Under pressure, Trump orders FBI Kavanaugh probe
President Donald Trump, under intense pressure from moderates in his own party over his Supreme Court nominee, on Friday ordered an FBI investigation into sexual...
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US Congress asks state department and Pentagon to submit report on US arms embargo on Cyprus
A provision regarding US-Cyprus security relations and the US arms embargo on Cyprus, has been included in the $717bn defence bill signed earlier this week...
Voters head to polls in Alabama race with high stakes for Trump
Voters in Alabama were headed to the polls on Tuesday in a hard-fought US Senate race in which President Donald Trump has endorsed fellow Republican Roy Moore,...
Australian citizenship crisis claims another lawmaker
A citizenship crisis that robbed Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of his one-seat majority will claim another politician, with the senate president on Wednesday saying he...
Republicans consider bipartisan healthcare talks (Update)
As their seven-year effort to repeal and replace Obamacare derailed in the US Senate, Republicans faced the prospect of doing the once unthinkable: working with Democrats to...
Brazil’s Supreme Court urged to bar Rousseff from politics
Major parties in Brazil’s governing coalition pressed the Supreme Court on Friday to overturn a Senate decision allowing former President Dilma Rousseff to remain politically...
US Senate confirms Loretta Lynch as attorney general
By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Richard Cowan The US Senate voted on Thursday to approve Loretta Lynch as President Barack Obama’s next attorney general, ending a...
Berlusconi to break with government in budget vote
By Paolo Biondi Silvio Berlusconi’s party will vote against the government in a confidence vote over the 2014 budget and will announce its withdrawal from...
Italy court hands Berlusconi two-year ban from public office
By Ilaria Polleschi A Milan court on Saturday ruled that former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi should be barred from holding public office for two years...
Bill to spare US economy from debt crisis also delivers favours
By Patricia Zengerle and David Lawder The last-minute bill to avert a potentially catastrophic U.S. default and reopen the government came in at a relatively...
US Senators hopeful fiscal deal could pass Wednesday
By Richard Cowan and Susan Heavey U.S. senators expressed hope that a bipartisan deal could emerge on Tuesday to end Washington’s fiscal crisis even as...
US Senate leader sees chance for breaking fiscal impasse
By David Lawder and Tim Reid U.S. Senate negotiations to bring a fiscal crisis to an end showed signs of progress on Sunday, but there...
Washington deadlocked as partial shutdown enters fifth day
By Thomas Ferraro and Caren Bohan Washington entered the fifth day of a partial government shutdown on Saturday with no end in sight even as...
Obama, congressional leaders still deadlocked on shutdown
By Jeff Mason and Thomas Ferraro President Barack Obama met with Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress on Wednesday to try to break a budget...
Berlusconi defections boost Italian PM for confidence vote
By Paolo Biondi Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta appeared on course to win a confidence vote on Wednesday following a flood of defections from media...
US Capitol quiet as federal government shutdown nears
By David Lawder and Richard Cowan With a deadline to avert a federal government shutdown fast approaching, the U.S. Capitol was eerily quiet on Sunday...
US Senate passes sweeping immigration legislation
By Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro The U.S. Senate has approved a landmark immigration bill that would provide millions of undocumented immigrants a chance to...