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(AFP) - US senators blocked legislation renewing a major foreign surveillance authority on Friday after President Donald Trump's choice of a loyalist housing official as acting intelligence chief upended a...

(AFP) - US senators failed to agree on legislation Friday blocking President Donald Trump's proposed $1. 8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund, leaving the controversial payout plan in legal and political limbo...

Nanyuki (Kenya) (AFP) - In a town overlooked by picturesque Mount Kenya, locals are angry and afraid over their government allowing the United States to build an Ebola facility in...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - US job growth surged past expectations in May with the unemployment rate remaining steady, as the labor market in the world's largest economy showed signs...

Abuja (AFP) - An international coalition of lawyers filed a complaint Friday with Africa's top human rights body to halt US deportations to Equatorial Guinea, which has served as a...

Geneva (AFP) - Some 1. 47 million people are displaced in gang-ravaged Haiti, the United Nations' migration agency said Friday, warning that its ability to help could dry up within...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - The US Senate on Friday approved $70 billion in funding for Donald Trump's hardline immigration crackdown, but only after a long day of votes on multiple amendments...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump is used to getting his own way with Republican lawmakers -- but there are signs of dissent as his party nervously eyes the looming...

(AFP) - Long before the first punch lands at President Donald Trump's unprecedented hosting of a UFC fight on the White House lawn, some in the usually ultra-pro-Trump mixed martial...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a mass rally in Washington on June 24 to celebrate America's 250th anniversary, saying he'd canceled planned concerts...