U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent faces a major test of his economic diplomacy skills this week as he presses finance leaders from the G20 major economies to shrink global trade imbalances, boost growth and sever business ties to Iran, while trying to calm worries about...

Iceland's voters rejected a proposal to restart negotiations on joining the European Union more than a decade after previous talks ended, the national broadcaster reported Sunday.The vote will put the long-debated issue to rest more than a decade after a euroskeptic...

The death toll from a Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv, the war's deadliest attack so far this year, rose to 38 with four people still missing, President Zelenskyy said on social media Sunday.The strike on Friday night on the warehouse - an ammunition storage...

Authorities in Nepal warned of possible fresh flooding on Sunday and urged residents in flood-affected districts to remain on high alert after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River.Flood warning notices were sent to people's phones early Sunday as rescue crews worked to...

The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln sailed past Singapore early on Sunday as it headed home after a grueling deployment in the Middle East. It's expected to stop in Thailand for a port visit.Associated Press journalists on the Indonesian island of Batam, across...

A South Carolina police officer died and a second was injured in a "gunfight" Saturday in a park, following a call about a domestic dispute, Columbia police Chief W.H. "Skip" Holbrook said.The suspect, a 33-year-old man with a lengthy criminal record, also died, Holbrook...

Estonia's foreign intelligence chief said a new Russian mobilization is roughly an even bet and could be ordered within weeks, and that any political upheaval in Moscow would come without warning."At this point, it's an equal chance," Kaupo Rosin, director general of the...

Karoline Leavitt closed out her final day as WH press secretary on Thursday but will remain in President Trump's orbit through his super PAC, MAGA Inc., and an outside adviser role ahead of the midterms. Trump announced her departure Aug. 12.

President Donald Trump's administration is laying the legal groundwork to resist potential congressional investigations should Democrats capture the House in November, CNN reported Saturday. The president's teams are advancing expansive claims of executive privilege that...

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed's social media post about Second Lady Usha Vance is backfiring and threatening to cost him support among the state's Indian American and female voters, Republican insiders told the New York Post.The stakes are...

GM plans to assemble a heavy-duty pickup truck at an Ontario plant as part of a tentative deal with a key union that would pump C$1.1 billion ($791.31 million) into Canada's auto ‌sector as it reels from U.S. tariffs, a union bargaining report said on Saturday.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislative leaders reached a three-way deal early Saturday on a wildfire recovery overhaul that preserves insurers' right to recoup damages from utilities, handing the outgoing governor a partial loss. The compromise, published as...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford answered President Donald Trump’s “Lake America” decree Saturday with a billboard-sized message on the Canadian shoreline — “Lake Ontario. Now and Always” — as Canadian leaders met the move with ridicule rather than outrage.

The Trump administration is tightly controlling Venezuela's transition toward democracy, elevating a little-known opposition politician to lead negotiations while sidelining the country's most popular opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, Politico reported...

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has accepted an invitation to serve as honorary chairman of the 2026 Presidents Cup golf tournament outside Chicago.Trump announced the role in a Truth Social post, saying he accepted at the request of the PGA Tour and...

Music publishers affiliated with Sony and Warner Music Group sued Anthropic in federal court in California late Friday, accusing the artificial intelligence developer, its CEO, and a co-founder of carrying out what the publishers called one of the largest ongoing thefts of...

Israel's Shin Bet security agency has confirmed that a serious threat against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair prompted an urgent operation to bring him back to Israel from Florida. "There was a significant threat to harm Yair Netanyahu, and in light of this and...

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is putting artificial intelligence at the center of the central bank's economic outlook, even as Fed officials and economists increasingly question whether AI's enormous investment boom will ultimately benefit American workers and...

Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government can not deport critics of Israel. Judge Noël Wise, in a ruling Friday, delivered a victory for the student newspaper at Stanford University, which has said some international...

Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca on Friday urged President Donald Trump to rescind his executive order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America," calling it a violation of the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.