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Poland has elected Karol Nawrocki, a nationalist conservative, as its next president — a win that signals a turn to the right in one of the European Union's member states.
China has blasted the U.S. for issuing AI chip export control guidelines, stopping the sale of chip design software to China, and planning to revoke Chinese student visas.
Asian shares have fallen and oil prices jumped as trade tensions and the Russian-Ukraine conflict ratcheted up geopolitical uncertainty.
After months of political turmoil, South Korea will elect a new president Tuesday to succeed conservative Yoon Suk Yeol, who was ousted over his brief but shocking imposition of martial law.
After months of political drama, South Korea is poised to elect a new president to succeed Yoon Suk Yeol, who was toppled over his ill-fated imposition of martial law.
A list of more than 500 “sanctuary jurisdictions” no longer appears in the Department of Homeland Security’s website after receiving criticism for including localities that have actively supported the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies.
Tulsa’s new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help.
For soccer-loving transgender women in England, it’s been a tough day, as the ban on them playing in women’s teams came into force, To show its solidarity with the community and against the decision by the governing body of English soccer, Goal Diggers Football Club, a London-based trans-inclusive women’s football team, held a tournament Sunday.
Two U.S. senators are warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling on peace while preparing a fresh military offensive against Ukraine.
President Donald Trump has lashed out at Leonard Leo, the conservative legal activist who has worked to dramatically reshape the country’s courts.
The British government is about to outline the biggest increase in defense spending since the end of the Cold War as it seeks to send “a message to Moscow.”.
President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.
Exit polls in Poland’s presidential runoff show the two candidates in a statistical tie with the election too close to call.
By making harsh, uncompromising demands in peace talks with Ukraine while continuing to pummel it with waves of missiles and drones, Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending a clear message: He will only accept a settlement on his terms and will keep fighting until they’re met.
The Trump administration is sending three Cabinet members to Alaska this week as it pursues oil drilling in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and reinvigorating a natural gas project that’s languished for years.
President Donald Trump says he's withdrawing the nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, an associate of Trump adviser Elon Musk, to lead NASA.
President Donald Trump’s doubling of tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum could hit Americans in an unexpected place: grocery aisles.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Washington next week to meet U.S. President Donald Trump, with the war in Ukraine and trade tensions among the items on the agenda.
Syria and Saudi Arabia say hey aim to boost economic cooperation in what strengthens their interests and creates jobs for Syrians after Western sanctions imposed on the war-torn country were eased earlier this month.
Black women are starting to pay more for their hair care because of the Trump administration’s tariffs on goods imported from China.
As hurricane season begins, experts in storms and disasters are worried about massive cuts to the federal system that forecasts, tracks and responds to the storms.
Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.
Poland is set to hold a presidential runoff election on Sunday between two candidates offering starkly different visions for the country’s future.
After years of sponsoring LGBTQ+ Pride events around the country, some companies are pulling their financial support.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has keynoted the Democratic state conventions in South Carolina.
The popular Mexican regional music band Grupo Firme has announced that it's cancelling a performance in a music festival in California over the weekend after the Trump administration decided to suspend the musicians’ visas.
An appeals court is keeping in place a court block on the Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reassured allies in the Indo-Pacific that they will not be left alone to face increasing military and economic pressure from China.
During a news conference with Elon Musk Friday at the White House, President Donald Trump said he would consider looking into pardoning Sean “Diddy” Combs.
One day before the kickoff concert for World Pride 2025 in the nation’s capital, headlining performer Shakira has abruptly canceled due to equipment difficulties.
A day after her emotional speech at Harvard University's commencement, Yurong “Luanna” Jiang kept running into classmates who praised her for recognizing everyone's humanity.
President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January determined to overturn decades of American policy and build a tariff wall around a U.S. economy that used to be pretty much wide open to foreign products.
Billionaire Elon Musk is expected to fall far short of even his most modest goal of shaving $150 billion from the federal deficit, having publicly opined last year that he could identify $2 trillion, roughly the size of the federal deficit.
Many international students come to the U.S. with hopes of gaining work experience, either before returning to their home countries or pursuing a longer-term career in the U.S. But the administration’s intensifying scrutiny of international students — and signs that formal career pathways for them may be closed off — are leading some to reconsider their plans.
The nation's public television service, PBS, has filed suit against President Donald Trump's executive order that it be stripped of federal funding.
A claim by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that an immigrant threatened the life of President Donald Trump has begun to unravel.
Former President Joe Biden has delivered the first remarks since he announced he had an aggressive form of prostate cancer, speaking in a steady voice during a somber Memorial Day gathering and later smiling and saying he’s “feeling good.”.
President Donald Trump said Friday that he will no longer be “Mr. NICE GUY” with China on trade, declaring in a social media post that the country had broken an agreement with the United States.
Officials in communities from rural to urban and red to blue have blasted the Trump administration’s recently-published list of “sanctuary jurisdictions.”.
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency is a former right-wing podcast host who has praised criminally charged influencer Andrew Tate as an “extraordinary human being."
