Politics

Mexico City (AFP) - Joint efforts to tackle migrant flows and cross-border smuggling of the often deadly drug fentanyl are expected to top the agenda at high-level US-Mexican security talks...

The overthrow of the US House speaker by a cabal of far-right agitators has left Republicans aghast at the party's chaotic approach to governing -- and its prospects for next...

New York (AFP) - New York Attorney General Letitia James hit back at Donald Trump on Wednesday over his virulent attacks on the $250 million civil fraud suit she brought...

President Joe Biden admitted Wednesday he was worried that political turmoil in Washington could threaten US aid to Ukraine, urging Republicans to stop their infighting and back "critically important" assistance...

As the Republican Party tears itself apart, US President Joe Biden is putting himself above the fray in a bid to show he is the calm alternative to chaos. The...

Washington (AFP) - More than 75,000 employees at Kaiser Permanente began one of the largest healthcare worker strikes in recent US history on Wednesday after failing to resolve a dispute...

More than a thousand migrants rode atop a freight train to the edge of the US border on Tuesday after dodging authorities on a 10-day journey through Mexico. Their trip...

Lawmakers screamed and bickered in a raucous session Tuesday that eventually yielded to a stunned silence: for the first time in US history the House of Representatives had removed its...

The new top US senator on foreign relations on Tuesday blocked some $235 million in military aid to Egypt over human rights concerns, after his predecessor was indicted in a...

Flame-throwing Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz made US history on Tuesday by bringing down House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The coiffured 41-year-old seemed not even to break a sweat as he led...