U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to sign the bill Wednesday night to end the government shutdown, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told a press conference.
November 12, 2025
Prosecutors in the case of a man charged with killing a top Minnesota Democratic lawmaker and her husband say they've turned over a massive amount of evidence to the defense
November 12, 2025
South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Wednesday dismissed Benjamin Bol Mel as vice president and deputy leader of the ruling party, according to a decree read on state television,
November 12, 2025
The U.S. gathered intelligence last year of Israeli officials discussing how their soldiers had sent Palestinians into Gaza tunnels the Israelis believed were
November 12, 2025
The family and lawyers of jailed Tunisian opposition leader Jawhar Ben Mbarek accused prison authorities on Wednesday of brutally assaulting him to try to force an end
November 12, 2025
Spain's top prosecutor, Alvaro Garcia Ortiz, who is on trial for allegedly leaking confidential information about a tax fraud case, told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that he did
November 12, 2025
Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira met with U.S.
November 12, 2025
South Africa's leader says that U_S_ President Donald Trump’s decision that the United States government boycott the Group of 20 summit next weekend is “their loss."
November 12, 2025
Teen 'serial rapist' sentenced to 35 years in prison
November 12, 2025
On the eve of a visit to London by U.S.
November 12, 2025
A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani came first in Iraq's parliamentary election, the Independent High Electoral Commission said on Wednesday.
November 12, 2025
The U.S. on Wednesday sanctioned individuals and entities in several countries related to their support of Iran's ballistic missile and drone production, in the latest attempt to pressure
November 12, 2025
Czech election winner, billionaire Andrej Babis, must tell the public how he will eliminate conflicts of interest stemming from his business activities before he is appointed prime
November 12, 2025
U.S. strikes against suspected drug vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean have killed dozens of people who President Donald Trump's administration calls
October 31, 2025
Former aide to 2 N.Y. governors accused of being an undisclosed agent of China faces trial
November 12, 2025
The White House accused Democrats in the House of Representatives of releasing emails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday to smear President Donald Trump.
November 12, 2025
Kazakhstan follows Russia in banning ‘LGBTQ propaganda’
November 12, 2025
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has granted a pardon to French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal following a request from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the
November 12, 2025
Poland's president said on Wednesday he would refuse to nominate or promote judges who question the status of colleagues appointed under a contested system introduced by the previous
November 12, 2025
India's cabinet has approved spending 450.6 billion rupees ($5.1 billion) on support for exporters, including 200 billion rupees in
November 12, 2025
French lawmakers voted to suspend a contested pension reform on Wednesday, as next year's budget bills inch through parliament under persistent threats to the government's survival.
November 12, 2025
Pakistan's parliament approved a constitutional amendment on Wednesday to expand the powers of the army chief and curb the remit of its Supreme Court, a move that
November 12, 2025
Rumors swirl of a plot to oust Keir Starmer as the embattled British leader denies attacking his rivals
November 12, 2025
Longtime thoroughbred trainer Dale Romans has entered the Kentucky campaign to succeed retiring Republican Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate
November 12, 2025
Georgian prosecutors on Wednesday charged Giorgi Gakharia, an exiled opposition leader and former prime minister, with offences related to his time in office, amid an escalating
November 12, 2025
Democratic-led states are inadvertently making their drivers' data available to U.S. immigration authorities through a little-understood digital loophole, a
November 12, 2025
India's government confirmed on Wednesday that it was treating a car blast that killed eight people and wounded at least 20 others in Delhi as a "
November 12, 2025
Iran still has not let inspectors into the nuclear sites Israel and the United States bombed in June, the U.N. atomic watchdog said in a confidential report on
November 12, 2025
The International Atomic Energy Agency has been unable to verify Iran's near weapons-grade uranium stockpile since Israel struck its nuclear sites in June
November 12, 2025
Culture wars once arose from impromptu events that struck a nerve among Americans, but they are now started by partisan agitators who introduce them to politicians and watch them take hold.
November 12, 2025
The trial of Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala has begun in Paris over atrocities committed during the Second Congo War
November 12, 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday offered Spain's King Felipe VI a vision of cooperation with "
November 12, 2025
A suicide bomber killed 12 people in Pakistan's capital on Tuesday in a sharp escalation of militant violence that the defence minister said had
November 11, 2025
LONDON -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that any attack on members of his cabinet was "completely unacceptable", suggesting he was not behind newspaper reports that his allies
November 12, 2025
Israel’s defense minister said on Wednesday he planned to close publicly funded Army Radio in what he described as an attempt to preserve the military’s nonpartisan character, but the
November 12, 2025
BBC holds surprise board meeting to weigh Trump’s legal threat
November 12, 2025
A federal appeals court has heard arguments about a spending law that stopped Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider
November 12, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer distanced himself on Wednesday from a briefing by unnamed allies that he would fight any leadership bid,
November 12, 2025
Three former senior enforcement lawyers at the U.S.
