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US President Donald Trump raised hopes for another month-long pause on steep new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, saying they could take effect on April 2, and floated a 25% “...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday directed federal agencies to prepare for more large-scale layoffs that would further thin the ranks of the U.S. civil service. ...

The White House said it would decide which media organizations participate in the press pool that covers the president, wresting control away from the group of journalists that has done ...

Ukraine said on Wednesday it was set to approve a framework minerals deal with the United States but that its success would depend on talks with President Donald Trump. The ...

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia had lots of rare earth metal deposits and that it was open to doing deals to develop them after President Vladimir Putin held ...

US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron displayed stark differences in their approach to Ukraine, exposing a divide between the United States and Europe over Trump’s bid ...

Elon Musk, President Donald Trump’s point person to root out what he says is government waste, renewed his threat to fire federal workers who do not comply with his ...

Multiple U.S. agencies have told employees not to respond immediately to a demand by President Donald Trump’s adviser Elon Musk to list their accomplishments in the past week ...

US business activity nearly stalled in February amid mounting fears over tariffs on imports and deep cuts in federal government spending, erasing all the gains notched in the aftermath of ...

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General CQ Brown, and pushed out five other ...

U.S. and Russian participants have met in Switzerland for unofficial talks about the Ukraine war in recent months, including as recently as last week, three sources with knowledge of ...

A possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “will largely depend on whether we can make any progress on ending the war in Ukraine,” ...

A tearful executive at the US Internal Revenue Service told staffers on Thursday that about 6,000 employees would be fired, a person familiar with the matter said, in a move that ...

Europe should wake up and build its own defence policy following a dramatic shift by the United States over Ukraine and geopolitical developments in recent months, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos ...

U.S. President Donald Trump denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as a “dictator” on Wednesday and warned he had to move quickly to secure peace or risk losing his country, ...

Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents and incarcerated for nearly five decades while maintaining his innocence, was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday after ...

A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit against the CIA by journalists and lawyers who said the intelligence agency illegally spied on them when they visited Wikileaks founder Julian Assange ...

The EU’s competition chief says US President Donald Trump has upended the “trustful relationship” between the United States and Europe, and that Brussels should focus on providing the predictability ...

The United States and Russia said on Tuesday they had agreed to press ahead with efforts to end the war in Ukraine after holding talks in the Saudi capital at ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday ruled out territorial concessions to Ukraine, setting out a tough opening stance on the eve of talks on Tuesday with U.S. President ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivered a strong rebuke on Saturday to U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s attack on Europe’s stance toward hate speech and the far right, ...

US Vice President JD Vance said the US could hit Moscow with sanctions and potential military action if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not agree to a peace deal with ...

The US government began firing thousands of people at multiple agencies on Thursday as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk accelerate their purge of America’s federal bureaucracy, union sources ...

Donald Trump discussed the war in Ukraine on Wednesday in phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the new U.S. president’s first big ...