Politics

(AFP) - Seven people were briefly hospitalized after a suspicious package containing a white powder was opened at the military base near the US capital that is home to Air...

(AFP) - President Ahmed al-Sharaa will become Syria's first leader to pay an official visit to the White House on Monday, a crowning achievement for the ex-jihadist who since taking...

(AFP) - Hundreds of flights were canceled across the United States on Friday after the Trump administration ordered reductions to ease strain on air traffic controllers working without pay amid...

Geneva (AFP) - The United States on Friday became only the second country to ever boycott a United Nations review of its human rights record, as President Donald Trump's administration...

Mbabane (Eswatini) (AFP) - Leading Eswatini human rights lawyer Sibusiso Nhlabatsi likens the shadowy US expulsions of 15 men to his country, a tiny kingdom in southern Africa, to kidnappings....

London (AFP) - US lawmakers wrote to Britain's disgraced former prince Andrew on Thursday requesting he sit for an interview about his friendship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The...

Washington (AFP) - US right-wing influencers falsely linked New York's mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to the Islamic State group, amplifying a fabricated statement that garnered millions of views on social media,...

(AFP) - A representative of a pharmaceutical company fainted Thursday during a White House announcement on slashing the cost of weight-loss drugs, forcing President Donald Trump to suspend the event....

(AFP) - Donald Trump loves few things more than tackling a new political foe. But has he met his match in New York's incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani?The mouthwatering showdown between...

(AFP) - The US Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Thursday to require passport applicants to be identified on the document by their biological sex at birth rather than...