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is facing backlash after saying “we all are going to die” while talking about potential changes to Medicaid eligibility at a town hall in north-central Iowa.
President Donald Trump’s top education official says her department has determined that New York is discriminating against a school district that is refusing a state order to get rid of its Native American chief mascot.
The Supreme Court has again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants for now.
The U.S. government is investigating after elected officials, business executives and other prominent figures received messages in recent weeks from someone impersonating Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff.
A key U.S. inflation gauge slowed last month as President Donald Trump’s tariffs have yet to noticeably push up prices, while American incomes jumped.
A Ukraine presidential adviser says Ukraine is ready to resume direct peace talks with Russia in Istanbul on Monday but insists that the Kremlin provide a promised memorandum setting out its position on ending the war.
Medics in Gaza say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 27 people, including women and kids sheltering in a tent.
President Donald Trump has built a coalition by promising to demolish a so-called deep state that he claims is behind dark government conspiracies.
New Zealand’s deputy prime minister says that talks over a free trade agreement between his country and India were ongoing.
As Detroit Opera officials made plans last fall to bring a production based on the Central Park Five to their 2025 lineup, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump loomed large and just off stage.
The Chicago area is facing the prospect of bleak service cuts to public transit if Illinois legislators adjourn this weekend without plugging a $770 million hole in the transportation budget.
The California high school track-and-field championship has kicked off to a relatively quiet atmosphere.
Democratic Gov. Wes Moore has been saying for months that he doesn't plan to run for president in 2028.
President Donald Trump says he’s doubling the tariff rate on steel to 50%, a dramatic increase that could further push up prices for a metal used to make housing, autos and other goods.
Bernard Kerik, who served as New York City’s police commissioner on 9/11 and later pleaded guilty to tax fraud before being pardoned, has died.
French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are among world leaders, diplomats and top defense officials in Singapore this weekend for a security forum.
Puerto Rico’s governor has pledged to improve the island’s crumbling electric grid and boost the economy in her first address after being elected as anger intensifies over chronic power outages and an increase in cost-of-living expenses.
There was a protest Thursday outside of the federal courthouse in Miami, as the Florida attorney general faced contempt of court accusations related to a new state law impacting undocumented adults.
A staff reorganization is underway at the agency carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
Elon Musk is leaving Washington after a short but turbulent stint in government and getting back to his numerous businesses, each with their own set of issues for the billionaire to address.
The Trump administration is dropping plans to terminate leases for 34 offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Democrat Gretchen Whitmer touted her accomplishments as Michigan's governor as she passes the midpoint of her second term and is continuously floated as a potential 2028 presidential candidate.
The latest pardons by President Donald Trump are another example of him flexing his power to bestow clemency on political allies and prominent public officials, including those convicted of defrauding the public.
One of Chicago’s most infamous gang leaders is among President Donald Trump’s most recent presidential commutations.
Elon Musk arrived in the nation’s capital with the chain saw-wielding swagger of a tech titan who had never met a problem he couldn’t solve with lots of money, long hours or a well-calibrated algorithm.
The Department of Homeland Security is putting hundreds of “sanctuary jurisdictions” across the country on notice.
President Donald Trump’s big plans on trade, deportations and more are running up against the laws of political gravity and the separation of powers.
Donald Trump's lawyer says that the president suffered “mental anguish” from CBS News' editing of an interview last fall with his Democratic election opponent Kamala Harris.
Businesses rattled by President Donald Trump’s on again, off again tariffs are absorbing more jolts after a U.S. appeals court temporarily blocked a federal court order that would have halted most of his taxes on foreign imports.
Frayed by tariff wars and political battles, the academic tie between the U.S. and China is now facing its greatest threat yet as the Trump administration promises to revoke visas for an unknown number of Chinese students and tighten future visa screening.
A little-known federal court threw a giant monkey wrench into a foundational part of President Donald Trump’s economic agenda by striking down most of the sweeping tariffs he has imposed since taking office.
The State Department has notified Congress of an updated reorganization of the massive agency.
President Donald Trump met with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the two discussed the economy but not Powell’s outlook for interest rates, the Fed said.
A federal judge on Thursday extended an order blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to bar Harvard University from enrolling foreign students.
Democratic and Republican candidates for New Jersey's primary for governor are offering a glimpse of where the general election campaign could go.
The Supreme Court has backed a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion in Utah in a ruling that scales back a key environmental law and could speed development projects around the country.
LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. see lower social acceptance for transgender people than those who are lesbian, gay or bisexual, a new Pew Research Center poll found.
The U.S. is not ruling out a reduction in forces deployed to South Korea as the Trump administration determines what presence it needs in the region to best counter China.
Inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog have not seen signs of Russia moving to immediately restart the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Filings for U.S. jobless aid jumped last week but American workers broadly remain secure in their jobs despite economic uncertainty over global trade.
The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.2% annual pace from January through March, the first drop in three years, as President Donald Trump’s trade wars disrupted business, the government said Thursday in a slight upgrade of its initial estimate.
A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to continue collecting tariffs under an emergency powers law, for now, as his administration appeals an order striking down the bulk of his signature set of economic policies.
