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Puerto Rico’s movement for greater self-government got a boost on Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives, which passed a bill for a referendum on three potential futures ...

With a wary eye on China, President Joe Biden announced an agreement aimed at bolstering trade ties between the United States and Africa on Wednesday after years in which the ...

Billionaire Elon Musk’s public condemnation of top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci is “dangerous” and “disgusting,” and should be called out, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told ...

US President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law on at a jubilant celebration that featured U.S. singer Cyndi Lauper performing “True Colors” in front of ...

Kyiv’s air defence systems shot down 10 Russian drones on Wednesday, the city’s mayor said, while the United States is close to finalising plans to send its Patriot air ...

U.S. scientists revealed a breakthrough in fusion energy that could one day help curb climate change if companies can scale up the technology to a commercial level in the ...

United Airlines (UAL.O) said Tuesday it is ordering 100 Boeing (BA.N) 787 Dreamliners and 100 737 MAXs as it pushes for post-pandemic growth and replaces older, less-efficient aircraft. The Chicago-based airline’s ...

Republican Senator Marco Rubio on Tuesday announced bipartisan legislation to ban China’s popular social media app TikTok, ratcheting up pressure on owner ByteDance Ltd amid U.S. fears the ...

Sam Bankman-Fried indicated in a Bahamas courtroom on Tuesday that he would fight extradition to the United States, hours after U.S. prosecutors accused the founder and former CEO of ...

Splits between US Department of Justice prosecutors are delaying the conclusion of a long-running criminal investigation into the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance, four people familiar with the matter ...

Peru’s new president said early on Monday she would submit a bill to Congress to bring general elections forward by two years, after the ouster of her predecessor sparked ...

The United States is prioritising efforts to boost Ukraine’s air defences, President Joe Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart on Sunday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stepped up efforts to secure ...

A Libyan man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the United States, ...

Residents near the site of the worst US oil pipeline leak in a decade took the commotion and smell in stride as emergency crews laboured to clean up in near-freezing ...

The United States announced new military aid for Ukraine on Friday and vowed to disrupt Russian ties with Iran, which a British envoy said involved Moscow seeking hundreds of ballistic ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia’s near-total loss of trust in the West would make an eventual settlement over Ukraine much harder to reach, although contacts between ...

The European Union’s health regulator on Friday raised concerns over the decreasing effectiveness of COVID-19 antibody therapies to treat patients as emerging virus variants are challenging treatment approaches. The ...

A former Minneapolis police officer is expected to be sentenced on Friday for his involvement in the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was killed when a ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said the West’s desire to maintain its dominance on the world stage was increasing the risks of conflict. “The potential for conflict in ...

The Biden administration levied sanctions late on Thursday on prominent Turkish businessman Sitki Ayan and his network of firms, accusing him of acting as a facilitator for oil sales and ...

U.S. House Representatives Earl Francis Blumenauer and Adam Schiff want further U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scrutiny of Elon Musk’s Neuralink following a Reuters report that outlined ...

The U.S. House of Representatives backed legislation on Thursday paving the way for the defense budget to hit a record $858 billion next year, $45 billion more than proposed by President ...

The US House of Representatives on Thursday gave final congressional approval to legislation that provides federal recognition of same–sex marriages, a measure born out of concern that the Supreme ...

Peru’s Congress voted to oust President Pedro Castillo in an impeachment trial on Wednesday, hours after he plunged the country into a constitutional crisis by attempting to dissolve the ...