November 12, 2025
Millions more people risk famine in at least a dozen crisis spots around the world, including Sudan and Gaza, two U.N. agencies warned on Wednesday, appealing for funds to address a
November 12, 2025
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has received a letter from U.S.
November 12, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was battling to maintain his authority over his party on Wednesday after one of his most senior ministers criticised the "toxic" culture in his
November 12, 2025
Brazil's fiscal balance will become a top priority from 2027 regardless of the outcome of next year's presidential election, Goldman Sachs' head of Latin
November 12, 2025
Trump pens letter asking Israeli president to pardon Netanyahu in corruption trial
November 12, 2025
A Ukrainian commander says the Russian army has overrun three settlements in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region
November 12, 2025
Former Rep. Elaine Luria mounts a comeback for her old Virginia seat
November 12, 2025
FAA workers grapple with possible shutdown deal as officials try to navigate upcoming holiday travel rush
November 12, 2025
Dozens of Venezuelans deported from US to notorious Salvadoran prison subjected to torture, rights groups claim in new report
November 12, 2025
How the Trump administration seeks to ‘weaponize’ the White House website to troll Democrats and amplify its message
November 12, 2025
The Kremlin said on Wednesday there had been contact between Britain's national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, and Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov but that the dialogue
November 12, 2025
A former Polish justice minister accused of abuse of power has offered to be questioned in Hungary or Belgium, his lawyer told Rzeczpospolita daily in comments published late on
November 12, 2025
Two newly appointed members of the Japanese government's top economic panel called on Wednesday for an economic stimulus package larger than last year's,
November 12, 2025
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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi this week hinted at a possible shift in the country's decades-old non-nuclear principles, raising speculation that
November 12, 2025
Turkey's defense minister has announced that all 20 personnel on board a military cargo plane that crashed in Georgia have died
November 12, 2025
Why is Trump threatening to sue the BBC for $1 billion?
November 11, 2025
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November 12, 2025
Justice Department investigating UC Berkeley protests during Turning Point USA event
November 12, 2025
White House weighs stepped up domestic travel and speeches to improve Trump’s standing on the economy
November 12, 2025
Former aide to two NY governors, accused of being Chinese agent, goes on trial for money laundering and fraud
November 12, 2025
Jack Schlossberg, grandson of the 35th U.S. president, John F.
November 12, 2025
At least one person was killed in Cambodia amid a flare-up of conflict with Thailand on Wednesday as the neighbours accused each other of opening fire along a disputed part of their
November 12, 2025
Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said on Wednesday she would not deny that the negative aspects of the weak yen on the economy have become more pronounced than the positive
November 12, 2025
The death toll from the sinking of a boat carrying members of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya
November 11, 2025
A spat between China and Japan over Japanese Premier Sanae Takaichi's Taiwan comments showed no signs of abating on Wednesday with a series of
November 12, 2025
General Motors has directed several thousand of its suppliers to scrub their supply chains of parts from China, four people familiar with the matter said, reflecting
November 12, 2025
Japan's government will pledge to increase spending "without hesitation" to support an economy on the cusp of emerging from stagnation, according to a draft of
November 12, 2025
When King Maha Vajiralongkorn arrives in Beijing on Thursday, he will become the first reigning Thai monarch to make a state visit to China, in what analysts say
November 12, 2025
Top diplomats from the Group of Seven industrialized democracies are converging on southern Ontario as tensions rise between the U.S. and traditional allies like Canada over defense spending and trade
November 11, 2025
Australia and Indonesia have agreed on a new security treaty that commits them to consult each other if either country is threatened,
November 12, 2025
South Korea will co-sponsor an annual U.N. resolution that raises concerns over North Korea's human rights situation, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, defying
November 12, 2025
Thailand ‘halts’ peace agreement with Cambodia hailed by Trump after landmine explosion injures troops
November 11, 2025
Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy’s grandson, running for US House seat
November 12, 2025
Rep.-elect Grijalva says she plans to confront Johnson at long-delayed swearing-in ceremony
November 12, 2025
Dozens of Indigenous protesters forced their way into the COP30 climate summit venue on Tuesday and clashed with security guards
November 11, 2025
Vietnam is working to sign a trade agreement with the United States soon, Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son said on Wednesday, as a new round of
November 12, 2025
What’s in the bill to reopen the federal government?
