Politics

Washington (AFP) - Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, filed a defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against a right-wing US podcaster who claimed the spouse of the French president used to...

Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday launched an investigation into Harvard University's ability to sponsor visiting students and academics, part of a continuing crackdown on the...

(AFP) - The Republican leadership in the House of Representatives on Wednesday sent lawmakers home early for a six-week summer break, to avoid being forced into awkward votes on the...

Sydney (AFP) - The United States is looking to send asylum seekers to the sparsely populated volcanic isles of Palau, the small South Pacific nation said Wednesday.  Scattered about 800...

(AFP) - Is "drill, baby, drill" compatible with "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"?That's the question a federal judge in Montana will weigh this September, as a group of...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday a "massive" trade deal with Japan, cutting a threatened 25-percent tariff to 15 percent ahead of an August 1 deadline. Trump has...

(AFP) - Tears of joy and relief flowed freely Tuesday as Venezuelan Maikel Olivera returned home to his mother's embrace after four months of "hell" in a Salvadoran prison. The...

(AFP) - Republicans in the US House of Representatives sought Tuesday to rename the opera house in Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after First Lady Melania...

(AFP) - The editor-in-chief of the United States' National Public Radio (NPR) announced her resignation on Tuesday, soon after the Republican-controlled Congress voted to cut millions in funding for the...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to distract from the growing furor over his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal by pushing extraordinary claims that Barack Obama...