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The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a blatant misuse of taxpayer dollars that likely runs afo…

The U.S. has targeted people and firms around the globe that it has accused of being financial facilitators or enablers of Iran's military supply chain.

The UK's Counter Terrorism Policing said petrol was recovered from three vans near RAF Fairford.

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Americans' confidence in the economy sank to the lowest level in more than a decade this month as prices remain elevated and wages stagnate amid the ongoing Iran war.

Two Democratic rivals seeking to become the next mayor of Los Angeles are meeting on the same stage just days before mail ballots go to voters.

The party is spending heavily to defend GOP-heavy Texas, and Trump plans to campaign for the Republican incumbent in Ohio.

The Category 2 hurricane struck early Tuesday near Las Barrancas, bringing maximum sustained winds of 110 mph.

The president said the site is "glamorizing" the federal bureaucracy — but it doesn't agree with him on many key issues.

The Iranian economy has been under duress for years in the face of international sanctions.

Smith, who in 2022 led investigations into Trump and secured two indictments, said he made decisions in the case "without regard" for Trump's "political association activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 presidential election."

The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of annual two-way trade between the two northern neighbors.

Clancy's lawyer argued Tuesday that there wasn't enough evidence to prove she killed her three children, a striking turn after a lengthy trial that focused more on her mental state than on whether she took their lives.

The Trump administration is rolling back federal fuel economy standards for new vehicles.

Cleanup efforts are underway after a powerful nor'easter battered parts of the East Coast, bringing dangerous waves, flooding and damaging winds from New England to New Jersey.

In our news wrap Monday, UK police are investigating five British nationals in connection with a possible plot at an American airbase, prosecutors in New York say they are reopening a criminal investigation into an alleged sexual assault at a Cornell Univ…

Lindsay Clancy is returning to court Tuesday, almost a month after a judge declared a mistrial in the case about whether she should be held criminally responsible for the murder of her three children.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage is back above 7% for the first time in twenty months.

The nation's top federal law official is drawing scrutiny for his recent political appearances.

NPR's Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including the U.S. government paying for TV advertisements promoting President Trump, what voters think about Trump's h…

Experts, analysts and former government evaluators tell The Associated Press that Anthropic and OpenAI appear with their rhetoric to be seeking public favor and to set the terms for their own safety protocols in the unregulated market.

The United Nations recently announced a new executive director for the World Food Programme.

Jessica Tarlov has made a career out of disagreeing, often while outnumbered.

The security agreement signed by the U.S., Denmark and Greenland last week "strengthens the defense of Greenland, the NATO area, and the American continent."

The chipmaker unveiled its Open Agent Safety Platform amid an intensifying debate about AI safety, fueled a string of alarming recent incidents involving AI systems acting on their own to break into other organizations.

The announcement of the company's Open Agent Safety Platform follows a series of revelations from top AI companies about their models escaping and breaking into other organizations.

Pope Leo XIV said Monday that concerns about artificial intelligence going rogue are not "fake news" and should be taken seriously, insisting that safety issues raised by AI experts should be discussed and acted on.

At least six states will require documentation that individuals are too sick to meet Medicaid work requirements kicking in next year.

A New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into gang rape allegations at a Cornell University fraternity in response to a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was sexually assaulted in 2024 by seven students after being plied with alcohol and dr…

This week's Senate Judiciary hearing comes after a key Republican lawmaker said in July he believes that special counsel Jack Smith may have lied to Congress while testifying about his investigation of President Donald Trump and that the Justice Department

North Korea has used its yearly U.N. platform to warn other world leaders of "a harsh reality rampant with unprecedented mutual distrust and confrontation."

President Donald Trump disputed that he asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy weapons from the United States, contradicting an account from the U.S. ambassador to China.

Pope Leo XIV is urging Europe to draw from its Christian roots and traditions of dialogue to confront the thirst for domination driving today's wars.

A ruling to halt deportations of people to countries other than their own threw a core immigration policy of the Trump administration into question, at least temporarily, and prompted a desperate appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday.

Congo is running short of health workers to staff treatment centers for history's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak, particularly in the eastern province of North Kivu where cases have surged 73% over three weeks, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

The son of Israel's ambassador to the United States was gravely injured in a ramming attack in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.

As in years past, African leaders attending the U.N.

President Trump hosted Xi Jinping at the White House on the Chinese leader's first trip to Washington in more than 10 years.

To discuss Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington, Amna Nawaz spoke with Nicholas Burns and Samm Sacks.

In our news wrap Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a fiery speech at the U.N.

A rapid surge in the price of diesel fuel is straining businesses and threatening to raise costs across the economy.

As prediction markets continue to expand, they are drawing attention in Washington and states across the country.

Fall temperatures are finally cooling off much of the United States, but this past summer was yet another reminder that the climate is changing.

Researchers say they have the most conclusive proof of Thomas Jefferson's paternity of Sally Hemings' children.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday that two giant pandas from China will arrive at Zoo Atlanta in the coming days, bolstering a loan program that at one time had lapsed as part of tensions between Beijing and Washington.

Eight sailors attempted suicide while deployed with the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group, which spent a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea supporting the Iran war, the Navy's top civilian leader said this week.

Among the misspending was nearly $3 million to erect tents at Guantanamo Bay that were never used, $20 million to maintain purchased warehouses that are now being sold without having housed a single detainee, and excessive rates paid to hold detainees at a

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed in a speech at the United Nations late Wednesday for countries to starve Russia of revenue through sanctions and trade bans, denying Moscow the money it needs to prolong the war.

Netanyahu said attacking Iran "was one of the easiest decisions I've ever had to make" and denounced as "moral cowards" a mass of delegates who walked out of the U.N.

Abbas made the prerecorded remarks from his office in Ramallah after the United States denied him and other top Palestinian officials visas to attend the gathering for the second year in a row.