Politics

(AFP) - A fugitive financier accused of involvement in a massive corruption scandal in Malaysia in which top officials looted billions from state fund 1MDB has sought a pardon from...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio was due Wednesday in Beijing with President Donald Trump despite being under sanctions from China, whose new approach to him...

Oakland (United States) (AFP) - Elon Musk was obsessed with trying to control OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company's CEO Sam Altman said Tuesday at a blockbuster trial that saw him...

(AFP) - Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday defended the issuing of subpoenas to journalists as part of investigations into leaks of classified information. Blanche did not mention...

(AFP) - New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani backtracked on promised property tax hikes, announcing a city budget Tuesday that will be seen by critics of the leftist leader as a...

(AFP) - A US federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily paused a ruling declaring President Donald Trump's global 10-percent tariffs illegal, granting a government request to suspend the decision pending...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday said US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chief Marty Makary was leaving his post, a resignation that follows weeks of political tumult at...

(AFP) - Kevin Warsh, the incoming chair of the US Federal Reserve, returns to the central bank with an ambitious reform agenda and the looming threat of intimidation by the...

(AFP) - The US Senate on Tuesday confirmed Kevin Warsh as a governor on the board of the Federal Reserve, clearing the way for him to take the reins of...

Beijing (AFP) - Donald Trump was due in Beijing Wednesday for the first visit to China by a US president in nearly a decade, as the war he launched on...