President Donald Trump gives his maiden speech to Congress Tuesday, trying to boost low approval ratings and flesh out his promise to help Americans left behind by a changing economy. During a first...
Wilbur Ross sailed through Senate confirmation to become the new commerce secretary, despite tough questions about his possible ties with Russian oligarchs through his position on the board of the...
The Republican head of the US House Intelligence Committee said Monday he had seen no evidence of contacts between President Donald Trump's election campaign and Russian officials, as the White House...
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross is expected to be easily confirmed as U. S. Commerce Secretary on Monday, clearing President Donald Trump's top trade official to start work on renegotiating trade...
Rising seas, polluted coastlines and the specter of more frequent droughts and storms have lent new urgency to efforts to restore the ecosystem of the Florida Everglades, the largest freshwater...
Donald Trump will have a chance to breathe new momentum into his month-old presidency in an address to Congress Tuesday night, but he will need to strike the right tone -- far from his score-settling...
In recent times, public trust in Ghana’s Parliament is gradually diminishing at a fast pace, after several allegations have been levelled against the House by no less mean than both sitting and...
The highest-profile critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly drug war was arrested on Friday following an overnight vigil at the Senate, according to AFP reporters who witnessed her...
Philippine drug war critic Leila de Lima was a highly paid lawyer who switched focus mid-career to human rights, a decision that would draw her into the deadly world of President Rodrigo Duterte. De...
An arrest warrant was issued Thursday for the highest-profile opponent of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal war on drugs, outraging her supporters who said the move was aimed at silencing...
The Nigerian government is either confused about its meaning or has decided to redefine it. The Nigerian government may have succeeded in redefining the word ‘healthy’. According to Oxford...
The Dutch lower house of parliament has narrowly voted to approve the cultivation of cannabis. The bill would exempt professional growers working within certain conditions from punishment. But it is...
The U. S. military is not in Iraq "to seize anybody's oil", Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said, distancing himself from remarks by President Donald Trump at the start of a visit to Iraq on Monday....
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ran a death squad that killed many people, including a journalist and a pregnant woman, when he was mayor of a southern city, a retired policeman who claimed to...
Cambodia's parliament passed a law Monday giving judges sweeping powers to dissolve political parties, a move seen as a brazen attempt by premier Hun Sen to checkmate his opponents ahead of next...
With a new leader in the White House bent on disrupting the status quo, could it also be time for a fresh approach to Middle East peace? The United States this week encouraged a "regional" solution...
After a rollercoaster first month in the White House Donald Trump jaunted south on Friday, holding a campaign-style event with Boeing to cast himself as a defender of US jobs. The photo op-ripe rally...
The US Senate on Friday confirmed fossil-fuel ally and global warming skeptic Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency, installing a legal expert at the helm of a department he has...
A 90-minute drive from Denver lies Eaton, one of the safest towns in Colorado and one of the few in the state that overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump. Here, residents of the rural community...
Donald Trump stunned the political world with an impromptu White House news conference at which he vented at his critics and virulently defended the record of his tumultuous first weeks in power. But...
