Politics
Some NATO allies are indignant over new questions in Washington about the role of women in the military after President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be defense secretary rejected the idea of women ...
Many believed that after his first term as president, Donald Trump would end up in the dustbin of history. Now Trump is back, and the United States is about to be ruled for the second time by a rig...
Anti-marijuana forces in Florida knew that “Just Say No” wouldn’t be enough to defeat a measure looking to legalize recreational pot in November.A majority of Florida voters did back legalizing pot...
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to tap Brooke Rollins as his Agriculture secretary, after weeks of intense internal fighting over the role, according to two people familiar with the transi...
Donald Trump is making it clear he wants to bend the Republican-led Congress to his will, pushing the limits of what lawmakers will accept on staffing his Cabinet and also on looming questions of f...
Former Defense Secretary William Cohen underscored the importance of having women in the military, including in combat roles, as President-elect Trump's pick for Defense secretary has come under fi...
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Negotiators reached a deal early Sunday in which rich countries agreed to provide at least $300 billion per year in financing by 2035 to help poorer nations fight climate change....
At 6:52 p.m. on Friday, President-elect Donald Trump announced his choice for Treasury secretary. Minutes later, he tapped a director for the Office of Management and Budget. Then came his picks fo...
HALIFAX, Canada — Former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said Saturday that the United States should prioritize helping Ukraine despite the looming threat of a Chinese cross-strait invasion of the...
BAKU, Azerbaijan — The U.S. has played the powerbroker in more than 30 years of global negotiations on fighting climate change — a quest that has swept in an army of diplomats, the world’s biggest ...
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Countries agreed to a deal early Sunday that asks rich, developed nations to pay at least $300 billion to help poorer countries shift their economies away from polluting fuels, b...
Labour has got off to a shaky start in government. It’s time it told the truth about the state we’re inIt’s a running joke in Westminster that some on the British centre-left are fascinated by Amer...
Donald Trump selected Brooke Rollins, president of the America First Policy Institute, to head the Department of Agriculture, a move that could have broad implications for American diets and wallet...
After Donald Trump won this month’s election, one of the first things he did was to name two unelected male plutocrats, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, to run a new Department of Government Efficien...
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have been locked in a bitter rivalry for supremacy in space exploration. Donald Trump’s return to the White House could boost Musk’s ascent.As it stands, Musk’s SpaceX is t...
PHOENIX, Arizona — On a scorching Sunday afternoon in August, Jenny Clark, who runs the non-profit Love Your School AZ, stood in the cool atrium of the Phoenix Art Museum, offering swag to families...
I was cooking eggs on a recent Friday morning when the lights went out. First a boom! and then darkness. In the sudden quiet, we walked out to the road, where a squirrel lay stiff and dying under t...
Democratic officials are combing through granular election data, reevaluating their digital strategy and reaching out to Donald Trump’s voters as they attempt to pull themselves out of the politica...
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Canada is hinting that it will accelerate plans to boost its defense spending to hit a long-elusive NATO target. But it’s looking like that’s too little, too late to avoid th...
Donald Trump may be at war with Washington but he’s still eager to make peace with the rest of the world.The incoming 47th president is stocking his Cabinet with super-hawks and mega-disrupters who...
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Top European and allied officials gathered here this weekend are frantically working to interpret who’s up and who’s down in President-elect Donald Trump’s inner circle, and ...