Politics

(AFP) - The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter point Wednesday and signaled a slower pace of cuts ahead, as uncertainty grows over inflation and President-elect Donald Trump's...

Ottawa (AFP) - US President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday it would be "a great idea" for Canada to become the 51st US state, teasing on social media that "many Canadians"...

(AFP) - The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter point Wednesday and signaled a slower pace of cuts ahead, as uncertainty grows over inflation and President-elect Donald Trump's...

(AFP) - The US Congress approved its mammoth annual defense budget on Wednesday, raising troops' pay while blocking funding of some gender-affirming care for transgender children of service members. The...

(AFP) - The US Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to hear TikTok's appeal of a law that would force its Chinese owner to sell the online video-sharing platform or shut...

(AFP) - Donald Trump warned Wednesday that an ex-congresswoman who probed his role in the 2021 Capitol riot "could be in a lot of trouble," after Republican lawmakers called for her to...

(AFP) - When a US warship docked in Cambodia this week, it moored just a few kilometres from a base where China has built an extended new pier and two...

(AFP) - A shock outsider when he was first elected president eight years ago -- and a pariah when he left office -- Donald Trump appears to be the most...

(AFP) - Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill on Tuesday reached a deal after weeks of fraught negotiations to keep federal agencies funded and operating through mid-March, thus averting a...

(AFP) - Donald Trump has sued a pollster and newspaper over a pre-election survey that vastly underestimated his support, a move decried by rights groups as part of a larger...