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Republicans won control of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, according to a projection by the Associated Press, handing the party a sweep and ushering in a new era in Washington. With...
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By Gram Slattery, Andrew Goudsward, Patricia Zengerle and Sarah N. Lynch(Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump chose loyalists with little experience for several key cabinet positions on...
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Matt Gaetz — a Florida congressman who was recently the target of an FBI investigation — to be the next attorney general of the United States...
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South of the border, China is ascendant.Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrives this week in a region where China has replaced the U.S. as the dominant trading partner for most big economies, with the...
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By Phil Stewart and Idrees AliWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially to include the...
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Experts warned the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday that famine is "occurring or imminent" in parts of northern Gaza. The north has been under siege for about a month as Israeli forces...
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President-elect Donald Trump has styled himself a master dealmaker who can leverage his warm relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine, cool tensions between the...
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A new storm could hit Florida by the middle of next week as a Category 3 hurricane, the latest punch in a relentless Atlantic hurricane season that's claimed at least 326 lives and...
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Hundreds of firefighters overcame adverse conditions to make substantial gains in controlling the Jennings Creek Wildfire on the New York/New Jersey border Wednesday, when two other brush fires...
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election Thursday that is key for the country's new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his party's power and follow through...
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