Politics

(AFP) - Donald Trump's preferred candidate won South Carolina's Republican Senate runoff Tuesday, US media projected, handing the US president a badly needed victory after a string of primary defeats...

(AFP) - When President Donald Trump returned to power last year, Julia Curlee, a longtime CIA analyst and transgender woman, opted to continue serving as a senior official at the...

(AFP) - When Americans vote in November's midterm elections, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives will be on the ballot, but in much of the country the result...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump's administration suggested Tuesday that the Kennedy Center in Washington could be demolished if courts block his plans to overhaul the performing arts landmark. The extraordinary...

(AFP) - The death of country music icon Dolly Parton, who kept her distance from the political debates gripping America, offered a rare moment of unity to a divided nation...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he was considering renaming Lake Ontario as "Lake America" as his trade war with Canada escalated. The threat -- which Trump backed...

(AFP) - Canada on Tuesday announced counter-tariffs on US goods ranging between 15 and 50 percent, intensifying the trade war between the historically close allies. Ottawa's retaliation will take effect...

New York (AFP) - A US federal judge on Tuesday rejected a bid by Ghislaine Maxwell, a key accomplice of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, to throw out her conviction...

(AFP) - Donald Trump's grip on Republican voters faces its latest high-stakes test Tuesday as his handpicked candidates fight knife-edge primary runoffs after a losing streak and sagging poll numbers...

(AFP) - Canada is due to announce its answer to US President Donald Trump's latest wave of tariffs Tuesday, as a trade war intensifies between the historically close allies. The...