald Trump
May 20, 2024
The Kremlin called British Foreign Secretary David Cameron's statement that Ukraine could use British weapons against targets inside Russia if it wanted to a direct and dangerous
May 20, 2024
Europe’s far right political parties have unofficially launched their campaign for the European Union elections in Spain with strong messages against illegal migration and the bloc’s climate policy
May 19, 2024
Elise Stefanik, a House Republican leader seen as a candidate to be Donald Trump’s running mate, delivered a speech before Israel’s parliament in which she criticized President Joe Biden’s approach to the war in Gaza
May 19, 2024
Many Democrats campaigning for the Senate this year say they support suspending the filibuster rule to pass nationwide abortion protections
May 19, 2024
French security forces are working to retake control of the highway to the international airport in violence-scorched New Caledonia, shuttered because of deadly unrest wracking the French Pacific archipelago where indigenous people have long sought independence from France
May 19, 2024
Slovakia’s defense minister says the country's populist prime minister, Robert Fico, remains in serious condition but now has a positive prognosis, four days after he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that sent shockwaves across the deeply polarized European Union nation
May 19, 2024
Mexico's peso is set to navigate between a relatively firm economy on one side and some political doubts on the other, with a small depreciation expected in
May 19, 2024
Congo’s army says it has foiled a coup attempt and arrested the perpetrators, including several foreigners
May 19, 2024
President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan has met with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss what the kingdom describes as the “semi-final” version of a wide-ranging security agreement between the countries
May 19, 2024
Authorities say a half-dozen University of Pennsylvania students were among 19 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested during an attempt to occupy a building on campus
May 18, 2024
To make the first debate stage, Robert F
May 18, 2024
A witness at Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial says the cost of certifying that meat sent to Egypt follows Islamic dietary requirements skyrocketed after a single U.S. company was given a monopoly in a cozy deal prosecutors say Menendez arranged
May 17, 2024
Georgia's prime minister has joined tens of thousands of people on march through the country's capital to mark the Day of Family Purity
May 17, 2024
The shooting of Robert Fico was ‘politically motivated,’ authorities say.
May 17, 2024
NATO members are 'deeply concerned' about recent attacks they attribute to Russia that namely affected the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and the
May 17, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan waded into the debate over U.S. college campus protests on Thursday, saying authorities were displaying "cruelty" in clamping down on pro-
May 17, 2024
Scottish National Party (SNP) veteran John Swinney became the clear frontrunner to become Scotland's next leader on Thursday after a potential opponent ruled herself out
May 17, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin sees domestic and international developments trending in his favor and likely will press on with aggressive
May 17, 2024
Polish President Andrzej Duda has submitted to parliament a draft bill aimed at increasing defence readiness, citing new forms of threat from Russia, the National Security Bureau (
May 17, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow’s offensive on Ukraine’s Kharkiv aims to create a buffer zone but that there are no plans to capture the city
May 17, 2024
A federal lawsuit argues the way representatives are elected to a local school board in Pennsylvania's coal region is unfairly shutting Latino voters out of power
May 17, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin is concluding a two-day visit to China by emphasizing the countries' strategic ties as well as his own personal relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as they seek to present an alternative to U.S. global influence
May 17, 2024
Seventy years after the Supreme Court's Brown v
May 17, 2024
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin says Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito should recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election and the 2021 Capitol insurrection after a report about an upside-down American flag outside his home
May 17, 2024
Peruvian lawmakers have begun yet another effort to remove President Dina Boluarte from office as authorities continue various investigations against her and her inner circle
May 16, 2024
Lying liars and closed eyes − both played roles in the most recent chapter of former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York City.
May 16, 2024
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has pardoned a white ex-Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against racial injustice
May 16, 2024
In an increasingly vitriolic political climate, the last thing needed in the runup to the June European Union elections was an assassination attempt on one of the bloc’s most controversial figures
May 16, 2024
The 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as the guiding force in the lives of Cubans
May 16, 2024
President Joe Biden says the Supreme Court's rejection of a conservative-led attack that could've undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is “an unmistakable win" for consumers
May 16, 2024
The chair of the House Oversight Committee said on Wednesday he is investigating the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) work with the European Commission in
May 16, 2024
Two House committees have moved ahead with contempt charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland for refusing to turn over audio from President Joe Biden’s interview with a special counsel
May 16, 2024
Ardent segregationist Lester Maddox became governor of Georgia after earning the admiration of white voters by refusing to integrate his chicken restaurant.
