Americas

Panama‘s president Jose Raul Mulino on Sunday dismissed recent threats made by US President-elect Donald Trump to retake control of the Panama Canal over complaints of “unfair” treatment of American…

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday pledged to “stop the transgender lunacy” on day one of his presidency, as Republicans — set to control both chambers of Congress and the White House…

The US Congress averted a Christmastime government shutdown early Saturday after weeks of tense negotiations that went down to the wire, passing a bill to fund federal agencies through mid-March.…

Workers at Starbucks will walk off the job Friday in three US cities in a strike their union threatened could spread around the country in the busy run-up to Christmas.…

A Republican spending bill backed by President-elect Donald Trump failed in the US House of Representatives on Thursday, leaving Congress with no clear plan to avert a fast-approaching government shutdown that could…

“I am strong and steady!” Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in an online post Friday with a video of him walking around unassisted after emergency surgery earlier…

Outgoing President Joe Biden said Thursday he had commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others, in what the White House called the largest single-day act of…

About six months ago, Donald Trump was sitting in a courtroom in lower Manhattan listening to a jury make him the first former president convicted of a crime.  On Thursday,…

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza, a symbolic gesture rejected by the United States and Israel. The…

FBI Director Christopher Wray told bureau workers Wednesday that he plans to resign at the end of President Joe Biden‘s term in January, an announcement that came a week and…