Russia hailed Donald Trump when he came to power as the leader who could help restore battered ties between Moscow and Washington. But the US president's surprise missile strike in Syria against the...
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday blasted an agreement to rein in Baltimore's notorious police department, saying it would lead to more crime. He criticized a federal judge's approval of a...
Donald Trump's cruise missile strike on a Syrian air base drags Washington deeper into the country's tragedy but does not yet represent a new strategy to oust Bashar al-Assad. The new US president...
The US Senate on Friday confirmed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, ending a bruising year-long political battle and presenting President Donald Trump with a welcome victory. Republicans and a...
In the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhun, site of an alleged chemical weapons attack, residents still mourning their dead on Friday welcomed US strikes as a way to pressure Damascus. "God bless Trump,"...
President Donald Trump's decision to strike the Syrian regime in retaliation for a chemical attack comes four years after his predecessor Barack Obama faced a similar challenge from Damascus -- and...
Wildly popular among liberal Americans, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wowed the crowd at a women's summit in New York on Thursday, drawing cheer after cheer for his pro-feminist politics. In...
A US Senate tactic known as a filibuster has just been used for the first time in half a century to block a Supreme Court nominee. Democrats rejected Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the highest court...
Senate Republicans are set to vote on changing procedural rules to ensure the confirmation of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee. Triggering the so-called "nuclear option" would prevent...
Western powers pushed ahead Thursday with efforts to take action over the suspected chemical attack in Syria after US President Donald Trump warned the "affront to humanity" would not go unanswered....
The US Senate prepared to take its most consequential step in years with the procedural vote Thursday on President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick. Democrats made last-minute pleas against changing...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has spent the past four years putting brash, wealthy politicians and businessmen in jail. On Thursday he will have to sit down and negotiate with one. The first...
President Donald Trump has removed his senior strategist Steve Bannon from the US National Security Council (NSC). The appointment in January raised fears that the circle of US intelligence chiefs...
President Donald Trump, speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, said the chemical attack against Syrian civilians "crossed a lot of lines for me" and changed the way he views Syria and leader...
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday denounced the Syrian regime's latest alleged chemical weapons attack as an "affront to humanity" and warned it would not be tolerated. Speaking alongside...
Democratic US Senator Jeff Merkley delivered one of the longer speeches in Senate history by holding the floor for more than 15 hours into Wednesday to oppose President Donald Trump's Supreme Court...
The massive US services sector cooled in March after a strong February, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday. The ISM non-manufacturing index gave up 2.4 percentage points for the month...
Russian claims that a release of chemicals that killed and injured dozens of civilians in northern Syria came from rebel weapons on the ground have been rejected. Britain's foreign secretary, a rebel...
Russia says that chemical gas that killed and injured dozens of civilians in a rebel-held town in northern Syria came from rebel weapons on the ground. Its defence ministry acknowledged that Syrian...
President Donald Trump has promised sweeping reforms to "horrendous" US banking regulations that were introduced after the financial crisis. "We're going to do a very major haircut on Dodd-Frank," he...
