At least five heads of government were absent from talks at the annual Pacific Island Forum that began on Monday, as China-Taiwan tensions weighed
August 31, 2026Google says it has updated its maps application to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” for users in the United States
August 31, 2026Plans in one of Texas’ largest counties to use dozens fewer polling location than previous years is drawing protests from Democrats who say the reductions could create confusion in the November midterm elections
August 31, 2026U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Iran's Larak Island on Sunday, a U.S. official said, marking the first known American
August 31, 2026Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration plans to impose sanctions on another bank this week in effort to clamp down on Iran transactions
August 31, 2026Israeli settlers storm Palestinian village, seizing home with owner inside
August 30, 2026Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ in US searches
August 31, 2026German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sunday that a victory for the far-right AfD party in next week's regional election in Saxony-Anhalt would damage the eastern state
August 30, 2026German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sunday Berlin was preparing a response to the suspected drone attack on a Ukrainian cargo plane in Leipzig this month in
August 30, 2026Guinea-Bissau is voting in a referendum to decide on granting new presidential powers
August 30, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the death toll from a Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv has risen to 38, with four people still missing
August 30, 2026U.S.
August 30, 2026Niger's army, backed by Russian paramilitary forces, regained control of a key military airbase on Sunday after it was attacked by mutinous soldiers a day earlier, the
August 30, 2026‘Decades in Sports’: How Colin Kaepernick taking a knee in 2016 revived athlete activism in sports
August 30, 2026A NATO official said on Sunday Russia is stepping up hybrid acts in Europe, but that at this time the alliance sees no imminent threat of attack.
August 30, 2026State constitutions play a growing role in American politics. But turning to such documents to recognize rights and liberties is not a new project – nor is it an entirely liberal one.
August 11, 2026Republicans fret as Talarico bombards airwaves and Paxton awaits Trump team’s cash
August 30, 2026Representatives of Libya's rival political parties on Sunday signed an agreement
August 30, 2026Australia's far-right One Nation party won a seat in a state parliament long held by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's centre-left Labor Party, continuing a surge that had
August 30, 2026Finland's President Alexander Stubb said he did not believe Russia would risk an attack against a NATO country, telling Germany's Bild newspaper it would "make no sense" to
August 30, 2026El-Sayed apologizes to Jewish Democrats as he seeks to bridge party divides
August 30, 2026Israel’s prime minister has spoken out after weeks of settler violence in the occupied West Bank and condemned the criminal actions of a “handful of rioters.”
August 29, 2026Dozens of masked Israeli settler militants attacked homes surrounding the occupied West Bank village of Qusra on Saturday, the first major attack
August 29, 2026Trump is staking out extreme positions on White House secrecy, legal experts say
August 29, 2026King Haakon VIII of Norway paid homage to his late father as "such a good dad" in his first address to the nation since
August 29, 2026President Donald Trump and his allies are pressing hard about the perceived threats of voting by people who aren't U.S. citizens as the November election approach
August 29, 2026At least 27 people were killed after a Russian drone strike on a Kyiv-area warehouse sparked a detonation, officials said on Saturday, prompting calls by President Volodymyr
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August 29, 2026President Donald Trump on Friday announced an unprecedented U.S. push to take control of a fifth of Venezuela's vast oil reserves, betting that American companies
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August 29, 2026Can Trump actually change Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’? Here’s what to know
August 28, 2026Brazilian senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the main opposition candidate in the country's presidential election, said on Friday he will respect the result of the October vote,
August 29, 2026President Donald Trump says his administration has entered a sweeping agreement with Venezuela that, if realized, could give the U.S. access to vast amounts of the South American country’s untapped oil reserves, at cost
August 29, 2026Canada’s public broadcaster is making an exception to its policy of not labeling specific attacks as terrorism for the 9/11 attacks after coming under fire over a memo restating it
August 29, 2026Mom who lost daughter to social media addiction says Meta settlement is a turning point
August 27, 2026The United States Southern Command says that Colombian security forces captured a suspected senior leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua
August 29, 2026Trump says US reaches deal with Venezuela to control 65 billion barrels of country’s oil reserves
August 29, 2026The Tampa Bay Rays have secured county approval for a financing plan to build a new stadium
August 29, 2026The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s decision that blocked an executive order limiting mail voting before the midterm elections
August 29, 2026An Ecuadorean court found former President Lenin Moreno guilty on Friday in a bribery case tied to the construction of the Andean country's largest hydroelectric plant, the
August 29, 2026President Donald Trump says he will mark the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon
August 29, 2026Iran condemned the United States' new economic sanctions on Friday as "state terrorism" while its supreme leader
August 28, 2026Hundreds of protesters have rallied on the National Mall for a march in support of voting rights and racial justice ahead of the midterm election
August 28, 2026Trump asks Supreme Court to uphold military’s ban on transgender service members
August 29, 2026American diplomats and at least some of their family members are beginning to return to U.S. embassies in the Middle East
August 29, 2026U.S. officials are correcting earlier statements that several government agencies were hacked by Chinese hackers, now saying that the
August 29, 2026More than six decades after Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps
August 28, 2026Spain asked on Friday for help from the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) in processing migrants in the North African enclave of Ceuta almost a month after
August 29, 2026A ransomware group said on Friday it was putting up for auction a trove of data it stole from Berlin state agencies, and city officials
August 28, 2026Vietnam said on Friday it strongly opposed all foreign activities in the Paracels archipelago in the disputed South China Sea, following a report earlier this week of new
August 28, 2026Ukraine's top presidential adviser said on Friday that technical talks on Russia's war would likely take place in the near future but added that he did not expect any swift
August 28, 2026President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” his latest escalation as he engages in a tense trade war with Canada. During the signing, he said, “We have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean."
August 28, 2026CIA chief was in Moscow to warn Russia against attacking NATO and encourage cutting off Iran
August 27, 2026Republican governor asks his AG to look into ‘aggressive’ behavior by Trump admin’s election monitors
August 28, 2026Congo government figures show that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has spread to two new health zones in eastern Congo
August 28, 2026Sweden's military will participate in the surveillance and protection of Finland's territory with Gripen fighter jets and corvette warship, at least until the end of 2026
August 28, 2026The U.N. refugee agency has scaled back its budget by 16% and lowered its official headcount by around 3,500 as it adapts to new financial constraints at a
August 28, 2026Oyo Nyimba, a Ugandan king, who became the world's youngest reigning monarch when he took the crown in 1995, has died aged 34, the prime minister of his kingdom announced.
August 28, 2026The Iran war has reached its endgame: a costly stalemate.
August 27, 2026After King Harald V’s death, what comes next for Norway’s scandal-prone royals?
August 28, 2026Young adults under 21 traded $5 billion on Kalshi this year, amid prediction market frenzy
August 28, 2026Attorney General Todd Blanche says in an Associated Press interview that he'll lead the Department of Justice with integrity
August 28, 2026A U.S. judge ruled on Thursday that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful.
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