May 16, 2024
Military officials in Ukraine say their units locked in street battles with the Kremlin’s forces in a northeastern Ukrainian town have halted the Russian advance
May 16, 2024
Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders and three other party leaders have agreed on a coalition deal that veers the Netherlands toward the hard right
May 16, 2024
Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s whirlwind agreement to meet for two presidential debates has upended the way the forums have been organized for nearly four decades
May 16, 2024
President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war when he speaks at Morehouse College's commencement
May 16, 2024
Violent clashes erupted on Wednesday on the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) between pro-Palestinian protesters and a group of counter-demonstrators,
May 16, 2024
The French foreign minister said on Wednesday diplomats were still working to secure a truce in the war between Israel and Hamas and the release of hostages held in Gaza
May 16, 2024
The Scottish government survived a vote of no confidence on Wednesday, giving the Scottish National Party (SNP) a chance to pick a new leader to replace outgoing First Minister
May 16, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China underlines an increasingly close partnership between the two allies
May 16, 2024
A new political action committee has begun pouring money into a key Oregon swing district just days before the Democratic primary there, raising questions about whether Republicans are trying to tilt the scales in the contest
May 15, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has removed Cuba from the State Department's short list of countries deemed as not cooperating as much as they could in counterterrorism efforts
May 15, 2024
The National Security Council says high-level U.S. government envoys raised concerns about “the misuse of AI” by China and others in closed-door talks with Chinese officials in Geneva
May 15, 2024
Prime Minister Robert Fico returned to power in Slovakia last year
May 15, 2024
Judges at the International Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled against issuing emergency orders to stop German arms exports to Israel, while expressing
May 15, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump does not rule out building detention camps on U.S. soil for migrants in the country illegally if he wins
May 15, 2024
Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, was shot multiple times and gravely wounded after a political event in an attempted assassination that shocked the small country and reverberated across Europe
May 15, 2024
Very few Americans believe Congress is doing a good job. Some of them have a simple solution: Throw the bums out and institute term limits. But that creates more problems than it solves.
May 15, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping reaffirmed their “no-limits” partnership that has deepened as both countries face rising tensions with the West
May 15, 2024
Ukraine's trust in its NATO allies has "taken a dent" because of delays and failures in the delivery of arms for the war against Russia’s invasion, NATO boss
May 15, 2024
The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) called on Tuesday for countries to back an independent investigation into alleged killings and detentions
May 15, 2024
The Chinese Communist Party's central committee will gather in July for a key meeting known as a plenum, the third since the body of elite decision makers was elected in 2022,
May 15, 2024
The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday he was "troubled" by heavy-handed actions taken by U.S. security forces during attempts to break up pro-Palestinian protests on college
May 15, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fending off criticism that he is not planning for a postwar reality in the Gaza Strip, saying it's impossible to prepare for any scenario in the embattled Palestinian enclave until Hamas is defeated
May 15, 2024
Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders and three other Dutch party leaders say they have brokered a provisional government deal
May 15, 2024
The political power of Muslims is declining in the world's largest democracy
May 15, 2024
India summoned the Canadian Deputy High Commissioner on Monday and expressed "deep concern and strong protest" after separatist slogans in support of a Sikh homeland were
May 15, 2024
Voters in several states have chosen nominees in critical races that could decide the balance of power on Capitol Hill next year
May 15, 2024
The Associated Press has declared Democrat Angela Alsobrooks and Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan the winners in their primaries for the U.S. Senate in Maryland
May 14, 2024
The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it plans to move ahead on more than $1 billion in arms sales to Israel
May 14, 2024
The United States found five units of Israel's security forces responsible for gross violations of human rights, the first time Washington
May 14, 2024
A judge in Delaware has denied a request by Hunter Biden's lawyers to delay his federal gun trial set for next month
May 14, 2024
Police moved in to clear dozens of protesters who had set up tents in a courtyard at the Sorbonne University in Paris on Monday to protest against the war in Gaza,
May 14, 2024
Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine has given a fresh impetus to the European Union's drive to admit more countries, the bloc's chairman said on Monday, adding
May 14, 2024
Huge throngs of protesters blocked streets in the capital of Georgia and milled angrily outside the parliament building after lawmakers on Tuesday approved a “foreign influence” bill that critics call a Russian-style threat to free speech and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union
May 14, 2024
Alexei Dyumin, who was appointed to Russia's Security Council on Monday, is one of President Vladimir Putin closest allies. * Born on Aug. 28, 1972, in Kursk.
May 14, 2024
The United Nations says more than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in both southern and northern Gaza
May 14, 2024
Russian officials threatened the West on Sunday with a "severe" response in the event that frozen Russian assets are confiscated, promising "endless" legal challenges and tit-for-
May 14, 2024
Israel has agreed to listen to U.S. concerns and thoughts before it launches an invasion of the border city of Rafah in Gaza, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said on
May 14, 2024
A Democratic senator on Sunday questioned whether the Biden administration was properly assessing whether Israel was complying with international law, following
May 14, 2024
On the eve of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's dramatic announcement about his future, thousands of Socialist Party supporters rallied in Madrid on Sunday to ask him to stay
May 14, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit France, Serbia and Hungary from May 5-10, his first Europe trip in five years aimed at boosting EU ties as tensions mount with the world's
May 14, 2024
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Despite bans, firecrackers sizzle across India for Diwali
Ukraine's Zelenskiy urges allies to stop watching, start acting on North Korea
Negotiations stall over some crucial issues on final day of UN biodiversity summit in Colombia
US agency settles with Chicago mortgage firm over racial discrimination claims
Trump says he would charge Stellantis 100% tariff if it moves jobs to Mexico
Ashton Jeanty, Maddux Madsen help No. 15 Boise State rout San Diego State 56-24
Grant Williams: 'No malicious intent' behind hard foul on former Celtics teammate Jayson Tatum
Garland scores 25 points, Cavaliers improve to 6-0 with 120-109 win over Banchero-less Magic