Politics

Washington (AFP) - Federal judges in New York and Texas temporarily blocked the Trump administration on Wednesday from deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members without a court hearing. The US Supreme...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump abruptly backed down Wednesday in his global trade war with a 90 day pause for most countries -- but slapped even more levies against...

(AFP) - The US Senate on Wednesday confirmed Mike Huckabee, an evangelical Christian who has said Israel enjoys a divine right to the West Bank, as ambassador to Israel. Huckabee...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump brushed off global market panic Wednesday after China and the European Union announced retaliatory tariffs, telling Americans to stay "cool" despite his spiraling trade...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump's trade war boiled over on Wednesday as China and the European Union adopted retaliatory tariffs against US goods, fuelling fresh market volatility. Trump's latest...

(AFP) - Republican leaders raced Wednesday to pass a budget that will tee up Donald Trump's sweeping proposed tax cuts, as a rank-and-file rebellion over spending threatened one of the...

(AFP) - China announced Wednesday massive retaliatory tariffs on US goods, sharply escalating a trade war started by President Donald Trump and fuelling fresh panic in global markets. Trump's latest...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump's punishing tariffs on countries around the world, including a 104 percent increase in duties on China, bear the fingerprint of Peter Navarro, a Harvard-trained economist...

In what President Donald Trump dramatically labeled "Liberation Day," sweeping tariffs on goods from across the globe have now taken effect, fundamentally altering America's economic relationship with the world. But...

Bangkok (AFP) - A US academic charged with breaking Thailand's strict royal defamation laws was granted bail on Wednesday, his lawyers said, but remains in custody pending an appeal to...