Politics

Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump on Monday made good on a promise to slap 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, stepping up a long-promised trade war...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump set a Saturday deadline for all hostages to be released from Gaza, saying that otherwise "all hell" would break out and he would call...

(AFP) - The Trump administration was on a collision course with the US courts Monday, with federal judges questioning the legality of the White House's cost-cutting onslaught of government and...

(AFP) - Venezuela has brought home nearly 200 undocumented migrants from the United States, even as the UN warned there should be no forced returns to the troubled Caribbean country....

Washington (AFP) - The union representing staff at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued the acting head of the agency, as the Trump administration ordered all work at the...

(AFP) - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued a memo preventing transgender people from joining the US military and halting gender transition treatment for others who are already in uniform....

(AFP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet US Vice President JD Vance on Friday at the Munich Security Conference, the Ukrainian leader's spokesman told AFP, as Washington pushes for...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump's administration has informed staff at the country's consumer protection agency that it is temporarily shuttering its headquarters and pausing all work, according to an...

(AFP) - US federal workers face another deadline Monday to accept a mass buyout from their government jobs as a judge holds a key hearing on whether the offer is...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump plans to slap 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports Monday, stepping up his long-promised trade war despite warnings from Europe and China. Trump...