November 12, 2025
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has ordered security forces to stop sharing intelligence with the United States until it stops striking suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean
November 12, 2025
The Supreme Court has extended an order blocking full SNAP payments amid signals that the government shutdown could soon end and food aid payments resume
November 11, 2025
Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered Colombian public security forces to suspend intelligence sharing with U.S. intelligence agencies until Washington stops attacking boats in the
November 12, 2025
Japan decried as "absolutely unacceptable" on Wednesday Russia's extension of an entry ban to 30 more citizens, among them a foreign ministry spokesperson, after Tokyo's sanctions
November 11, 2025
The U.S.
November 11, 2025
The Supreme Court has extended an order blocking full SNAP payments
November 11, 2025
A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in 2023
November 11, 2025
Residents raise concerns at city council meeting after viral arrest video involving police officer
November 11, 2025
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer led his caucus and the country into a record-breaking government shutdown and voted against reopening when some of his members defected
November 11, 2025
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson will swear in Democratic Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva on Wednesday, Johnson's office said on Tuesday.
November 11, 2025
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November 11, 2025
A South Korea court issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday for former spy agency chief Cho Tae-yong who is under a probe into ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law in
November 11, 2025
Dozens of Israeli settlers launch arson attack in West Bank as attacks against Palestinians surge
November 11, 2025
France is worried about U.S. military operations in the Caribbean because they violate international law, the country's foreign minister Jean-Noel
November 11, 2025
What House Democrats in districts Trump won are saying about the shutdown deal
November 11, 2025
A Virginia transportation security officer is accusing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of sex discrimination over a policy barring transgender officers from performing security pat-downs
November 11, 2025
Dow soars more than 550 points as Wall Street embraces optimism that government might reopen soon
November 11, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to bring a billion-dollar lawsuit against the BBC has cast a shadow over the British broadcaster’s future, but it could also be a bluff with little legal merit
November 11, 2025
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is warning that eight senators' decision to break with Democrats and end the government shutdown shows they aren't alarmed enough about President Donald Trump's impact on political norms
November 11, 2025
Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, who played a leading role in negotiations during the Gaza war and was a close confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
November 11, 2025
Russia said its forces had pushed deeper into the eastern Ukrainian cities of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk on Tuesday, with one video showing Russian
November 11, 2025
UNICEF said on Tuesday essential items including syringes to vaccinate children and bottles for baby formula are being denied entry into Gaza by Israel,
November 11, 2025
A small band of Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Monday night to approve a funding measure to reopen the federal government — without securing their party’s demand to guarantee an extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, which help millions of Americans afford insurance.
November 11, 2025
Legislation moving through Congress that would end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history would also allow eight Republican senators to seek hundreds
November 11, 2025
Venezuela announces ‘massive mobilization’ of military forces as America’s largest warship sails into region
November 11, 2025
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to step aside after nearly four decades in Congress kicks off a wide-open contest to replace her at a time when her home city of San Francisco is roiled in debate about what its future should look like
November 07, 2025
Donald Trump really, really doesn’t like the NFL’s new kickoff format
November 11, 2025
British political commentator Sami Hamdi plans to leave the U.S. after spending over two weeks in immigration detention
November 11, 2025
A new directive by President Donald Trump’s administration could make it more difficult for foreigners to visit or live in the United States if they have certain medical conditions such as diabetes or obesity or lack the economic resources and assets to support themselves
November 11, 2025
Mother demands justice after disturbing incident in high school locker room
November 11, 2025
After refusing to convene the U.S. House during the government shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson is recalling lawmakers back into session
November 11, 2025
For Anthony DeSousa, the owner of two pizza shops in Estes Park and Longmont, Colorado, feeding the hungry is personal.
November 11, 2025
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe is floating the potential for the Kansas City Chiefs to play in a covered stadium without moving to Kansas
November 11, 2025
Airlines canceled 1,200 flights on Tuesday as air traffic control staffing improved significantly ahead of an expected end to a record-setting government
November 11, 2025
France will help the Palestinian Authority draft a constitution for a future state, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday after talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in
November 11, 2025
The Israeli parliament has advanced a bill that would mandate the death penalty for Palestinian militants convicted of killing Israeli citizens, with some lawmakers believing it
November 11, 2025
The White House says it would be “beautiful” to name the new stadium for Washington’s NFL team after President Donald Trump
November 08, 2025
President Donald Trump has pardoned the husband of Republican congresswoman Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee
November 11, 2025
At least 12 killed in Islamabad suicide attack – the most deadly assault in the Pakistani capital since 2008
November 11, 2025
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November 11, 2025
The U.N.
