Politics

(AFP) - Residents of Staten Island, New York's often-forgotten borough, have long celebrated their distinct distance from the rest of the megacity, and the election of a leftist mayor has...

Caracas (AFP) - Venezuelan lawmakers on Thursday postponed the adoption of a landmark amnesty bill designed to end the use of courts to crack down on dissent after failing to...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio departed Thursday for the Munich Security Conference, where his aim will be to keep up pressure on Europe, though...

(AFP) - A US judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Pentagon's efforts to punish Democratic Senator Mark Kelly over a video in which he and other lawmakers urged military and...

(AFP) - A US lawmaker is drafting legislation to block a wave of state and local climate-damage lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, advancing a top priority of the oil and...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump on Thursday revoked a landmark scientific finding underpinning US regulations to curb planet-warming pollution, marking his biggest rollback of climate policy to date. The repeal...

(AFP) - A US lawmaker is drafting legislation to block a wave of state and local climate-damage lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, advancing a top priority of the oil and...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump on Thursday revoked a landmark scientific finding that underpins US regulations aimed at curbing planet-warming pollution, marking the administration's most far-reaching rollback of climate policy...

(AFP) - A federal judge in Florida on Thursday set a February 2027 trial date for US President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC. Trump filed the...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump's pointman on Thursday announced the end of an aggressive immigration operation in Minnesota that triggered large protests and nationwide outrage following the killing of two...