Politics

Another 7,000 members of the biggest US automobile workers' union on Friday joined its already major strike against the country's "Big Three" Detroit car manufacturers. The latest walkouts leave a...

Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden's administration on Friday announced it would auction three new oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico, triggering a furious reaction from environmental...

The biggest US automobile workers' union, UAW, called on 7,000 more members to join an already major strike against the top three Detroit car manufacturers Friday. United Auto Workers' president...

Washington (AFP) - The US government hurtled towards a shutdown Friday, with hardline Republicans creating disarray in their own party and President Joe Biden's administration issuing increasingly dire warnings of...

Washington (AFP) - US national parks, from the iconic Yosemite and Yellowstone in the west to Florida's Everglades swamp, will close to the public from Sunday in the increasingly likely...

Veteran Senator Dianne Feinstein, a titan of US political history who notched a string of legislative achievements during a trailblazing three-decade career in the Senate, has died. She was 90

Barcelona (AFP) - A Spanish court has closed a probe into the death of software mogul John McAfee at a prison near Barcelona in 2021, ruling he committed suicide, court...

Donald Trump never misses a chance to remind voters that he was the one to appoint three justices to the US Supreme Court who voted to ditch the federal right...

San Francisco (AFP) - A federal anti-discrimination agency filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing Elon Musk's Tesla of allowing "pervasive" racism at its Silicon Valley car plant and retaliating against Black...

New York (AFP) - Three big companies in the gig economy -- Uber, Doordash and Grubhub -- lost a court battle Thursday in New York after a judge upheld a...