International companies are rapidly pulling out of Cuba after a Trump administration order exposed firms doing business with the island’s military-run conglomerate to potential U.S. sanctions.

A new Pentagon policy intended to simplify religious affiliation tracking within the U.S. military has sparked controversy after The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was omitted from a list of faith groups categorized as Christian.

The intoxicating hemp industry is closing in on a hard deadline, and the senator who put it there has shown no interest in moving it.

There was a time when Donald Trump was just another celebrity sitting courtside at New York Knicks games. He was famous, but not yet flanked by Secret Service agents or defined by the politics that have left him deeply unpopular in his hometown.Now, more than a decade after...

U.S. consumers haven't stopped spending money since the Iran war drove up fuel prices, but many shoppers are reassessing what they buy and where, according to company executives and retail analysts.The behavior changes observed so far are subtle, such as altered routines...

Taiwan's coast guard said on Sunday that its ships had "expelled" four Chinese government ships that entered restricted waters off the island's south after the two sides broadcast testy warnings to each other, in an escalation of tensions.China, which views democratically...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping to Pyongyang on Monday, feeling in a position of strength with a firm ally in Russia, a nuclear arsenal and little apparent appetite to engage with Washington.For Xi, leader of the world's second-biggest...

Assailants launched several shooting attacks close to the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday, killing at least one person and wounding five others, according to Israel's rescue services.Israel's police said they had killed one attacker. Large cohorts of Israeli soldiers...

OPEC+ is set to agree on Sunday a fourth increase in oil output targets in as many months, three OPEC+ sources said, even though the U.S. ​war with Iran is still preventing several of the group's members from pumping more.The war has cut oil flows via the Strait of...

Disputes involving President Donald Trump's policies on tariffs, immigration and firing regulatory officials have drawn a lot of attention during the Supreme Court's current term, but the justices also are poised to decide major cases concerning U.S. "culture wars" issues...

After a turbulent decade of nine presidents seemingly going through a revolving door at the Palacio de Gobierno, the Government Palace where the president of Peru lives and works, in Lima, Peruvians in a few hours will begin voting for a new man or woman in charge.

OpenAI is planning its biggest ChatGPT overhaul yet, aiming to turn it into a "superapp" with coding tools and AI agents to boost revenue ahead of a potential stock market listing, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.The changes are part of a broader reorganization at...

The United States said it shot down a pair of Iranian drones threatening the Strait of Hormuz, the latest escalation of violence as the war crept into its 100th day on Sunday with no end in sight.Weeks of indirect talks marked by tit-for-tat threats and sporadic exchanges...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Russia deliberately struck a nuclear-fuel ​storage facility near Ukraine's Chornobyl ⁠power plant in ​an "extremely vile" attack."Today, the Russians ⁠again struck the special territory around the Chornobyl ​Nuclear Power...

Pope Leo XIV honored Spain's centuries-old tradition of religious devotion on Sunday as a "school of faith" for today, as he presided over a Mass before a million people and a procession highlighting one of the most iconic expressions of Spanish popular piety: flower...