Taiwan has a right to engage with the world and no country can stop that, President Lai Ching-te told Eswatini's king after he arrived for a surprise trip that Taipei says Beijing tried to stop, as China condemned him as a "rat".China views democratically governed Taiwan as...

Two U.S. service members are missing in southwestern Morocco after taking part in annual multinational military exercises in the North African country, the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) said Sunday. The service members are U.S. Army soldiers who went missing while ...

President Donald Trump says the Pentagon is preparing to release some "very interesting" UFO files uncovered by his administration, generating a mix of buzz and skepticism as he hints at new revelations around questions of alien life.Trump started stoking interest in the...

King Charles III's US state visit was a "risk and challenge" that he "grasped in both hands", a palace aide said Sunday as the monarch returned from a widely praised trip.Charles left for the UK from Bermuda Saturday following what a senior royal aide called a "historic"...

US air carriers on Saturday mobilized to help passengers and crew members stranded by the overnight shutdown of Spirit Airlines, after the low-cost carrier's last-minute talks with creditors and the White House collapsed.Spirit, known for its bright yellow planes, succumbed...

Iran's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been urgently transferred from prison to a hospital in northwestern Iran after a "catastrophic deterioration" of her health, her foundation said Friday.The Narges Mohammadi Foundation said the Nobel Prize...

José Luis Amate López hasn't had a customer in almost two weeks, not counting the scrawny brown kitten that slinks around the bodega where he works in central Havana.The shelves once laden with goods during his childhood sat nearly empty in late April, with barely anything...

Ukraine on Sunday launched a wave of strikes against Russia's oil export infrastructure, hitting a key loading port on the Baltic Sea and two tankers that Ukraine alleges were illegally used to transport Russian crude.A nighttime drone strike sparked a blaze at Russia's...

President Donald Trump on Saturday doubled down on Washington's decision to withdraw 5,000 US troops from Germany, as a rift in transatlantic ties deepens over the Middle East war.The Pentagon announced the 5,000-troop reduction on Friday, but Trump told reporters Saturday...

President Donald Trump said Saturday he will review a new Iranian peace proposal, but cast doubt over its prospects as he left open the possibility of future attacks on Iran.Negotiations between the two countries have been deadlocked since a ceasefire came into effect on...

Golden Tempo won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, making Cherie DeVaux the first woman to train the winner of the opening leg of the Triple Crown.The horse charged down the stretch to make history for DeVaux in the 1 1/8-mile race. Renegade was second and long shot Ocelli...

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said Saturday that Democrats face "a fight ahead of us" as Republican-led Southern states move to redraw congressional maps following the Supreme Court's decision narrowing a core enforcement tool of the Voting Rights Act.

Republicans in Ohio are growing uneasy that a contentious primary, fueled by their candidate’s ties to controversial immigration enforcement, could cost them a prime chance to flip a battleground House seat in November, Politico reported on Saturday.

A Delaware judge on Thursday refused to throw out a $787 million defamation lawsuit brought by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) against Fox News, ruling the governor has plausibly alleged the network knowingly aired false claims that he lied about a phone call with...

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche criticized former President Barack Obama for suggesting the motive behind last week's shooting near the White House Correspondents' Dinner remains unclear, arguing that investigators already have evidence pointing to why the suspect...

As of May 2, 2026, mifepristone manufacturer Danco Laboratories has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to freeze a federal appeals court order that cut off telehealth and mail-order access to the mifepristone abortion pill nationwide, warning that letting the ruling stand will...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that the billions of dollars the United States owes to the world body is "non-negotiable," after reports that Washington had placed conditions on releasing the funds.

A Washington Post report on Saturday details a new fundraising effort tied to President Donald Trump's plans to reshape parts of Washington, D.C.'s waterfront, including East Potomac Golf Course and the proposed National Garden of American Heroes.

The Appalachian region holds an estimated 2.3 million metric tons of undiscovered, economically recoverable lithium, enough to replace 328 years of U.S. imports at last year's level, according to a U.S. Geological Survey assessment released April 28 that could reshape how...

A Wall Street-heavy donor group has held private listening sessions with Democrats weighing 2028 presidential bids, including Sen. Mark Kelly of Ariz., former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and Govs. Andy Beshear (Ky.) and Josh Shapiro (Pa.), the WSJ reported.