Politics

(AFP) - Shots were fired as US President Donald Trump attended a media gala in Washington on Saturday night, with the gunman detained at a screening area just outside the...

(AFP) - Workers on Saturday were resurfacing the bottom of Washington's famous Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with "American flag blue"-colored material used in swimming pools, following an order by US...

(AFP) - Things could get awkward Saturday night when US President Donald Trump takes his seat at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, his first time attending the gala while in...

(AFP) - Signatories of the landmark nuclear non-proliferation treaty will meet at the UN from Monday as hopes fade they can reach agreement and tensions soar between the atomic powers....

San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - The governor of Maine on Friday vetoed a temporary ban on building large data centers that aimed to rein in rampant construction driven by...

(AFP) - The EU is seeking more progress in easing the effects of US steel tariffs, its trade chief Maros Sefcovic said Friday, adding that talks are "going in a...

(AFP) - Combative White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Friday she will be going on maternity leave ahead of the birth of her second child but did not name a...

(AFP) - The Trump Justice Department said Friday it is seeking to expand the use of the death penalty in federal capital cases and add the firing squad, electrocution and...

(AFP) - India on Thursday criticized as inappropriate a post by US President Donald Trump that called the South Asian country a "hellhole. "The comments come ahead of a planned...

(AFP) - The head of a global vaccine organisation told AFP on Friday that aid cuts by the United States and other donors have forced it to slash its malaria...