Politics

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...

(AFP) - US presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Donald Trump clashed on China and economic issues Tuesday, with the Democratic candidate saying he "sold us out" on China while the...

(AFP) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is certainly no poster child for democracy in Europe and most Americans have never heard of him, but he does have at least...