November 11, 2025
Hungary could choose from four or five facilities to shore up its finances under an agreement with Washington, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Tuesday, with funding worth up to
November 11, 2025
Greece, Cyprus, Spain and Italy will be eligible for help dealing with migratory pressures under a new EU mechanism when the bloc's pact on migration and asylum enters into force
November 11, 2025
Venezuela is deploying weapons, including decades-old Russian-made equipment, and is planning to mount a guerrilla-style resistance or sow chaos in the event of a U.S. air or ground attack,
November 11, 2025
Pressure grows for release of penguins ‘trapped’ at London aquarium
November 11, 2025
A Russian court has extended the jailing of an 18-year-old street singer on charges seen as punishment for performing anti-war songs
November 11, 2025
The British government has rallied to the defense of the BBC as it faces a dispute with U.S. President Donald Trump
November 11, 2025
A Syrian government official says Syria has joined a global coalition against the Islamic State, but that Syria has not joined of the U.S.-led military mission fighting the extremist group
November 11, 2025
The Senate sent a funding bill to the House. Here’s what has to happen next to reopen the government
November 10, 2025
The appointment of a Trump nominee as the deputy head of the International Labour Organisation has been "frozen" following concerns from staff
November 11, 2025
Lithuania's foreign minister said he would refuse talks with Belarus on reopening their border, after its President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday ordered
November 11, 2025
Iraqis voted in parliamentary elections on Tuesday in which Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani was seeking a second term but many disillusioned young voters saw
November 11, 2025
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan will ask for a meeting with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to discuss how he can work with him and will also offer some ideas, he told Fox
November 11, 2025
Britain on Tuesday slashed by 15% its contribution to a global initiative to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, with an 850-million-pound ($1.14 billion) pledge, the
November 11, 2025
A Turkish C-130 military cargo plane with at least 20 personnel on board crashed in Georgia on Tuesday after taking off from Azerbaijan but the number of casualties
November 11, 2025
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break
November 11, 2025
Trump floats $2,000 tariff rebate checks. What you need to know
November 10, 2025
South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop Friday's execution of a man who killed three people over five days and left taunting messages for police in one victim's blood
November 11, 2025
Politicians get blamed for government shutdowns. But does the fault lie also with citizens, who are more invested in punishing partisan rivals than in demanding competent government?
November 10, 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow will conduct nuclear tests if any other nuclear power does so.
November 11, 2025
The Israeli military accused Lebanese armed group Hezbollah on Tuesday of seeking to rebuild its combat abilities in south Lebanon to the point of threatening Israel's security
November 11, 2025
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November 10, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the frontline city of Kherson on Tuesday, which is only a few kilometres from Russian positions across the Dnipro river, and faces
November 11, 2025
A lifelong politician who just last year was projected to become prime minister of Canada, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is now struggling to define his party’s
November 11, 2025
Women fleeing Sudan's al-Fashir city report killings, systematic rape and the disappearance of their children following its capture by the paramilitary Rapid
November 11, 2025
A Turkish prosecutor demanded on Tuesday a prison sentence of more than 2,000 years for Ekrem Imamoglu, the jailed opposition mayor of Istanbul,
November 11, 2025
The U.S. government "made money" by giving support to the Argentine central bank ahead of last month's midterm election in the South American country, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said
November 11, 2025
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November 11, 2025
The top U.S. consumer watchdog said on Monday it was legally prohibited from drawing cash from the Federal Reserve to support continuing operations, but that
November 11, 2025
President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E
November 10, 2025
A Utah judge has thrown out a new U.S. congressional map passed by the Republican-led legislature in favor of an alternative that appears likely to result in
November 11, 2025
Trump being urged to intervene in Tina Peters case, sources say
November 10, 2025
Group of Seven foreign ministers will meet in Canada on Tuesday, with Ukraine and the Middle East set to be high on the agenda as U.S
November 11, 2025
A British regional council on Tuesday lost its bid to have asylum seekers removed from a hotel targeted by protests after a resident was charged with sexual assault, a
November 11, 2025
Six months after taking office, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is struggling to fulfill pledges to revive Europe's largest economy and fend off the far right, with
November 11, 2025
Thousands of protesters circled a former army headquarters in Serbia on Tuesday over a new law to speed its conversion into a luxury compound leased to an
November 11, 2025
Here’s what the US military is using to strike alleged drug boats
November 11, 2025
The death toll from a capsized boat carrying Rohingya migrants from Myanmar has risen to 27
November 11, 2025
Trump administration to pay 2 more companies to walk away from US offshore wind leases
Rare two-colored lobster caught by fishermen off Cape Cod donated to aquarium
Affordable housing opens for single parents pursuing college degrees
Suspected shooter’s social media posts show shift from video games to political rage
Construction of the stage for Shakira's concert in Brazil resumes after worker's death
Rape accuser Jessica Mann testifies against Harvey Weinstein for a third time