The head of the Academy Awards has told Sky News she supports stars who make political statements from the Oscars stage. Hollywood's biggest night is set to be dominated by the spectre of the...
Obama administration veteran Tom Perez will have the tough job of rejuvenating the Democratic party. US Democrats have elected former Labour Secretary Tom Perez as their new national chairman. Mr...
French President Francois Hollande fired back at Donald Trump on Saturday after the U. S. president remarked in a speech that a friend thought "Paris is no longer Paris" after attacks by Islamist...
President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe has cautioned the Akufo Addo government to urgently resolve issues with the Compact 2 agreement of the Millennium Challenge Account or face a possible...
Jodie Foster and Michael J Fox have led an anti-Donald Trump protest two days before the Oscars in Los Angeles. The United Voices rally was staged by Hollywood’s United Talent Agency instead of its...
Mexico has warned the US against imposing a unilateral tax on Mexican imports to finance a border wall, saying it could respond in kind. Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said the government could...
US Democrats struggling to move on from their bitter election defeat last year will pick a new leader Saturday to take the fight to President Donald Trump and his Republicans. With opposition...
The White House has barred several major broadcasters and newspapers from attending an informal press briefing. The BBC, CNN, the New York Times and others were excluded from an audience with Press...
CNN and other news outlets were blocked Friday from an off-camera White House press briefing, raising alarm among media organizations and First Amendment watchdogs. The New York Times, the Los...
An Indian man was killed and another wounded in a shooting being investigated by US authorities in the midwestern state of Kansas as a possible hate crime. The two men, one of whom reportedly had...
US President Donald Trump intensified his verbal attacks on Sweden, France and Germany Friday, painting swaths of Europe as a jihadist-infested hellscape. Firing-up victory-drunk conservatives at a...
US President Donald Trump rallied his loyal supporters with a stridently populist and security-dominated message Friday, declaring the start of a new political era of action. "The era of empty talk...
President Donald Trump took the unusual step Friday of publicly criticizing the FBI, saying it was failing to stop national security leaks to the media, even from within the agency. The Republican's...
Republican Caitlyn Jenner took to Twitter Thursday evening with a message to President Donald Trump: "Call me." The Olympian-turned-reality star, who is perhaps the most high-profile face of the...
US Democrats, licking their wounds from last year's election debacle, will pick a new leader Saturday to take the fight to President Donald Trump and his Republicans. With opposition Democrats...
The Pentagon's top officer on Thursday would not say if US ground forces will deploy to Syria to fight Islamic State jihadists, observing only that he is readying a "full range of options" for...
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday tax cuts and reduced regulations, including on banks, will boost economic growth to three percent by the end of next year. "I think it's very...
President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday revoked landmark guidance to public schools letting transgender students use the bathrooms of their choice, reversing a signature initiative of...
Chinese authorities have blocked a prolific feminist social media account for allegedly breaking the law with posts critical of US President Donald Trump, its editors said Thursday. Earlier this...
The Trump administration has rescinded guidance enacted by his predecessor in favour of transgender students, the White House has said. The Obama-era rule directed public schools to allow transgender...