Politics

(AFP) - Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who has been tapped by President Donald Trump to lead federal cost-cutting efforts, said Tuesday that the United States would go "bankrupt" without budget...

Washington (AFP) - The Associated Press said Tuesday that its White House reporter was barred from an event with President Donald Trump over the top US news agency's refusal to...

New York (AFP) - The Trump administration's tariff threats and animosity towards electronic vehicles are producing a "lot of cost and a lot of chaos" for Ford, the automaker's chief...

Washington (AFP) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday doubled down on his idea of exiling Palestinians and placing a rebuilt Gaza under "US authority" but faced pushback from visiting Jordanian...

Washington (AFP) - The US Federal Reserve is in a strong position to weather the "highly uncertain" economic outlook, but its inflation fight will take time to win, a senior...

(AFP) - Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday told Donald Trump that his country would take in some 2,000 sick children from war-torn Gaza, as the US president pushed his...

(AFP) - Canada, Mexico and the EU on Tuesday slammed US President Donald Trump's "unjustified" decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, which has raised fears of a...

Washington (AFP) - A suspension of US foreign aid and possible dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) will have a major impact on some of the world's...

(AFP) - Conservative firebrand Steve Bannon, a former advisor to US President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding donors who gave money to a private scheme to build...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump accused the judges blocking his executive orders of committing a "serious violation" Tuesday as his administration veered towards a constitutional clash with the courts...