Politics

(AFP) - In Washington's embassy district, years' worth of wildly overgrown vegetation outside an empty building was finally pruned away in September as the flag of Syria was raised. The...

(AFP) - In a sharp change, the United States said Thursday that its signature human rights report would start tracking countries that support gender changes for children and diversity and...

Washington (AFP) - Ukraine would give up a swathe of eastern territory to Russia and slash the size of its army under a sweeping 28-point peace plan backed by US...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump's administration is planning to open up millions of square miles (kilometers) of US coastal waters to oil and gas drilling, it said Thursday, in a...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump's deployment of thousands of National Guard troops in the US capital is unlawful, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. District Court Judge Jia Cobb ordered...

(AFP) - A US peace plan backed by President Donald Trump that is being negotiated with Russia and Ukraine is "good" for both sides, the White House said Thursday, rejecting...

(AFP) - New York's incoming leftist mayor Zohran Mamdani said he was "ready for whatever happens" when he meets US President Donald Trump in Washington Friday, stressing their shared desire...

(AFP) - The US health agency has updated its official website to reflect the vaccine skepticism of a senior Trump official, a move that medical and public health experts widely...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump suggested on Thursday that Democratic lawmakers who urged the military to refuse illegal orders could be executed, calling them traitors and accusing them of...

(AFP) - Dick Cheney, celebrated as a master Republican strategist but defined by the darkest chapters of America's "War on Terror," was honored Thursday in a funeral attended by Washington's...