Politics

(AFP) - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will cautiously try to convince Donald Trump to treat Tokyo better than other allies Friday when he becomes the second foreign leader to...

(AFP) - The US Senate on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought as director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the entity at the center of a contentious...

(AFP) - The Justice Department is scaling back policing of foreign interests operating in the United States, ending criminal enforcement of a law used to snare bad actors seeking to...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court for probes targeting America and its ally Israel, but the ICC on Friday vowed to continue providing...

(AFP) - The US Justice Department is scaling back policing of foreign interests operating in the United States, ending criminal enforcement of a law used to snare bad actors seeking...

(AFP) - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday supervised the seizure of a second aircraft belonging to Venezuela's leftist government in less than a year, showing a hard...

(AFP) - The Trump administration has begun using military aircraft to underscore its determination to deport undocumented migrants.  But while the optics make for good political theatre, the flights are...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday sued Chicago, a so-called sanctuary city, arguing that it is illegally blocking efforts to deport undocumented migrants. The move came as Trump's...

(AFP) - A judge on Thursday suspended a scheme masterminded by billionaire Elon Musk to slash the size of the US government by encouraging federal workers to quit through a...

(AFP) - More than two million US federal workers were hours away from a deadline Thursday to quit with eight months' pay or risk being fired on the spot in...