Politics

(AFP) - Four Black rights activists were convicted on Thursday of federal charges of conspiring to act as unregistered Russian agents, the Justice Department said. Omali Yeshitela, 82, Penny Hess,...

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Washington called Thursday for two new permanent seats on the UN Security Council for African nations, alongside a rotating seat for island states --...

New York (AFP) - New York's top cop, head of the largest police department in the United States, resigned Thursday amid corruption probes swirling through the city's leadership. The storied...

(AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Thursday that letting Ukraine use longer-range weapons to strike targets inside his country would put NATO "at war" with Russia....

(AFP) - US Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday rejected accusations that the Justice Department has been "weaponized" against Republicans, and condemned increasingly "dangerous" threats to its employees. "Our norms...

(AFP) - Russia on Thursday claimed to have recaptured a swath of territory in its western Kursk region, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky conceded Moscow's troops were mounting a counter-offensive....

Tokyo (AFP) - Major Japanese and American business groups have urged US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen not to succumb to political pressure when reviewing Nippon Steel's proposed acquisition of United...

(AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday meets Poland's leaders to forge common cause on Ukraine as upcoming US elections and Russian attacks raise new jitters. The...

(AFP) - Kamala Harris and Donald Trump headed back Thursday to battleground states set to decide the knife-edge US election, with the Democrat hoping to ride the momentum from her...

(AFP) - Most Americans have never been to Omaha, the largest city in the midwestern state of Nebraska, and many would not be able to point to it on a...