A suspected oil spill covering dozens of square kilometers of sea near Iran's main oil hub of Kharg Island has been seen on satellite imagery this week. The likely spill - appearing on images as a grey and white slick - covered waters to the west of the 8-kilometer...

U.S. health officials last week explored whether certain drugs within a widely prescribed class of antidepressants could face additional restrictions as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. prepared to introduce a plan aimed at reducing their use, according to two people...

The United States is arranging a repatriation flight to return American passengers on a Dutch cruise ship hit ‌by an outbreak ​of a deadly strain of hantavirus, the U.S. Department ⁠of State said on Friday.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio concluded a two-day visit to Rome on Friday, where he sought to ease tensions with Pope Leo and urged European countries to help secure the Strait of Hormuz. The task was not easy, given President Donald Trump's recent criticism of both the...

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Friday ‌the Trump administration expects to prevail in an appeal of the Court of International Trade's ruling against its temporary 10% global tariffs to replace duties struck down by the Supreme Court.

Federal prosecutors are seeking to revoke the U.S. citizenship of former U.S. Ambassador Manuel Rocha, the imprisoned former diplomat who served as a secret agent for Cuba dating back to the 1970s in one of the longest-running betrayals in the history of the foreign...

President Donald Trump on Friday hailed the Virginia Supreme Court's decision to throw out the state's new congressional map as a "huge win for the Republican party." In a Truth Social post following the ruling, Trump celebrated...

Virginia's top court on Friday threw out a new electoral map that was crafted to flip four Republican-held U.S. congressional seats to Democrats, handing President Donald Trump's party a major legal victory ahead of the November midterm elections.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is calling for an immediate audit of the Secret Service following the alleged assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.

U.S. stocks are rising toward records Friday following the latest sign that the nation's job market is doing better than economists expected.

President Donald Trump announced Friday that his administration has released what he described as the "first tranche" of government files related to unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrial life, calling the move part of an effort to provide "complete and maximum transparency" to the public.

Russia reportedly offered Iran thousands of advanced drones designed to evade electronic jamming, along with training on how to use them against American troops in the Middle East, according to a confidential intelligence document obtained by The Economist.

U.S. beef producers are hoping for a trade deal during the upcoming leaders' summit that could renew licenses to export to China, where they have been largely locked out since Beijing allowed registrations to expire last year. A casualty of the trade war between Beijing and ...

The U.S. military is intensifying economic pressure on Iran, with U.S. Central Command announcing that American forces are currently blocking more than 70 oil tankers from entering or leaving Iranian ports as part of a sweeping maritime enforcement operation.

A new suspected case of hantavirus was identified in a British national on the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha on Friday, as efforts continue to trace passengers of the luxury cruise ship hit by the virus and their immediate contacts.

America's employers a delivered a surprising 115,000 new jobs last month despite an economic shock from the Iran war.Hiring was better than the 65,000 forecasters had expected, though it decelerated from the 185,000 jobs created in March.

President Donald Trump issued two proclamations honoring America's World War II victory and the sacrifices made by military spouses, tying both observances to the nation's upcoming 250th anniversary celebration.

Top solar companies, banks and insurers have stopped doing business with at least a half dozen recently built U.S. panel factories because of uncertainty over whether their ties to China could disqualify them from clean-energy subsidies, according to industry executives and...

World food prices climbed in April to their highest in more than three years, with vegetable oils particularly elevated due to the Iran war and the effective closure of the Strait of ‌Hormuz, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday.

An Islamic State-affiliated group attacked villages in Congo near the border with Uganda, killing at least 40 people and burning and looting homes, a local civil society group said on Friday.The attacks were carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces overnight from...