Americas

Donald Trump‘s Department of Education said Tuesday it was slashing its staff numbers by almost half, the opening gambit in a plan to dismantle a department that right-wing Republicans have…

A legal battle over a detained Columbia University student that has become a flashpoint of the Trump administration’s immigration policy will play out in federal court, with the US government…

The US House of Representatives approved a stopgap plan Tuesday to avert a government shutdown that would pile more pain on the economic chaos marring President Donald Trump‘s early weeks…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday increased his planned tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum products from Canada to 50% – a doubling of his initial rate – in response to the…

The main chamber of France‘s upper house, the Senate, is usually the venue for stately discussion rather than speeches that go viral worldwide. But Senator Claude Malhuret, a veteran politician…

US President Donald Trump, who wants to take over Greenland, is very erratic, the island’s premier said on Monday, the eve of the self-governing Danish territory’s legislative elections. “There is…

Workers in Washington on Monday began removing a “Black Lives Matter” street mural installed during the height of 2020 racial justice protests, bowing to pressure from President Donald Trump. Large,…

Federal immigration authorities arrested a Palestinian activist Saturday who played a prominent role in Columbia University’s protests against Israel, a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s pledge to detain and…

Former central banker Mark Carney will become Canada’s next prime minister after a Liberal Party leadership vote in a landslide.  Carney is 59. He was born in Fort Smith, Northwest…

Argentina announced three days of national mourning late Sunday after authorities raised the death toll from recent flash flooding to 16, with more still missing. The deadly floods struck Friday…