Politics

Washington (AFP) - Last-ditch moves to prevent a US government shutdown took a dramatic step forward Saturday, as Democrats overwhelmingly backed an eleventh-hour Republican measure to keep federal funding going...

Washington (AFP) - With the US government just hours from shutting down on Saturday, Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy pitched a last-gasp stopgap measure to avoid a closure that would throw...

Berlin (AFP) - Billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday waded into German politics at a time of a heated debate on immigration across Europe, saying Berlin-funded migrant rescue operations in the...

Washington (AFP) - The US government on Saturday was hours from shutting down after the far right of the Republican Party scuppered final attempts at a temporary budget agreement, throwing into...

Anaheim (United States) (AFP) - Donald Trump received a rapturous welcome at California's Republican Party Convention on Friday, mocking party rivals and dishing out red meat for an adoring audience...

Mexico City (AFP) - United Nations experts on Friday called on Mexico to crack down on extortion by police and other officials targeting vulnerable migrants in flagrant violation of their...

A co-defendant of Donald Trump pleaded guilty Friday in a case alleging a criminal conspiracy to overturn the former US president's 2020 election loss in the state of Georgia. Scott...

The United States called on Belgrade to pull its forces back from the border with Kosovo on Friday after detecting what it called an unprecedented Serbian military build-up. Serbia had...

The United States and Mexico promised Friday to address the root causes of soaring migration and to boost lucrative work together on semiconductors as they opened a pair of top-level...

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...