Politics

(AFP) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that he was "not concerned" the US central bank would lose its independence, despite President-elect Donald Trump's suggestion that he should...

(AFP) - US President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his former White House trade advisor Peter Navarro -- who went to prison for contempt of Congress -- would return as...

(AFP) - US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Jared Isaacman, a billionaire online payments entrepreneur and the first private astronaut to conduct a spacewalk, as the next head of...

(AFP) - The US Supreme Court began hearing a challenge on Wednesday to a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors, a case with repercussions for similar state prohibitions...

(AFP) - US President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of TV host Pete Hegseth to run the Defense Department appeared to be on life support Wednesday as Republican senators questioned his fitness...

(AFP) - President Joe Biden will make the case on Wednesday in Angola that the United States must do better rather than more than China to regain influence in Africa....

(AFP) - Months of fighting on the Ukrainian front have not taken away Kostya's sense of humour -- even when it comes to the topic of Donald Trump. Fears are...

(AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said his government welcomed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's decision to lift martial law just hours after he imposed...

(AFP) - US President-elect Donald Trump's attorneys sought to dismiss his historic criminal fraud conviction in a new filing released Tuesday -- arguing President Joe Biden used similar reasoning to...

La Paz (AFP) - A Bolivian court has sentenced ex-president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in absentia to six years and three months in prison for handing out dozens of oil...