Politics

(AFP) - A Los Angeles-based ballet dancer released by Russia as part of a prisoner swap landed safely in the United States Thursday night, the second swap under President Donald...

(AFP) - Russia and the United States exchanged prisoners on Thursday, the second such swap since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House as the two countries push...

Montreal (AFP) - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called US President Donald Trump's pause on global tariffs a "welcome reprieve" and said Ottawa will begin negotiations with Washington on a...

(AFP) - US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will be in Oman for breakthrough talks on Tehran's nuclear programme this weekend. Here are short profiles...

Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order lifting water-pressure restrictions on showerheads, a move the White House said would "make America's showers great again". Trump...

Washington (AFP) - A transgender US pilot filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against a conservative influencer who falsely claimed on social media that she was flying a military helicopter that...

(AFP) - The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to limit federal judges' power to oppose President Donald Trump's policies with injunctions, after the White House blasted...

(AFP) - The US Congress failed Wednesday to pass a budget resolution to tee up US President Donald Trump's sweeping proposed tax cuts, after Republican leaders were forced by a...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump ordered extraordinary Justice Department investigations on Wednesday into two members of his previous administration, including one he alleged may have committed "treason. "Trump also...

(AFP) - The Trump administration moved Wednesday to drop its case against a man who it described two weeks earlier as a leader of the Salvadoran gang MS-13 living illegally...