Politics

(AFP) - A Texas man is to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a pastor that he insists he did not commit. Steven Nelson,...

(AFP) - The US Treasury said Tuesday that Elon Musk's government reform team can read data from its highly sensitive payment system but not alter it, after Democratic lawmakers raised...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he still wants to work with Congress on the future of the department of education, as multiple reports suggested he was drafting...

(AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Donald Trump at the White House Tuesday for crucial talks on the truce with Hamas, as the US president suggested permanently resettling...

(AFP) - Donald Trump's demand for billions of gallons (liters) of water to be released in California, in what he said was a move to help combat fires in Los...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order withdrawing Washington from a number of United Nations bodies, including its Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and setting up...

(AFP) - As Elon Musk and his aides take control of the US Treasury's payments system, the drastic job cuts and other shake-ups he instituted on buying Twitter may offer...

(AFP) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed an offer by El Salvador to take in prisoners -- including US citizens -- despite clear legal problems with such an outsourcing...

Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Palestinians would "love" to leave their embattled homeland in Gaza and live elsewhere if given an option. They would "love...

(AFP) - US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he was not in a hurry to speak with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, despite expectations that they would hold talks after...