Americas

Billionaire Elon Musk’s hand gesture while he spoke during a celebration of President Donald Trump’s inauguration drew online comparisons to a Nazi salute on Monday, but a leading ...

Donald Trump supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol four years ago began to leave prison on Tuesday after the newly installed president issued a sweeping pardon, signaling he intends ...

President Donald Trump once again withdrew the United States from the Paris climate deal on Monday, removing the world’s biggest historic emitter from global efforts to fight climate change ...

The attendees at a U.S. presidential inauguration do not often resemble the annual gathering of the world’s richest in Davos, Switzerland, which kicked off on Monday, but the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday issued a flurry of executive orders and directives as he sought to put his stamp on his new administration on matters ranging from ...

By David Morgan, Gabriella Borter, Jeff Mason and Joseph Ax Donald Trump pledged to rescue America from what he described as years of betrayal and decline in his inaugural address ...

Donald Trump has vowed to investigate or prosecute political rivals, former intelligence officials, the country’s former military chief, prosecutors and judges, tech moguls, members of Congress and left-wing Americans ...

Donald Trump will be sworn in as president of the United States on Monday, ushering in his second term in office and capping one of the most astounding political comebacks ...

By Branko Milanovic Almost never are witnesses to historical events aware they are observing or participating in a history-changing event. Often, the very protagonists of the historical events are unaware ...

TikTok began restoring its services after President-elect Donald Trump said he would revive the app’s access in the US when he returns to power on Monday. “Frankly, we have ...

US small-business confidence surged to the highest level in just over six years in December, extending post election gains. The National Federation of Independent Business said this week that its ...

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to rescue TikTok on Friday from a law that required the popular short-video app to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or ...

Global diesel prices and refining margins spiked following the latest round of US sanctions on Russia’s oil trade on expectations the measures would tighten supplies, according to analysts and ...

Los Angeles officials told most evacuees from the wildfires o stay away from their homes at least another week as emergency responders remove toxic waste from incinerated neighborhoods and cut ...

Blue Origin’s giant New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida early Thursday morning on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth’s orbit for Jeff Bezos’ ...

Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday could herald a more volatile period for markets, with the Republican seen moving quickly on a wide swath of issues including trade and immigration ...

President Joe Biden capped a half-century political career on Wednesday with a final Oval Office speech as he hopes to seal a legacy overshadowed by Democrats’ failure to stop Donald ...

Cyprus has been authorised to buy military hardware directly from the United States government after joining three programmes run by the country’s department of defence on Wednesday night. As ...

Firefighters held the line against two massive wildfires that have ravaged parts of Los Angeles for the past week, even as desert winds and a parched landscape presented extremely hazardous ...

Los Angeles firefighters on Tuesday braced for the return of dry, intense winds that could recharge two monstrous wildfires that have already killed at least 24 people, leveled entire neighborhoods and ...

US banks will probably report stronger earnings this week, fueled by robust dealmaking and trading in the fourth quarter. The six biggest US lenders have benefited from a resurgence in ...

Dangerously high winds were expected to resume on Monday in Los Angeles, potentially hampering efforts to extinguish two stubborn wildfires that have leveled whole neighborhoods and claimed the lives of ...

Firefighters raced to contain the frontiers of two Los Angeles wildfires that burned for the sixth straight day on Sunday, taking advantage of a brief respite in hazardous conditions before ...

As Los Angeles construction worker Ivan De La Torre surveyed a landscape of smoking wreckage in fire-ravaged Altadena, a question nagged at him: how would insurance companies cover the cost ...